James: Hey everyone, Happy Saturday. We're both sorry for the lateness and didn't post anything last weekend. But Mel and I decided to post two chapters today to fill up the one from last weekend. But we hope you enjoy both of them.
Mel: ya sorry about that... I was down visiting my grandmother who was in a car accident and is in the hospital. But I hope two chapters can make up for this! :)
Chapter 14:
James: *stirs in his sleep and woke up to see his sister snuggled closer to him and softly smiled* I'll never leave you because I don't want to lose you. *looks at his watch to see it was six and knew everyone else would be up soon. Carefully freed his arms from his sister and kissed her cheek before he left. Walks down the hall and down the stairs to see the sun rising and saw Zane meditating in the middle of the living room* Morning Zane.
Zane: *opens his eyes* Morning James. Shall we get breakfast before everyone wakes up?
James: Yes, let's get that taken care of. *both head to the garage and into James' car and drove to the convenience store he saw on the way over*
*Half an hour later*
Mel: *stirs in her sleep and felt something was missing. Looks over her shoulders and gasp that her brother was gone* Oh-no he's gone again. *smells the air and it smelled like something was cooking. Climbed out of her bed and headed downstairs and nearly screamed in joy to see her twin still with her*
James: *helping Zane making pancakes and eggs and bacon and turned to smile as his twin was awake* Morning sunshine.
Mel: *walks up to her twin and slapped him across the face*
James: Ouch! What was that for!?
Mel: Don't scare me like that again. I had a nightmare and didn't want you to leave my side and what do you do? You leave me alone.
James: Sorry. But Zane and I had to get breakfast for the day and are almost ready. Since you're up, want to make the orange juice?
Mel: Sure. *grabs oranges and sliced them in half and grabbed a pitcher from the cabinet and squeezes the oranges dry until it filled the top*
Zane: *sets the table in the sunroom and looks at the curtains and began to pulled them*
Mel: Wait! *coming in with the pitcher of juice and set it on the table* Don't open them just yet. It'll be beautiful when we sits down and then we open the curtains. It's a tradition we do every time James and I are here.
Zane: I'll take your word for it.
Mel: *smiles and heard shuffling from upstairs and saw Lloyd walking down the stairs with the others behind him*
Dawn: *yawn* Morning.
Mel: Good morning everyone. Hoped you all slept well. Besides me.
Kai: Yea we did. We smelled breakfast and got up for the day.
James: And it's almost done. Just need to finish these pancakes and we can eat.
Mel: *grabs Lloyd's hand* Come on. You all got to see this. *and lead them to the dining room*
Everyone but James: *took their seats and wait for a couple of minutes*
James: *walks in the room with a platter of hot pancakes and settled them in the center* Alright Mel, the tradition.
Mel: *walks to the curtains and grabbed on to them* We present you the beauty of nature. *and pulls the curtain to show the lake*
Everyone: *gasped in awe to the sun rising in the horizon and reflecting off the water*
Dawn: It's beautiful.
Mel: I thought so.
James: I knew coming here was the perfect plan for us all. Well everyone dig in. *and grabbed two pancakes and spread butter and syrup and began to eat and everyone else followed behind him*
Jay: Did anyone else have weird dreams last night?
Mel & James: *glance at each other*
Mel: Not me.
James: Not that I can remember...
Zane: Nidroids don't dream.
Lloyd: I dreamed that James and Melody sang and I fell asleep in the car, but we all know that was a dream.
Everyone but Lloyd: *glances at each other, trying not to laugh*
Nya: I slept soundly. Dawn?
Dawn: Nothing unusual.
Kai: Um... No comment.
Cole: Slept like a rock.
Everyone but Cole: *groans* Really? You had to say that?
Cole: What? *thinks for a moment* Oh, heh heh...
Lucas: Why did you ask, Jay?
Jay: I dunno, just came to mind.
Lucas: Okay... Any plans for today guys?
Mel: Well, me and James have to complete our daily classes at some point today, but besides that, no official plans.
James: We can do some things though... There's a lot to try here.
Lloyd: Like what?
James: Well Lloyd, we can go swimming today after lunch. Go on a hiking trip from the trail from here. There's a park near here where we can go and play. At night we can have a bonfire and make smores. And other things to do.
Lloyd: I want to go swimming.
Lucas: Probably need to wait until lunch. The lake is probably cold right now.
Mel: Don't worry. It'll be warm after lunch.
James: *chuckles and hears a beeping sound coming from the other room to cause him to cough a fit from drinking his juice* Uh-oh.
Mel: *pats her twin's back* It's alright, Jimmy. What is it?
James: Mom and Dad are calling from my laptop.
Mel: Uh-oh. Everyone stay here. *both siblings left the dining room and headed to the living room*
James: *places the laptop on his lap while his sister sat next to his and clicked the answer button on Skype*
Mel: Hello Mommy and Daddy.
Mom: Hey Viv Twins, how are you doing?
James: We're doing great. How's the Europe tour doing for you guys?
Dad: We just finished Ireland and are heading east. But we're at London for the night and wanted to say goodnight to you and must be a good morning for you two.
