^ A Result Of Hana Being Bored ^

No doubt you're lost. It's actually the only reason why people who don't live here find themselves wandering around the middle class street. But, the Glass/Caster family have invested in a new house, yes house, not flat, this is mainly owing to the fact that they were told that they weren't allowed three adults, one child and a great Dane living in a two bedroomed flat. Now they actually own a three bedroomed house that's pretty close to the centre of London.

Generally, if you stand too close to the house, you'll hear the muggle band The Cure wafting out of one of the windows, each member of the household is a fan, expect to be frowned at if you don't like them. Entering the house, there's a staircase right in front of you that leads up, and a door to your right that leads into the living room. Going past the staircase you'll go through one door into the dining room, which is airy and has most of it's furniture from Ikea. Continuing through there, is the kitchen and a door leading out into the uncared for back garden.

Going back through the house and up the stairs, right at the top of the stairs is a rather large bathroom with everything in, bath, shower, full length mirror, clothes drying on a rack by the side of the bath, toilet and wash basin. Leaving the bathroom, there's a room directly on your left, this belongs to Winter and his three year old daughter, Leah, further down the corridor there's another door, at the very end, this belongs to Layla, Winter's twin sister, turning to the right, there's another door that looks more worse for wear than the other two, this belongs to Alyss, Winter and Layla's niece and Leah's cousin.

Not an hour previously, Alyss Glass returned home to discover that Layla, he aunt, had stormed out of the house, telling her brother that she was never going to return to live with them ever again. The reason for this is totally unknown, but it's what Alyss is attempting to get out of Winter right now..

Characters:
Winter Caster (27) : Echein
Leah Caster (3) : Echein
Alyss Glass (21-22) Me

Anyone else is welcome :] please join if you wish.

(Day/Time= Friday / 14:27)
Oh.. And it's raining.

"I am toterly and ABSOLUTELY serious!" Winter wailed pathetically at his niece who was standing right in front of him, her hands on her hips and a dark scowl on her face. She reeeeeeeeeallllyyyy scared him when she looked like that... "Lay's just vanished... We were... Talking... Kinda.. And she just walked out..." He bit his bottom lip hard, "HONEST!"

When she'd reached the door that day, Alyss had not expected for her aunt to of left the house and for Winter to be giving her some pathetic excuse for why she was gone.. No, she had been expecting to be allowed to go and shower in peace, removing her sopping wet clothing and got into something dry. She hadn't even had the chance to do that yet. No, she was standing parallel to her uncle, glaring at him and wondering why the hell she hadn't found herself a flat of her own or moved in with one of her friends.

"Wint'... You're not making this any easier.. Just tell me what happened... 'Cause I'm cold and wet. So please..?" She begged, although... Begging didn't come easily for her, so it was more like demanding... Which would probably make Winter clam up even more.

"OKAYOKAYOKAAAY! Well.." Positioning himself so that his back was to his scary niece, Winter decided that the best way to show her that Layla had just walked out, was to act it out. Where he'd come up with that it was the best idea, deserted man and beast, but this was him. "I was standing here right," He said rather loudly, his back still to Alyss, "And Lay was in the living room," Turning around he pointed to the room. "The phone rang, and she answered it." Walking over to the phone, he picked it up and put it to his ear. Talk about literal. "She argued with someone about something.. I wasn't listening. And then she slammed it down." Putting the phone down much lighter than his sister had done earlier, because he knew Alyss would probably hit him with the phone if he slammed it down, "And then she walked out." Taking a few paces toward the door, he turned, and grinned stupidly at Alyss.

Man she was gonna kill him.

Closing her eyes as slowly as possible and trying not to concentrate on her wet jeans that were actually chafing with every movement that she made, Alyss took one deep breath, opened her eyes again, and glared at her uncle. "I don't know why I bother living with you two!!" She almost yelled at him, turning on her heel and stomping up the stairs. First thing on he mind, wasn't actually where her aunt was. The woman was twenty-seven, she was capable of looking after herself. No, the first thing on her mind was in fact.. Her coat.

Where the hell was it? She'd lost it not too long back, and beforehand it hadn't been that bad because it had been so sunny, but now that it was tipping down buckets of water, she wasn't so happy with not having her coat. Going into her room, she dropped into the soft, old brown chair by the window and let out a huge sigh. She needed to find a place of her own...

Soonish.

