A/N: Ok I'm going to start off by asking anyone reading if anything I've written has something they've seen or read before in another fanfic. You see sometimes for some reason I remember small story details and they stick. I keep on having this paranoid feeling that everything I write is from somewhere else -_-;

And if so I am really, really, REALLY sorry!

Let me know and I will change it…

Anyways, here's chapter four

*Disclaimer: I don't own the JL, but I guess I own their kids in this fanfic

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Chapter four: Hanging Out

Evangelia's P.O.V.

"Woah! Man, it's been a long day!"Billy says as he raises his arms in a stretch and then tucks it behind his head. "I am so jealous of Rex. He missed out on Friday and now he's got a three-day weekend!"

We were all walking out of the school and just hanging out by the front lawn. It was a lazy, sunny Friday afternoon.

"Maybe he's just sick," I say, trying to defend Rex. "You know how sickly he's been lately."

"But we don't even know what he's sick from! He can't even give us a straight-forward answer anymore. He just tells us not to mind it and then goes about brooding," Billy cries out.

"He wasn't always like this…" Valen trails off, leaving a strenuous, awkward silence.

We all are kept silent and sensing the tension, Maddox tries to break it by asking, "So whose house are we going to hang out at today?" We are all snapped out of our daze and remember why we were still standing outside at school. It's been a tradition since we were in kindergarten that we would hang out every Friday at somebody's house. Because we all live in different cities, we can't exactly hang out after school everyday. Our parents really don't mind seven teens hanging out all at once. It actually gives us a chance to catch up.

Suddenly, I notice five other pairs of eyes turning towards me.

"What?! My house?" I stammer out. They've been to my house before, it's just that…

'Why not? It's not like you have plans later. Plus everyone else at home is probably gonna be busy, so why not? You can use the company…"

"Yeah, sure…of course!"

"Yay!" Ophelia lets out a joyous cry. "Alrighty then, I'll meet you at your house, Angie. But first, I have to stop to get gas. Who wants to ride with me?"

We all turn away. Valen starts mumbling and Billy begins to whistle a show tune. Lilly and I begin to look like we're in a conversation. The problem with Ophelia "getting gas" is that she gets gas, but at the same time she'd see something "so adorably cute" or say "it's a must have" and then stop by the boutiques across the street. Then that "something" turns into a lot of things she buys and that can take hours.

"How about you, Maddie?" she asks him, pulling him towards her car.

"I, uh, umm…" he stammers, trying to think of an excuse.

'He's a goner…' we all seem to think at the same time.

Just then Grandpa Alfred pulls up to the front of the school and we all pile into the back on the limousine.

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When Grandpa Alfred pull up to the front driveway we all file out and make our way into the manor. As we enter into the entrance hall it turns out Mom was already there.

"Hi Mom!" I say cheerily, as I walk up to her and give her a hug. From far away I probably look like a seven year old greeting her mother. Mom's tall, almost as tall as Dad, and trust me that's tall! She bends her head and gives me a kiss on the forehead.

"How's school sweetheart?"she asks in a warm, regal voice. I swear she sounds like royalty sometimes! I don't know where she gets it from. That's one of the things I really admire about her. She speaks with a sense of authority and sounds like a lady. I can imagine how she sounds in a meeting at the embassy. And that's another thing I love about her. She's always there and she can have a busy day at work and still manage to ask me how my day was and seem interested.

"Fine. I had a test in chemistry today. It wasn't that bad, I think I passed," I answered as I pulled away from her embrace. She looks up to see the rest of the group standing by the door.

"Hello everybody," she smiles dazzlingly.

"Hi Auntie Di," they all chorused. Whenever, we go to somebody's house we always call their parents "auntie" or "uncle". That applies to almost everyone except my dad and Maddox's dad. They're willing to tolerate us call them by their first name. We've all known each other since we were practically in diapers so we've grown accustomed to it. We don't even call each other by our first names. We have our own personal nicknames.

Billy and Lilly, it's a given. We don't bother to call them "William" or "Lillian". Sometimes we call them "Billy-boy" or "Lil".

Valen's nickname is Val for short.

My nickname is Angie, which makes sense because Evangelia can be a mouthful.

Ophelia's nickname is "Phee" but Billy likes to tease her and changes her dad's nickname from "Ophie" to "OFE-EE", trying to make fun of her childhood clumsiness.

For Maddox us girls call him "Maddie", or whenever he's mad we all call him "The Mad Ox". He's pretty easy to get along with but when he's mad he lives up to his nickname. But other than that, the guys call him "Ox".

Rex's nickname is "T-Rex" because of his massive size. Or sometimes if we feel like it as a pet name we call him "Rexie."

We all make our way into the west wing where the den is. That's the hangout spot for my house. In the far end of the room is a plasma screen television on the wall, over the fireplace. A large stereo is in the corner. In the corner diagonally across from it is a sofa set for us to sit. In the center of the room is a pool table. The wall adjacent to the left of the fireplace has all the pool sticks. The wall adjacent to the right of the fireplace is a dart board.

Mom followed us into the den and noticed that a people were missing.

"Where's Ophelia and Maddox?" she asks. "Getting gas…" we all reply in unison. She smiles to herself and knows what that answer means. "And how about Rex?"

"He wasn't at school today," Valen answers for me. She has been concerned about Rex as well but she lets it go, knowing that we probably didn't know much as to why he was absent. "Alright, then. I'll have Alfred prepare you some snacks."

After Grandpa brought in our snacks and two games of pool, Ophelia walks in with her book bag and Maddox trailing behind her with shopping bags slung on his arm. Lilly was the first to notice them. "Hey Phee, Maddie"

"Greetings everyone!" She drops her bag on the couch and takes her purchases from Maddox and dumps them as well.

"Ohh, darts! Maddie we have to play. I can't play at my house 'cuz my dad always beats me," she says, slightly pouting at her last statement. He gets up off the couch and walks towards the dart board. "At least it's your Dad that beats you. I always lose to my mom." All of us burst out laughing at that very honest comment.

They play three really short games. One of them always manages to hit bulls-eye within 3-4 turns. I can imagine how good their parents are.

We ended the evening with a movie and afterwards Grandpa Alfred took everyone home. We all agree to call each other tomorrow for plans for the weekend. I walk up to my room and pass the grandfather clock in the hallway. I've never taken a good look at it but now I notice something different about it. It seems like it holds a lot of secrets. I shake it off thinking it's just my imagination and retire for the evening.

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Well that's the end of that chapter. I hope you pick up on the darts thing between Ophelia and Maddox. Oh and then there's the grandfather clock in the manor. And why is Rex acting so strange?

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