Mom: Yes, we're heading to Paris.
Mel: Oh I always wanted to go to Paris.
Mom: I know you do, but you two have school and we will busy to not pay attention to you. *looks closely at the screen* Are you two at the lake house?
James: Yes mom, we are.
Dad: What are you doing over there?
James: *not wanting to tell his abduction the last couple day, thought of a fib* Eh, we know that you're away so we decided to have our own weekend getaway and decided to stay for one more night and head back tomorrow. Don't worry, we'll get school work done today.
Everyone: *hears something break*
Mom: What was that?
James: Eh, Mel was making breakfast and I think a plate fell off the counter. I'll go get it. *and left the room. And entered the dining room to see a broken plate on the floor, whispers* What are you doing!? My parents are in the other room and they don't know who else is in the house or who you are!
Zane: Sorry. I heard something outside and I thought it was someone trying to break in and bumped my hand against the plate.
James: *turns his head to the window to facepalm himself* Only because it was a deer outside. Look.
Zane: *turns his head to the window and saw it* Oh my bad. I'll clean it up real quick. *picks up the pieces and threw them in the trash can*
James: *heads back into the living room and sat next to his sister*
Mel: ...So then we went to the spring festival and James won first place in the pole vault.
Mom: Great job, James! Did you sing, Melody?
Mel: *shook her head* No. James got sick after his event and we left early.
Dad: Sorry to hear that, sweetie. Well we are going to head to bed so we don't miss our flight tomorrow. James, you take care of your sister. And Melody, make sure your brother doesn't get into trouble.
James: Dad.
Mel: *giggles* Don't worry I won't let him out of my sight. Bye.
Mom and Dad: Bye. *end the call*
James: *sigh in relief* You didn't tell them much did you?
Mel: Only the festival and just lied.
James: Good. Let's go finish breakfast and take care of our work. Then do whatever we want.
Mel & James: *walk back into the dining room*
Mel: Well that's taken care of. Let's see... Since James and Zane made breakfast, they don't have to help clean up. Cole, you and Lucas are on washing the dishes, Jay and Kai, you dry.
Boys: *nod*
Mel: Dawn and Nya, can you two clear the table? Me and Lloyd are going to wipe down the counters and put away things in the kitchen.
Girls: Sure.
Lloyd: Yes Melody.
James: Taken charge like usual I see Mel.
Mel: *glares at him* Whatever. I just like to see things fair. But since you're complaining, I guess you can go make the beds.
James: What! Oh fine, bossy boots.
Mel: *gives him the 'death glare'* You really wanna go there?
James: *gulps* N-no ma'am.
Mel: *laughs at her brother* And that's how you get your brother to listen.
Nya: Wow. I wish that worked for me...
Dawn: Me too!
Mel: I can give you lessons later.
Cole & Kai: NOOOOOOOO!
Everyone: *laughs at their potential doom*
*After finishing Breakfast, upstairs with James*
James: *enters his room and quickly made his bed and walked over to guys' room and made their beds* Classic Melody. Giving me the orders to make the beds. Whatever. As long it makes her happy. *felt his hands become warm and noticed them becoming red. He quickly ran to the bathroom and turned the sink onto cold water and ran his hands under them and his hands wouldn't cool down and looks at them to see steam come off* What is happening? *Suddenly his hands were engulfed in black flames and he didn't scream to the heat unlike he did in his dream. Then the flames disappeared and his hands were normal. He looked at them again and thought it was weird and decided to not tell anyone and left to finish making the beds* This is just weird.
*Back with Melody and everyone else*
Mel: Zane, feel free to do anything. You can head outside early or wait for the rest of us.
Zane: Thank you. I think I will wait in the living room and find something to do.
Mel: Whatever works for you, let's get to work guys. *boys except Zane and Melody go into the kitchen, Nya and Dawn start clearing the table, and Zane goes into the living room* Alright Lloyd, *hands him a washrag* I want you to wipe off the counter over there while I put away some of these ingredients.
Lloyd: *takes the rag* Okay Melody. *starts washing the counter*
Lucas and Cole: *fill sink with water and start washing*
Kai and Jay: *start drying and putting away*
Dawn and Nya: *walk in carrying food to put away and more dishes*
Mel: *starts putting things away*
*ten minutes later*
Mel: Well, we're all finished. We should all go get dressed. Me and James are gonna have to work on school, but we'll sit outside on the porch.
Everyone: *goes upstairs to change*
*With James*
James: *walks down in the hallway after fixing Melody's bed and kept looking at his hands* That was just weird.
Jay: What was weird?
James: *jolts up scared but sighed as it everyone coming upstairs, probably to change for the day* Nothing.
Kai: You sure? You look like you seen a ghost.
James: It was nothing. *walks past them and entered his room and closed the door. He quickly changed out of his pajamas and into a tee-shirt and shorts and looked at his hands again* That was definitely weird. *and left his room and headed downstairs to grab his laptop to begin his school work. Hears shuffling to see his sister walking downstairs in a tank top and shorts with her laptop in her arm*
Mel: Ready?