Fresh Breath? Check
Clean Shoes? Check
Smile? Double Check

Edi popped in the corner of an unknown and rather muggle-ish looking street. Sliding his sunglasses to his nose, Edi squinted his eyes and he jogged towards a brick building. Taking a deep breath, he walked upto a door, "17 Kanderview Terrace." He muttered to himself as he lifted his clenched fist to knock at the door but quickly pulled it back. This is nerve wrecking, he was at Alyss Glass's house without a proper reason, of course she forgot her coat at his place but it wasn't a strong enough reason for his sudden presence outside her doorstep.

Shaking his hands in air to shrug of the nervousness, Edi covered his face with his hands and waited for someone else to knock on the door. He just can't bring himself together to do it. Thankfully the rain had stopped or he would be soaked by now.

Just do it...

Okay, here goes nothing. Edi knocked at the door exactly two times and hastily backed off, this time he was determined to not get himself bruised or scratched or anything of that sort. Lets hope she's alone because he wouldn't be able to absorb the presence of another Glass around, one was enough for him, sigh.

Biting his lip nervously as Alyss flounced off, Winter wandered into the kitchen, only to rush back to the door at the sound of two short knocks. Peeking through the spyhole, he almost fell over... Yes... He had forgotten to take his eye away from the hole before opening the door... Rubbing his forehead and glaring at the door as if it was all it's fault, Winter looked at the guy who was standing outside the door... "Umm, hel-lo..?" The second word was broken up in confusion as he couldn't tell if he actually knew this guy.

Maybe it was someone from work.. Noooo... "OH!" He exclaimed suddenly, "DO come in, it's been raining and all so I wouldn't want you to get wet! Now do forgive me... Do I know you.. Or are you a friend of Alyss or Layla's?" Best way of putting it.. Mmhmm.

"Why isn't someone answering? Maybe she's not at home, good I'll just get the hell out of here then." Edi thought as he stared at the door and was about to turn around and disapparate when a frowning man, A MAN answered the door.

Oh no, this doesn't look so good. He's not her boyfriend or husband or ....a date, is he? Edi felt of pang of jealousy run through his body as he gawked the guy with a scowl. Putting his sunglasses in the inner pocket of his coat, he tried to smile at him, "Hi, I am Edilson Mills and your forehead, is it fine?." Fake concern to be honest. He attempted to sound confident, the other man was rather good-looking, envy envy.

He stuck his hand out to him somewhat hesitantly, "I'm looking for Miss. Alyss Glass, I need to have a quick word with her." Biting his lips, Edi tried to sneak a look inside, maybe Alyss was wandering around somewhere and in case the man doesn't invite him inside.

Oh great, the pitter patter of the rain started again, hmph. Sometimes rain makes him gloomy and what he just witnessed wasn't very pleasing either, "Thank You, I'll be gone soon.. promise and sorry for the intrusion."

Edi wiped the dirt off his shoes on the mat which was lying at the door step, he didn't want Alyss's house to get all muddy and simple waited for the guy to direct him, either up the stairs or to his right.

Eeeeeep! The man was giving him an Alyss look. Almost shutting the door in his face and going to hide down the back of the sofa, Winter blinked in confusion.. "Yooou... Know Alyss?" He asked carefully. She hadn't mentioned anyone else... Especially not a guy. Almost giggling immaturely at his own thoughts, he waved his hand up and down. "Heck, you can stay for ages if you want."

Unless Alyss kicked the guy out. "Oh, DO forgive me" how many times was he going to say that today? "I'm Winter... Lovely to meet you." No need to explain the connection between him and Alyss.. The guy probably knew it anyway, "I'll.... See if she's dried up.. She was weeellll wet when she came into.. 'Cause of.. Y'know.. The rain." Almost skipping up the stairs and leaving mystery man down in the hall-way, he ran around the landing and almost ran into the door of Alyss's room.

"Uhum..Aly.. There's a.." Snigger, "Man for you." LOL.

As soon as she'd got up into her room, Alyss hadn't even bothered with getting changed, just dumped herself on the huge bed that filled the room up. It really was too big for a little person like her. Pulling the sopping wet black jumper off of her being, she froze where she was sitting when the door was knocked on....

Why was she bothered? Lying back down on the bed, without giving thought to the fact that she was probably making a little wet patch appear, she groaned, and rolled over onto her face as Winter knocked into her door. "Tell 'im to go away then." She muttered into her quilt.. Secretly, she was immensely curious as to who was at their door, or just inside. So, pushing herself off of her bed, and grabbing a pair of dark blue sweats, she quickly changed into some half-presentable clothing, exited her room, only to collide into her uncle.

