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Chase's POV
I'm going to die. I'm really going to die. I'm too young to die. I've been in scary, life threatening situations before, but nothing like this. Oh, God, I'm really going to die and my mother is allowing it to happen.
"Catherine quit playing with the radio and keep both hands on the wheel." Mom said. My sister is learning how to drive and my dad tried to teach her, but she drove him crazy and now mom is stuck with her, subjecting me to an early death.
"I hate that song." She complained.
"I don't care." Mom snapped the radio off.
"Hey." She yelled.
"You need to be concentrating on the road, not the radio."
"I liked that song. Why should I suffer because she's not smart enough to do two things at once?" I stated and Catherine whipped her head around and glared at me.
"Shut up Chase."
"CATHERINE!" Mom screeched and reached over and grabbed the steering wheel. "Both eyes on the road at all times."
"I'm going to die." I yelled.
"Shut up Chase." Mom and Catherine yelled at me. I just rolled my eyes and put my headphones in my ears and sat back until we arrived safely (barely) at home.
"Remind me, never to get in a car with you again." I told my sister as I got out of the car.
"Fine then. When I have my license I won't take you anywhere."
"Good maybe I'll live longer." Mom had moved into the driver seat. "Where are you going mom?"
"I'm going to get your dad and we are going Christmas shopping. I'll bring home dinner. What sounds good?"
"Chinese." I answered.
"Pizza." Catherine answered and I made a face. We always have pizza.
"We haven't had Chinese in awhile. That's what I'll get." I shot a triumphant glance at my sister. "I expect your homework done when we get home and no phone or TV until it's done."
"Yes mam." We answered.
"Love you guys." She said with a wave as she pulled out of the driveway.
As soon as we let ourselves into the house, Catherine went straight for the TV remote and phone.
"Catherine, mom said that you have to do your homework first." I stated.
"Shut up and mind your own business moron."
"You're gonna get in trouble."
"What mom doesn't know won't hurt her." She plopped on the couch and started dialing the phone. I sighed and went into my room to do my homework.
I really do like school. Catherine says that I'm a nerd but I don't care. We go to the same private school with our cousins. She ignores me during the day but I have my friends and cousins to hang out with. The only thing that I hate about our school is the uniforms that we have to wear. The girls wear skirts and blazers and the boys have to wear blazers and ties. I hate ties. I feel like I'm choking. Catherine really hates the uniforms. That's all she does is complain about them. In fact, she complains about everything. Dad says that's just the way teenage girls are supposed to act but it drives me crazy.
An hour and a half later I was done with my homework and I took it out to the kitchen for mom and dad to check as they always did. Catherine was nowhere to be seen and I heard her music blaring from her room so I assumed that she was there doing her homework. Thankful she wasn't around to bug me I logged on to our computer in the living room. We both have our own computers in our rooms but they don't have Internet access. They only way we can use the Internet is in the living room where mom and dad can observe the sites that we go on. Mom's really nervous about creepy perverts finding us. Catherine is always on weird sites and she has even gotten a few viruses on the computer that I had to fix. I really only use the instant message program to talk to my friends. Right now Ali was my only friend signed on.
Chase- Hey
AliG- Hi Chase. What's up?
Chase-SOS- U
AliG-Not much. Dad is with ur mom & dad shopping. He left me with Sylvia.
Since her mom died a year ago and her dad went to work as a lawyer he hired a nanny to watch Ali when he wasn't there. Of all of my cousins she is my favorite. We get along the best and she is the most like me.
Chase- Mom let C drive us home from school 2day. I thought I was gonna die.
AliG- That bad huh?
Chase-She is horrible. She almost hit a couple of cars.
AliG-LOL
Chase-Not funny. I almost DIED.
AliG- It kinda is.
We continued to chat about meaningless things for the next thirty minutes or so until Catherine finished her homework.
"Move. I want on the computer." She demanded. She could be so bossy.
"No. I'm talking to Ali."
"I want to check my e-mail so move."
"You can wait until I'm done." She looked over my shoulder and read our conversation. "Mind your own business Cath."
"You aren't talking about anything important so move it."
"No." Next thing I knew I was on the floor. She pushed me out of the chair and was deleting my conversation. I was furious. I kicked the chair and caused her to fall.
"Why you little…" She lunged at me and I rolled out of the way. She fell back onto the floor and I couldn't help myself I burst out laughing even though I knew that it would just make her madder. She picked herself up off of the floor and then picked me up and threw me against the couch and then before I could respond she was on top of me throwing punches, most of which I managed to avoid thanks to the training I have gotten from Dad and Connor but a few connected and they really hurt. When I saw an opening I pushed her off of me and into the computer desk, causing it and the computer to crash to the floor. I knew right then that we were in big trouble but she was showing no signs of stopping so I wasn't going to stop either.
She jumped up looked at the damaged desk and computer on the floor and her eyes widened because she knew that we were going to get in trouble and that seemed to make her angrier. She lunged at me with such force that we flipped the couch over and broke an end table. I have no idea how long we were rolling around on the floor hitting each other when we suddenly heard a very angry dad yelling.
"Catherine Suzanne, Chase Liam, what in the hell is going on?" He roared. We froze. Dad could be very scary when he was angry and right now he is really mad.
"What happened? Was there some kind of attack?" Mom asked when she walked in and saw her destroyed living room.
"Care to answer your mother?" He growled
"He started it."
"She started it." We both yelled at the same time.
"You two did this?" She yelled and we nodded." "Will you look at this? You broke my table and the computer and the desk. My lamp. Look at my lap. It's shattered."
"Sorry." We mumbled as we stood up.
"What the hell happened?" She shouted
"He pushed me off of the chair." Catherine yelled and my mouth dropped open in surprise.
"CHASE." Mom yelled.
