I continue driving down the road while Gaz tells me all about school and how much he likes this girl in his class, but how he thinks she might give him cooties which makes me laugh and Angel hums to herself quite content.
"And how do you like school Angel? Kindergarten interesting?" I ask glancing in the rearview mirror
"It's fun, the teacher is very nice."
"That's good." I reply, Angel is a child of few words even though she is outstandingly smart. I pull onto the beach road and Gaz continues to chatter on about the many wonders of the second grade.
"And the last day before school got out a kid ate 10 pennies! 10!" he exclaims his gaze awe-filled.
"That sounds pretty awesome Gaz." I smile pulling into the driveway and the kids tumble out of the car running into the house and I hear Fang shout happily surprised. I walk in the find Gaz clinging to his right leg and Angel holding him by his waist. "Well, I've grown a couple extra limbs, hope you don't mind!" Fang says smiling at me, I walk over and plant a big kiss on his lips causing Gaz to shriek and run into the kitchen, probably following the scent of cookies while Angel runs upstairs to put her stuff in a room.
"I got rid of them no worries" I grin and he smiles at me. "So what movie is it now? Or have we not resolved? Because if not I am pretty sure Angel brought Fairy Princess Barbie-"
"NO NEED FOR THAT!" Iggy interrupts me, stopping in the doorway "We have it all solved, we will watch The Little Mermaid since it seems to relate to someone.."
"Not funny Ig!" Maya says walking in through the doorway by him "We'll be watching The Hunger Games."
I nod "Sounds fine too me, a little gory though." I raise an eyebrow.
"They'll love it!" Iggy says plopping down on the couch.
"MAX?!" Star shouts "I just got kicked out of my room by an adorable little girl, not cool, I couldn't tell that cuteness no!" She says walking down the stairs.
I laugh, "Sounds about right, you must've taken Angel's room, you'll have to pick a different room for tonight." She rolls her eyes acting like a diva that she could never be, she's just too kind. "FIIIIIINE!"
I just smile and Fang wraps his arms around my waist, then in comes Ratchet holding a very guilty looking Gaz and a very annoyed looking Holden trailing after them "uh-oh" Fang whispers in my ear his hot breath on my neck making me bite my lip. "HE ATE TEN COOKIES! HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?! THAT CAN'T BE HEALTHY!" Holden rants and Ratchet sets Gaz down. I laugh "Impressive indeed!" Iggy says and Gaz goes to sit by him, they always have gotten along. "Hey Iggy, it's me Gaz!" Gaz says waving to Iggy. "I see that" Iggy says and waves back.
Gaz laughs "No you don't silly you're blind!" Gaz smiles his comment making perfect sense to him but chilling me to the bone, and I feel Fang stiffen behind me.
Iggy looks uncomfortable "Oh, yeah…" he says awkwardly and Gaz just smiles.
"I'll be right back" I say running out onto the deck, feeling light-headed. I needed to swim, to connect with the water, so I did, I dove right in the pool swimming to the bottom of the deep end clothes and all, calming myself down.
Iggy was blind, but now he isn't. How is he going to act blind all night… What if one of us accidentally shows our power? We have to be careful, even more careful than usual. This night would definitely be a long one. I think all of this to myself as I sit at the bottom of the pool and once my head has cleared I swim back up to the surface where a very worried looking Fang was awaiting me.