"You did ask him to come in, instead of leaving him outside in the rain, didn't you?" She asked, her eyes narrowing... But without waiting for a response, she passed by him, and began walking down the stairs... Only to almost run back up them again. "Mr.. Mills.." Alyss began, rather shakily... Edilson was in her house.. When Winter was about... Ohgodno. "Is anything wrong?" Walking down the few extra stairs, she wandered up to him, and glanced up... He didn't... Look ill.. Maybe slightly sour..

How odd.

The house was quite cozy and nice but due to his sudden crankiness, Edi didn't notice it and all he could gape at was the man, who was sort of weird.

"Hmm I do know her...a bit." He muttered absentmindedly as he looked around trying to find Alyss, was she even at home in the first place? Glancing back at the man, Edi's eyebrow raised a teensy bit.

you can stay for ages if you want..

He felt slightly elevating, hmm that wasn't a sort of thing a boyfriend would say, at least he wouldn't if he was.. you know.. her..never mind.
Winter? What an odd name, "Likewise." His lips curled into a nonchalant smile, dried up? Wet? Oh..the rain, he had her coat, heehee. "That's why I'--" He trailed off as Winter practically skipped out the room. Slipping his hands in his pockets, Edi gave a quick glanced around the room and sat on the couch, apprehensively.

His head was still filled with thoughts about who Winter might be? He could possibly be her brother and that's how he has been acting. If he's not mistaking, the guy looked almost happy to have him here.

Edi nearly thought about jumping out the window when he heard a faint sound of Alyss talking and then he saw her appear from the corner of his eye. As usual he sprung to his feet, almost knocking his knee against the table, "Oh uh, no..problem. I'm so sorry, if you're busy I-I'll go..really...there's no problem." Yikes, so much stammering, it almost took him a minute to finish it but she looked gorgeous and it made him so...goo goo ga ga...as always. He blinked, opened his mouth to say something but shut it back, someone tell him why was he here, pleaseee?

As Edilson began stammering, Alyss almost kicked the guy out of her house straight away. Was he always like this? Or was it just something she seemed to inflict on the poor man? "Do I really look busy?" She asked cynically, dumping herself down on the armchair that was opposite the couch, and curling her legs up onto it. Because it was so big and she was so small, she could basically fit all of herself onto it.. Which was pretty amazing when she was feeling just the teensyest bit under the weather. Glancing down at her bare feet for a few moments, she looked back up, suddenly panicked. "My uncle.. He wasn't too odd.. Was he?" She asked quickly, gesturing in the general direction of where she'd left Winter.

Even though she was feeling like curling up and going to sleep on the big dark purple armchair, she liked having Edilson in her house. He was just that slight bit more sane than the people in her family.. Well, that wasn't exactly difficult. What with Winter smacking his head on the door as he opened it..

Glancing back down for a moment, she saw a flash of black next to Edilson on their green couch... Was it.. Noway. That couldn't of been where she left her coat. Staring hard at it for what seemed like a few hours, Alyss actually had to physically tear her eyes away from the scrap of black material that lay beside her employee. She totally couldn't of been that stupid..

Could she?

Can I join pweese? *Puppy dog eyes with a big platter of cake*

Name: Destiny Lemur
Age: Seventeen
Personality: Funny, kind, and a good friend

Destiny walked the road, sighing and scratching her head. Merlin, she was lost! The map proved to be a fake and she began shredding and taking out all her frustration on the map, when she felt a little soft drop on her brown, curly hair.

Oh great. It's raining again!

Hissing, and cursing her luck, she had no choice but to ask someone for directions. But she couldn't. No one was even walking on the streets! One thing moved and she whipped her head there, opening her mouth to ask them but heard a soft 'meow' and sighed, closing her mouth.

Having no choice but to ring a door bell, she sighed and waiting for the owner to come out.

Edi squinted his eyes and studied Alyss's outlook. Well, she looked like she might be doing some laundry so technically she WAS busy and HE interrupted her, "Oh you do look busy, Laundry maybe?" He nodded his head very slightly and dropped down on the couch.

While Alyss was curling up and making herself comfortable on the armchair, Edi got the time to ponder on the subject of why he was here.
He knew that he was here to return something but whhaaat?

-mental flail-

He felt as someone just gave him a powerful electric shock when Alyss mentioned her Uncle and according to Edi, that must be Winter. Ignoring her question completely, Edi burst into a fit of laughter. GUH! How stupid of him to think that Winter was her boyfriend or husband (which was totally silly)...
"I thought-------he---was---yourboyfriend." He managed to squeak out between the cackles and covered his mouth with his hand, trying hard to suppress the tittering, "I'm sorry." His cheeks emitted a bright shade of pink as he looked down at his shoes. The whole laughing thing was more of him, letting out his frustration but it did make him look stupid, sigh.

