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TEN :

"PIPE DOWN, WILL YOU!" Okay, I didn't mean to sound like a grumpy old man, but we've been on the road for thirty minutes and my nuthouse of a family was being so noisy in the back of the van and I was trying to take a nap.

"How much further, Emilio?" I asked our driver, whose hands were perched on the steering wheel. He glanced at me and smiled, "Not long, miss Christina. It's just the traffic is VERY bad. As it usually is here."

I took a calming breath and nodded, trying to coax my body into finding a good sitting-slash-napping position.

I could still hear Lisa, Dani and Kath talking in the back, but could only make out a few phrases like,

"Miss Bee.."

"picturing an old lady..."

"Children, girls, what?"

"alien overlord.."

I gave up.

"Okay! What the HECK are you talking about back there?!" I yelled, waking Lauren up in the process. She groaned, and with her eyes closed, mumbled, "Stina, if you're so curious, come sit back here and lemme go over there."

fine.

Laur was asleep before her head hit the headrest.

"So what are you crazies talking about?" I asked the three. Amy was sleeping too. Lucky rat.

"Putting the puzzle pieces together as to who we're performing a concert for." Dani said.

"So far, we've theorized that Miss Bee is an old woman in her sixties who has ten kids and she wanted to surprise her kids with us." Lisa told me, while wadding up her gum in an empty wrapper.

"How on EARTH could you assume that?" I asked them.

"Well," Katherine started " She's undeniably verrrry RICHE." she pronounced it like reesh. " You sorta need time to amass this sort of money that she has.."

"Private plane, limo, accommodation, employees..." Dani enumerated. "Although, the girl on the radio didn't sound old. Maybe she was one of the daughters..."

I rolled my eyes, my sisters were crazy. Although I had to admit, I was pretty curious myself.

We were all silent for a moment, a rare thing. Thinking.

"There is also a possibility that Miss Bee is actually and alien from space trying to---"

"DANIIIII!" me, Lisa and Kath yelled in unison. Dani put her palms up in sign of resignation, "just sayin'.."

Finally after all the torturous waiting, we were pulling up into an enormous driveway with really nice foliage all around. From a distance, I could see a house, a sprawling, very big, bungalow type house with nice red bricks and light brown paint that I assumed could fit thirty people comfortably. The house was surrounded by what seemed like ACRES of green land, I swear I could hear my sisters gasping in awe. I sure was.

"Whooooooaaaa..." Dani whispered

"I knoow right?" Lisa answered.

As we neared the property, I could already see my brothers climbing out of the limo while our dad talked to their driver. The little ones, Joey, Christian and Nick ran towards the garden and started playing.

how much energy drinks did those little weasels drink?

Dani was itching to get off the van, I was too. As Emilio pulled up to the limo and cranked the hand break, we were out.

"This place is huge! Oh my gosh!" Kath said, in awe of the massive house before us.

I ran out and the heat hit me like a monster truck and I jusr stretched my legs, tipping my toes on the pavement, "Aaaaah! FREEDOOOM!"