•Familia•

Chapter 39: On Your Toes

Aaron POV
I wake up to laughter flowing from downstairs. It fills my ears and makes me smile. That smile kind of fades when I feel immense pain in my arm. I grab it. I had almost forgot. I get up and peel off the bandage, wash around the stitches being careful not to touch them, re bandage it, and throw on a hoodie to cover it. I know I'm going to sweat a lot in this hoodie so I switch it to a long but short sleeve shirt. It just cover the bandage. That should be good. I brush my teeth and head down to join the joyous clatter I hear coming from downstairs.

"Good Morning, looks like some one had a good nights sleep" My dad says.

"I'm never staying late after work again" I say and take the cup of coffee that Roni brewed for me.

"I feel you son" Dad says

"Where's everyone else?" I ask.

"Your mother went to hang out with Wendy, Alex and Andrew are still sleeping, And the girls are all getting ready with Adrian, Asher, and Rebel" he says

"Why don't you go hang out with Paul?" I ask

"We've had our differences but maybe I will." He says. I wave him goodbye and go upstairs. I open Nessa's room door.

"What is going on in here?" I ask. Music is playing and Malaya is sitting on the counter getting a full face of makeup done.

"We're turning her into us" Nessa says and flashes me a smile.

"We can have a triplet" Roni says and flashes me a smile to. Malaya does the same and her drawn on dimples shine as bright as the twins.

"And you're ok with this?" I ask Mariah whose laying across the bed on her MacBook.

"Anything that will buy me time to finish this essay, I'll take" She says. She's finishing up her degree. She started as a nurse but she decided to take it farther and become a doctor. She has at least two more years, but I know she can do it. My eyes scan over to see the kids. They're either sleep or almost asleep because they look tired. They've played so much it's unreal. I think it's a little overwhelming with all these people here to. I'll let them get their rest.

I go to play some video games when I spot Kian in the TV room.

"What are you doing in here? I thought you were gone out doing something." I say

"Nope, I was just hiding out just in case the twins got the idea that they want to be quadruplets" he jokes and puts his controller down.

"Looks like you and I had the same idea" I respond.

"Would it be dumb to say that I've thought about having a ball pit fight with you, Andrew, and Alex?" Kian says out of no where

"Would it be crazy to say I have too?" I respond. I eyes light up and we do a quick handshake. When Alex and Andrew wake up and we do whatever the whole family wants to do, we can have a ball pit fight. It'll be just like a snowball fight, just with hard, plastic balls. That doesn't sound right. That sounds like it would hurt. Maybe we didn't think this through, then again when do we ever think anything through?

The girls finish up theirs vid with Malaya. They all have the same clothes on and they decided to throw Mariah in for good measure. It seems like I'm seeing four of the same people. It's strange. I blink it off. Alex and Andrew are finally up. They complain about how early we get up when it's almost twelve o'clock. Alex takes his precious time getting ready. Andrew even gets impatient waiting for him. By the time they're both done getting ready, mom and dad are home and we're ready to start our adventure.

We go to some tourist spots and attractions. It stuff that Kian, Alex, Roni, Nessa, and I have to a hundred times, but this is the first time everyone else is seeing it. We go to knots berry farms. They're getting ready for Halloween, but they just have y'all stuff up so it's not scary yet. Andrew wants to come back when it's scary. Mom and Dad said he could come one weekend and go. We end our day off with a dinner at an Italian place. It's almost five o'clock. Everyone's at home relaxing. Aaron, Kian, Andrew And I have our little fight. I leave half way through to talk to the police. I make up a quick excuse that I just have to pick up some paperwork. No one found it suspicious. Roni nods me goodbye because she knows exactly what's going on.

I give my response to what happened last night. The police are wowed by the fact that Sarah is still trying to harm me even through prison. They told me that they were going to fire whatever guards who thought it would be a good idea to let her be on the cleaning crew for my job. I told it was no big deal and that as long as she or whoever she lied to about me are not a danger to my family, I'm totally ok with it. Familia comes first for me and that's it. She can harm me all she wants but I don't want her anywhere close to my family.

Once to whole interrogation is over and they said they'll give me further updates, I sit in the car. I just sit there and think. Life has thrown so much stuff at me that it's absolutely crazy. There's been so many obstacles that it almost feels like a Wattpad story or something but I'm still here and happy. It's the strangest thing that stuff like this happens, but I guess that's what life is about. Keeping you on your toes.