klance ~ Who are you?

9. The Family

"That was fun." I say after we caught our breaths.

"Yeah for you!" Alexa exclaimed glaring at me, I chuckle. After a few more minutes of silence, Alexa speaks up. " What about you?"

"What about me?" I ask, shifting in my spot so I'm facing her.

"Do you know who your soulmate is yet?"  She clarifies.

"Oh... " I say, it's quite for a bit. " I don't know. " I say after a moment.

She turns to look at me. "What do you mean, you don't know?"

I shift to be on my back again, and go back to looking at the ceiling. I sigh. " I don't know." I repeat, she gives me a look, as if to tell me to continue. " I wrote on my arm today in class but got no response, so I don't know. For all I know she might not even be 18 yet. "

" Oh." she says

" Yeah, oh." I repeat.

" I'm sure you'll fine then. Like you said they might not be 18 yet. You just have to wait for a bit, that's all. " She reassures.

" Yeah. If that's the case I'll have to wait but for how long. It could take years! " I counter.

" I won't." She says.

" How do you know that! There's no way of telling how long it will take for her birthday to come, it could be months! " I snap my head in her direction to look at her. She's silent." Exactly. " I say and return my gaze to the ceiling.

Neither of us says anything after that, we end up sitting in silence. But It's an awkward and unwanted silence. We stay like that starring at the ceiling for a while. Eventually I get off the sofa and crawled over to where I left my phone, I pick it up and look at the time. It was getting pretty late and ours mums would be home soon, well Alexas anyway. Her mum works at my dad's shop, she manages it when he's away.

My dad is a business man, so he travels quite a bit, so that means we don't see him for a few weeks. But that's ok, he earns quite a bit of money which allows my mum to stay home and take care of us. By us I mean me and my siblings, I have two brothers Luis and Marco and three sisters Veronica, Mia and Tina who are twins. Like me they all have tanned skin and brown hair apart from the twins who are rather pale, Mia has brown hair and Tia has black hair. Actually, now that I think about it, Alexa is the only one in the family that has red hair. I'm the only one in the family who has blue eyes, the twins have hazel eyes and the everyone else has brown eyes.

Luis is my older brother but only by two years, he's in his last year at school. Since our dad is quite often travelling, Luis takes care of the family shop, we sell all kinds of stuff, but most of our customers buy groceries. Veronica's 16, she sometimes helps out at the shop to but only to get pocket money. Mia and Tia are inseparable, they never leave each others side, if they are separated they get really anxious and scared. It's makes sense tho, after what they've been through, Mia and Tia aren't my real sisters they're adopted. Their mother died when they were very young, I don't even think they remember her. Their father was.... Let's just say that after their mother died he wasn't very nice to them... He kind of... pretended that they didn't exist or that they weren't really there and that their mother was still alive. He essentially lost it. The neighbours noticed that the girls were looking worse and worse, they were getting thin, too thin. Eventually the neighbours call the police. The twins father was arrested and sent to a mental health hospital, they were put into foster care... They were only 4 years old when all this happened..... I can't even imagine what that must have been like for them, how confused and scared they must have been.

We have been taking care of them ever since they were put in to foster care. At first they were very quiet, never speaking to anyone and if they were so much as on the opposite side of the room from each other they would panic. They slowly got better and more open with us but it took a few months, they still panic when they're separated but only if they're in different rooms or can't see each other.

After a year with us in foster care, we adopted them. They were so happy when we told them, they even cried a little I think. They're 9 now, they're still quiet but they're much more open with us. The only one they're really talkative with is me and even then it's just giggling. They play with Marco a lot but they don't talk while they play, they just... play... Marco tries to get them to talk but they just nod their heads. Marco is the youngest in the family being 5, and what a surprise he's also the most energetic.

" We should head home it's getting late, your mum's going to get home soon." I say standing up. She gets her phone out to check the time. " Wow.. Time flew by." she said trying to get up from the sofa, failing miserably.

I shake my head and chuckle. " Come here. " I say reaching my hands out to her. She smiles and takes them..... Before I have time to react she proceeds to pull me down. But I don't think that her plan worked out how she wanted it to, because I landed right on top of her, instead of on the sofa. Knocking the wind out of her in the process. After a minute of catching our breaths, we look at each other in the eyes and explode with laughter. Still laughing I roll off her, so as not to squish her under me. We continue laughing for bit before we calm down again.