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It was dead silent in the car on the way to the women's house. I guess she noticed and decided to brake it, "So..... Um... I guess I should intruduce myself. I am Nikki. What's your name?" she asked looking back at us. "I am Lily, and this is Rebbeca." I said awkwardly. "Umm.... Should we say our hobbies or something?" 

"Yeah, sure." 

"Okay, I like to take pictures, so photography, and what do you like to do Rebbeca?" I asked Rebbeca politely. "I like drawing!" Rebbeca said excitedly. We talked about our selves the whole way to her house.

"We're here guys!" Nikki sang. We stepped out of the car, and into the dark cold. Rebbeca grabbed my hand, sqeezing it tight. Nikki lead us around the corner of her house, to the front door. Her house was made of brick and the bottom, and then after a quarter of the way up, it was tan wood. Wood. It could start on fire, just like my house did. A shiver came over me as I thought about it. Nikki must have saw my blank face and asked, "Are you okay?" Rebecca looked up to see what I was staring at. I glanced over to Rebecca, her smiled pulled down, and her eyes became wide. "Are you guys okay? Lets go inside." Nikki said, and started walking in. We followed silently.

Nikki made us a comfortable bed on the floor, while we ate. I ate four bowls of cereal, and Rebbeca ate three. We were hungry. After that, we got to bed. Rebbeca was out in a minute, but it took me about thirty minutes to fall asleep. I think we can trust Nikki. I think so. She seems nice, and she has been taking good care of us. She hasn't done anything suspicious. Okay, I'll trust her. Hopefully I didn't judge wrong. And with that, I fell asleep.

 I woke up the next morning to the sound of Rebbeca sneezing several times. Is she getting sick? I wondered, I sure hope not! I got up quietly, trying not to wake Nikki. I noticed she slept in: I had gone to bed late, so I must have slept in; Nikki was still in bed, snoozing, obviously a deep sleeper. I laughed, thinking about how late she slept in. I tip-toed quietly into the kitchen and looked at the clock. Three-o-clock!?!?! I thought it was like, I don't know, noon?!?! Wow. Just wow. I had gotten to bed at, about twelve? Twelve-thirty? And it's only three?? I crept back to my bed and tryed to fall asleep. Nope. It's not happen'n. I sighed. Okay, this is a good time to get some fresh air. I thought, Not that I haven't already had plenty of that. I crawled out of bed, once again, and went outside on the back porch. Sliding open the see-through door, I glanced over the fence that seperated Nikki's house from the neighbors. I froze.

There was a man climbing over the fence. By the looks of it, he hadn't seen me yet. He continued to ascend over the fence in his black jacket and dark jeans. It's a robbery. It has to be. No. It's not, he must be a friendly... guy... at three in the morning... climbing over the fence instead of knocking on the door... I told myself trying to be reassured. Okay, fine. He's probably not friendly. He still hadn't seen me by the time he got over the fence. I slammed the screen door. Not a good idea Lily, now he knows you're there. I ran to Nikki, "Nikki! Nikki! Someone's robbing the house!" She sat up and looked around. "Really? Are you sure?" 

"Yes!! I'm positive! Now get up!" Nikki stood up.

"In the backyard!" Nikki started running. I followed her. The adrenaline running through my body was making my vision sharper, and cleaner. The man in dark clothes was scrambling to get back over the fence now. Nikki was shocked! "I was about to be robbed. Thank you Lily. Thank you." She said in a worried voice, even with her messy dirty blonde hair, and her princess pajamas on, she was beautiful, I realized. I looked past the bags under her exhasted brown eyes and saw a sweet girl, who was willing to take in two little girls. With that in my mind, I smiled and said, "Your welcome Nikki."

 A chill ran down my back from thinking about the previous night as Rebbeca, Nikki and I sat at the table eating breakfast. "Will you guys please tell me what happened while I was asleep?" Rebbeca pleaded with us. "Later." Nikki said, in a voice that meant stop talking about it, we'll tell you after we're done. But apparently Rebbeca didn't get the message, "You guys have been saying 'later' for like, five hours!" It had only really been ten minutes. "I want to know! Why won't you guys just tell mmmm-" I cut her off by covering her mouth, "Later!" I said whispering, but in a stern voice that told her I meant it. "Ugh." Rebbeca mumbled, "Well fine. I guess you just don't love me enough to tell me any of your little secrets, well guess what? I didn't even want to know. So ha, because..." She kept mumbling to herself. Nikkie and I had decided not to tell Rebbeca yet because it would most likely freak her out. But Rebbeca was smart, she had slowly pried us open to the point where she new something strange had gone on last night.

I looked at Nikki asking with my eyes, should we? She glanced at me saying, I don't know, you do what you want. She's you sister... At least that's what I imagined she said. I sighed, and started, "Okay Rebbeca. First you tell us what you know, then we'll finish it up." "So what I think happened was a robber came into our backyard and Lily saw it and then the robber went back over the fence." I looked over at Nikki, her mouth was wide open, and I could say the same for mine. "That is exactly right Rebbeca... How did you... what?" I stumbled over my words, confused with Rebbeca's knowlegde. "Oh, I just assumed by you guys talking about it in your room. I'm not death." I looked at her, "You mean deaf." I said.

"Yeah, death."

"No, it's deaffff."

"I know, deathhhh."

"Deaf."

"That's what I said!"

"No, you are saying death. It's pronouced deaf. D-E-A-F."

"Lily stop! I know that it's death!" Rebbeca said sternly. Usually I didn't let her boss me around, but I decided it woul probably be best if we stopped the argument over a word. After I was done thinking, I realized Nikki was trying very hard not to laugh. "What?" I asked. "Oh, um, nothing. I've just never had a sister so I guess it's just funny to watch you-" She couldn't finish because of the explosion of laughing that just came from her whole face. "Sorry, to see... you argue over... such a little thing! HA HA HA!" She said, laughing so hard, her face was tomato red. Rebbeca slapped her forehead, shaking her head, and then started laughing too. I joined in, it was nice to be able to laugh again. The last time I laughed was when... Hmm... I thought, When was the last time I laughed. OH YEAH! It was family game night, we were doing a board game, Joeseph spilled his cup of water on himself! Ha, silly little boy. And before I knew it, I was crying. Crying like a baby. Nikki looked confused, but did a very motherly thing. She pulled me in, sat me on her lap, and embraced me. Which made me think of mom, and I started crying harder. Then Rebbeca started crying too. I was pretty sure she was thinking about the family as well. But the strangest thing was, Nikki was the one crying the hardest, and neither me, or Rebbeca, knew why. But it felt... right. It was just so right to be there with Nikki and Rebbeca, huddling together like penguins on a tiny island of ice. I didn't know why, but the best thing  for me right then, and right there, wasn't to be with my family. It was to be in that exact situation. Crying, and laughing my head off at the same time with people I really enjoyed being with.

Publication Date: 08-29-2015

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