Sitting at the table, Emilia was approached by her sister Eleanor. El sat down across from her, and asked her how she was doing. "I'm okay," Emilia replied quietly. She looked out on the ruckus going on in the living room, and shook her head. Loud people weren't really her thing, she didn't understand all the excitement. "I had a bad dream again," She said, turning back to El. Although Eleanor and Emilia had very different personalities, almost opposites, El had always been nice to her.

Raven walked up to her, giving her a hug and kissing her on the forehead. She asked Emilia if she needed anything from the store. Emilia thought for a moment. "No, I don't think so Raven. I don't need anything." She said, smiling up at her.

Ripley came to join the girls at the table, saying good morning to them. "Good morning," Emilia said, smiling at Ripley.

"Morning Rip," Eleanor said as she looked from the group to the boy that had sat near them. Ripley was really the only person that she let call her Roni. That was her brother's nickname for her and it was very dear to her. The only reason that she could think of that would make her let him of all people was what he meant to her. No matter what he was wearing it always made her heart skip a beat, the smell of him just sent her heart soaring, and the fact that he was always there for her at those crazy parties, that just meant the world to her. It made her think that maybe, just maybe she was actually important to some people. She had to pull her gaze quickly once she realized she was staring at the boy. Truth be told, she tought that if anyone really knew about her little 'crush' on Ripley they would laugh. She thought she was sneaky about hiding it, but honestly she didn't know.

Eleanor's lips formed a thin line at Em's response. She didn't like hearing that. Em was the youngest of them all and out of everyone, had the greatest chance of being happy. At least that's what she believed. Looking at the girl, she leaned forward a bit whispering, "Do you want to talk about it?" Lifting a hand she waved it in dismissal to Raven, letting her know that she did not need anything from the store today. She was already stocked up on pain killers for the next day so she was good.

"It was just the picnic dream again," She said to El. Emilia had told her about the dream before. She had been having this dream for years now, since she moved into Golden Days. A few of her 'siblings' already knew about the dream, Eleanor was once of them.

Quickly changing the topic, Emilia asked, "Are you going to a party tonight?" It was Saturday, so obviously she was. Emilia had never been to a party, she didn't think she would like it much though. Everyone drinking, and doing drugs. She didn't have anything against drinking or drugs, she just hadn't done them before. Emilia knew that Ellie liked to party and drink. To her that was just part of Eleanor, and she loved her.

Bad dream?"What happened? Well, you know if you want to talk about it," Ripley caught himself, not wanting to sound too worried at what Emilia had said. He didn't want to pressure her into telling him after all. After hearing the explanation though, he was a bit less worried. He hadn't known his parents like Em had and figured that it was for the better. At the very least he didn't have to deal with the pain of losing them.

On the other hand though, he couldn't empathize as well because of it either. Others had known their parents and he sometimes felt bad that he couldn't. Especially with Em, he said to himself. He couldn't deny that he liked her nor how beautiful he found her. Perhaps that was the reason why he was concerned. It was certainly why he hung around her the way he did. Sensing a change in subject, Ripley decided to pipe in. "I know I am." Roni probably would, no she would for sure go since it was a Saturday which he meant he would as well. Someone had to bring her home if she passed out.

James smirked a bit after dropping his illusion of his usual behavior and looking at Ripley's reaction. "C'mon kid, you know I'm just messing with you. There's no need to take things to heart." Looking back at Raven, he nodded to reply to her question. Turning around once again seeing the newest arrival walk down the stairs, Emilia. He flashed a sort of dangerous smile at Em and threw up two fingers. "Em, morning sleepyhead. Had a good little nap?" With a swift motion, he rustled Rip's hair violently and casually walked beside Raven. JR's feelings were in tangles as she playfully poked his nose, but there was no way he could tell her. They would think he was weak if they found out about his feelings.

Emilia looked at Ripley, and gave him a smile. She knew he cared about her, and it was very comforting. She gave him a nod, knowing what he was trying to say. He noticed the subject change, and quickly went along with it. Ripley was going to a party tonight too. Of course he was. He was just as much of a partier as Eleanor.

