I've had a lot of free time lately, I might be able to update more often from now on. Anyway enjoy this chapter. :)
-Shadow-wild
Chapter 2
I woke up and changed into a pair of shorts and a black tank top. When I got to the kitchen all the assassins ( and artist ) looked at me as if I was insane.
"What?" I asked after much staring.
"That is...very revealing. I like it." Ezio said with a flirty smirk.
"Back off, I'm only 15." I snapped.
"Says the girl who was kissing her Ezi-" Parker started.
"Shut up!" I threw a random pair of bunny slippers at his head as he laughed and walked to the fridge.
"In this century, this is considered 'normal' clothes." They all looked at me with an even weirder expression. It was like they thought I was a hooker or something. I grabbed a piece of toast and began to spread strawberry jam on it. As I took a bite of my toast I grabbed seven bowls and spoons, a gallon of milk and a cereal box. I poured cereal and milk in each bowl and handed it to everyone. They all looked down at their breakfast with a weird look.
"Its called cereal." Parker said.
"Do you have anything... cooked?" Maria asked, poking around the Cherios with her spoon.
"Nope, because frankly we don't trust ourselves with anything that involves sharp objects or fire." I said through a mouthful of toast. Leonardo was the first to try eating it.
"This..is.. amazing! Dio mio, Ezio you have to try some!" One by one they all tried the cereal and seemingly enjoyed it. After they finished their breakfast I took the dishes and put it in the sink.
"Ok so our car isn't big enough to fit all of you so..." Parker said.
"What's a car?" Aveline asked.
"It's this thing... kind of like a horse, but it's really big and heavy and made of metal. And it goes really fast, and uh... runs on gasoline and yeah..." I explained.
"What's gasoline?" Connor asked.
"This black goopy stuff that cars run on." He looked at me with a confused expression.
"Look its all really complicated and hard to explain." I went to my parents room and grabbed a pile of clothes. I went back to the kitchen and dumped all the clothes on the table.
"Try to find something that fits, you guys can go change in the bathroom. Its down the hall, first door on the right." They sifted through the pile of clothes. Various estranged looks were exchanged as they went though the pile. One by one they seemed to find some outfits and went to the bathroom. Aveline came out wearing a yellow sundress.
"You look pretty Aveline." I said trying to seem optimistic.
"I suppose, but this is really short." She fidgeted awkwardly and went to go talk to Parker. Connor walk out wearing short and a really tight t-shirt. I think my ovaries just exploded. I felt the color rise on my face. Later Altair changed into a white shirt and jeans. Malik changed into long-sleeved shirt and jeans while Maria wore one of my mom's shorts and t-shirt. Altair looked up and down Maria with an approving smirk as she smacked him on the back of his head. Leonardo was the last to change into a t-shirt and shorts.
"Um so only like two of you can tag along so who wants to-"
"I do!" Leonardo exclaimed enthusiastically. All the other assassins stared at him. Color rose to his face instantly as he laughed awkwardly.
"Ok then... Aveline you're coming with me." She nodded.
"We might call you guys from time to time to make sure you guys are ok. When you hear a ringing sound pick this thing up and start talking into it, okay?" I gestured to the home phone on the table.
"What is that thing?" Connor asked.
"It's called a phone. You can use it to talk to people over long distances." I answered.
We gathered our little group and drove to the mall.
"What is that?" Aveline pointed to the car.
"It's a car." I stepped in and sat in the front passenger seat. Parker did the same and buckled his seat belt. I turned around to face Leonardo and Aveline in the back.
"Oh yeah that black strap thingy next to you is a seat belt. It keeps you from flying out of the car."
"Wait, that's possible?!" Aveline cried.
"No, well maybe I don't , but that would be hilarious and scary if it was real." Parker said from the driver's seat. Leonardo gulped and fumbled with the seat belt, struggling to shove it into the buckle. Aveline soon did the same. Parker started the engine with a loud rumble. The car shook gently as the engine started.
"I think I am going to be sick." Leonardo whined.
"We haven't even started driving!" Parker laughed.
"Just drive for christ's sake!" I snapped. When I turned on the radio 'Call me when you're sober' by Evanescence started blasting at full volume. At first Leonardo and Aveline seemed to like the piano music, but when the guitars and drums came in they cringed. Leonardo slid down his seat and covered his ears with his red beret. Aveline squeezed her eyes shut.
