 Elder Quad
Hearing a distant voice begin to speak to her, Chloe's eyes fluttered open to see Emmylyne near her bedside. "Oh mummy do I 'ave to get up?" the young woman chuckled as she sat up and threw a pillow at her friend. "Wha' time is it anyway?"
Glancing in the mirror as she stood up, she couldn't help but laugh. "Looks like I was in a brawl." She grabbed her brush and began to tame her vibrant red hair that was sticking up in all different directions. After pulling her long-sleeved, red, peace sign shirt on, she put on a pair of skinny jeans and plaid shoes that went perfectly with her shirt. Finally, she placed a black headband in and nodded. "Perfect."
Having taken the longest to get up, Jae rushed to the bathroom to pull on his clothes consisting of a white long-sleeve with a Gaelic football jersey(of course it was from Finn), a pair of straight jeans, and black and green gym shoes.
Giggling as he opened the door to Axel and Nik's room, he glanced down to see that one of them was on the floor. Chuckling as he noticed it was Nik, Jae began to run, head on, in his cousin direction. "COWABUNGA!" he yelled, jumping into his still sleeping cousin.
"UMPH!" Axel was awoken with a start as Jae did a line drive into his stomach, knocking the wind out of him. It took a second for him to realize what had just happen, and to get his breath back, but then he began to laugh which soon turned into a cough. "Sheesh Jae, one of these times you're gonna take me out," he laughed.
Standing up, he placed Jae on the ground then walked over to the pile of blankets that used to be on Nik's bed. "Having some trouble are we?" he laughed, pulling the covers off him. "What sort of dream were you having? I heard you talking," he said as he attempted to stifle a laugh.
After pulling on a pair of straight jeans, a bit too-tight-for-him black sweater, and a pair of black outdoor moccasins, Axel was ready to go. He told Jae to go downstairs as he went to Emmy's room and knocked lightly on the door. "Everyone up?" he asked sweetly.
The young man was definitely in a much better mood than he had been in a very long time. He was head over heels in love with his best friend and he now thought she had felt the same way about him. Why wouldn't he be happy? Then again, that same sick feeling always crept up on him when he thought about it too much because then his mind would linger on Ben for too long.
Chloe opened the door with a flourish and looked at Axel with a puzzled expression. "What's wrong with you?" she asked, motioning to the hand that had involuntarily moved to his stomach.
"Erm..I took a knee to my stomach. Can you guess who it was?" he laughed, glad to have brushed that over quite easily. Chloe was one not to be fooled so he knew he'd have to say things very carefully.
She chuckled lightly, her honey colored eyes still a bit skeptical. "He's a fiesty one, isn't he?" Everyone could agree on that one.
"It's rude to talk 'bout people when they're not 'round," Jae chuckled as he walked past his cousins and disappeared downstairs. He could have sworn he saw the two laugh as he turned the corner. |