p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"emA Bundle of Hyper Energy/em/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Sarah was woken from her nap by a small tug on her blanket; opening her eyes and looking down she found the blue eyes of her youngest daughter Cynthia on hers, the three-year-old messily holding an armful of blocks, "Play with me, mommy!" She chirped loudly, annoying her other sisters who were curled up on the couch next to Sarah and watching a movie on the handheld./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Cindy," She called her daughter by her middle name knowing she responded better to that then her first name, "why don't you go play by yourself?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I don't want to." The child pouted, "Pashe left me alone to watch thingy." She explained moodily, dropping the blocks onto the floor and pouting, frowning with her arms crossed over her chest./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"'emAgain?'/em "Cindy I'm trying to sleep," Sarah explained gently, looking at her four-year-old daughter out of the corner of her eye, Paige avoided her gaze, watching whatever her twin sister Haliah was watching. Probably something that wouldn't interest their younger sister./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Cynthia seemed to think for a moment before brightening up, "I go to Leo's?" Sarah nearly laughed, ever since she and Skylar had introduced their kids to each other Cynthia and Leon hit it right off the bat, being the same age with unusual strength and constantly hyper and energetic they got along extremely well./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I'd have to ask Skylar," She replied watching as Cynthia looked for the house phone and found it, climbing up onto a counter the child grabbed the device and dropped back to the floor before bringing it to her mother, blue eyes twinkling innocently. Sarah took the phone and dialed Skylar's house number, maybe she'd get a nap over there… Probably not, not with her daughter and Leon's mischievous nature. "Hey Skylar, Cynthia would like to come over is that ok? Ok great, hey Cindy, Leon wants to talk to you." Cynthia eagerly took the device/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Hi Leo!"/p
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p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"When Sarah had another daughter she had figured she'd be just like her sisters, interested in pink and purple, generally being calm and quiet, and a love for dolls. But she was completely off. From when Cynthia figured out she could make noise she made lots of them, whether it was squealing, whining, blabbering, or even wailing without tears; when she got old enough to play and walk she was very different from her siblings, loving to play, move around, listening to people talk, and building things. At three the child once managed to climb up to the top of the counters and eat everything available on the counter itself. So Sarah had her hands full keeping her sisters from getting angry with the younger child while making sure the child in question didn't get into too much mischief. After Miles died Cynthia's mischievous side vanished and she matured quite a bit. It still broke Sarah's heart remembering the panic her daughter had at realizing he wasn't breathing./p
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p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Sarah was pleading with Miles to get off the street when his older sister barreled into him as a car went by, clipping her shoulder and causing her body to violently turn and hit the grass on her knees. She could only watch, the traffic heavy./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Mom?" Cynthia voice carried back, panic in her tone, "He isn't breathing, He's not breathing!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"The moment the traffic cleared for a moment Sarah sprinted across the street, fear tingling throughout her entire body. When she arrived she froze, Miles was lying on the grass, his head at a funny angle, her daughter was kneeling next to him, blue eyes wider than saucers. Sarah covered her mouth with a hand to cover her trembling lip before throwing herself down next to her son and starting to cry. "What?!" Cynthia asked worried, "What happened…" She cut herself off and stared down at her hands, the ten year old's mind clicking on what happened. Blake rushed over and knelt next to his wife, holding her in his arms and staring in shock and slight horror at his daughter. Cynthia got to her feet and stumbled back, blue eyes horrified at what she had done, "I-I didn't mean to," She stammered staring at her family in fear, as if thinking she'd hurt all of them as well, "I didn't do anything… I-I" She turned and ran off into the thunder woods, the young girl fleeing the /"Cynthia!" Blake barked, worried about his daughter but slightly angry at her."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Cynthia!" Sarah cried shoving Blake away and chasing after her daughter. She heard a crashing sound and rushed over to find Cynthia standing in front of a thin now fallen tree, standing in a stance she'd learned from wrestling, blue eyes horrified at the damage, tears streaked her face, her knuckles were cut open from the tree's bark. Sarah rushed over and enveloped her daughter in a sobbing hug, "It's ok Cynthia, it's ok."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I'm sorry!" Cynthia cried, letting her tears fall, "I didn't mean to! I didn't want him to get hit by the car!" She sobbed keeping her arms at her sides, "I'm so sorry!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""It's ok," Sarah hushed her, her grief from losing her son mingling in the fear that her daughter wouldn't ever recover from this experience, "It's ok, it was an accident, Cindy, shhh." Cynthia sobbed in her mother's shirt, only leaning forward, keeping her arms away from her mother, too scared to even touch her./p
