Chapter Three; The Proper Ingredients
A little while later after we got back from the park it started to rain. After Jack came over and dropped his kids off, Peter took JJ into his room to watch Toy Story while the two girls went back into their bedroom and I put Susie down for her nap. "So what do you want to do now? Play Barbie's?" Jane asked as she flopped down on the bed.
"No, we always do that." Cassie said as she kicked the wall and dangled her head off the foot of the bed. That's when suddenly she shot back up. "I think I'll do a science experiment." She said as Jane just simply groaned at her.
"Cassie! We don't go back to school until another month!" she cried.
"Yeah but then you'll be going to Hogwarts." Her younger sister pointed out.
"Oh yeah that's right, I forgot about that." She said.
"C'mon Jane this is our last chance to do things together before you go away. I remember there are so many things that we wanted to do together with Mummy but we never got the chance." Cassie said.
"Well alright, but first we'll have to go ask Dad if we can use the kitchen." Jane said before the two girls got up and rushed out of the room together. Meanwhile I had had Susie on my lap while I read to her the story of the little engine that could. I kissed the top of her head while she clutched onto her blanket inside her tiny little fingers and sucked on her dummy.
I didn't realize how much I had missed having babies around until that point. That's when suddenly Jane opened the door and both my daughters stuck their heads inside the room. "What is it girls? I'm trying to get Susie down for her nap." I told them.
"We were just wondering if we could use the kitchen for a science experiment." Cassie said.
"Well alright, but just be careful." I told her.
"We will, thanks Dad!" Jane exclaimed before she shut the door tightly behind them and I took a deep breath and sighed before I continued reading the story.
"Alright, so what do you want to make?" Jane asked.
"Something that turns you invisible." Cassie answered.
"What!?" Jane exclaimed when suddenly a huge roll of thunder and a bright flash of lightning lit up of the sky.
"Ah!" Both girls cried as they leaped up into the air.
"It's alright, it's only thunder." Jane said.
"Duh!" Cassie snapped.
"Yeah well you jumped too." Jane pointed out. "Anyway, how are we going to make something that turns us invisible?"
"Well we're aliens aren't we?" Cassie questioned.
"Yeah, so?" Jane questioned her back.
"So, we'll just use Daddy's special ingredients out of the cupboard." Cassie told her before she pushed the stepstool over to the kitchen counter and climbed on top of it before she opened it up. "Now let's see, we'll need just a little bit of frog's breath since that will create the foggy mist," she began as she took the vile out of the cupboard and sat it down on the countertop.
"About a half cup of flour to turn us white mixed with water to make us transparent," she continued as she set the bag of flour down next to the frog's breath. "And of course some apple juice just to make it taste better." She said before she shut the cupboards and leaped back down on the ground.
"Uh Cassie, I changed my mind. You go ahead." Jane said.
"Why? Don't you want to become invisible so that we can pull pranks on Daddy and Peter?" she questioned her.
"No, not really. I mean if we became invisible there's no guarantee that we would become visible again. I'm going back to my room and going on the computer. Have fun but don't make a mess." She told her before she turned and walked back down the hallway.
"Well alright, suit yourself." Cassie said with a shrug as she opened the refrigerator and got out the whole container of apple juice and set it up on the counter before she began to pour and mix all of the ingredients inside of it.