"Hope you guys have fun," Emilia said, standing from he chair and walking to the fridge. She poured herself a glass of milk, and returned to her seat, putting her bear, Gizmo, on her lap. Emilia sipped her milk as James came to join them. She had a small crush on him since moving here, though she would never tell him. He asked out her sleep was, and Emilia gave him a nod. Blushing, she pulled her glass to her mouth again.

Man James had a way with getting to him. "Yeah alright Jimmy," Ripley said, waving him off with a laugh. Sensitivity was going to be his Achilles heel. He was too nice when it came to others and he knew that, yet did nothing to change it. Ah well, he could fix that later. He leaned back in his chair, glancing once over to the working coffee maker as it slowly dripped out his Colombian roast. "Aye watch the hair!" He lightly smacked away James's hand when his hair was ruffled, shaking it back into place. Pfft, what was he a little child? Well granted, James was half a year older than him but still! That wasn't much.

He turned to Emilia, seeing her get up to go to the fridge. "Well if you aren't going to party what do you plan to do tonight?" he asked curiously. He hadn't noticed the smile that James had flashed to Emilia nor did he notice the pink hue that appeared on Emilia's face because of it, though that was probably for the better. He didn't need another reason to get drunk and drugged up at tonight's party.

Emilia looked at Ripley, "Well," She said, thinking for a moment. "I guess I'm going to read a little." She never did much else on the weekends. Just simply reading and homework.
She liked being around Ripley, he was always very nice to her. Emilia laughed. "I'll probably still be up reading when you two get home from your party," she said, speaking to Ripley and Eleanor. She always thought it was funny when they came home drunk on weekends. They were so amusing.

Eleanor simply nodded when Emilia had asked if she was going to a party. She knew she didn't really have to answer, she knew the younger girl knew that she was going either way. She didn't say much after that as James budded in on the conversation for a bit. He didn't bother her or get on her nerves like he seemed to do with Rip. He seemed the closest like those two more than the rest of the group. At least when it came to interests.

She then looked back at Em when she was talking about what she was going to do since she wasn't the party type. "You're really going to be up that late?" She questioned quite astonished. Eleanor knew how late the parties went, especially the good ones. It usually ended up with Rip dragging her trashed body back to the house and them not getting up till late in the afternoon. Well, unless the house some how woke at least her that is. At that point she didn't have a choice but do her chores when it was so late. It was the rule, chores done on Sunday and boy did Eleanor put just about everything off until that day.

"What would you be reading to keep you up so late?" She then asked, she liked reading to a point but she never found a book that could keep her interest that long.

Emilia didn't often talk about her books, but she really liked this one. She had taken it out from the schools library earlier this week. "I really like the book I'm reading right now," She went one to Eleanor. She knew El read sometimes, but not as much as Emilia did. "I'd like to finish it tonight. So I'll probably have to stay up late," she said, thinking about the story she was reading. Emilia didn't like stopping a book in the middle of the story. She was getting near the good part too. "The book is called 'Burned'. It's by Ellen Hopkins." Emilia said with a smile. Ellen Hopkins was her favorite author, and she had read all of her books already, except for this one.

Em seemed excited talking about this book, that was good, it was keeping her mind off of the nightmare. Smiling, Eleanor asked, "What's it about?" She propped on elbow up on the table and rested her head on her hand. She checked to make sure that Rip could still be included in the conversation before she looked back at her. By how much the girl ready Eleanor guessed that Emilia had many stories going on in her mind. She often thought that she should write a book or something. She knew that she would love to read it. Anything that any of her siblings came up with Eleanor loved. They were their talents, and she didn't think that anyone could do anything better than her siblings could.

Emilia hadn't read much of the book yet, but she knew the general idea of the story. She thought of a few quick points to tell Eleanor about. "It's about a mormon girl who lives in bad family, so she moves to her aunts house." Emilia said. Getting excited she continued, "Her family was really religious, so she wasn't allowed to date boys. But, when she moved to her aunts house she met a boy." She thought for a moment, wondering if she left anything major out. "That's as far as I've gotten," Emilia said huggin her bear. Emilia was smiling, she loved getting lost in imaginary worlds. She loved watching characters fall in love on the pages infront of her.

