My Love; My Life: Slipping Through My Fingers

C: B2

*Hey readers, I would just like to apologize if the book isn't necessarily going in a direction you would like, or doesn't seem very entertaining; but, I ask that you understand that I am doing my best what with the two different timelines as well as the main plot A story & the smaller B stories within the various other characters within the story. In all honesty, I personally feel that I have accidentally made too many characters for even me to keep up with & will wrap up this story when I feel as though either Bay or Hyla has told me it's time to. I'll be writing a third & final book once this one is done & I don't wanna give anything away. But I will say this much, book three will restart at the very beginning of the first book again (with slight differences) & somethings will be the same as in the it's predecessors, but it will also be different from them as well.*

Setting: S. Cooper's house; twins room, Zin looking over B2's shoulder as he works on something...

"..." Zin looks over her twins shoulder in interest at what his brother is doing

"Why don't you just bring a chair next to me Zin," B2 tells her without breaking his concentration

Rrrrrrrrr!

"I said, bring-as in carry," she tells her as he drops his pencil & covers his ears, "not drag it across the floor."

"..." she just looks at him clues

"Oh never mind," B2 mutters as his sister sits down & jumps on him in a hug

"..." she tugs on his sleeve before he has a chance to get back to what he was doing

"What is it?"

"..." she says nothing-as usually, but points to his work with a look of question on her face

"Oh," he says, "this?"

"..." she nods

"I'm drawling out blue prints and working out the math for a working time machine," he tells her

"..." she gives him puppy eyes

"You know I'm not Ace or dad right?"

"..." she stick her lip

"Oh fine," he caves in & pulls more paper & some colored pencils out of the drawer of his desk, "here."

"..." she smiles as she jump hugs him again & kisses his cheek in her excitement

"Just don't use up all my paper," he says as he wipes the residue of her kiss off his face, "and sharpen the pencils before putting them back in the box-ok?"

She nods happily with a bright smile before the each go about doing their own things at the desk, they both sit in silence as draw & sketch; B2 is in such a focused zone that he isn't able to hear anything around him. Without B2 or Zin realizing it, she-at some point-started humming while coloring & currently still is, Bay sees this as another improvement. This improvement however is short lived as the bedroom door opens with a nod to the wood of it & with Holly in the entrance, her face etched with exhaustion...

"Zin, B2," she start-her voice even sounding tired, "dinner time."

"..." neither seem to hear her as they continue with their own things

"Zin," she says in shock, "are you-humming?"

At this question B2 stops immediately & looks over at his twin, whom is still in her own zone-humming away; B2, Holly & Bay all just quietly watch Zin coloring & humming like there's no tomorrow. It isn't very long before Ace is in the doorway next Holly after her sending a text to him, a smile comes to his tired face upon seeing her so content for the first time in a long while. Her humming finally stops at the sound of her father's voice, she gets up-ready to go greet him, but stiffens in place at the sight of her brothers & Holly smiling at her. She's frozen as they stand there smiling at her, with a roll of her eyes, they all step out of the way to let her out. But they soon all freeze at the sound of a woman's laugh coming from the room wherever their father is & Bay's face grows annoyed.