picture perfect family

Ellie Menendez

We decided to watch a movie, captain america - winter soldier, my favourite. At first the boys want to watch something else, but I forced them to watch captain america till the end with me "Okay but it wasn't that bad", Erik said "Come on brother, it was horrible", I knew Lyle actually liked it too, he just wanted to annoy me "You're horrible too", I said laughing "Hey!", we all started laughing and I heard the the door of Ellies room open "Good morning", she said while rubbing her eyes "Yea good morning it's 3pm", Erik said "She needed her beauty sleep you know", I said "Alright", Erik answered smiling

"Can we do something?", Ellie asked "What do you want to do?", Lyle asked "Maybe something with Lauren?", she said smiling at me "Alright, I understand, you like her better than us huh" Lyle said fake mad, "Alright what about Ellie and I doing dinner and you go watch barbie?", I asked and Ellie started laughing "Would fit you two", she said and now I started laughing "Oh go away you two", Lyle answered and indicated with his hands that we should leave

We went into the kitchen and even though it was a woods house, it was quite big "So, what you wanna eat?", I asked her "hmmmm, lasagna! That's Eriks and my favourite!", sweet, "Alright, lasagna, do you know how to do that?", I asked her and she shook her head, "me either, seems like we have to look up huh", I took out the cook book and then we started cooking. It was fun, I noticed that even though she's still little, she's really clever

3 hours later

Ellie was watching the oven with the lasagna in it, and I went look after the boys, and you won't believe what I saw! They watched captain america! For a minute I watched them watching it and I could see that Lyle enjoyed it, "Aha, I understand", I said and Lyle jumped "I just watched it because everything else was boring", "No excuses", I said putting my finger on his lips" food is finished, be at the table in 5", I said heading back to the kitchen

"Wow you made lasagna!", Erik said with excitement, "Yea I heard you two like it", I said while pointing at Ellie and him, after we ate Ellie and I did the dishes and went to bed. "Good night Lau it was so cool!", Ellie said smiling "I really liked it too, good night", I answered smiling and left her room. I went into the living room and sat down to the boys. "Seems like you two come out huh?", Lyle asked

"Yea, I guess so. She's really sweet", I said "Yea, yea she is. The sweetest", Erik agreed. We talked a while until I Lyle looked at the clock, "Alright its time to go to bed, you two have to stay at early", he said and left to his room, after that Erik did that too and I stayed alone. After 5 minutes I went into the empty room and laid down there. I tried to fall asleep but I just couldn't, I never was in a real school, I'm afraid

I stood up, it alredy was 2am, I wasn't sure if Erik still was awake, but I wanted to check out

Erik pov

I just checked the clock and it was 2am, damn I need to sleep. Exactly as I was about to enter my sweet dream, I heared someone enter my room. At first I thought it was Ellie, but after I heard the person saying my name, I knew it wasn't her "Hey, whats up, why aren't you sleeping?", I asked Lauren while turning around. She sat at the end of my bed and I also sat up, "I cant't. Erik I'm afraid. I was never in a real school, I don't know what everything will happen, how other people are like, I'm afraid", I said while a tear rolled down her my cheek.

"Hey don't worry about that, I will help you and protect you if anybody says only one bad word about you. You'll be alright, with me by your side. ", I said, trying to calm her down. She didn't say anything, just hugged me "Thank you", she wishpered and I hugged her back. After a while She fell asleep, in my arms. I didn't want to wake her, what if she wouldn't fall asleep again, so I just let her. Soon I also fell asleep and woke up, hearing my alarm ringing. Oh no