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Chapter 22

    After a long road trip, Yuvraj finally pulled up into the driveway of his house, were he was greeted by Crystal, who was surprised to find him looking worn out.

    "Did something happen?"

    "Facing beasts, performing magic, tracking down lost siblings, and solving royal conflicts, are nothing compared to being stuck in a vehicle with your cooped up family.  Your mother kept insisting on stopping for shopping things, fresh clothes, food, despite the fact I was fully stocked up with magically bigger on the inside cabinets and refrigerator, you sisters bicker like crazy, then kept asking me to be the mediator, despite arguing anyways."

    "I'm so sorry, we don't do road trips, and I guess I know why now.  So were are they?"

    "I didn't kill them, they're in there, waiting for you to go in and see them, per my instructions, now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go see if my bed still works properly."

...

    In the living room, everyone was quiet, Willow and Vanessa were nervously watching the three siblings as they sat together on the couch, Lotus was trying to distract herself with a book, Alex was fiddling with her guitar pick, and black was staring off into space, with a nervous frown.

    The door to the kitchen, and Crystal walked in, leading her parents and sisters, in, as the three from the couch looked over at the noise, looking to the people that their sister had lived with, though they weren't sure if they should've be looking at them, or the centaur and mermaid across the coffee table.

    Seeing the inner conflict on their faces, Vanessa climbed up onto Willow, and left, leaving them be to talk.

    Walking around to the back window, out of sight, they found Yuvraj sitting on a lawn chair, leaning back.

    "We know, leave them be, we'll go elsewhere."

    "Good idea, now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna rest here, dreaming up something to help handle the media with."

    "You do that, we'll go elsewhere."

    "See that you do."

...

    Inside the said house of the window, Crystal's Quadruplet siblings were sitting across from the four family members of Crystal's that had arrived about a minute before, and Crystal was sitting on a chair, looking at the two sides of her family, trying to think of something to say, in the vast emptiness of sound, which was interrupted by the door of the kitchen opening up, and Margret came in with a tray of assorted baked goods, and fresh from the oven by the looks of it.

    Placing it down on the table, she sat down at one of the chairs and started talking, easing the tensions, helping warm up the two sides of Crystal's family to the other.  As she slowly increased the comfort, Margret left the room to get drinks, leaving the people talking with out any discomfort.

    Smiling, Crystal got up and sneaking out of the room, went around to the front door, and sneaking around, she made her way to the window, finding Yuvraj on a lawn chair snoozing, hat hanging from the end of the arm.

    Smiling, she quietly went around, finding another chair and came up to the window, listening to the voices within.

    After a little while, things had finally calmed, like everything was normal.  Heading back in, she found Vanessa and Willow coming in with some shopping bag.  Heading into the living room, Vanessa on her wheelchair was met with Crystal's little sister.

    Willowing inching her way along the walls, smiling at Vanessa messing with the little girl, was met by Crystal's older sister.  Nervously smiling, she started talking, introducing herself, received, "I'm Felicia, tell me, what is the color of your nail polish?"

...

    Waking up, Yuvraj  got up, and heading to the door, opened it up to find everyone acting like it was a normal afternoon were two neighbor families were together a getting along.

    Walking through the room, Yuvraj headed through, passing Willow giving the little sister, Chloe, a small ride around the room, with Felicia following after, pushing Vanessa in her wheel chair.  Passing Alex and Black, who were telling Mr. and Mrs. Turner about their horrible living conditions before they showed up and saved them.

    Walking out the door into living room, he found Crystal, sitting there smiling at the sounds of the people in the other room.

    "You stuck to the cushions or are you just enjoying all of this one to much?"

    "Somewhere in the middle.  Your finally awake, how you feeling?"

    "Much better, and your family seems much more tolerable now, so chances of survival just went up."

    "Very funny.  Anyways, I have something to talk to you about."

    "It better not be cousins coming over next."

    "No, and quit wise cracking for a moment, and just take a seat, here next to me, and listen."

    Something was up, and Yuvraj wasn't sure if it was good or bad.  Taking off his hat, he sat down next to Crystal, he set it down on the table, turned to her, "Alright, my attention is all yours."

    "Alright, Yuvraj, ever since Dan pulled that stupid stunt, setting us up for dinner, I've seemed to have developed a small form of a crush, and while I do wanna give Dan a how come and a what for, I ain't gonna deny it, cause future trouble and such, so, I ask if it would be okay if we tried dating, and to show that I truly do mean it, I made this."

    From her pocket she pulled out a small little box.  Taking it from her, Yuvraj opened the little lid with a click, revealing a red spider, speckled black, with bat wings, with a clip on it.

    "Is this for my hat?"

    "It's the only thing that seems to never leave you, so I made something to clip to it."

    "It's just like the necklace I gave you, minus the flopped colors."

    "Well, you seemed to wear a flopped color scheme, so this is to match that."

    "You seem to be to clever at this."

    "It wasn't easy making that though.  So, do I get an answer?"

    "Well, it would disappointing to let all your hard work go to waste."

    "Hey!"

    "I know, no wise cracking, sorry.  Alright, yes, we can try a date or so and see how it goes, but first, wanna get revenge on Dan?"

    "Absolutely, what do we do?"

    "I usually turn him into a fish, but I think in this case, we should a little creative."

    Right then, a knocking from the door caught there attention.  Looking over, Crystal's parents and Yuvraj's om were in the door way.

    "Are we interrupting?"

    "It's fine dad, come on in."

     "Actually, I just wanted to talk quickly.  Seeing all of this, I can see why you like it all so much, and your sisters seem to take a liking to it all, so would you be okay to us getting our own house over here?"

    "Absolutely.  Totally.  One hundred percent yes."

    "Well in that case, I need to speak to some by the name of Clyde, and I believe you two had a prior engagement."

    "Your right, Yuvraj, let's get ready, we have a crazy man to prank."