Wings of The Universe

Chapter three: Things Go Wonderfully Wrong

Author's note: Thanks for reading! This chapter was about a hundred words longer than my others, but I'm going to try to keep them at the same length. I'm going to make a spinoff about Bree and Hailey and their adventures. Also, does anyone know where the quote is from? Here's a hint: Greece.

After a long and tiring night of being pestered by the twins, I was definitely not up to saving the world. Of course, that was exactly what they wanted to do.

"Ha ha. Very funny. But not happening." I told Lisa. We were eating at the breakfast bar, and she was telling me her 'master plan' that she created while drawing smiley faces on her pancakes with maple syrup.

"Come on! It's just a quick trip!" She responded.

"Right. Just a quick trip to the other side of the world with a plane we don't have, using money we don't have. What are we going to do once we're there anyway?"

"We go to Brazil. We find who - or what - started them. We kill it." Lisa somehow kept her bubbly surface, even when she said we had to kill, which I couldn't help but find unsettling.

"Thank you, Captain Obvious. That answers all of my questions, like: How do we get to Brazil? What do we do once we're there? What do we tell our parents? I can go on for as long as you'd like."

"Oh, don't worry. That's plenty." Lisa said sarcastically.

"And I can answer them all," Added Lulu. "I have a friend named Bree Stanzler."

She said it in a way she would say the Queen of England or some other famous person. She watched me, looking for a reaction, but I didn't have a clue about who she was. Therefore, I said: "You know her? Cool!"

"You have no idea who she is, do you?"

"Of course I know her!" I got defensive, but I was still mystified. "Hang on, I think I do know her!"

I remembered reading her books 'Eat My Brain, I Dare You', and 'Aw Man, I Was Hoping For Vampires!' (She wrote a lot of zombie thrillers and mysteries, in case you couldn't tell). After a moment, I wondered what it had to with traveling to Brazil.

"So what are you going to do? Get her to loan you a few thousand dollars to fly to Brazil?" When she became a writer, she got really rich and famous, but didn't exactly spend the money on charities.

"Don't be crazy! She'll fly us there herself!"

That, in my opinion, was even more ridiculous.

"Hailey Miller is my second cousin, and Bree Stanzler's best friend!" She was totally fangirling now. "We even got to meet Bree!" 

"Wow, that's... Really cool!" Honestly, I wasn't a big fan of her books. As much as I loved murder mystery and detective novels, her's were more geared to younger kids. I was surprised Lulu even liked them, she was only a year younger than me. "But still, how are we going to get there? Does she have her pilot's license at seventeen?"

"If you knew much about her, you'd know that she's eighteen, and does have a helicopter license. Right, Lisa?" She turned to her twin, and suddenly I realized how quiet Lisa had been since we started talking about Bree.

"Um, yeah! Sh-she does... I've, um, gotta go to the... to the bathroom..." She got up and went down the hallway to the bathroom.

I gave Lulu a puzzled look, but she clearly didn't know what was going on either. That was weird, because she and Lisa, as different as they were, knew everything about each other. I started rubbing my wrist, a habit I got into when I was younger and had a bracelet. I did it whenever I was thinking about something.