James: Yea let's get this over with. *and both headed to the deck. Found the website to take the online classes and began with math. His favorite subject along with horticulture. Hears the door slide open to see everyone else pour outside and gazed around the deck*
Lloyd: How long will you guys take? I want to play with all of you.
Mel: *giggle* Probably not that long. Just have to work on these assignments and we'll be done.
James: *looks over his laptop and spotted a frisbee on the deck* There Lloyd, you can play with that until we're done then we'll join you.
Lloyd: Okay. Come on, Lucas. *and grabs the frisbee and threw it to Lucas, but it went over him*
Lucas: *watched the disk fly over him and jumped off the deck, caught it, performed a flipped with a twist, and landed safely on the grass below him*
Cole: That's great that to know we still can be ninjas, Lucas. But next time use the stairs to retrieve a frisbee.
Lucas: Hey at some point we still need to stay in shape if we ever get back to home.
Kai: Whatever: *jumped off the deck and flipped in the air and landed safely on the grass*
Mel: Boys will be boys. *and began to work on English*
Cole: I guess you're right, Lucas... *cartwheels down the stairs*
Zane: I guess we can use things around here to train with. *jumps onto the wide deck railing and balances on one foot*
Jay: Who said training can't be fun? *walks on hands down the stairs*
Nya: I could use a little work on skill like this since I'm usually in my mech... *jumps off the deck and tucks and rolls into a landing*
Dawn: Ha, amateurs... *backs off, takes a running start does a handstand, followed by a cartwheel, jumping up off the deck into a double flip, with a tuck and roll then spreading herself out to land on one foot*
Boy and Nya: *mouths drop open*
Lloyd: Cool! My turn... But I'm scared about my landing... Catch me, Lucas?
Lucas: Sure shrimp, show us what you got.
Lloyd: *runs and jumps off the deck, doing a rolling flip, landing in Lucas' arms* I did it!
Cole: *ruffles his hair* You're getting better, squirt.
Mel: Be careful show-offs! I'm almost done and then I'll show you what it really means to jump and flip.
Lloyd: We will be, Melody! Guys, lets play with the Frisbee! We can like practice jumps and stuff while doing it!
Jay: Sounds like fun to me!
Zane: *gets down* And yet, an effective training method.
Lucas: Think fast, Kai! *throws it hard towards the fire ninja*
Kai: What? Oh! *jumps and catches it flipping into a landing*
Everyone but the twins: *keep throwing the Frisbee back and forth, showing off a little*
Mel: Finished with English, Math, Social studies, and advanced health and child care. All I have left is Science and German. What about you?
James: Well, I have all the same classes as you, except for advanced health, but I haven't finished health or Social Studies yet. When you were talking about jumps and flips, you're gonna show them your old gymnastics routine, aren't ya?
Mel: Yup, show 'em how much they need to be able to do before they earn their bragging rights. You know what I say...
James: If gymnastics were easy, they'd call it football. I remember. Well let's finish this so you can put them in there place.
Mel: Alright. *types away on her keyboard and while careful reading the work and hit submit on the screen* All done. You?
James: Ich interessiere mich für den Tag fertig. *translation* I'm finished for the day.
Mel: Sehr gut. *translation* Very good. *stands on the railing and performed a cartwheel and stood on one hand. Then she launched herself in the air and performed a front flip and landed on her hand while rolling on the ground and landed in a crouch.
Lucas: Amazing. You almost looked like a ninja.
Mel: But I'm not one though.
Lloyd: Is James going to try it?
Mel: I don't know. He never done it before.
James: *looks over the railing and tapped in though on what he could do. He never done something like this before. But with them saying he was a prodigy, he may be able to do something like a ninja. Looks at the tree in front of him and smirked. He stood on the railing and jumped to reach the branch and swung his legs up like he was in Pole vault and swung over the branch and landed on top of it in a crouch. Then saw another branch and jumped across it like he was a squirrel and continued from jumping tree to tree around them and performed a front flip after planted a foot on the side of a tree and launched himself back and landed next to his sister*
Mel: James, how did you do that?
James: I, uh, don't know. Maybe some instincts or something made me do that.
Zane: Perhaps your abilities as a prodigy made you do that and enhanced you as a ninja.
James: I told you before I'm not a ninja. I accept the prodigy ability, but there's no way I'm a ninja. Now let's play some frisbee.
Cole: I'm in. Here catch. *and threw it at James*
James: *sees the frisbee heading towards him and suddenly saw himself doing back flips and jumped high and caught the frisbee and instantly threw it at Jay and landed in a crouch*
Everyone: *gives him a weird look*
James: Okay I don't know how that happened either. But I'm not a ninja.
Kai: Whatever. Pass it to me, Jay.
James: Nothing like a fun game of Frisbee, ninja style. ;) Anyway, I hoped you enjoyed our late update and we'll have our other ready. Uh... Anything to add, Mel?
Mel: hm... Not really... Oh! I have a new poll on my page and I'd really like it if people would vote! But that's all I can think of right now... So I hoped you liked this chapter and I hope you like the next one too! :)