Lucius and Lucia were very kind to take me around the house so quickly. Yet, the other five house members I'd yet to meet. They first showed me the main corridor, leading to 7 different rooms, the living room, the chapel, the kitchen, the dining room, the butlers room, the stairway and the cloakroom. I first set my bags down at the door, and took off my coat so I could put it in the cloakroom. The cloakroom was almost a basement, with many pipes running through it, metal floors and coat-racks for all seven people in the house, plus three fosters. We headed out quickly so we could see the family in the living room.
In the living room, five people sat on a sofa, in youngest to oldest order. The youngest was a young girl, about the age of two, with long braids of golden hair and a dress like Lucia's. The oldest, seemingly Byron, looked 732 years old, and looked like a vampire. Next to him, the wife, was normal-er. She seemed 29, and wore clothes like a WW2 maiden. She wore a long, black dress, white lace gloves and a pinafore like Lucia's. The other two were boys, both white haired and had teeth sharpened and wore white tuxedo's. "Tab-leeth!" said the youngest girl, while the rest said 'Welcome, Rosa!' I smiled at the young girl, and straighened out my posture, being respectful to the family. The father stood up and announced, "my name is Byron Grendine. My wife here, is Ann. The two boys here are Bobbie and Robbie, and my youngest daughter is Tulip. Hopefully, Lucia and Lucius have already introduced themselves."
"They have. They've been very welcoming so far." I say.
"Lovely to hear. Here, we'll show you to your room." Ann says cheerily.
Ann smiled and walked up to the stairways and onto the third floor where the guest bedrooms were. I layed down my suitcases on the white bed and put down my rose beside it. Byron, who appeared behind us, took the rose and said,
"Wouldn't want you to hurt yourself on poisonous thorns!"
I looked up at him, sorrowfully. HE TOOK MY GOD DAMN ROSE. "Indeed." Said Ann, and agreed slyly.
"It will be in the terrace on the top floor if you need it." Byron says. Ann took me down one set of stairs to the families rooms. There were three rooms, each labeled. One was 'Lucius and Lucia', the next 'Byron, Ann and Tulip' and the third 'Bobbie and Robbie'. "If you ever need us, we'll be right below." Ann said cheerily. We went back downstairs to the ground floor, then the basement rooms with the lab and the storage room. It was absolute mank in the basement. Everything had mould on it and like, EW! Anyway, the lab looked like it had been cut out from a sci-fi movie. There were giant tubes filled with red goop, test tubes with unfamiliar acids and microscopes so good you can see cells. "This is Byron's room, so this area is out of bounds." Ann urged.
"It's quite late. What time are we having tea?" I asked politely.
"In an hour, dear. Alright?"
"Mhm!"
"We're having steak tonight."
"Ooh. Never tried it. My carer told me it was bad for you, I only wanted to taste it."
"Agree to disagree."
