Hiding Behind a Mask

Chapter 45- Rebecca

Lance walks into the house at night and was greeted by two little kids hugging his legs.  He smiles and looks down at the two.

"Welcome home Lance!"  Sarah said happily.

"Lances Lances!"  Rico kept bouncing with a big grin on his face.  Lance puts his bag down and got on his knees to hug the two.

"Hey you two, did you miss me?"

"Yeah yeah!"  The two nod, they bounce happily.  Sam climbs down the stairs and waves.

"Hey Lance, welcome back."  He said, then made his way to Lance.  He stumbled a bit but managed to grab onto the couch and slowly walked over.  "How was it?"

"Fun, mostly did random stuff."  He said.  "So how were you three while I was gone?"

"I danced!"  Sarah said happily.

"I know what you did."

"I took her to dance."

"Okay?"

"I's went with-ed them."

"You three did nothing but lay around and go to dance practice, didn't you."  Lance raised an eyebrow.  The three gave him a smile.

"Well yeah, we're lazy."  Sam said.  He walks around and lays on the couch, Lance sat on the foot of it and pulls out all the skin care products he bought.  He threw one at Sam and the other at Sarah.  The two smiled brightly.

"Nice."  Was all that Sam said.  Sarah looks up at Lance.

"Thanks Lance!"  She pops the cap open and smells it.  "It's berry smelling!"  Sarah said happily.  Sam was curious and pops his open and smells.

"This has a hard to identify smell."  He said.  Lance points at the bottle.

"It's not as strong as Sarah's."  Lance said.  "You want to use it?"

"SPA DAY!"  Sarah shouts, Rico smiles and nods in agreement.  Lance chuckles.

"Okay then."  He walked upstairs, Rico follows him.  Sarah helped Sam on the floor and leaned him against the recliner.  Lance grabs all of his skin care products and other little spa things, Rico ran into Rebecca's room and pulled out an old green folder.  He hands it to Lance.

"What is this thing?"

"Online!  Online!"  Was all that he said.  They ran back down and joined the other two.  Sarah saw what Lance was holding.

"What is that?"

"I don't know, Rico took it.  I don't know where he found this."

"Becca, Becca!"  He said.  Lance looks at him confused.

"This is Rebecca's?"  Lance asks, Rico nods.  He was curious and pulls the papers out.  Really crappy writing with the writing utensil changing.  Sometimes it's pen, others it's crayon.  Lance tried not to tear up seeing his sister's handwriting and read through it.  Lance began to laugh.

"What is it?"  Sam asks.

"It's all "Rebecca's drinks she stole from the internet"."  He laughs, the others began to laugh as well.  They looked through all the products on the floor and chose one.

Lance and Sam applied the cream on themselves while Sarah helped Rico.  Sarah used her new cream on herself and her eyes grew.

"Wooooo, it's tickling my face."  She says.  The others chuckle.  Lance walked into the kitchen and made a honeydew tarragon tonic.  He hands one to each of his siblings and they sat around in the silence, it was kind of nice.  Lance heard a little whimper, he looked at Sam who gave him the same look, they slowly looked over at Sarah who was crying over her glass.