For the next few hours we joke and horse around not paying any attention to the setting sun, or the darkening sky. The time is some of the best I have ever experienced in my life, whether it was telling jokes, or telling stories we all participated. The main theme among our talking is of the next day, and how we had all managed to make it a two day affair. When it was too dark to see, Josh and I set about lighting the tiki torches all around the back yard.
My backyard after we set them all alight, glowed with a dull yellow light. The light seemed to represent the mood we were all in, bright and full of energy, but mellow and content as well. We continue like this until Claire gets a phone call.
"Hello?" Claire asks picking up her phone. She is quiet for a few seconds before saying. "Alright I'll be home in few minutes, yes I love you too." She hangs up and pulls herself out of the pool. "Come on Alex you can take me home." Claire says grabbing his hand.
"My car is at my house." Alex says as I get out of the pool, and head into the pool house again. I find my clothes and dig out my keys. I grab them and walk back out to the pool.
"Even a scratch and I'll pull a Walter White." I say tossing him my keys. He catches them looking awestruck.
"Are you ok?" Alex asks looking at the keys, and then me.
"Go, but dry off and change before you go inside." I say slipping back in the pool. "Danny you can take Miranda home when he gets back, but I want you two to know I mean what I said, I will run you over and throw you on my roof."
"Got ya, thanks." Alex says looking unsure.
"I'm not going to take them from you, but no one gets in there wet." I say laughing. "Josh why don't you run Scarlett over to her place?"
"I can do that now, and Danny can take my suburban." Josh says heading into the pool house.
"Don't think we can't see what you're doing Fang. Bow-Chica-Wow-Wow." Alex says laughing, everyone joining him myself included.
"Maybe, maybe not." I say getting out of the pool, and helping Sierra out. Josh comes out of the pool house and throws Danny his keys.
"What Fang said." Josh says looking at him.
"Aye, aye captain." Danny says.
We let the girls dry off first, and when they are done we follow suit. When we finish they all start out into the house, as they cross the sliding glass door I pull Sierra back a few steps.
"Do you mind helping me put all these out, there's a treat for you if you do." I say looking at her.
"What kind of treat?" She asks smiling.
"The surprise kind." I say blowing one out.
It only takes a few seconds, and they are all out. I meet her on the patio, and grab her hand. We walk inside, and I veer off to the kitchen pulling her along. I open up the fridge, and pull out a long plate covered in a dark wrap, and some different sauces. I place the plate on the bar and begin uncovering them.
As the last piece comes off six rice cakes, or onigiri are revealed.
"I love these things, did you make these?" She asks grabbing the teriyaki sauce.
"Yeah I made dinner this past Wednesday, there were a lot more, but dad gorged himself." I say laughing.
"Do you make dinner often for your family?"
"At least twice a week, we all take turns." I say shrugging.
"How long have you been cooking for them?"
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The Strange Life Of Felix Grant
Fiksi IlmiahFelix was an average teenager with the usual teenage troubles, but what happens when his life and everything he has know is turned sideways over the course of a week full of suspense, pain, and discovery? I own only what I have created. This is a bi...
