Flying Freedom (ON HOLD)

Chapter 35

I sit down at the table along with everyone else. We all sit next to our 'special someone' and Jerome leaves. A moment later, Mitch joins him, along with Preston and Rob. There's some obvious shuffling around before a loud crash that sounded like glass shattering. We immediately flinch, and Twi uses her magic to float out a sheepish Jerome holding a strangely glass garbage can shard. Since when do we have a glass garbage can?!? I had no idea those things actually existed! Apparently they do. Unicity gasps, running into the kitchen (earning shouts of 'HEY!') and coming back out with the rest of the broken can. Using her magic, she takes the shard from Jerome and pieces the thing back together. Then, she makes it a hard black plastic and adds some silver rhinestones to the sides. Nodding, she grins in satisfaction before plowing back into the kitchen and replacing it back onto the floor. We all giggle as she sashays into the dining room, doing exaggerated movements. That will now be known forever as 'the rhinestone garbage can'. I hope she realized what she has done. Looking over everything, I smirk and nod to Twi, who changes the flowers in the middle of the table to dead ones. We both snicker as Jackie looks over at us. Then she notices the dead flowers and snorts. Peony just giggles really loudly. Adam, Conner, Lachlan, and Vikk are all standing around really confused. Then Lachlan notices and looks horrified.

"Hey, guys! Look at the flowers! It was OUR job to get them - they'll kill us!" He whispers not very quietly. We all try to hold back our laughter as Vikk takes them out of the vase and puts them to the side. Twi then uses her magic to make those wilt, turn brown, and become all 'crunchy' before making the ones put aside all perfect and bright again when he turns around. I snicker, holding my hand in front of my face with my side hurting from holding the laughter in. By this time, we are all nearly crying, even though it would give away what we did. My wings are shaking, and I can't stop them. Lachlan gasps, pointing back towards the table. Vikk whips around, his mouth opening when he sees the brown petals. Jackie snorts really loud, but he doesn't seem to hear it. I remember that all of this is being recorded, which could be dangerous, but also just makes it funnier. Who DOESN'T love pranks? Vikk pulls out the dried ones and plops the other ones back in, this time carrying them with him as he goes back to Lachlan. Twi switches them again, so when Lachlan sees he gets angry. Vikk protests that he put them in the vase, but yet there they are in his hand. Lachlan grabs the flowers with a gigantic sigh and comes over to do it himself. Grabbing the flowers, he crushes them into a ball and replaces them with the ones he stole from Vikk. Throwing the brown ones into the trash, he turns around triumphant only to find that the dried ones are in the vase and the ball of perfectly good flowers is in the garbage can.

"See? That happened to me too!" Vikk smirks, and Lachlan blinks a few times. Deciding it is there, he pinches himself, giving off a yelp before rubbing his arm. Vikk laughs, and Lachlan runs outside to pick new flowers. By this time, we are all laughing our heads off without anyone else knowing why. Adam stares at the flower in the vase, and Unicity uses her magic to make them all bright and cheerful. He falls backwards and gasps, pointing to the vase. Vikk's mouth is wide open, and he leans forwards. Using his finger, he hesitantly pokes the pedals. Shrugging, he picks one up and decides that they are real and not just a figment of his imagination. Adam is still lying on the floor, and Lachlan runs in with a bunch of newly uprooted flowers. He runs past, going to the bathroom upstairs to wash them off. A few minutes later, there is still clanging in the kitchen and Lachlan comes back down holding a bouquet of freshly cut flowers. He comes over to the table, only to find a surprised Adam still on the floor and Vikk poking the bright flowers in the vase.

"Wait. NO! You never told me we had some good flowers IN THE VASE and that I didn't need to run out and get more!!!" he shouts. The movement in the kitchen stops and Mitch pokes his head around the doorframe. He raises an eyebrow before shrugging and walking back in. Then Jerome runs out and attacks the person still on the floor (cough cough ADAM cough cough). Mitch slowly walks out of the kitchen before grabbing Jerome's arm and dragging him back into it. Jerome protests, but soon realizes that being dragged on the floor is fun and just accepts his fate. As his feet go into the kitchen Lachlan lets out a gigantic sigh, almost sounding like a horse. That makes us laugh even harder! It was funny enough that we were able to get away with that ON VIDEO but now this is just great! Freezing, he looks over to the camara and does a face-palm.