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p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Sarah watched as she daughters grew into teenagers, two of them concerned about looks, guys, and other popular things going on while one of them didn't care about any of that, she told Sarah herself that she knew her style and who she was, what Cynthia didn't tell her but she knew, she was still shadowed by Miles's death and she'd deliberately think about every choice. With the differences in temperaments and priorities it often caused an issue between the twins and their younger sister./p
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p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Don't you have any opinions?!" Haliah snapped at her sister, she, Paige and their friend Isa had been discussing the topic of guys when Isa innocently asked Cynthia's opinion, starting an argument/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Yes, I do have opinions Haliah." Cynthia replied coolly, her annoyance clear by the use of her sister's first name, "I'm not blind to the world, I know how 'hot' the guys are," She moved from leaning back on the couch cushions to be leaning forward on her knees, "but I also happen to know how much of a jerk they can be." She finished, "Such as a certain annoying blonde."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""You mean Leon?" Haliah asked a little spitefully, looking for a reaction from her sister. Insulting her best friend was all it took and Cynthia got to her feet, standing a few inches taller than her older sister her blue eyes gleamed like the blue of a fire,/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Leave my friend out of this," She hissed, "He's none of your concern, he's more than just a handsome guy with gorgeous amber eyes, and soft golden blonde hair. He's my best friend and," She angrily but softly jabbed her sister in the ribs, "he's not on the market for your competition, I don't just see their looks, I also see their personality," her phone went off and the black haired girl answered it, stepping away from her siblings as she went. " Oh hey, Leon… ok, I'll be over in a sec, what do you want me to bring?" Her voice faded as she started walking up the stairs./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Sarah shook her head in exasperation as Haliah fumed, sitting back down and scowling while both Paige and Isa had grins on their faces./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""What's the smiley smiley?" Haliah asked gruffly, "We argued again. Thanks Paige for totally not backing me up."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Hey it wasn't that bad, besides," The lighter brown haired girl smiled, "We got Cindy to admit she crushed on Leon!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""What? When did that slip?" Haliah asked looking eagerly at her twin, green eyes sparkling at the idea confirmation of her sister's crush./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""He's more than just a handsome guy with gorgeous amber eyes and soft golden blonde hair" Paige replied, relaying the words Cynthia had said./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Ha! We knew it!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""You knew what?" Cynthia asked in confusion as she came back down the stairs with a backpack over her shoulder and dressed in comfortable sweatpants and a t-shirt. She walked into the kitchen and pulled a few things out of the cupboard that was labeled as hers, stuffing them into the backpack./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Just that Brendon is the most popular guy at school!" Paige squealed./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Hmm… well good for him I guess," Cynthia rolled her eyes, zipping up the backpack, fetching her keys from Haliah and walking out the front door, she paused in the doorway, "No he's not, isn't he tied with Leon?" Then she left./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Haliah grinned, the argument was already forgotten, "I told you guys! She totally has a crush on him!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Oh! Did I tell you she slipped up and told me she kissed him before?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Really?!" Haliah exclaimed, "Tell me!