...Don't kill me! Please! I'll prove this story's worth to everybody! Everybody!

Yes, I know I just finished a story, but I'm a sucker for people's opinions.

...Unless you like to flame. Then you, you stupid flamer, can just hit the back button and don't read my stories. Nobody wants you here, nor cares what you have to say. Get out.

Anyway, I'm not going to mention the catergory the story is in, since you all obviously know what it is or you wouldn't have clicked on it.

However, I will ask the question you all will eventually ask: You mean it's not a Disney fic?

...No, it's not. I do have interests other than Disney, you know.

That's not to say I don't love Disney, but I have other addictions too!

...Er. I mean-what I meant to say was...was...

Ah, whatever. It's not like the rest of you aren't addicted to some show or another.

Anyway, I really hope you all enjoy this story.

I smiled, watching my two year old sister hop in every puddle she saw. My fraternal twin sighed, calling out to the young girl.

"Demi Laurin Derling! Stop that; you'll ruin your new skirt." Called my fifteen year old sister, Sapphire. She was named for her deep, sapphire blue eyes; identical to mine, actually.

"Aww, don't squash the kids fun, Saph." I called, receiving a huge smile from Demi in return. Sapphire glared at me. Honestly, she usually wasn't this strict unless our mum said something.

"Reese, you know that Mum will kill us if Demi gets so much as one spot on that skirt." She replied, grabbing Demi by the hand and pulling her back under the umbrella. I was walking outside the umbrella, allowing the light rain to mist over my face. This place in Delaware seemed to get a serious amount of rain.

"Oh, yeah." I said, recalling the last time we had let Demi have too much fun. "Sorry, kid." I said, catching the betrayed look Demi shot me.

"I don't know how you can forget three hour lectures in school, Mum's orders, and anything else that doesn't interest you, and yet memorize every single game, comic, or anime that you've ever seen." She said, shaking her head and sighing.

"Eh, I'm good enough in school. And I only play, read, or watch anything Sonic related." I replied, sending her a cheesy grin.

"You're barely scraping by with 70's, and your obsession with that blue hedgehog is scary, especially since you're now, what, fifteen?" She shot back, grinning. Demi smiled, always interested in our playful fights.

This was all just her picking on me; we were both A+ students in all honors classes. Not that I enjoyed doing the classes; if it were up to me, I would be in the normal classes. It would save me all the sneers from the kids that thought I was trying to show them up. The only reason I was taking the honors was because Mum was delighted when she saw how good of a future I could have.

And as for my obsession with Sonic, Sapphire feels the same way. We have a certain connection with the 'people' on Mobius, though we wouldn't tell anyone. We were weird enough with our odd hair.

Anyways, back to the walk home. Demi was now trying to escape from Sapphire's grip, looking determined to jump into every puddle she could. I grinned as the kid shot me another 'kicked puppy' look.

"Ah, let the kid go. I'll take responsibility for her 'ruined' skirt." I said, taking pity on the small girl. Sapphire looked at me, sighed, then let Demi free. The kid giggled, hugging Sapphire, then me.

"T'ankies!" She thanked us quickly, before jumping into a huge puddle and splashing all three of us. Sapphire rolled her eyes.

"That kid's lucky we love to spoil cute kids." She muttered under her breath. I grinned, stooping under the umbrella to walk next to her.

"With two big sisters like us, she's going to be the most spoiled little girl on the planet." I said. Sapphire sighed, but her smile as she watched Demi gave her away.

"Well, what with happened with Luna, I'm not surprised at us spoiling her." She lowered her voice, making sure Demi couldn't hear anything.

I sighed; our other sister was a sore subject. After my mum and father had fought for a few months, Mum finally decided to divorce. All of my siblings were fine with this; Sapphire and I only seven, and Demi hadn't even been a possibility.

My father, however, wasn't so happy with this. He threatened to take away one of their daughters if she divorced him. Horrified, my mother called the police.

When they arrived, my father had taken Luna and was long gone. The young girl had only been five years old, so I wasn't sure if she remembered us or not. Even so, I wouldn't forget her, especially since Demi has the same bright aqua eyes.

I was shaken out of my thoughts by a hand on my shoulder. I turned to see Sapphire looking at me, then shaking her head.

