Who's excited for Misty falls coming out this October?!
Chapter dedicated to xxx-benedictbrothersfan-xxx; Mitzi and nononononononono thanks for your reviews, had me grinning like an idiot. I hope you enjoy this, because it's for you.
Disclaimer: Me no owny Finding sky! Sad face.
The heat was slightly suffocating as I stepped out of the restaurant, my skin cooled from the AC in the restaurant now instantly warmed up. Crystal was fanning herself with a fan she'd bought before either Xav or I arrived. We'd been sitting in the restaurant for a little over two hours, as Xav wanted to drive home at the slowest time of traffic. Climbing into the car, I turned on the AC before anything else. During dry season in Jakarta the heats usually bearable but we'd obviously been hit by a heatwave that was making it really hard to do anything without wanting to pass out. Although the house was air-conditioned like the car, it wasn't as cool in temperature.
I shot through the city as quick as I could, Jakarta's roads were always busy but Xav didn't to be on them when the night traffic came out and he purposely made us wait an extra half hour at the pizza restaurant they found whilst I was in the air, so we didn't get caught in the rush hour traffic.
"So, Xav, how is everyone?" I asked as Crystal and I had finished talking about Topaz's lot.
"Yea, they're cool." Okay. Maybe he doesn't trust me. I'll just...
NO! I jumped as Crystal's voice thundered through my head. I hit the breaks slightly but continued as though nothing happened.
What?!She turned to look at me from her seat beside me, giving me the 'you-know-what' face. Me being a Savant, I have the power to control people's emotions through their aura's.
I indicated to turn. I wasn't. Ha! I was.
You were. I know I was. I grinned at her. You just have 'guilty' all over you... She continued to telepathically talk to me about behaving - even though I was the elder sibling. "You're not even listening to me."
Xav laughed nervously. "Wait you were talking? I didn't hear you either sorry, babe."
She grinned back lovingly to him. A twang of jealousy hit me. "Nah, I was talking to Peter because he was going to make you like him." She said dropping me in it like a bomb.
Xav laughed again. "Yea, no point denying it. But when we met at the wedding, you were pulling pranks and making jokes like there was no tomorrow." Xav chuckled at the reminder.
He sat forward and clapped my shoulder. "Don't take it personally, I'm just really tired."
"Jetlag." Crystal sighed. I found out she'd flown from Italy not Denver; Xav was still flying from Denver but Crystal had been here a full day before either of us men. I glanced at Xav in the side-mirror as they argued about who had it worst. Yea maybe man and boy.
I did a sharp turn into the street of our house, which was a luxury villa type townhouse, Diamond had a lot of friends - no surprise - and one owned a townhouse in Jakarta but was posted in Australia for a three year thing. He'd let us use it instead. Crystal and Xav frowned at me for disturbing their argument.
I coughed. "This isn't mean't to be an insult, Xav,"
"This is so going to be an insulting comment." Crystal contradicted.
"But you need a hair cut." I've never known what reason could possess a male to grow his hair like girls would.
Crystal punched my arm. "I've already told him that."
Xav laughed. "I'll get my hair cut when you get yours under control." Crystal scrunched up her face and threw him a glare as he grinned, ruffling her hair. I smiled, pulling onto the driveway as I'd started another playfully argument between Xav and Crystal that lasted for the next hour.
Stepping out into the flood of golden sun, the temperature change was again very noticeable, hot and heavy compared to the coolness of the air conditioned car. "Wow, I love this weather." Xav said briefly before firing back at Crystal. How they haven't killed each other yet is beyond me.
Xav unlocked the front door and I was first in. "Thanks for dinner, guys." I called to the bickering couple, I really hope they're not always like this.
"Your're welcome, Peter." Crystal smiled.
"I'm heading up to bed, so I'll see you guys sometime tomorrow." Crystal laughed but there was really no guarantee when I was going to get up. I got a brief reply.
I ran up the white carpeted stairs to my room on the first floor. The house was only three story's including the ground floor. Considerably smaller, especially to the one on the hill behind the house. But it was still quite big. Five bedrooms, each on had an adjoining bathroom. Downstairs was open plan kitchen-diner-lounge, with a closed off office and another toilet.
My suitcases where on the bed and floor. Laptop already charging on the plasticy-wood woven chair by the window. A very large window panning almost the entire length of the wall, built in wardrobes. Then the bathroom. I placed down my wallet and phone in the bedside drawer, flopping onto the bed. Tiredness plagued my body, my eyes forcing themselves shut. I fought the urge long enough to change and get under the covers before sleep took over. And I was out like a light.
I love the feeling, when you wake up mid-morning, and the sun is bright out; trying to get through the yellow curtains but instead fills the room with a summer golden glow. The room warm but not hot. I roll over, burying my face in the soft pillow. I just lay there for a couple of minutes before stretching and rolling out of the bed onto the white carpet. The smell of bacon wafted into my room and I was on my feet instantly.
Yanking my suitcase onto my bed, I rifled through the packed clothes for some shorts intending to spend the majority o the day relaxing. I've decided to start Soulfinder search, tomorrow.
Quickly changing into my khaki shorts, I grabbed my book and sunglasses, then followed the smell of bacon. Piled on a plate with a netting thing over the top to keep away bugs was a pile of bacon, next to some rolls. I threw one together with a squeeze of ketchup as a giant splash echoed through the house. I approached the backdoor. Xav looked like a drowned rat in the pool, having been pushed by Crystal.
"Not fair!" Xav yelled, he saw me leaning against the door-frame taking a bite of my breakfast. Mmm, good bacon. "Peter, be a man and push her in." I gently tossed my book and shades onto one of the chairs, and finished up the roll.
"If I were a man I wouldn't push her in." I called, licking my fingers and dusting them on my shorts. Crystal shot Xav a smug look. "I'd do this." I announced, hoisting her into the air and throwing her in next to Xav. I sat down as Crystal shrieked before engaging in a heated kiss with Xav. Another hit of jealousy washed over me.
The pool went all the way to the smoothed edge of the hill and along. There was a staircase that led up to the paths of the hill, but it was very steep. At the top where a line of more townhouses, just much bigger.
Loud laughing interupted my reading, I looked to yell at Xav and Crystal but for once they were quiet. The three of us looked up at the hill.
"Run! Run!" A girl laughed.
"No, Joanna!" A boy called. "This way!"
More laughs accompanied shaking trees and the heavy sounds of running through a forest. "Jump! Jump! Jump!" Another boy yelled. Followed by yelling and ten kids appearing from the high tree line, jumping into the pool below. Our pool.
They broke the surface, laughing before noticing us with 'whoops' expressions. "Agung's in Australia, who are you?" One of the girls asked.
The three of us exchanged looks. "Agung's let us borrow the house." I said. "Whilst he's in Australia so who are you?"