The Power of Two

chapter 1

Felicity looked up at one of the crooked, creepy trees in her backyard, then decided to climb up one just to see what would happen. Her father told her many times to never climb up a tree because 'she had her mother's luck'. She never understood what that meant and why he would say that, but she had to try it. She was bored and there was nothing else to do.

"Hey, Felicity!" Two voices said.

She knew exactly who those two voices belonged to, it was Akito and Estelle. The girl shrieked as she fell from the tree, hitting the branches on the way and hit the ground.

"You okay?" Estelle flinched a little, that looked painful.

"I will be okay," Felicity dusted herself clean as she looked to her two 'cousins' and smiled. "What is happening now?"

"We wanted to know if you wanted to come with us out into the ocean and go exploring." Akito suggested.

"Yeah." Estelle said.

"Le plage?" Felicity asked. "I do not know... I should ask Maman and Papa first..."

"Well, go ahead..." Akito shrugged, smiling. "Our parents already said yes."

Felicity went to ask her parents if she could go with Akito and Estelle to the beach. After agreeing and a change of clothes, Felicity was allowed to go with them.

"Aunt Darla's also taking Eloise there for a surprise." Akito smiled, very happy for the girl since she rarely got to spend much time with her mother. 

"Will Vincent be there too?" Felicity asked curiously as she had a sun hat with sunglasses on.

"Yep." Estelle said.

"Come on, let's get going." Akito said.

Felicity went with Akito and Estelle.

Forte pouted as he watched the kid go. "I wanted to go to the beach..."

"And I wanted to die 20 years ago..." Cherry said coldly.

A vase then fell and broke as Atticus held his head while groaning.

"There, there, I'll take the kids... You just concentrate on getting better..." Darla soothed her adoptive brother. 

Mo looked concerned.

"I'm running late anyway..." Darla went off. "Toodles~"

"Bye, Aunt Darla!" The twins called out before they both groaned and held their heads and then their eyes were glowing. Telling you one thing, they were going to have a vision of something that happened and that was going to happen.

"What is wrong with my family?" Mo looked concerned.

Then for the first time the vision was shared with the entire family.

While this happened, Darla made a stop at the Plaza Hotel like agreed with Nanny, the hotel was very happy to see her because everyone loved and admired her so much. It was like being the child star again, only she wasn't hiding anything from the public, but just rarely got to see her daughter. 

Eloise opened the door once it was knocked on, then she looked happy. "MOMMY!" she clung to her mother.

"Hello, sweetie." Darla held her daughter.

"It is so nice to have you back dear." Nanny said.

"Nanny, I was wondering if you'd like a vacation," Darla said to her daughter's caregiver in her absence. "I'm meetin' my niece and nephew at the beach... Plus... Maybe Eloise could meet the special someone she hasn't met and doesn't really know about before..." she winked to the older woman.