In Our Own Time | [ON HOLD] Bee Gees 🎶

Chapter 2: Please Read Me, 1958

The next day, Margaret thought of going outside of the house to do some art. It was the first time again that she went out to do something fun. She brought along her colour pencils and huge sketchpad and started to draw their small home. Aside from having an interest in photography, she also does sketching of sceneries and would even draw some imaginary characters. It was more of a self-taught skill since no one in her family had an interest in that.

From a distance, she saw a young lad and a teenage boy running around the street, doing a fight. She wondered what was really happening so she thought of going near them, but as she got closer, the images became familiar to her. One was Barry and the other was the one who put dried leaves onto her crazy hair, who was now trying to wrestle Barry. He had a huge overbite and had different facial features among the three. Maurice was at the other side of the road, holding an old version of video camera. Their eyes met and they were both surprised, so little Margaret hid from the bush – and after few minutes, out of the blue, Maurice popped his head...

"Hey!" He said, which made Margaret jump and drop her art materials. He showed off his beautiful smile.

"Wh—what?!" Margaret asked with an arched eyebrow.

"WOW I didn't know you can speak!" He exclaimed, but he noticed she went mad. "Uh... Sorry. Uh... You can join us!" Maurice suggested, while helping her pick up the materials. The day before, Barry talked to the twins that they should be good to the little girl after what they did in school.

"N—no, ah—I better le—leave," she replied, stuttering. She hadn't made friends yet when they moved so she likely went back to "square one" when talking to other people. She was about to leave when she noticed the gadget in which little Maurice was still holding. "Is that an 8-mm?"

"How did you know?"

"I—I actually like that for myself. Dad was supposed to buy one but..."

"Hey, hey don't cry! Did I say something wrong?" Maurice went in panic when Margaret cried after talking, and he tried to soothe her. She actually wished that gadget to her parents for her upcoming birthday in July, and that seemed impossible now for her to happen.

Meanwhile, Barry and the huge-overbite-possessed kid wondered where Maurice went since they were not able to hear his director-like voice for a moment. "Where on earth Maurice went?" Barry wandered around as he noticed he "disappeared" on the side of the road. The shorter kid shook his head. As they were searching for their other brother, they saw Maurice extending a hand onto something – or someone – behind a huge bush...and they saw a small pair of hands receiving it. They approached them.

"We've been looking for you! Where did you go?" The overbite kid slapped Maurice's arm and asked, then suddenly saw Margaret beside him with the cam on her hand, "Oh, you're with the lion-looking girl!" He grinned devilishly.

"Stop that!" Barry muttered and nudged the kid but then Margaret threw a pair of coloured pencils onto him and hit on his forehead, which caused Barry to laugh and Maurice trying to stop himself from laughing harder as he was biting his lower lip hard. "AW! That hurt!" said the kid.

"Well I apologize for my idiot twin's behaviour..." Maurice said to Margaret, still trying to hold his breath from laughing.

"H—huh? You're twins? I think you're kidding," said the little girl, scratching her head while turning her head back and forth to both of them.

"Unfortunately, they are," Barry remarked sarcastically. He messed up the dude's hair and dragged closer to him. "He's the older brother of Maurice by thirty minutes, Robin. They're fraternal twins, actually." He introduced to her.