"This sounds like a cat being strangled to death." She complained. I nostrils flared and I willed myself not to hurl my sandals at her. This was going to be a long drive to the mall.
My brother parked the car and exited to car. I got out as Aveline stretched her legs. Leonardo stood up shakily. His face was as pale as snow and sweat dripped down his forehead in beads.
"Dude, are you okay?" I poked him multiple times after no answer. He responded with a weak nod and followed Parker to the elevator. I pressed the up button and the it arrived. Parker and I stepped in. Leonardo and Aveline examined the elevator.
"What is this?" Aveline asked. Geez, they had a lot of questions.
"Its called an elevator. It moves up and down and...yeah" I answered. When the elevator jerked up Aveline's hands flew to the rail for support. Unfortunately, Leonardo was not as fast. He fell with a heavy plop to the ground. When we stopped at the first basement floor the elevator doors opened. A five-year old and a teen stood gaping at the scene in the elevator. Leonardo was on the ground, limbs scattered everywhere, while Aveline was gripping the hand rail until her knuckles turned white.
"I think we'll take the stairs." The teenager, grabbing the five-year old and running from us. I face-palmed as the elevator continued to take us to the ground level. The doors opened and revealed the Santa Monica Third Street Promenade: the perfect place to go shopping for assassins.
"I hope you have your wallet ready." I smirked at Parker. He groaned and pulled out his wallet and handed me 50 dollars.
"Really? This isn't enough for seven people." He glared and handed me another 50 dollar bill.
"Parker..."
"UGH, fine!" He handed me 3 more 50 dollar bills.
"Call me when you're done.I'm gonna go find some food, don't go crazy on the shopping."
"You have a job don't you?" I said as he began to walk away. He turned to Leonardo before leaving.
"Hey, Leonardo wanna come with?" Leonardo nodded eagerly and follow him to the food court.
"Come on Aveline, I'm gonna take you shopping in the 21st century!" I grabbed her hand and skipped to Forever 21. When we stepped through the doors her jaw dropped. Dozens of rocks of clothes was scattered through the store.
"Is... this heaven?" She managed to say after ogling at all the clothes.
"Its close enough, come on!" I dragged all through the store looking for tops, shorts and pretty much anything. I dove through piles attempting to find something that fit and looked good on Aveline. I grabbed a tank top and a pair of shorts. She eyed the shorts with a weird look.
"Don't worry, not all girls that wear this are automatically hookers." She cocked her head at the word.
"Prostitutes. I meant prostitutes."
"Oooooh." She said in an understanding tone. After looking around for a while longing I felt pairs of eyes on us.
"Excuse me." A teenage boy tapped Aveline and I on the shoulder.
"You like the girl from Assassin's Creed: Liberation..." He muttered. Oh shit. I hadn't thought that anyone would recognize her in modern-day clothes. Aveline gave him a confused stare as my mind reeled to find the right words.
"That's um.. because she.. was.. the face model for Aveline." I stammered. Aveline was about to open her mouth to protest before I slapped her hand. I gave her look that said 'play along'. She nodded feverishly as the boy walked away slowly. I continued looking through the pile. I grabbed some clothes for Maria and the guys from the men's section. After a while I stopped searching.
"Okay I think this is enough." I said to Aveline.
"You don't say.." She muttered while holding a growing pile of clothes. I took to the cash register and dumped the pile of clothes on the countertop. The cashier sifted through the clothes, searching for price tags. She finally found the tags and scanned it. Aveline ogled at the red light emitted from the scanner and was about to ask another question before I smacked her arm.
"Not now.." I murmured through gritted teeth. The cashier eyed us strangely before punching in some numbers into the machine. Once again Aveline stared at the machine as if it was an alien ( well technically it was to her but whatever...)
"Your total is $230.84." I handed her some money and grabbed our bags. I shout a 'thank you' over the loud music and left with Aveline.
"Well that was fun, where to next?" Aveline asked.
"Come on, I'll show you other places to shop." I smiled. I took her to other stores like Abercrombie and Fitch, Brandy Melville, and Hot Topic. We were running low on money, so we resorts to window shopping, much to Aveline's distress. She took a liking to floral sundresses and green shirts. We continued walking around until we bumped into Parker and Leonardo. Parker held a cup filled to the top with a blueberry slushy and churro. Leonardo looked like he was high on sugar. He was downing a bottle of Mountain Dew and a bag of Skittles.
