I´m really, really sorry for not updating this in such a long while. But these last few weeks have been really… well, how should I say it? Tough? And when it was final over, my dad told me something else, that really hit me like a bomb. But now I´ve solved that too. And everything´s back to normal.

"Looks like it´s a storm coming!" Mike leaned over the kitchen bench and looked out the window, while I helped him drying the dishes. I turned around and looked out the window.

"Probably," I had never been afraid of thunder. I didn´t expect it to be so bad. So I just kept on doing the dishes.

"Can I go now?" I asked when we were done.

"Yeah sure, have fun." I walked out of the door to the garden. I had never understood what was so fun about sitting in front of a TV, or a computer a whole afternoon. In Gota, we had amused ourselves with drawing, reading, dancing, singing, football and other stuff you didn´t need any electricity for. A memory popped up in my head.

Flashback

"Sophia." Sophie passed me the football Luce tried to catch it before me, but I was faster than him. Then he came running after me and lifted me up. He hung me over his shoulder so I had my head, upside down on his chest.

"No, Luce. LUCE" I tried to scream, but I laughed too much to scream anymore. Luce ran after the ball, and I could see Sophie, almost collapsing of laughter. Luce kicked the ball into our home- made goal.

"SCORE" He shouted and pulled me down from his shoulder, with my back against his arm, and my legs hanging over his other arm, he ran around the garden with me in his arms.

"ONE POINT FOR LUCE ATKINS, AND NONE FOR THE TWINS." He shouted.

"You CHEATER." I shouted and started knocking his shoulders and chest with my fists. He squatted down, lay me down and started tickling me. Sophie came running and started tickling me.

"NO LUCE… NO SOPHIE…" I gasped. When I laughed so much I could barely breathe.

End of flashback

"Sophia, pass the ball" Stan´s voice reached my head, as the football, Stan, Joe, Johnny and Tyler had been playing with, came rolling towards me. I stopped it with my foot. And looked back at Stan and the others.

"You deaf or something?" Stan said. "Pass the ball." I smiled a little, and said.

"Only if you can catch it first." I started dribbling with the ball on the ground. Stan started running after me. But I was faster than him, so I ran away easily.

"But come on then Stan." Joe shouted. "You can´t let a girl win over you."

"Come on and help me then." Stan sounded out of his breath. "And you´ll see how easy it is." I turned my head, when I could see Johnny coming from my right. I dribbled again, and ran towards the goal.

"SCORE." I had shooted the ball in the goal, I stretched my arms in the air and wheeled. Not caring about how much I would hurt.

"Oh, but come on. I let you do that." Stan sounded really angry. "Come on Joe, we go watch TV or something." They turned around and walked towards the house. Johnny and Tyler walked after them.

I could feel some raindrops falling on my face, and looked up at the sky, where dark clouds were starting to loom. I shrugged, and started dribbling with the ball again.

Mike´s pov

"You got beaten by a GIRL." Stan and Joe came walking into the kitchen.

"I told you, I let her win."

"Who?" I asked.

"Sophia," Joe answered. "She´s actually quite good." Joe answered and the boys sat down by the table. When we could hear thunder from outside. I looked out the window, and saw that the lightning had hit a tree in the garden.

"Sophia," I almost whispered, turned around. Jumped down the stairs outside and towards the garden.

"Sophia," I came around the corner. "Sophia are you ok?"