He followed Alyss's stare, she was looking right next to him at a piece of cloth.... oh yesss, he came to return her coat, silly.

He stood up, picked the coat carefully and walked over to the armchair and settled the coat on her lap, "Umm, you forgot it on the hanger that day." He said shyly, ahem...he did cuddle with the coat...a bit. "I've had it dry cleaned so don't bother to wash it again." He pointed at the tiny dry cleaner's tag, hanging from it's sleeve.

La.. Laundry? Was he for real? "I'm not awesome at laundry so I leave it to ... Others.." A small lump formed in her throat as she thought of her missing aunt and where the hell she could possibly be. Of all times, it was terribly inconsiderate of her to vanish now. Heck, Alyss hadn't exactly fixed up the house in time for a relative to run away.

When Edilson suddenly exploded into fits of laughter, Alyss almost threw him out straight away, but when he eventually spluttered out the reason for his outburst, she couldn't help but stare at the man opposite her. He.. He.. Actually thought that.. Her.. HER AND WINTER?! Was he totally insane? That was just.. Ewww. Shivering mentally at the thought, she grabbed the small pillow that was next to her, and in a moment of immaturity, she threw it at him. "Are you being totally serious?!" She squealed, curling her arms around her knees as if to protect herself, just in case he threw the pillow back, "That's just... Wrong..."

As he came over, she almost squealed with excitement. In a very sad way, she was sort of emotionally attached to her coat, so as the familiar smelling material was placed on her lap, she threw herself up and rapped her arms around her employee. "THANKYOOOU!" Okay, so.. The day was getting weirder and weirder for her, but hey...

Ohyeah.. Detaching herself from Edilson with her heart pounding with embarrassment, she grinned, "Yeah, thanks... And.. Sorry if I.. Crushed anything..." Mmh, that'd be really embarrassing.

Edilson cocked his head to the side and innocently stared back at Alyss who had a look of great disgust on her face. Ofcourse any sane person will be offended if their Uncle is misunderstood as their boyfriend or husband. But when Alyss threw a cushion at him, Edi decided to take the hit and not duck. Aww it was such a cute thing, pillow fights are Edi's guilty pleasure. "Heeeey what was that for? I know it's a very abhorring thing to say but he didn't look like an Uncle to me." Well it was Edi's problem that a plump, 'stache-y image of a man comes to his mind at the sound of the word Uncle. However, Winter was far from having any of those traits.

Alyss reacted in the least possible way when she pulled him into an embrace and all he could do was stand there dumbstruck. Although he didn't dare wrap his arms around her petite shoulder, he still enjoyed the feeling. When she pulled away, he smiled at her dorkily and stared into her eyes, gasping. Whoa, this trip was turning out to be quite interesting.

The sound of a honking car horn brought him back to earth and Edi realised that his mouth was still open. Snapping it shut hastily, he turned around and walked over to a small table on which a few photo frames were placed neatly, "Who is she?" He asked, pointing his finger at the picture of a woman hugging Winter.

OCC: Soooo sorry Hana for the late reply. I got a bit out of Edi's character in the past month.

"He can't really help not looking like an uncle... After all.." Urgh... She was beginning to ramble. It always happened when she began to talk about her family, "He is only five years older than me.. My Grandma had an affair, so technically he's only my step uncle... But that's a bit hard to say." Just the teensest bit smug when Edilson didn't throw the cushion back at her, Alyss nearly grabbed another one, but then was brought back down to earth by the fact that it would come out terribly immature.

Very close to asking him if he wanted a drink, Alyss was shocked when he pointed out the picture of Winter and Layla together. "Uhh..." The lump had already formed in her throat. Why did she have to be gone? And why hadn't they heard anything from her as well? "That's Winter's sister... Layla.. She's.." Swallowing hard and telling herself sternly that there was nothing worse than crying in front of a man, she continued with what she was telling him, "She's missing at the moment, apparently she just walked out today." Although she'd pushed down anything that might of stirred up emotions, Alyss still choked on the word 'missing'.

Glancing back up from the picture, a fake smile pushed onto her face, she asked, in the sweetest, most faux tone that she had on her, "Would you like a drink, I was just going to get myself one when you turned up." A bit of a lie, perhaps, but she was going to get one at some point in time.