I blinked; I hadn't even noticed that my hands had balled into fists. I always got angry and sad whenever I thought Luna and my jackass of a father; I wasn't the one to weep, so I expressed it with anger.

"Come on, we're almost home." She said, picking up her pace to catch up with the retreating form of Demi. The three year old had picked up her pace when she caught sight of our house, and was now waiting impatiently at the door for us to open it for her.

"Rweese! Fiwy!" She called her nickname for Sapphire and I. I was her favorite sister, as I always let her get away with anything and often talked Sapphire into doing so as well.

"We're coming, we're coming." I called, jogging up to the impatient toddler. I opened the door for her, the two year old being too short to reach the handle. She instantly ran inside, calling for Mum.

I waited for Sapphire to catch up, then walked into the living room with her. Once inside, we saw our mum smiling at the little girl, who was chatting animatedly in toddler talk about her day.

Beside my mum was our stepfather of two and a half years, Peter. They had met when my mum got a new job, and had fallen in love almost instantly. Sapphire and I liked him, but we were against calling anybody 'Dad', so we just called him by his name.

Mum was pregnant again by the time their wedding came, and had already decided on the name 'Demi', on our request.

When the wedding day finally came, Sapphire was delighted with the frilly white dress she wore, but the only reason I didn't rip mine to shreds was because of how happy my mother was.

And the fact that the dress was rented and expensive as hell. That would've taken a huge chunk of cash out of my wallet.

Anyways, back to the heartwarming living room scene. Although, by the look on my mum's face, it was about to get no-so-heartwarming.

"You three are soaked! What did you do, jump in every puddle you saw?" My mum, Jane, asked. Yeah, I know, Peter and Jane. My previous father's name was John, if the alliteration used there amuses you.

At the look on Demi's face, I could tell it would be too late to stop the upcoming disaster.

"Yesh, Mommy! Fiwy stopped me fwom jumping in teh puddles, but Rweese let me and tawked Fiwy into letting me go!" She said excitedly, hugging my leg in the process.

I grimaced; this was going to end in a two-week grounding form something, I just knew it.

"You let her jump in muddy water in her brand-new skirt?" My mum's voice turned incredulous near the end of her question. Peter shot me a sympathetic look, knowing my mums temper when it came to clothes.

"Mum, there's no mud on it; only water. I swear I would've stopped her from jumping into mud or something." I defended myself. My mum rolled her eyes.

"Two weeks grounding from going out." She stated, ending the conversation. I sighed resignedly and knowing that arguing would get me nowhere.

It's not I went out much beside buying games and comics, anyway.

Sapphire and I left, going for our daily ritual of brushing our hair after school. We had started this when we were younger, back when our mum was still with our father. This was about the time of day where they would be shouting at each other, so Sapphire, Luna and I would go in our room and brush our hair.

I believe I mentioned that my sister's and my hair was odd, correct? Well, that's actually from our mother and biological father.

My mum had natural cobalt blue hair, with pure white tips. Her hair seemed to form itself in a specific style, which was two bangs, one on each side of her head, and three huge chunks of hair down her back. It never moved from that style, and was so odd and even that most people assumed that it was dyed and styled.

My father had half pitch black hair, half dark purple. His, however, was loose and was easily styled, like most people's hair.

Luna's hair, last I saw her, was similar to fathers. She had pure white hair that, about halfway down, cut into black. It was long and pretty much normal other than the colour.

Sapphire looked most like mum. She had light grey hair, that went cobalt blue about halfway down. Her hair styled itself into four bangs, two on each side of her head, and five chunks of evenly spaced, light grey and blue hair at the back. The fact that she had my mum's blue hair was why she was named Sapphire instead of me.

I looked more like mum that I did my father, but I did have one of his hair colours. My hair was also light grey, but with dark purple slanted tips. It was styled almost exactly like my sisters, except for the fact that mine looked sharper.

Demi got lucky; she got Peter's dark red hair. (Yup. It just gets better and better, doesn't it?) It was shoulder-length, and cut into a cute bob.

I brushed through the stubbornly styled hair, making it looked silkier, but no other difference. Sapphire did the same, and we both walked back out to mingle with the family.

...Hopefully you guys aren't as mad at me for starting another story after reading it.

I may even be able to get a few people addicted to this story too...

*chuckles evily*