Midnight Solstice

Chapter 28

Picture: Katerina Morgynstein
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Demetri and I made our way to the front entrance with the luggage in hand. As we approached, I could see that Katerina was talking with Pauley, Jayden, and Gracie with a huge grin on her face.

"You just have to make sure that you are protected! You don't want any accidents to happen while you are away! You don't want to add another problem into the mix!" Pauley exclaimed loudly. The other three looked at each other and began to laugh hysterically.

"Pauley, what on earth are you talking about?" Demetri asked with a raised eyebrow. We had reached the group just as Jayden fell to the floor, clutching his stomach.

"I am informing them of what may happen if they don't use protection." I looked over at Demetri, who had his lips pressed together in a straight line as he tried to not to laugh. I gave Pauley a skeptical look.

"Not like that...get your...head out of...the gutter!" Katerina said in between laughs. "It just sounds that way..." She put her hand on Gracie's shoulder to keep her from falling over.

"Pauley was just telling us about how we need to always have our guard up when dealing with secretive things because you never know who may wander into the wrong place at the wrong time. In the spur of a moment, you can have people all over you trying to get information out of you, but it's important that you still protect yourself, and your secret." Gracie clarified.

"So in other words, always use protection." Jayden added, still laughing.

"You can be such a boy sometimes Jayden."

"That is my gender Gracie."

"I don't get it." Pauley said. "I have never seen children act like this when it comes to protecting yourself!" Demetri sighed and walked over to him. He whispered the meaning of "using protection" in his ear before walking back over next to me. Pauley's face contorted into a look of disgust, causing the three to start laughing even harder.

"That's it, the humans have taken things too far. They have their fancy expressions for everything and the literal meaning of them has nothing to do with their actual meaning!"

"Well actually..."

"Don't Kat...I am in the middle of a crisis rant." Pauley waved his hands to try to stop her from speaking.

"Crisis rant?" Lorne questioned as he walked over to us with Felix. He turned to Katerina and sighed. "What did you kids do to him now?"

"Nope...we aren't discussing this topic any longer! I am far too upset with the humans right now to discuss such a petty subject!" Lorne blinked a couple of times in confusion before shaking his head.

"DEMETRI I LOVE YOUR BAGS!" Felix exclaimed as he looked down at the suitcases Demetri held. They were Katerina's pink suitcases that had pink and purple flowers all over them.

"Thank you Felix, I picked them out myself." He replied sarcastically. "I just love pink."

"OMG SAME!"

"You should buy some; we can have matching suitcases."

"Why buy them when I can steal them for free?!" He took the handle of one of the suitcases from Demetri and began to walk away with it.

"You could be a model with that strut Felix." Gracie told him. He dramatically turned around and posed with the suitcase.

"Thanks, little Morgynstein."

"Little Morgynstein?"

"Yep. As of right now, your nickname is little Morgynstein."

"Don't worry Gracie, he's got nicknames for all the Morgynsteins." I told her.