Stuck In Between Time

Chapter 1: A little about me

       I was sitting, or more liked squeezed in between my big twin brother watching nature shows. A few days ago, which felt like just this morning, our Dad died with cancer and our Mom died with a serious illness. Luckly, my big brothers are old and smart enough to get a very good job, and their girlfriends (soon to be wifes) live with us. We are one good family.

     "Fay, would you like to make cookies with Cora for your brothers?" says Joan sweetly.

     I nod and squeeze out of Farrell and Azim. Which are pretty down lately. They just watch nature shows, while I make a lot of cookies. Luckily, Joan and Cora moved into our big house and it is a big comfort. Farrell and Azim are working as app makers for a really expensive company, while Cora and Joan write comic books. I like to make money by illustrating, making anime and Manga. And don't worry, we all love our jobs. We get to stay together all the time!

     Me, Farrell, Azim, Joan and Cora are considered as "Prodigies" We are famous it looks like we don't go out much. Farrell and Azim were homeschooled by two of the smartest people, which are our parents. So we don't really know what grade we are in. I still have to go to one more year of homeschooling, so Joan teaches me.

     We love books a lot too. We read so much that one of our rooms in the house is just all books! We like engineering too. I think that is why we are on the news whenever people come by? We are doing all this not for fame, just for fun.

      I am 18 years old, but I act a little more like a 12 years old for some weird reason. My birthday is going to be the day after my brother's wedding, which means my birthday is on November 5th. I have short cut hair that looks similar to my brothers, but it is a very dark pink on the bottom. People like to call me shy, sensitive but a little bit bubbly. I almost look like a boy. I am too afraid to have friends. When I was younger, more girly and was living in my old neighborhood, I had good friends. But one day I learned that I can have short hair, cool t-shirts, shorts and sneakers, I decided I want to be that kind of girl. When I did my glow up, my friends were not too happy about it. Also, when they learned that I was overly smart, they did not want to be friends with me anymore. I am too afraid, I guess, to make friends.

     We moved to an area where we own a lot of acres of forest. If we drive about 20 minutes there is a city but our home looks like the middle of the forest. Our house is surprisingly big, and was made only a year ago so it is more of a modern style. It was very empty after our parents died, so Joan and Cora, (Which are actually twins...:|) have moved in instead.  

   I was playing video games with Joan when Farrell, Azim and Cora came in and shut down the counsel. I looked evilly at Farrell and Azim but they ignored my death stare and Joan told me this. "You are going to be a flower girl in a double wedding!"

     I shrieked! I was shocked all right. A good shock. Before our parents died, The two couples went on a vacation to a beach. I did not know my brothers proposed, but I guess that is what happened.

     "Congratulations Farrell, Joan, Azim and Cora!" I looked at them happily.

     It looks like they already went wedding shopping so it is my turn to pick a dress!

     It took around 20 minutes to get to the shop, but it felt like forever. I was looking through the catalog with Joan and Cora, and there were so many dresses! Of course, I have to find one that Joan and Cora like, but they said that I can pick almost anything else! When we arrive at the store, it smells like roses. I look around and there is so much to choose from, so I ask Joan and Cora to help. When we look around, I can see my big brothers looking at one dress so I looked over and it was the perfect dress. A light pink with some blue on the whole dress and it does not stand out like the wedding dress, but is perfect for me. The price was in a good range too!

     Apparently Farrell, Joan, Azim and Cora are going to do the wedding not so far away from our house, which is a 10 minute drive to a part of the forest where it is surrounded by nature and is clear. I do feel happy for my brothers. Their wedding is not what you think it is. There are way less people and it is in the forest. I am happy that Farrell, Joan, Azim and Cora are happy in the forest. I am enjoying the forest by drawing my brothers,Joan and Cora, as their wedding present. When it started to get dark and the fireflies started to come up, I gave them my drawing and one more thing. I used a lot of $$$ on this. It is a necklace for the 5 of us with all of our names. It is very pretty. Joan, Cora, and my brothers were very happy and hugged me, or more like squishing me. I am happy I am in this family. I just want to stay this age and not be in love myself.

     We still have our parents' things in a box. We put all their stuff in a box and moved to this house. The problem is I have been pushing my brothers to just leave it and open it next week but that next week I didn't want to, and I kept pushing it. But today, I am really getting on Cora's nerves which means I will get into trouble with Azim, and Azim is scary when he gets mad. I didn't want to unpack the boxes because I just feel like in one of the boxes something is in there that if we find it, my life will change a little more. I don't know if it means I will die, or if I think about it now I will not like it, but I have to open it anyways because of what Cora says.

     While my brothers look through the box I lean on them instead of helping them. I don't know why I am doing that but I am just not in the mood of helping them. I am actually pretty small for the average 18 year old, and my brothers are a little bit taller+have a little more muscles(and shoulders) for a 22 year old. So if you see us doing that, it is a weird scene. While they look through the stuff, I put on my Dad's sweater and my moms bracelet-the ones I asked to let me use. It is so comfy while I take out some of my mom's makeup and put it in my room. We are a quiet family but how I am not helping my brothers is getting them angry so Farrell yells

     "FAY BLOW HALLOWSWIFT! Come help unpack 5 more boxes and stop just take the stuff that is interesting."

     I roll my eyes and come back down. We dug through the boxes sorting out the useless work stuff, the clothes, and more. There are so many pictures! That is probably because our Dad was also a photographer. We are going to have to hang up so many pictures! In our book room, we also have a lot of pictures. We have Joan and Coras, we have Farrell and Azims, and even mine. There are plenty of pictures of our parents too now. Weirdly, there were a lot of watches, clocks, and alarm clocks too. All of those were very pretty antiques, and ones that even if we picture google it, it does not come up. We have no idea why. Now I was on the last few bits of stuff from the last box. The brothers, Joan and Cora are all resting now because they did most of the work.

     The last few things were some interesting things. There was a very antique watch, a few necklace chains and a letter. I went to my brothers, but once I touched that watch... that was not the best idea.