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Sarah rolled her eyes at her twin seventeen-year-olds and listened to them talk as she texted Skylar a plan she just had for their two kids./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Sarah was woken from her nap by a small tug on her blanket; opening her eyes and looking down she found the blue eyes of her youngest daughter Cynthia on hers, the three-year-old messily holding an armful of blocks, "Play with me, mommy!" She chirped loudly, annoying her other sisters who were curled up on the couch next to Sarah and watching a movie on the handheld./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Cindy," She called her daughter by her middle name knowing she responded better to that then her first name, "why don't you go play by yourself?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I don't want to." The child pouted, "Pashe left me alone to watch thingy." She explained moodily, dropping the blocks onto the floor and pouting, frowning with her arms crossed over her chest./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"'emAgain?'/em "Cindy I'm trying to sleep," Sarah explained gently, looking at her four-year-old daughter out of the corner of her eye, Paige avoided her gaze, watching whatever her twin sister Haliah was watching. Probably something that wouldn't interest their younger sister./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Cynthia seemed to think for a moment before brightening up, "I go to Leo's?" Sarah nearly laughed, ever since she and Skylar had introduced their kids to each other Cynthia and Leon hit it right off the bat, being the same age with unusual strength and constantly hyper and energetic they got along extremely well./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I'd have to ask Skylar," She replied watching as Cynthia looked for the house phone and found it, climbing up onto a counter the child grabbed the device and dropped back to the floor before bringing it to her mother, blue eyes twinkling innocently. Sarah took the phone and dialed Skylar's house number, maybe she'd get a nap over there… Probably not, not with her daughter and Leon's mischievous nature. "Hey Skylar, Cynthia would like to come over is that ok? Ok great, hey Cindy, Leon wants to talk to you." Cynthia eagerly took the device/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Hi Leo!"/p
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p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"When Sarah had another daughter she had figured she'd be just like her sisters, interested in pink and purple, generally being calm and quiet, and a love for dolls. But she was completely off. From when Cynthia figured out she could make noise she made lots of them, whether it was squealing, whining, blabbering, or even wailing without tears; when she got old enough to play and walk she was very different from her siblings, loving to play, move around, listening to people talk, and building things. At three the child once managed to climb up to the top of the counters and eat everything available on the counter itself. So Sarah had her hands full keeping her sisters from getting angry with the younger child while making sure the child in question didn't get into too much mischief. After Miles died Cynthia's mischievous side vanished and she matured quite a bit. It still broke Sarah's heart remembering the panic her daughter had at realizing he wasn't breathing./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; text-align: center;":) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Sarah was pleading with Miles to get off the street when his older sister barreled into him as a car went by, clipping her shoulder and causing her body to violently turn and hit the grass on her knees. She could only watch, the traffic heavy./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Mom?" Cynthia voice carried back, panic in her tone, "He isn't breathing, He's not breathing!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"The moment the traffic cleared for a moment Sarah sprinted across the street, fear tingling throughout her entire body. When she arrived she froze, Miles was lying on the grass, his head at a funny angle, her daughter was kneeling next to him, blue eyes wider than saucers. Sarah covered her mouth with a hand to cover her trembling lip before throwing herself down next to her son and starting to cry. "What?!" Cynthia asked worried, "What happened…" She cut herself off and stared down at her hands, the ten year old's mind clicking on what happened. Blake rushed over and knelt next to his wife, holding her in his arms and staring in shock and slight horror at his daughter. Cynthia got to her feet and stumbled back, blue eyes horrified at what she had done, "I-I didn't mean to," She stammered staring at her family in fear, as if thinking she'd hurt all of them as well, "I didn't do anything… I-I" She turned and ran off into the thunder woods, the young girl fleeing the /"Cynthia!" Blake barked, worried about his daughter but slightly angry at her."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Cynthia!" Sarah cried shoving Blake away and chasing after her daughter. She heard a crashing sound and rushed over to find Cynthia standing in front of a thin now fallen tree, standing in a stance she'd learned from wrestling, blue eyes horrified at the damage, tears streaked her face, her knuckles were cut open from the tree's bark. Sarah rushed over and enveloped her daughter in a sobbing hug, "It's ok Cynthia, it's ok."