"That does sound really cool," Eleanor said, genually interested. She then thought about it some before saying, "This might sound bad, but it kind of reminds me about a paper I had to write in school about honor killings." She had actually enjoyed writing that paper. No matter how she acted, the dark haired girl did take her school work seriously. She wasn't the smartest in the house and she didn't want to, but she still liked learning. It was something her brother had gotten her into. She still idolized the boy and wanted to make him proud, but her dreams of following him seemed to be long forgotten. Thinking about the boy, the smiled on Eleanor's face faded and replaced by a more sullen look.

Emilia looked at Eleanor, who was now wearing a frown on her face. "You look sad Eleanor," Emilia said, letting her face match with a frown. She knew El must be thinking about her brother.

[[I'm out for awhile. Sorry for the short post.]]

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Eleanor just smirked, not being able to pull a full smile out at this point. "Yeah," she said, her voice somewhat distant. "It happens I guess," she then said with a shrug. She never liked to talk about her past. The family knew the very basics of what happened to her. That her family was killed on 9/11 and that that was her birthday. She never told anyone why her family was killed on that fated day. There were only a few people that really know why that day hurts her so bad, Em was one of them. Eleanor never wanted the sympathy that went along with it, that just made her feel worse and angry.

Raven looked over at El and nodded. It seemed that they were not going to buy that much of stuff today. Then she remembered that Nicki wanted some more candy or something sugary and sweet. Writing this down she then looked around and saw that everyone seemed to be talking amongst him or herself. Therefore, she skipped down to the refrigerator and opened it up. Looking inside she soon say the things that were needed, “Juice, orange and apple, hmm possibly milk, more V8’s for Li or no?” she asked turning to Li and then looking back at the fridge. “Eggs, veggies, possible fruits. Hmms maybe some meat and/or meat,” she laughed quietly and then closed the ridge, wondering to the pantry she looked inside and noticed that their snacks were running low. “Snackage and hmms Ms. Sarah’s special box of crackers.” She finished her notes and then looked around, “Anything else people?” she jumped up onto the counter carefully and stood up on it, this time they would hear her for sure. She seemed to be the smallest in the whole room, being only 5 feet 2 inches and weighting not even 100 pounds sometimes she was not heard. “Peoples want anything, last call before I go to Ms. Sarah for the money.” She smiled and held the note and pen in hand. However she remembered about the dress she was wearing and pulled it down, holding it down so it wont fly up in some weird way.

Ripley nodded, though was surprised that she would be reading long enough to still be awake when he and Eleanor would be back. Those parties dragged on pretty late after all and staying up would really be a feat. "Ellen Hopkins? Never heard of her," he said truthfully, though curious about her works, "you'll have to let be borrow one of her books after you're finished reading it." He got up from his chair and walked back over to the coffee maker as the coffee pot was filled to the brim. His mug was poured full of coffee before he put back the pot. Sitting back down, he had missed a small part of the conversation, though noticed that Eleanor wasn't happy. What was wrong? Well, he had a small idea, but he wouldn't say it out loud. There were just some things that shouldn't be said. Hearing Raven, he turned his head over. "Aye guys! Get me a bag of Munchies!"

James chuckled at Ripley's reaction again. Shortly after, he played with his keys restlessly as he waited impatiently for the list to be completed. There was no enough time in the day that he could sit still for too long. To be honest, he found it hard to believe that he could actually sleep through the night when his blood would pump hot in his veins. Jimmy looked around the room for Raven, but he didn't see her. When he did catch sight of her, she was standing on top of the counter, but that was minor compared to what'd seen. In order to prevent himself from looking like a total perv, the bad boy turned his head away from it and tapped her calf gently and said calmly, "Get off the counter Rave. Ms. Sarah doesn't want us to stand on the furniture especially the place where we eat. So lets hit the road kid."

