Into The Night

Sixty-Three

"So who was in on it?" Taylor asked, both of us lying on the ground and staring at the stars.

"Mum, Gems, my army and me," I answered. "It was rather difficult, you've no idea how hard it is to get teens to work together, also my mum wouldn't agree but I told her I'll make everything and try to lessen the expenses." I gritted my teeth after while mumbling, "And I told her I would settle for a family, after."

"Oh." Probably, that was the only thing she could reply at the moment. "How did you do it? You've stayed in that coffin 24/7?"

"Actually, it was a closed casket until you came along," I replied. "The casket was actually hollowed to the other side, to my cellar under the stairs. Non-fog glass and the suit was a prop, you wouldn't see me breathing."

"You really are so dedicated to your pranks," Taylor said and that I am.

"It was worth it, I saw you again," I said.

"Well, you could have just -" someone's phone rang and I'm pretty sure it was hers. "One second," she said, holding up a finger.

And so I eavesdropped. . .

"No, no, I said cancel everything," she said, she actually sounded aggravated. She sat up and started making those obviously annoyed faces, eyes shutting tight and teeth biting into her lower lip as though stifling a groan. "God, I completely forgot!"

She licked her lips first and ran a hand through her hair, "He hasn't called, so I assumed - what?!"

Alright, I'll try not to eavesdrop too much, I'm getting misleading thoughts.

"I can assure you that I will be back before that happens. I have a few matters to answer to here." She continued. "Thank you, Sherie."

And done.

"I'm sorry about that," Taylor said and faced me. She lied back down beside me and sighed. "Even if you didn't mean it, you still got me out of an ultimately busy situation. There were so many things I had to-" she sighed, "I don't want to talk about it."

"Alright," I said with a smile. "Just relax while we're here."

Four days later. . .

It took an insane amount of explaining and heck load of avoiding leaguer ambush and pranks before it finally eased off. All of them finally left. I've treated my gang, they've stayed for a few nights now and it was really a disaster. Of course some of them went home because they have families so the single ones were left behind. Yet mum and Gemma couldn't be any happier.

Most of them are almost still the same. Apart from Taylor, she seemed to be the one who haven't gotten over the crying stage. I know, because she talks very quietly, very formally and very reserved as though she is going through something. She easily hid that but it doesn't take a genius to notice.

For the first time in a long time the house was noisy.

"I still cannot believe you did that, you jerk!" Jhanelle muttered, not caring whether it was my house she was in. That's what I liked about her.

The ones that are left were Jhanelle, Niall, Taylor, Aerielle and Kendall.

Aerielle really is an excellent cook, everything she makes are delicious! Right now, she is baking cookies with us as her assistants. I told her to provide many because I have an army to reward for their excellent work.

Taylor was intently watching Aerielle like she haven't seen it happen before.

I tossed a cookie at her -literally. No, I did not vomit on her, I just literally tossed a cookie.