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I'm sorry!" Cynthia cried, letting her tears fall, "I didn't mean to! I didn't want him to get hit by the car!" She sobbed keeping her arms at her sides, "I'm so sorry!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""It's ok," Sarah hushed her, her grief from losing her son mingling in the fear that her daughter wouldn't ever recover from this experience, "It's ok, it was an accident, Cindy, shhh." Cynthia sobbed in her mother's shirt, only leaning forward, keeping her arms away from her mother, too scared to even touch her./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; text-align: center;":) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Sarah watched as she daughters grew into teenagers, two of them concerned about looks, guys, and other popular things going on while one of them didn't care about any of that, she told Sarah herself that she knew her style and who she was, what Cynthia didn't tell her but she knew, she was still shadowed by Miles's death and she'd deliberately think about every choice. With the differences in temperaments and priorities it often caused an issue between the twins and their younger sister./p
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p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Don't you have any opinions?!" Haliah snapped at her sister, she, Paige and their friend Isa had been discussing the topic of guys when Isa innocently asked Cynthia's opinion, starting an argument/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Yes, I do have opinions Haliah." Cynthia replied coolly, her annoyance clear by the use of her sister's first name, "I'm not blind to the world, I know how 'hot' the guys are," She moved from leaning back on the couch cushions to be leaning forward on her knees, "but I also happen to know how much of a jerk they can be." She finished, "Such as a certain annoying blonde."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""You mean Leon?" Haliah asked a little spitefully, looking for a reaction from her sister. Insulting her best friend was all it took and Cynthia got to her feet, standing a few inches taller than her older sister her blue eyes gleamed like the blue of a fire,/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Leave my friend out of this," She hissed, "He's none of your concern, he's more than just a handsome guy with gorgeous amber eyes, and soft golden blonde hair. He's my best friend and," She angrily but softly jabbed her sister in the ribs, "he's not on the market for your competition, I don't just see their looks, I also see their personality," her phone went off and the black haired girl answered it, stepping away from her siblings as she went. " Oh hey, Leon… ok, I'll be over in a sec, what do you want me to bring?" Her voice faded as she started walking up the stairs./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Sarah shook her head in exasperation as Haliah fumed, sitting back down and scowling while both Paige and Isa had grins on their faces./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""What's the smiley smiley?" Haliah asked gruffly, "We argued again. Thanks Paige for totally not backing me up."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Hey it wasn't that bad, besides," The lighter brown haired girl smiled, "We got Cindy to admit she crushed on Leon!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""What? When did that slip?" Haliah asked looking eagerly at her twin, green eyes sparkling at the idea confirmation of her sister's crush./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""He's more than just a handsome guy with gorgeous amber eyes and soft golden blonde hair" Paige replied, relaying the words Cynthia had said./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Ha! We knew it!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""You knew what?" Cynthia asked in confusion as she came back down the stairs with a backpack over her shoulder and dressed in comfortable sweatpants and a t-shirt. She walked into the kitchen and pulled a few things out of the cupboard that was labeled as hers, stuffing them into the backpack./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Just that Brendon is the most popular guy at school!" Paige squealed./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Hmm… well good for him I guess," Cynthia rolled her eyes, zipping up the backpack, fetching her keys from Haliah and walking out the front door, she paused in the doorway, "No he's not, isn't he tied with Leon?" Then she left./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Haliah grinned, the argument was already forgotten, "I told you guys! She totally has a crush on him!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Oh! Did I tell you she slipped up and told me she kissed him before?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Really?!" Haliah exclaimed, "Tell me!"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Sarah rolled her eyes at her twin seventeen-year-olds and listened to them talk as she texted Skylar a plan she just had for their two kids./p