Chapter Twenty-One
Angel's POV
Bex, Nudge, and I were put in charge of keeping the Crew busy until the women vampires were done with the house. They had been decorating since the guys finished building the house three days ago and now it seemed like they were always going to be putting on the 'finishing' touches.
I didn't mind keeping the Crew out of the way though. Like I keep trying to tell Max, I was born to lead. Bex is the only one of us that still gets confused over who is the original me/Nudge and who are the clones, but we just help her out when we can.
Right now, we're about to make it a lot easier to tell me and my clone apart. Two-Two has decided that she wants to change her appearance since she is going to be the leader of the Crew. No one really objected to the idea since they didn't want the responsibility, so it was easy to take charge.
"Are you sure about this?" Nuala and Nudge asked at the same time. They were freaky like that, always talking in unison. Both girls were excited to have a sister though so they didn't care that they weren't actually twins.
The lady at the cashier looked at us funny, but we paid her little attention as we looked through the hair dye colors.
"The dye won't come out for six months." Bex said, trying to urge my clone not to dye her blonde hair brown. Personally, I wish she had gone with red or black to make more of a statement, but hey, the kid was set on it.
"I know that. And I'm not a kid." She said, spitting her tongue out at me. I simply giggled. I don't know why everyone always complained about the lack of privacy; having a mind reader around was fun. Though, three seemed to be a bit much.
"Ooh, if Two-Two can get her hair done, I want highlights!" Nudge squealed. She turned to her clone for confirmation. "Lets see…what do you like better; pink or purple?"
"Pink." Nuala replied quietly. "I've always liked the color pink."
"Me too!" Nudge exclaimed. "See? We have more in common than just looks…lets see, where is the pink…" She said as the two of them walked down the aisle in search of Nudge's hair dye.
"You aren't seriously going to let her get pink highlights, are you?" Bex asked and for a moment I thought it was Nessie in the store with us instead of her daughter. The two were so alike it was crazy, though Bex seemed to be almost caught up the Nessie physically so it was more obvious than when she was little.
"Of course I am." Two-Two and I replied. I caught her eye and we grinned.
"Nuala can get whatever she wants too." My clone stated, then looked at the rest of her Crew. "You all can change the way you look if you'd like."
"Can I get…green?" Kirby asked. Ah, our little blonde froggy. Twelve years old and so innocent. It makes me wonder how many experiments he had to go through, or if Sam was more sparing to him since he wasn't a complete success.
"Sure, but why?" I asked, trying to stay out of his head for once. I knew that Two-Two had a crush on him and it felt like invading.
"Green is my favorite color." He said plainly. "Plus it'll match my spots."
Kirby has pale green spots on random places of his body due to his frog DNA. Other than the slightly webbed hands and feet, I hardly ever notice that he isn't a normal human boy.
"What about you Denver?" Bex asked, addressing the 2% horse teenager. "What about a haircut?" I glanced at his long brown hair and was reminded of a picture I had seen of Seth before he started phasing.
Denver just shook his head stubbornly. Well, what do you expect from a fifteen year old? Besides, he was part horse; stubbornness was in his blood.
"Serenity?" I asked quietly. "You've been quiet, do you have something to say?"
Though she was fourteen and older than me, she hardly seemed like it. She was so closed in on herself that I wondered if she had received the most experimentation. Even her thoughts were a dull void of nothing but playing back old memories and thoughts. It was like she was just set on a loop.
"I am fine the way I am." Serenity stated and I caught a glimpse of a memory she hadn't remembered around me. A younger version of herself looking in a mirror for the first time and thinking about the human that she used to be.
"You weren't born this way, were you?" I asked, trying not to catch the attention of the others.
Serenity shook her head. I was born to human parents and I lived with them until the day I was kidnapped. I was normal before the scientists decided to put a bunch of metal in my body to see if I could be the perfect robot weapon.
"I'm sorry." I whispered sincerely. If I thought our lives were bad sometimes, at least this was all we've ever known. "What about your family? We could have the Cullens look for them…"
Serenity shook her head. The died the night I was taken. An Eraser got too close to my father and attacked. My mother stabbed the Eraser who did it and she was taken down as well…no, the Crew is my family now.
"We found the dye!" Nudge said happily. "I got hot pink and Nuala decided to get blue because she said Denver complimented one of her blue shirts once." She threw her hand over her mouth when she saw Denver standing right there with pink tinted cheeks. "Um, yeah, forget I said that…"
"Can you go grab some of the green?" Bex asked. "Kirby wants to try some out."
And so the 'becoming a better you' plan went into action...I just hope Max doesn't kill us for it.