"Dude, slow down with the soda!" I grabbed the bag of candy and took some for myself. I handed Aveline a few Skittles. She chewed the candy slowly, then start wolfing it down. Leonardo continued to drink the
"Oh my goodness, this is delicious." She quickly took some more and gorged them down too.
"Maybe I should call home and check on the guys." I dialed the home number and waited. Connor please pick up.. Almost a minute passed before someone finally picked up the phone.
"Hello?" I heard Connor say in a timid voice.
"Hey Connor-" A loud bang sounded on the phone.
"...What was that?" I was starting to get nervous.
"Oh nothing, Altair found this ball and it start bouncing everywhere and it think it hit something..." Damn it they found my soccer ball. A yelp then some Arabic words that sound awfully like curses were shouted.
"And it just hit Malik." I resisted the urge to smack my forehead and continued speaking.
"I think we might be coming home now, so try not to break anything."
"Okay Sarah, but..."
"What?" I asked.
"How do I stop the call?" I laughed on the other end.
"You just put the phone down. Bye." I hung and put my phone away. We went back to the car and drove back home. During the ride Leonardo looked like he was going to throw up because of his Mountain Dew and Skittles. When we got home, it was like we left a bunch of three-year olds home alone. Malik chased Altair, with my soccer ball in hand, still yelling Arabic curses and the word 'novice' could be heard multiple times. Ezio was on my computer ( who knows how he figured out how to use it ) and was on my Facebook talking to my friends. Maria was sitting nonchalantly on the couch watching t.v. Connor was... where was he anyway?
"Guys.." No one had even noticed us.
"Guys.." I repeated. Malik continued to chase Altair, this time threatening him with a plastic fork.
"I will castrate you if you don't stop throwing that thing at me!" Malik growled, and continued to chase Altair.
"GUYS!" I shouted. Altair and Malik's game of tag skidded to a halt. Ezio slammed the laptop closed. Maria continued to watch tv, and honestly, she was the most obedient out of all of them. A deadly silence settled over the house.
"What the hell are you doing?!" I wrested the soccer ball from Altair's grip.
"I found this thing.."
"And he hit me with it!" Malik snarled angrily. I threw the ball in a random direction and glowered at them.
"You guys are acting like 2 year olds! I thought you were assassins!" I scolded. I suddenly felt like my mom.
"But we are!" protested Altair.
"THEN ACT LIKE ONE!" I shouted over their quiet bickering. My head throbbed. I turned to Ezio.
"And you, how did you get on my computer, and WHY are you chatting with my friends?!"
"They seem very nice... Especially this Jennifer girl." My nostrils flared as I lifted the screen. My jaw dropped as I saw what he had been doing.
"You've been skyping with my best friend?!" Ezio nodded cautiously.
"Hi Sarah, your friend's pretty cool." Jennifer said on the screen.
"I'm sorry Jenny, but not now." I exited the video chat and slammed the laptop shut.
"I swear to god if you do that again I will skin you alive." I growled. Ezio cowered under my glare.
"See this is why you don't mess with a teenage girl on her period." Parker joked behind me. Suddenly, a thumping sound emanated from the ceiling. Instantly, all of our heads whipped up. I turned to Parker. He had the same stricken expression I had.
"You don't think.." I dropped my bags and ran outside.I ran outside and look up. I saw Connor standing on our roof with his bow and arrow in hand. He loaded and arrow and aimed it at an unsuspecting rabbit sitting on our lawn.
"Connor, NO!" My shout surprised him. He jumped and the arrow flew in the opposite direction. The rabbit twitched and ran into the bushes.
"What was that for?!" He yelled.
"You can't kill a rabbit!"
"Why not? It was for dinner."
"Dude no, we'll have pizza or something, just come inside." Connor jumped down from the roof and walked inside. I followed behind.
"You people are like a bunch of little kids.." I sat in the couch and rubbed forehead. Malik was about to protest before i shot a hard look at him.
That shut him up.
So yay! sorry for the late update I had a math test and I had to prepare for it. Woo hoo. Please review, favorite and follow. :)
-Shadow-wild