𝒞𝒶𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓇𝓉𝒾𝒸 | ᴘᴇʀᴄʏ ᴊᴀᴄᴋꜱᴏɴ¹

9. You were totally cheating!

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The world comes to life

And everything's bright

From beginning to end

When you have a friend

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❤︎ Helena blinked slowly, taking in the chaos around her.

Pillows thrown everywhere, papers crumbled into balls, blankets all over the floor. 

Her eyes lock onto the two boys, trying to hide themselves from her view.

"Nico," Helena said. "You can hide as much as you want, but the mirror behind you means I can see you behind the couch."

Nico whirls his head around and gives Helena an awkward smile when their eyes meet in the mirror.

"Ethan," Helena turns to him. "You take another step towards that shadowy corner, and I will change the wifi password."

He freezes. She sighed.

"It was all Ethan's fault," Nico said as he stood and pointed at him. "I tried to tell him that you had just cleaned up, but he didn't care."

Ethan splutters. "I - It was not my idea!"

"Yes, it was!"

"You little shit! Nico is the one that messed up the pillows!"

Helena opens her mouth to stop the argument, but Nico speaks up before she can.

"Ethan ruined the blankets!"

"Nico balled up all the paper and threw them at me!"

"Ethan forgot to take the chicken out of the freezer!"

"Shut up!" Helena shouts. "My ears hurt."

The boys both go quiet, but Nico pinches Ethan's arm, and a new fight breaks out. Thankfully, it's silent. 

"Wow, what happened in here?"

Helena looks behind her.

"Rachel," Helena smiles and hugs her. "I didn't know you were back."

She hugs her back and nods. "Yep. Annoyed dad so much that he brought us back early."

The two girls laughed and high-fived each other.

"Anyway," Rachel said. "You guys wanna go out?"

"To do what?" 

Rachel grins.

"Is she going to kill us?" Ethan chimes in. He shoves Nico's face away from him. "That looks like. 'I'm going to kill you' face."

Rachel's grin widens.

Oh no.

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