A Gem, A Lili, and destiny

Feelings

I woke up about an hour later, remembering that I was in destiny's house. I had slept in my clothes but I didn't think that it was long enough to need to change them so I just left the room to explore.

As I closed my door, I saw Gem! I ran up to her and exclaimed "Show me your room! Pleasseeee".

She let out a sigh as she said "Ok...follow me..." she led me to the room next to my bedroom and as we entered it was very pastel colored. The bed was a pastel blue fading into a pastel pink, there were pastel pink lamps to match on the white bedside tables.

There was a hanging chair, an office desk with Gems laptop on it and other things that seemed would fit into destiny's room when she was around thirteen.

She showed me that there was a secret reading nook behind a bookshelf door and told me to bug off so she could have some alone time.

I respected her and left to explore the house, The first place I went was the front yard and although I didn't notice this at first, it was huge. So was the house, I looked back at it and it looked like it could fit at least six elephants inside it.

I thought about how destiny would always say that her parents were on a business trip as a kid. She said it all the way up until a few years ago when her mom quit her job to become a stay at home mom.

I looked around and noticed a wooden swing on a tree, I thought about how destiny must have used it all the time while her parents weren't home. I wondered why she had never invited me and Gem over, but I continued exploring none the less.

I knew I was never going to find anyone in this house but I figured I would look in some of the rooms I first saw. The first one was a walk in closet and looked like it was for parties or something. The second one had a home movie theater, I looked at all their movies and saw that they were mainly the Barbie and princess movies. It kind of proved my thoughts on how lonely she was as a child.

As I entered the third room I felt a eerie feeling, as though I had stumbled upon something that was forbidden. I even felt so small in the room, and it wasn't only because of my height. The room was a run of the mill office but I felt there was more to it than just that but I ignored that and left the room soon after.

I found destiny in the fourth room which was a professional music studio. It had a recording booth, a sound board area, and a whole ton of microphones to choose from.

I tried to be quiet while she sang, as to not interrupt what she might be recording but she sounded so pretty, as though she was a leaf in the wind. It sounded like she was singing about caring for someone who didn't notice her but I wasn't sure who that could have been if she was singing about her real feelings.

She came out of her booth and stopped the recording just before she noticed me and said "Oh- uh- hi! Do you need something?"

"No I was just exploring, but that song sounded so pretty!! Are you like secretly an angel or something??"

She laughed and said "No...just had lots of time to practice." I tried to give destiny a hug but I tripped and we just ended up on top of each other on the floor.

We both ended up laughing on the ground, and as we got up, destiny finished the hug and left the room to go work on something. I followed shortly after not wanting to break anything.

I entered the fifth room, and finally found the kitchen! It was so nice! Everything was electric appliances and the cabinets were a dark grey wood. The countertops were marble and they had an island. They also had a window in one of the walls that lead to the living room. I knew that Gem would love this room, at least if she got to cook with mom.

alas there was nothing else in this room so I moved on to the next one. As I entered I found an indoor swimming pool with towels on one side and what I can only assume was destiny's swimsuits throughout the years on the hooks on the other side.

I looked at them, confused at first, because who keeps all their old swimsuits but then I remembered that she literally moved into a new bedroom whenever she grew out of one.

I realized that you could kind of see what phase she was going through with each swimsuit. The first one I looked at must have been from when she was around nine cause it was very princess themed, that would probably be the one I ended up wearing if we went swimming because of my height.

The next one was very pastel like Gems room, then there was a really dark one with fire stuff on it, I didn't know she went through a goth phase. Then the last one was a plain teal swimsuit.

There wasn't really anything special about it until I looked at all of the swimsuits again and realized that they were all one pieces. I couldn't really blame her though, I wasn't sure if I was going to be ready for a bikini for a while.

I looked back at the pool that must have been made for Olympic swimmers and realized that all these rooms I've come across have had something to do with a hobby destiny had, I found that a bit weird but moved on.

I knew the seventh door just lead to our rooms but I went to see if there was anyone up there anyways.

As I got up there I saw Gem enter her playroom, So I followed. When I entered it was basically just a chill room.

There were bean bags everywhere, a small couch, a big TV with surround sound, and  a lockbox without a key. I wasn't going to fiddle with that because it could be someone's private thoughts but I turned to Gem and said "nice chill room, you got any plans today?"

"No, mom says we aren't allowed to leave the property so I was just planning on hanging around all day. I was kinda bummed when the only movies they had were Barbie and princess themed though."

"Hey I'm ok with the movie choice, and I get what you mean. I know it's just to make sure we're safe but it's real boring around here when you can't make a decision on what to do."

Gem stared at me for a second and said "it really is like we are sisters now, including destiny. I mean you're the baby sister, I'm the middle, and destiny is the oldest, even with our rooms!"

I thought about it for a second and said "yea...your right...even with the swimsuits that we will probably end up borrowing..." it was silent for a moment before I looked up at Gem and said "but I enjoy being your sister!"

Then as we giggled for a few minutes, Gem asked "do you wanna go watch a movie in the theater? We can curl up on the couch and bring a blanket!"

To which I grabbed her by the arm, grabbed my blanket from my room, and accidentally ran into destiny. We invited her to come with us but she said she needed to do other things. We pushed it off and continued running to the theater. I put in my favorite princess movie, Moana, and got under the blanket laying my head on Gem's lap. Soon enough though, as we got to the crab part, I fell asleep.