Legends

Chapter 15 (Alex)

      I jolted awake wondering where I was, and who the snoring boy was lying next to me. Then it all came back to me, and that the boy is just Zander. Phew. Everybody else was nowhere to be found. I trudged downstairs, half awake, to find Olivia reading a book with Bo snoring in her lap.

     "Where is everybody?" I asked.

     "Walrus and James are downstairs mapping where to go next. Jane is keeping watch with Zoe. Tara and Elise are making breakfast. And well, you know, Zander is sleeping." Olivia explained looking up at me for a second before returning to her book.

     "Jane just said she doesn't need help keeping watch. So need anything?" Zoe asked as she slammed the front door and walked over to us.

      "You and I can look in the attic for any magical items." I offered. Zoe nodded in response. We hiked upstairs, thankfully without the stair runner slipping under us. I opened the trap door in the ceiling and found a ladder that could drop down, which leads up to the attic. I climbed the ladder, with Zoe trailing behind me. I hauled myself up and onto the floor, finally taking a look around the room. The attic felt as if it could store two fully grown elephants, without the hundreds of boxes in the way. Spiders clung to the walls, making it feel as if they were crawling up my legs. 

      "Okay, let's just look really quickly so we can get out of here." Zoe said as she scratched her arms and thighs. I squeezed past a large spider web, making my way to a group of boxes. I moved aside the first box, which was filled with seven gallons of glue. Trust me, I had no idea why either. A high pitched squeal erupted from Zoe's direction.

     "What is the matter?" I questioned, walking over to Zoe.

      "I- uh- there- is a- spiders, a lot." Zoe mumbled pointing to a closed box. I opened the box slowly revealing hundreds of baby daddy long legs and tarantulas crawling up the sides, towards the opening. They climbed up my arms, the daddy long legs' tiny arms pricking my skin. The tarantulas hairs brushing against my arms. I swat them away with a book before they can travel farther up my body. I removed the book to find spider puree smeared on my arms. Quickly I close the box and scatter away, careful not to crash into anything. I felt something drop on my head,  legs were scrambling around. I shift my eyes around the room, thousands of spiders back down their strings, moving closer to the ground. 

     "I think we did enough searching, let's get out of here." I pleaded, shaking my head to make sure to get the spider off my head. Zoe and I started to walk towards the ladder when something caught my eye.

     "Zoe, look at this." I say pointing at a picture frame. It was a family picture. In the picture, there were two young babies wrapped in their parents arms. One baby had dark black hair and green eyes. The other had platinum blonde hair and blue eyes. The black haired one was wrapped in a white blanket labeled Alex. The platinum blonde haired one was wrapped in a blue blanket that was labeled Zoe. The babies looked like they were only couple months old. There was a young girl in the picture that looks just like Elise. Zoe noticed too.

     "Is that us?" Zoe asked under her breath.

     "I think so." I replied

     "Soooo we have another sister!" Zoe exclaimed.

     "I think so."

     "And Snow White and Prince Charming are our parents?" 

    "I think so."

     "Can you please stop saying that over and over. We just found out that our mom is Snow White, our dad is dead, and is Prince Charming, Elise is our half sister, and we are twins. How are you so calm when we just found out we've been lied to our whole life, from a picture. We were abandoned because our parents  didn't want to raise us, Elise has been lying to us ever since we met her. How are you so okay?" Zoe asked, slightly raising her voice.