Claire's POV

After three boring hours of searching, we finally settled on one. A two story that was plain awesome. It was on the outskirts of the development, and close to the beach. I explored the house a little more, making mental notes here and there.

Once you stepped through the front door, a bedroom on your immediate left. A full bathroom on your right, and stairs slightly to the left, next to the bedroom. A hall in between the bathroom and stairs. Up the stairs was an office, a bathroom, two bedrooms and a master bedroom. Connected to the master bedroom was a huge full bathroom. Down the stairs and through the hallway was a dining room that connected with the kitchen. To the left of the kitchen was a pantry, and to the right of the dining room was a living room. A door on the back of the stairs led to the basement, which connected outside with two french doors. The basement was large and spacious. In the dining room was a door that led outside, and a patio connected to it. The driveway was long, and the house was gorgeous to look at.

We divided the house up, then came to a problem. Who would take the master bedroom? And there wasn't enough bedrooms.

"Basement." Lust said.

"But who's going to sleep in the basement?" Kiara asked.

"You should." Envy nudged her.

She glared.

It was finally decided that Chase and Kiara would get the bedrooms upstairs, Talia and Gluttony the bedroom on the ground floor, Envy and Lust the master bedroom and Claire and Greed the basement. When the others got here there would have to be some shuffling around, but for now it was good.

"Where is Greed, anyway?" Claire asked as we walked back to the hut.

We would spend the rest of the evening and night at the hut, then move into the house.

"I'M STARVING!" Envy suddenly wailed.

He stumbled while walking, not seeing a tree root. Kiara turned and Envy crashed into her.

Things got interesting after that. . .

Kiara's POV

I turned to see what Envy was fussing about, then mentally screamed as he crashed into me. I was so caught off guard that I fell over. My heart stopped as something warm hit my lips.

Claire and Chase started howling in laughter as I – slowly – realized that Envy was kissing me.

Our eyes widened and I pushed him off. He was already struggling to get off, but something was wrong. He was stuck, his ankle wedged through a root, the very one that tripped him.

"OH MY GOSH, SOMEONE TAKE A PICTURE!" Claire was cracking up.

"Just get off me!" I struggled to get out from under him.

"I can't!" He was seriously stuck.

I was majorly embarrassed. Could this day get any worse?

~Five minutes later~

Yes, it could. I couldn't get the root to co-operate with my powers and retract, Chase couldn't burn it without getting us, Talia couldn't cut it, and Claire was useless in this situation. Even when Chase gave Lust her powers back (just to get us free), she couldn't cut it. And she could cut through steel! Envy was starting to get heavy, even though he (honestly, I'm pretty sure) tried to shift his weight.

Envy was warm, but that was pretty much the only good thing. A rock was poking my lower back, and places touched on us that I'd rather have not touching.

"This is hilarious." Claire took one look at us and cracked up.

I tried to scoot out from under him again, but couldn't move.

"Lift him up and pull her out." Lust said.

Chase lifted Envy up slightly, until he started howling in pain. "OW OW OW THAT HURTS YOU MORON! YOU'RE GOING TO BREAK MY FOOT!"

"Shut up." Chase pulled up more.

Talia tried to pull me out, only for him to howl more as my own foot rubbed against his.

"How in the world does that put strain on your foot?" Lust asked as Chase dropped Envy.

We hadn't moved an inch after all that.

"He's so tightly pressed against that root that any movement hurts." I explained.

"It's got thorns." He whimpered, resting his head on my shoulder.

I lightly patted his head, figuring I couldn't get any more embarrassed than I already was.

"I didn't know roots had thorns." Chase said.

"Some do." I replied.*

"I'm hungry." he whimpered.

"Oh! I forgot! I brought cookies!" Talia exclaimed.

Gluttony seemed relieved as she opened the container. Envy's head shot up.

"What kind?" He asked suspiciously.

"Chocolate chip. And peanut butter."

"Give the chocolate!" His hand shot out, wanting it.

Lust whispered to Talia and Chase, making me even more suspicious.

"Hey you two," Claire got our attention.

"What?" I asked.

"Kiss. Just this once." She said innocently.

"No." Envy turned his attention back to the cookies.

"I won't give you one unless you do." Claire threatened. "And it has to be real. Five seconds at least."

Envy and I sighed, then I glared at him. He returned it, trying to move himself. It only made him hiss in pain and stop moving. Something warm dripped onto my jeans-clad leg, and I realized it was blood. I was suddenly glad he didn't realize it, or he'd probably be complaining/screaming for it to stop.

"Let's get it over with." I sat up and kissed him.

Claire snapped a picture and Envy yanked away like he was on fire.

"That was disgusting. Why do humans do that?" Envy said, his nose wrinkled in disgust.

"Thanks." I muttered.

"Here. Cookie as promised." Talia handed us two cookies, one chocolate and one peanut butter.

Envy snatched up the chocolate one, practically inhaling it. I ate my slower, savoring it.

What am I saying? I ate it just as fast as he did.

But during that moment when we were eating it, Chase and Talia acted as one. In one swift moment, we were both yanked free. Envy cried out as his skin was shredded by the thorns. I finally was off that rock that hurt like crazy.

"Ow ow ow ow. . ." He whimpered.

"You're pathetic." Lust sighed.

After that Envy moved much more carefully and I made sure to not walk in front of him.

Wow, I got a full chapter out of a simple tree root 0_o

*made that up

Hope I got enough description for this one...I feel it's slightly lacking...

The house described is my great-aunt's house ^-^ It's awesome and I go there every summer for a sleepover with all my cousins~

I update so fast that my reviewers can't keep up XD

Natsuko26: Yay! Another chapter! :D

Ice Maiden Olivier: I'm going for funny, drama and romance, but can only put two genre's up :/ Greed's coming...soon, I think... XD

MissiB: Welp, they find a house and K & E get stuck XD

Next chapter has Humility and Pride. Humility's name is Hailey~