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Laughing loudly at Raven hugging her, the Asian drama fanatic happily turned the gesture and held the girl until Raven turned her attention to James or JR as Liling rather have called him. The girl then turned her attention toward the said person and flashed him a small smile, "If you say so... But I guess getting dressed to go out was in complete vein." Again she couldn't help but laugh as she greeted the two newcomers of the morning, "Morning El, morning Em~" she greeted the two as she turned and grabbed her glass. After taking another sip, she turned her attention to Nicki, who volunteered to help her cook.

"Oh my fry cooking savior~!" Liling gasped as she placed her glass on the counter once again and hugged Nicki's arm, "Xie xie Nicki di di (Thank you brother Nicki) ~!" Yes, she didn't have to be a fanatic in order to know how to speak her native Chinese language. And having the blood of both Taiwan and Mainland China, she picked up speaking both Cantonese and Mandarin; however, she had this weird habit of sometimes mixing both dialects together, which often confused her friends at school, who spoke the same tongue as her.

After releasing her brother's arm, she quickly side stepped back to the counter where her drink was currently occupying and finished up the V8 she was drinking. She knew of Rave's crush on Nicki and she was hoping that the girl didn't take her normal gesture toward everyone in the family to complete heart. However, she knew Rave wouldn't get mad over something like that... Or at least so she hoped. Besides, Rave knew of her crush on Hu Ge and who he really was... "Yes, can you you two bring back some V8 for me? Strawberry Banana if you will~" she informed the two errand runners, "I'm going to start cooking, so will you guys please horde yourselves to the dining room or the TV room. I'd appreciate it! That's unless you're actually going to help me." However, before she started anything, she quickly rinsed out her cup and set it aside for later use. Liling also walked over to the couch and picked up her bag, digging into the small messenger bag and pulled out her mp3 player, which she clipped to the side of her shirt.

"Need my cooking music..." she muttered to no one but herself as she turned on the said player and lowered down the volume so she could hear everyone talking. Once that was finished, she happily pranced back into the kitchen and began taking up the supplies she needed into order to start cooking. Even though she often cooked and enjoyed the culinary art, it wasn't someone she planned on continue professionally. She had bigger dreams than that; however, being a professional chef did sound nice if being a lawyer or a Pediatrician didn't work out for her.

"Ai ya! I'm going to be running low on white rice! Rave, JR... I need my Jasmine rice! I'm thinking of making some onigiri and sushi sometime later..." she called out before Rave left to go grab the money from their mother.

Raven nodded and put a star next to munchies. Giggling softly, she grinned but then stopped, a blush came over her cheeks as she looked when she felt a hand on leg. Blinking she nodded, “No worries, I’m too-too light to do much damages.” She sat down on the counter, put the note down, and then, while holding her dress, she slid off and stood on the floor. She swiftly too the list and added Jasmine rice as soon as she heard it. “Yes Li.” Smiling cutely, she then nodded and gave the list to James. “I’ll be right back.”
Rave ran of to Ms. Sarah’s room, to find her sitting at her desk with the mail. Kissing Ms. Sarah on her cheek, rave grinned. “Morning Ms. Sarah, James and I are off to go shopping before work.” Sarah knew what Rave wanted and then she handed her the little purse with the money. “Thank you!” skipping back down the hall, Rave jumped next to James. She lost her balance and screamed slightly. Falling into a hug, she wrapped her arms around his waist for support. “Ms. Sarah gave me the money we can go now.” She spoke while holding the purse up to James, so he could see, while she still held onto him for support.

Emilia sat quietly with her bear, watching the kitchen in disarray. Everyone seems so excited today, she thought to herself. Not wanting to be in the way, Emilia stood up and went to her room to get dressed. All of her siblings were dressed and it made her feel out of place.

Tip-toeing upstairs, Emilia headed to her bedroom to change. She entered her room and locked the door. Emilia always locked her bedroom door, just in case. She walked to her closet and ripped a pair of jeans off the shelve, and a pink Hollister sweater. After changing she unlocked her door, and sat on her bed. She wasn't sure what she wanted to do for the day, she didn't want to start reading already. Emilia laid on her bed thinking, petting her teddy bear Gizmo.

