klance ~ Who are you?

10. Cooking?

Once we calmed down from our crazed laughing fit, I decided to speak up about what happened. " I'm sorry I snapped at you earlier, I just..... I want to meet my soulmate. The longer it takes to find her the less time I'll have with her, and I just... I really want to meet her, and it kills me that I have to wait." She smiles a sympathetic smile at me.

" Lance... You may have to wait for you two to meet. But just think when you do... Every minute, no every second you spend with her will be worth the wait." She says looking directly into my eyes, placing her hand on my shoulder and smiling. " Trust me. "

" But how can you be so sure? " I ask. "Because that's how it was with me. We may have never seen each other or met in person yet. But I never want to lose them. Every time I talk to Brook, well write to them, it's like the rest of the world disappears and we're the only things that matter. " She says comfortingly. I look at her for a bit to see if she telling the truth, she just smiles and squeezes her hand which is on my shoulder. After a moment of contemplation, I smile at her and accept her statement.

"Now come up you big dummy, we got to get going. Like you said my mum's going to be home soon." She says getting up. She helps me up off the ground, then we head to the ladder
We go down one at a time as not to fall, me being the gentleman that I am I let Alexa go first. Ladies first after all.

We head through the forest inside the park where the tree house can be found. The tree house is pretty deep inside the forest which is quite a distance from the main park. While we walked we talked about random stuff like what new shows were out and which movies we wanted to go see. When we finally get to the edge of the forest there are very few people left in the park. We head out of the park gates and down the road towards our homes.

Once we arrive at our street we say goodnight to each other and head to our houses. Once inside I'm immediately hit with the smell of mums delicious cooking. The twins are in the living room braiding each others hair and Marco is watching TV. I walk to the kitchen to see what's for dinner and to my surprise I see Veronica cooking.

"Since when do you cook dinner?" I ask. She never cooks unless it's a special occasion and that's only because mum makes all the family to help out around the house.

"Yeah, well mum was really tired." she replies, I look at her confused. She sighs. "The twins had a nightmare last night remember, so mum spent the night all trying to comfort them. I'm also pretty sure Marco was being a pain today, because when I got home from school, mum looked absolutely exhausted. I kept telling her to take a break, but you know how she is, she insisted that she was fine. When she started making dinner I started to help her so she would be doing less and in the end I managed to get her to take a break. So right now she upstairs sleeping." she clarified.

"Oh, how long has she been sleeping?" I ask, starting to help with the food."Only an hour or so." she informs me.

"Well in that case we should leave her alone until after the food is ready." I say, turning on the radio. "Agreed." Veronica responds, as the room is flooded with music from the radio.

After that we set to work in the kitchen, singing along and occasionally swaying to the music, even though Veronica says she doesn't know how to dance. As we sing and dance, spinning each other around in the small room, out of the corner of my eye I see two faces staring at us. I look over to the doorway to see the twins. Smiling, I beckon them over. I scoop them up in my arms and start spinning around. At first they hold on to me like it is the end of the world, after a while of me dancing with them on my hips Tia starts giggling. Mia is still clutching me like her life depended on it, but hearing her sister giggling seems to break whatever trance she is in. She looks at her sister then to me, I smile at her and start to dance more. So she joins her sister and starts her own fit of giggles, Veronica is smiling at us. I wiggle my eyebrows at her and start to approach her in the most over the top way I can with two little girls on my hips, she shakes her head at my silliness. As I get closer to her I look at the twins, back at Veronica and to the twins again and grin, they smile at me to show they got the message. I get closer, and closer and.... "Now" I say.

Simultaneously they reach out and grab Veronica, she barely has time to realise what is going on before we are all dancing in kitchen. A couple of seconds later i hear soft footsteps, I look over my shoulder and see Marco. At first he just stares wide-eyed at us, the next thing I know he launches himself at my feet and attaches himself to my left leg. At first I am off balance because of the new weight but steady myself. We all end up dancing in the kitchen, Marco on my leg, the twins on my hips each holding one of Veronica's hands, dancing and laughing.