soulmate

Hidden.. {chapter 3}

"Did Juli wake up at all last night?" Charlotte takes a swig of coffee. "She must have, I didn't hear a peep," Mom says. The table lays full of fried delicacies, bacon, toast, jelly, butter, and omelets. "No, I got her. She went right back to sleep," I said, sharing in a bite of the bacon. "Aw  thanks sweetie! That was a big help. I needed some sleep!" Charlotte gives me a smile. "Do I smell bacon?" Mary saunters in, rubbing sleep from her eyes, with Adam. "Just enough left for you late-birds!" Dad says. He is reading the Gazette, a routine not broken even with toddlers screaming for his attention. "PaPa! PaPa!" Suzy pulls on his pajama pants. "Susannah, come over here," I hold out my hands for the 3 year old. She snuggles up on my lap and I hug her close. "You smell like bacon!" She teases. "Do I?" I reply. I tickle her soft belly and she collapses into giggles that make any morning brighter. 

"Hey babe, do you need anything?" Charlotte calls over to Brielle and Zayne on the couch. 

Zayne lifts his coffee mug above the couch. "All good here." Brielle, however, is in need of some bacon and comes over to grab some off the apparently empty plate. "UGG!" She playfully punches Luke in the arm, as he chews the last piece. "And it was good, too," He says with a grin, kissing his soulmate. "ewwwww!" Suzy and I scrinch up our faces in disgust. Mom smiles at us, bouncing the newly awakened baby Juli on her hip. "Look who woke up!" She says. We all coo and gawk at the sleepy baby. "Looks like I'll have to feed the dragon now," Charlotte smirks and carries her daughter to make a bottle in the kitchen. "Well, where are Ruby and Carter? They went on a walk almost an hour ago," Dad, finished with the newspaper, says. "Ruby called me. They are on their way." Zayne says, walking towards the stairs. "I gotta get dressed. Can we all be ready by 11?" He asks. We all snicker at Zayne's little OCD comment. "He always was on time," Mom and Dad share a secret smile. One that most parents share after knowing all of their children's secrets. "Yea, I think I better go too. Be down in a sec." I set Suzy down to play and scamper up the stairs. 

Once in the shower, I scrub off the remaining night, and watch it fall down the drain. I still could not belive that I had actually gone out last night. I hadn't been out for atleast a month, with no word from Felix. I was beginning to be worried, but then he came. I could tell he wanted me, and it made a nervous, fluttery feeling arise in my stomach. Stepping out of the tub, I pull a tshirt and jeans over my head. In my few fifteen minutes in the shower, I had come up with an extremely dangerous, possibly amazing plan. On my way to the door I hear a hard knock on the door. Freezing, I slowly walk to the hidden door and bolt it shut. I fight the urge to run away, but I stay planted until dad answers the door. "Hello, sir!" Dad's voice sounds false. "We are here to do a routine check of your cellars and or basements." The blood stops in my veins. Officers do random drop by's of the houses. Mom told me once how one happened when I was around 4, and she hid me under the bed just in time for the officers to stupidly believe her story of how this was a room for her future grandchildren. I do not remember the time, but I do remember her telling me how important it was to always hide if someone came to the door. Quickly, I drop to the floor and crawl under my bed. I press my ear to the floor in the hopes to better hear what is going on. "Do you have any attics or cellars?" Another unfamiliar voice. It must be the partner. HIs voice sounds young, almost like an apprentice. "Well, of course! Zayne, show these fine gentlemen to our cellar. " I imagine dad pasting on a false smile and Zayne leading the officers downstairs. I hear footsteps, big and heavy, descend. And then, nothing.