Protecting The Storm

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Parker's P.O.V.

My eyes scan for other players as I turn my view, moving my fingers across the controller. The sound of gun shots blare from the surround sound speakers. Another player bolts across the screen and I turn to follow him. I aim at the player carefully not wanting to miss.

The screen suddenly pauses and my controller starts to vibrate. "Game over" comes up on the screen and changes to the score board.

"Dang it, Emmett!" I scream to Emmett across the hall. "We made a deal that you let me get the last kill shot and I was just about to!" I yell again.

"Oh come on Parker! Its not that big of a deal." He yells back.

"If it isn't that big of a deal then why didn't you let me make the shot?" I question him. I wait for the answer that never comes. With the silence coming from Emmett I laugh to let him know that I was right.

The sound of a car drive up the driveway and the sound of something else. Is that a motorcycle? I guess Emmett hears it too because the sound of his door opening is heard then a confused looking Emmett comes to the door of my room. Realization crosses his face as a smile takes over.

"Mom is home! I'm also guessing that motorcycle is the other person." Emmett says.

I jump off the couch I was sitting on and run by Emmett. "Come on slow poke, lets go see your mom, and this new guy who has a motorcycle." He shakes his head and smiles as he starts to run behind me knocking Jessie's door as he passes.

I stop at the top of the stairs as the front door opens letting Tami and someone else in. Emmett and Jessie stop behind me and I hear Emmett lean in towards me and whisper, "That's definitely not a dude."

"You got that right" I whisper back staring at a girl with black beach wave hair. She was wearing dark high waisted, skinny jeans, a white V neck T-shirt under a leather jacket and black high top converse. She carried in large army green bag over her shoulder.

"Guys this is Storm. Storm this is my daughter Jessie..." Tami says pointing to Jessie as Jessie waves with a HUGE smile on her face. Storm. We all knew we weren't going to be told her real name but they sure did pick the perfect fake one. Anybody could tell just from a glance that she had been through a lot, just the way she stands made everybody feel her building her walls. "this is my son Emmett..." Tami says now pointing to Emmett as he waves also smiling but not as big as Jessie's.

"this is Parker..." She says pointing to me, I give Storm a wave as she looks up and I see her face for the first time. Her face was flawless, her eyes were a brilliant electric blue and her lips were a soft pink. After taking a quick glace at me she looks back down at her feet.

"and is my husband Derek." She said pointing to Mr. Jones who smiled.

"Oh I missed you guys so much! Okay, so a heads up, Storm doesn't talk much. Also if you guys need any thing or I tell you to get her just be aware of that. Try not to go into her room unless she lets you, so no one opening her door and going in there with out her permission. Come on I'll show you to your room." Tami says starting to walk up the stairs.

Tami hugs all of us as she walks by us. Storm walks a little faster when she gets to us at the top of the stairs. They open the door to Storms new room and the old music room walking in and closing the door. We all stand there looking at each other for a couple seconds before Jessie breaks the silence.

"Yes! Finally! The girls can finally win an argument!"

Emmett, Mr. Jones and I burst out laughing.

"That's the first thing you think! Not 'oh she seems nice' or 'maybe she will teach me how to have a life'" Emmett says full of sarcasm making us laugh again.

"What?! You guys always win because there's more boys than girls in this house and now you cant win because it will be a tie! It's not fair when you do that so HA!" Jessie says as she walks to her room not even turning around to look at us.

"You know guys, she's got a point. We need to figure out a different way to win arguments now." Emmett says with a serious face at me and his dad.

"Yeah, well, your mom said that she doesn't talk so how can she disagree if she doesn't say she disagrees." I say with a smirk.

I turn around to go back to my room and hear their chuckles as I walk down the hall. Storm's door is cracked open a bit. I hear their conversation through the crack of the door.

"So how do you like your room?" I hear Tami say as I slowly walk to the door to hear better. I look through the crack of the door and see Storm drop her bag on the floor and observe the room.

"This is amazing!" Storm says in awe. Her voice was seriously the amazing thing.

"I'm so glad you like it! Storm, look at this." Tami says pulling Storm to the sound booth.

"No way. Is this a working sound booth?" Storm asks. Tami nods.

"Why don't we try it out? Give me the phone I gave you when we left the shelter." Tami says holding her hand out as Storm puts the phone in her hand. Mrs. Jones plugs the phone up to the table with a bunch of nobles, dials and switches then pulls her and Storm in the little room with a mic in the middle.

She taps on the mic a bit and it turns on making a ringing sound. I feel a tap on my shoulder. I turn around and see Emmett, Mr. Jones and Jessie. I put my finger on my mouth to tell them to be quiet and point to the room. they figure out what I'm trying to say and we all walk towards the room and look through the slightly open door.

"I know the perfect song!" Mrs. Jones finally says grabbing the phone off the desk and tapping the IPhone which I can only guess is her scrolling through the songs then sets it back on the desk and closes the sound booth door.

The music to Shawn Mendes's 'Life of the Party' starts to play. How do I know this, you may ask, well lets just say Jessie is a fan. Storm looks at Tami and laughs as Tami starts to sing it. Emmett, Jessie, Mr. Jones and I look at each other with huge grins as Mrs. Jones sing and its actually pretty good too. She stops singing and pushes Storm to mic and Storm just shakes her head.

"Come on don't let me sing on my own!" Tami says laughing.

"Fine!" Storm says with a huff as she walks up to the mic.

"WE DON'T HAVE TO BE ORDINARY, MAKE YOUR BEST MISTAKES BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE THE TIME TO SORRY. SO BABY BE THE LIFE OF THE PARTY. I'M TELLING YOU TO TAKE YOUR SHOT IT MIGHT BE SCARY HEARTS ARE GONNA BREAK, CAUSE WE DON'T HAVE THE TIME TO BE SORRY SO BABY BE THE LIFE OF THE PARTY"

We stand there shocked as Storm keeps singing. Finally we all look at each other and we all have the same shocked face.

"My wife's still got it." Mr. Jones said sighing. We all looked at him.

"Really? I do admit, she can sing but seriously?" I whispered to him.

"What?" He said

"I'm sorry, I think I missed the part where she has the voice of an angel when she sings." Emmett says with wide eyes.

That was my favorite song and she just made me love it on a whole new level." Jessie whispers, her eyes huge and her smile reaching her ears. I rolled my eyes at them and looked back into the room just as Storm finished singing.

Tami turns around a sees us. She starts swatting us away and looks to see if Storm has noticed us yet, which she hasn't. I push all of them out of the door frame and look at them. All of their mouths hang open as we just replay what we heard in our heads.

AUTHORS NOTE:
THANKS FOR READING, MY DAISIES!!!!!🌼
OKAY!! HOW DID YOU LIKE THAT? AND WHO DOESNT LIKE SOME SHAWN MENDES!?!???!? Now since you have a pretty good image of Lyla or should I say STORM, who do u think she should be in the cast? COMMENT AND LIKE PLEASE!!! It would definitely would mean the world to me!! I'm also going to make it Lyla's point of view next so don't worry.
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