Annabella woke up hearing voices from the kitchen, at least she though so. She looked outside her window all she could see was the sun shining in her face. She layed on her bed for awhile thinking about something. She rolled out of bed and onto the floor. Bella wasn't really a morning person but she would deal with it anyway. She got up grabbed a light blue shirt,black jeans, a black tank top, and a towel out of her closet and dragged herself to the bathroom.

After a quick shower Bella stepped out of the tub. She dryed herself and started dressing up before she brushed her teeth. She opened the door and slowly made her way back to her room. She threw her towel back into her closet and put her dirty clothes in the laundry room. She went back to her room and she sat there for awhile before she headed down the stairs.

Smiling he watched as Raven hid the drawing pad from him. Which brought a grin to his lips, it must be a surprise for everyone. Alexandre looks behind him to find Li thanking God because no one touched her Strawberry Banana V8. He moved away just abit when she mentioned shopping and cooking. He wasn't the kind to go shopping, but he would if he must. And he just wasn't awake enough yet to cook anything, so he just shook his alittle alittle. Only to turn back around to find Eleanor with her laundry, well he thought it was Eleanor. He raised his free hand to his mouth a made a zipping sound as he slid it across his mouth, when she told her siblings not a word. He found it amusing, all the antics in the mornings from his siblings. It brightens his day just alittle, for whats to come. Raising his glass to get a drink, James just about slams his orange juice carton down on the counter, almost splashing everywhere. Alexandre places his glass on the counter, and looks up at James. His arms were slightly raised, and he had a glare on his face. Well... atleast I cant try out that 'tide pen' he sighed, and watched James escape upstairs, then coming back down just as quickly after saying he would go to the store instead.

Alexandre guessed it was kinda still too early for James or he was just being very irritable and impatient today, either way it didn't matter to Alexandre. Picking up his glass he finished it quickly and went to the sink, once he washed it and rinsed it out, he placed it back in the cabinet. Out of the corner of his eye he sees Raven glomping Li, which broguht a small smile to his face. When he turned around Raven went upstairs, coming back down in her new work uniform, which he might say looks very dashing on her. He might have to follow her around and swat people away. Slapping his hand to his forhead gently he shook his head, and then removed it after Raven just jumped down the last few steps. She must have forgotten she was wearing a dress or it wasn't that good of an idea to jump with a dress of that length on. Well I guess I'll be going back upstairs, James is helping Li by going tot he store, with Raven tagging along... and Nick is helping Li with frying. he thought as Emi came downstairs still in her knee length nightie, he offered up a small wave. Shortly after Raven start writing down a list, asking everyone once more if they needed anything, "No, I'm okay." He raised his up infront of him, palms out before dropping back at his sides. Ignoring Ele's long stare at Rip, and JR's smile along with Emi's blush... Alexandre tells everyone that he'll be in his room if anyone needed anything from him.

Alexandre made it up the stairs and into his room, before Anna woke up, so he missed the chance to say 'Morning to her. "I really should clean this room up..." Sighing, he started with fixing his bed and ended with him organzing and picking up his inventions. The last thing he picked up with his screw driver and the latest project he had been working on.

Nicki chuckled softly when Rave blushed a little. "They look nice, don't get all embarrassed 'sis'" He joked as he leant forwards to read the list she was writing. With a cheerful noise, Nicki gave her a quick hug the moment he spotted that she had written down his 'order' for sweets. Rummaging in his pockets, he tugged out his last small packet of sweet 'pastels' and offered them to her. "As thanks for getting me more! They're really nice." He smiled brightly and turned to Em. Giving his youngest 'sister' a small wave he began to look for food to cook for their most likely large breakfast.

Grinning to Li he gently patted her shoulder before attempting to disintangle himself from her hug. "Liiii I don't speak nothing but english, even then it's pretty bad at times! So what do you feel like cookin'?" He questioned with a smirk. At the same time Nicki picked up a frying pan, brandishing it about as if it were a sword, before laughing as he set it down on the counter.

[no we have not died!! lolz]