Everything's Changed

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Clarke sat on the couch, still in her pajamas, and planned on it all day, with her phone. She had been watching Lexa and the boys play Fortnite off and on while she texted Raven. Marie didn't need to be entertained because she was so captured by the game.

"Rex, please let me play!" Marie cried. "Just because it's yours and you brought it doesn't you can't share."

"Marie, shut up." Rex told his little sister.

"Travis Rex-Jacobs Kane." Rex's mother said from the kitchen. "I didn't buy that stupid console for you to not share. Let Mary play or we'll be have a one on one discussion later."

Rex groaned and handed Marie the controller. "So, Rex, why don't you go by Travis?" Lexa raised a brow.

"Simply because I don't look like a Travis and Marie doesn't look like a Mary." Rex shrugged. "Plus I think our birth names are ugly."

"I think Travis and Mary are lovely names." Lexa said.

"I like a unique name, you know?"

"Oh, my family and I know all about that." Lexa chuckled. "My best friend was named Anya and her brother was named Aden, spelled a-d-e-n. Then their mother, Indra, and their father, Gustus. My parents names are pretty normal though."

"STOP IT!" Marie shouted and started to cry as Wesley and Malik started to play with the controller buttons. "I was going to win!"

It had been true, Marie had been one of the last two with nine kills. She had died because Malik and Wesley messed her up in building and she started to cry.

"Guess who's back from UCLA!" A male voice shouted and all the little kids jumped up.

"TROYE!!" All the kids shouted and jumped onto him.

"All of you off now." Marcus said sternly as the kids did as he said.

Troye was tall and muscular, but still pretty skinny. His hair was strawberry-blond, almost pink, and he had straight black eyes. He wore a black t-shirt, and black, ripped jeans with Vans and a worn out biker jacket.

He looked at Clarke and Lexa and smiled widely. "Why hello, I'm Troye Kane, Marcus' oldest son."

"I'm Clarke, Abby's daughter, and my friend Lexa."

"I hear about you and Abby all the time, pleasure to finally meet you."

"Well I see you met Troye." Abby grinned as she walked into the room and then looked over to the younger kids who went back to playing video games. "Jasper and Monty will be over in about an hour with Maya. Wells will be upstairs soon. Him and Thelo are playing a game of chess."

Clarke nodded and walked into the kitchen and sat a square high-table, enough to fit four. Lexa sat at the table and they watched the tall boy closely. He seemed like a troublemaker and a flirt, but acted as a goody two-shoes around family.

After greeting everyone, he sat down at the table with Clarke and Lexa. "So, where you guys from?"

"Arkadia Boarding School." Clarke said.

"Seniors?" Troye asked and the girls nodded. "Second year at UCLA and majoring in Business."

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"Everyone get to the table!" Callie shouted, Rex and Marie's mother shouted, and also Kane's sister who had been divorced and changed her surname back.

"Now! Before I get your grandma Vera!" Molly, Kane's other sister, mother of Wesley, shouted.

The kids swarmed into the dinning room and took a seat wherever there was a free seat. Clarke had sat in between Troye and Lexa and Jasper, Monty, Wells, and Maya across from them. They were in the middle of the table and to their right sat the minors and to their left sat the older adults.