Chapter 3
It didn't take them long to get to their cousins house. The two have been here so many times over the years Roxie could have driven there with her eyes shut. Of course she didn't, she wasn't crazy. Once they parked in the driveway their cousin was waiting and rushed to tackle-hug the two. "You came! Oh, girls it's great to see you again." Alice, that's the woman's' name, said with joy as she almost strangled the girls.
"Yeah, it's great to see you too, Alice but we can't *hack* breathe here!" Roxie choked out with a grin. Alice always was a hugger. "Oh, sorry! My bad." Alice said letting go.
Once the girls recovered and grabbed their bags they inside the house and after dropping off their stuff they walked to the living room. That's when they went on to do their normal 'over at Alice's house' stuff. Mainly watch anime shows while eating snacks, then watching normal cable and eating snacks, then playing around then eating then for dessert, more snacks.
It was in the afternoon when the doorbell rang. "Are you expecting anyone?" Roxie asked pausing the Wii game she was doing at the moment. "No, I don't think- oh wait. I think I know who it is." Alice said putting down her magazine and headed for the door. The sisters couldn't see who it was from the living room. But soon two men walked in with Alice.
"Roxie, Laurel, these are some…friends of mine." Alice said waving to the men next to her. "Orion Peters and Rio Thatcher." Both men bow-nodded as their names were said.
"These are my cousins, Roxie and Laurel Drake." Both girls got up and walked over. Both men were good looking. Thatcher was a little older then Peters by the white-brown hair. Both were tall, like 6 or seven feet tall, handsome and had matching bright blue eyes.
"Hi! Nice to meet you." Laurel said smiling shaking Mr. Rios' hand. "Hello." Roxie said simply shaking Mr. Orion's' hand. Both girls noticed something about the men right at the touch. For Roxie, it was how rough, scarred and worn the hand was and yet the owner held her hand with gentle firmness. Laurel felt similar without all the roughness. But both felt the weird static shock from them.
Anyway, after that the girls went back to their games while Alice went into the kitchen with the guys to talk. When they were in there after a while, Roxie leaned over to her sister. "Sis, did you notice anything…weird about those guys?" she whispered, turning up the music to help keep the others from hearing.
"Yeah, something was off. I wasn't going to say anything because I thought you'd think I was over analyzing it." Laurel replied ending her game and turning her full attention to Roxie, looking confused. "When I shook Mr. Thatcher's hand I got a shock. But not a normal one at all."
"Hey, me nether. It was almost like…he was full of energy and it was pushing out of him or something." The girls paused in silence just looking at each other in thought. Sometimes you just got to listen to your gut and boy were the girls' guts screaming. Something was off about those men,
A little while later Roxie went into the kitchen for a snack. By then she'd almost forgot the men were still here, they were so quiet, and was a little shocked finding them talking in low tones with Alice at the table. "Excuse me," Roxie said when she slid past one seat to the freezer. Pulling out a Danamals Strawberry Blast, her ears twitched as she listened to them speak in low voices. "They look like their parents." One said. "The oldest doesn't seem to eat as much as she should." The other said as Roxie grabbed a banana for her sister. "She's naturally skinny, Ratchet."
~Ratchet? What kind of nick-name is that?~ Roxie wondered as she headed back, not wanting to be caught listening. ~Sticks in your head though.~
$$Time Skip$$
That night the girls slept into bed. Alice had two bedrooms in her home and the sisters took the guestroom or more to the point, 'Drake Room of Awesome'. There were two beds and while Laurel drew pictures with great skill, Roxie was reading a Me & My Brothers manga.
Alice opened the door a little and stuck her head inside. "Ready to sleep?" "Always." Roxie chuckled as she put the book down on the night table next to her and slid a little in the bed.
After Alice said good night and the lights went out, the two started to fall asleep. But the thoughts of those men, their parents and those cars in the driveway made it hard. Nether said it, but both felt the next day was gonna be a dozy. And give them their answers to why their parents cried.
Hurray for me! I did it! I at last gave out this chapter. Sorry everyone, but I've found out that its sometimes hard to write a story based off another and wanting it to be close but not copying. And I have something to say. I'm sorry but while I will write this story, it's not very high on my To-Do list. My other stories and up coming stories has my attention right now. And this and my other stories may not be updated until sometime after August. It depends on how much I can sit and write. So long story short, I will update, but not much. Oh, and last but not least…
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