"Lyssa....Lyssa..."
She moaned and pulled a pillow over her head.
"Lyssa it's 10am. We're hungry."
"you think we should yell louder?" Lyssa pressed the pillow tightly around her head. "Go away" she mumbled.
"Come on Tony... Help me."
Tessa grabbed one end of the pillow, Tony grabbed the other and together they tried to pull it off her head but Lyssa held on tightly and in the end the twins lost their grip and fell to the ground. She cackled and held the pillow tighter over her head.
"hey! Get up already!" Tessa yelled.
"Yeah! I'm starving!" Tony added getting up and shoving her roughly.
"Go make breakfast then!" she yelled but her voice was muffled by the pillow.
Tessa ran and jumped on the bed bouncing up and down.
"Get ....down.... Stairs..... And.... Make..... Us.... Break..... Fast!!"
She stopped bouncing and crawled next to Lyssa's head.
"Please? With a cherry on top? And the cute puppy eyes?"
Lyssa groaned and turned over.
"Come on Lyssa!" Tony pleaded.
She lifted the pillow and glanced at Tony, then turned to look at Tessa.
"You know what? Come." she put an arm around Tessa's neck and pulled her into a hug, then fell back on the bed and closed her eyes.
"uggggh! No! Lyssa!..... I don't.... wanna.... sleep!" Tessa wriggled out of Lyssa's grip.
"Fine then i can't help you." she said snuggling under her duvet and pulling a pillow over her head again.
Lyssa felt the weight of Tessa leaving the bed, heard shuffling feet and then absolute silence. She waited for some minutes and hearing nothing, she raised one end of the pillow and peered out.
The twins were nowhere in sight. She sat up and looked around her room. Neither Tessa nor Tony was there. She shrugged and fell back on the bed. It was when she perceived the smell of something burning that she shot up from the bed and ran out of her room nearly falling forward. She fled down the stairs and skidded to a halt in the living room.
"Tessa! Tony! What are you...."
She froze in front of the kitchen
The kitchen was covered in smoke. Tessa and Tony had covered their noses as they coughed their way blindly around the kitchen. The toaster had two black slices of bread sticking out while the frying pan had a black smudge in it, also the heat was way too high. The floor was covered in eggshells, olive oil and what looked like pancake mix.
"Oh my goodness..."
Lyssa turned to see her mother standing behind her, eyes wide with terror. Tessa hurried to turn off the heat and threw the burnt pan into the sink while Tony flung the burnt bread into the bin and unplugged the toaster. The pan made loud sizzling noises when Tessa turned on the tap and she turned to grin at her mother like a cat caught sneaking fish.
Tony used his feet to move the eggshells towards the bin and scooped them in. Then he turned around to look at his Tessa.
"Happy Birthday mom!" they chorused.
Their mom shook her head slowly, trying hard to conceal a grin and walked toward the twins.
"Thank you. So...", she looked into the sink amd turned off the tap, "my birthday gift is a burnt pan?"
They snickered. Lyssa groaned and sank into a squat.
"we did say we were hungry..." Tessa began.
"... And Lyssa was taking forever to wake up..." Tony offered.
"... So we decided to cook..."
"... But we can't cook..."
"... And she knows that!" they said together looking at their mother. Lyssa glared at them and got up from the floor. "you are going to clean this mess up.... Right?"
"No waaaaaaay!", Tessa screamed and ran into the living room laughing maniacally. Lyssa looked to her mother for help but she was doubled over in laughter.
Tessa flopped into a sofa in the living room and blew a raspberry at Lyssa.
"Oh yeah? That's all the thanks i get for looking after you huh?"
Her mother looked at them, still laughing.
"Okay ... Okay..." she looked at Tessa. "Tell you what, we'll eat out since it's my birthday. How does that sound?"
Tessa whooped and ran round Lyssa who tried to catch her. Tony did a victory dance in the kitchen.
"I wasn't done talking." their mom said. Tessa screeched to a halt.
"Huh ?"
"We'll eat out after you have cleaned the kitchen."
Tessa and Tony groaned.
"Yes!" Lyssa squealed imitating Tony's victory dance and running round Tessa at the same time.
"No fair!" Tessa squealed, pouting.
"Well no fair messing up the kitchen for me." Lyssa said patting Tessa's head as she walked past her into the kitchen.
"Can i change the dressing now?" Lyssa asked pointing at her mother's bandaged hands.
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Walk With Me (on Hold)
Fanfiction"The past is a place of reference not of residence" - Not for Lyssa Thomas. For her, the past was her present since her future made absolutely no sense to her. With her parents divorced and life falling apart after her mother's death, she wan...