"I only pushed her cause she pushed me first. I was IMing Ali when Catherine told me to get off. I was there first so I wouldn't move and she pushed me."
"Is that true?" Dad asked her.
"I asked nicely." She lied.
"She did not." I yelled
"Chase what have we told you about hitting your sister?" Mom asked.
"Are you kidding me?" I screamed. "I was just defending myself. She threw the first punch."
"You know better then to hit your sister outside of the training room."
"Unbelievable. Why do you always take her side?"
"Chase we don't." Dad said.
"She's not perfect. She usually starts everything and you only see when I retaliate. When we got home, I went straight into my room and did my homework. Catherine what did you do?"
"Exactly what you did."
"LIAR." I was so mad that I lunged for her but due to my dad's super vampire strength and speed he stopped me before I could get to her. She stood there with a smug look on her face.
"Chase, go to your room." Dad snapped.
"But…I…"
"GO." He roared.
"This is so not fair. I hate you." I yelled as I stomped up the stairs to my room.
"Chase don't slam that…" I cut off dad's voice by slamming the door as hard as I could.
I spent the next hour lying on my bed, staring at the ceiling sulking. It was probably a good thing that I was confined to my room because I was so mad at her I probably really would have hurt her. There was a knock on my door but I ignored it. I knew it didn't matter if I ignored because my parents would come in anyway and a minute later the door opened they walked in.
"Chase, sweetie we need to talk." Mom said as she sat down on my bed. I continued to ignore her. "I know you're mad." I chose not to respond. "We know that Catherine isn't innocent in what happened."
"She started it." I said as I slowly sat up.
"We believe that." Dad said softly.
"So why did I get sent to my room?"
"Because you broke the rules about fighting with your sister. You know that you can only fight when you are in training. You two are very strong and you can really hurt each other." Mom said
"So am I grounded?"
"Oh you are so grounded buster." Mom said.
"This so isn't fair. I wouldn't have fought with her if she wouldn't have started it."
"One week grounding, nowhere but here and school. The computer is irrelevant right now since it's broken. You and your sister will clean up the disaster downstairs and both of you will get no allowance until all of the items were destroyed are replaced."
"That's going to take forever."
"Then maybe next time you will think before you fight with your sister." I opened my mouth to respond but dad held his hand up so I couldn't talk. "If there is a next time that Catherine starts a fight, be the man and walk away. Do you understand?"
"Yes sir."
"Chase we love you."
"I love you too."
"Now, go eat some cold Chinese food and get cleaning." Dad said.
"Yes sir."
Cordelia's POV
Later that night the after the kids went to bed Angel and I were curled up on the couch attempting to watch TV but our mind's weren't on the TV, we were thinking of our children.
"Most siblings physically fight, it's the natural order of things, but our kids, when they physically fight they could literally kill each other." I said softly. I worry about that stiff but I'm their mom, it's my job.
"Do you think we were two rough on them?" I shook my head.
"No I don't. Chase needs to learn to let Catherine's actions slide off of his back and Catherine, she is just being a teenage girl whose daddy thinks she could no wrong."
"I do not." I snorted.
"Bullshit Angel. In your eyes Angel she is your princess that can do no wrong. It's a special skill that only daddy's girls possess."
"Did you possess that skill, with your dad?" I batted her eyelashes and stuck out my lower lip. He groaned. I know that he is very familiar with that look. Catherine and I gave it to him often.
"Of course I did. My dad could never resist it."
"I know that feeling. You and Catherine both pull that poutty batty eye shit and I am powerless."
"I know." I winked at him. I know exactly how powerless I can make him.
"What happened to my sweet, well behaved daughter?"
"She's a teenager Angel. It happens to the best of us. If I recall Liam wasn't the most well behaved teenager in the seventeen hundreds." He leaned forward and kissed me. I loved his kisses.
"Don't forget dear, that when we met you were a teenager and you weren't the most well behaved teenage either."
"I was a spoiled rotten bitch. If on the rare occasion my pouty lip didn't work I threw a royal fit until I got what I wanted." Memories of my teenage years came rushing back to me and I did not like what I remembered. "My God Angel, I was such a horrible person. I only thought of myself, and I treated people so bad. I was mean and cruel to people that wanted nothing more than to be my friend and why did they want to be friends with such a shallow self absorbed bitch?"
"Cor, baby that is who you were a long time ago and that's why when we first met, I couldn't stand you for all of the reasons that you listed. But you have changed Cordy. You aren't that spoiled bitch anymore and so far, Catherine isn't nearly as bad as you were,"
"Damn right. We, well I don't let her get away with the kind of shit that I got away with."
"I am such a pushover where Catherine is concerned aren't I?" I kissed his cheek,
"Yes you are and that's why you have me to bring you both back to reality."
"You are just as bad where Chase is concerned." He had a point. I did have a soft spot when it came to my sweet boy and it's probably because he is so much like his father.
"I'm weak because he is so much like you and I can't resist you and therefore I have trouble resisting Chase's smile."
"And the same with Catherine. Every time I look at her I see you and your smile. We are so screwed." He said with a lopsided grin.
"We have to stay strong and not let ourselves get bullied by our children's smile and batting eyes."
"Or my wife's." I batted my eyelashes and he leaned forward and kissed me. Every time we kiss, it just gets better. I reluctantly pulled away from him when I needed to breathe. "Speaking of being screwed…" He mumbled in my ears, causing goosebumps to appear. God, what that vampire can do to me. He effortlessly picked me up and carried me to our room. Still holding me in his arms he stripped me out of my clothes, how he did that, I'll never know. He deposited me on the bed and quickly joined me as we ended our day the way that we usually do, as one.
Thanks for reading. Next chapter Catherine's friends flirt shamelessly with her dad.
