That's when the doorbell rang. We both raced to the door, and it was almost a tie but he was a split second faster.

I was the first person to talk, "Mea, Shane, Eano what are you guys- Oh My God, Tiya!" I ran and hugged Tiya. Tiya was my best friend. She had been at her mother's for a couple weeks. Her mom is Marella, who went insane after the war like so many others. They take care of them in big sparkly castle… far away from here. Her dad lives in the lost cities. "When did you get back?"

She answered, "Yesterday"

Mea said, "Yah, and she didn't tell us, then she showed up here." Tiya rolled her eyes.

Jaidyn was still in the doorway, "What are you guys doing here?"

Shane responded, "You sound annoyed. Anyway, your parents, of all people, and our dad ask us if we could come here so they could "chat"."

"I invited Eano, is that ok?", asked Mea.

"I responded, "Yah, its fine. All we need now is Calid, then the whole group will be here."

"I'll invite him", Eano offered.

"Great!"

Soon we were all hanging out up in my room. I love my room. It had purple walls, a black ceiling and a gold-tiled floor and was butterfly themed. There was a large purple and black butterfly carpet in the middle of the room with black and purple striped pillow chairs on top of it along with a gold coffee table with a clear glass top in the middle of the carpet. In a corner was my bed with a black-veil canopy with glowing golden butterflies hanging in it. The bed had metallic purple covers and pillows and a white sheet. Snuggled in the pillows was a blue elephant with a hawaiian T-shirt named Ella. Beautiful holi-graphic butterflies floated around my room, dropping fake glitter that disappeared almost instantly. Courtesy of Mr. Diznee. Of course Mea had them too, but she got rid of them for god only knows why.

When Tiya and I were little, we would sit on my bed and hold out a handful of glitter. All the butterflies would try to land on our tiny hands at once, causing them to glitch. We would examine each of the glitches. Some would turn rainbow, others would emit a fountain of glitter instead of a trickle. Some would be deformed. One time we had a butterfly with ten wings! I always found the more beautiful than the rest.

Right now, Tiya and I were sting on my bed chatting while I braided her hair and she tied a bow around Ella's neck.

Mea and Eano were playing around with the butterflies.

Shane, Jaidyn, and Calid were lounging on the couches, chatting. Calid became part of our group when Shane punched some boy in the face when he was pushing Calid around and teasing him. After that, he just joined in. He's funny, kind, and very very very optimistic. I don't see why people would tease him. I guess people are just mean. You can't fix that, but you can help the victims of that trait, like we, especially Shane, did with Calid.

"How's your mother" I finally asked.

"She's a lot better, she might come around enough so that she can go home."

"That would be nice"

"It would be wonderful."

"Is she able to come to the 10 year?"

"Maby, but…", she played with the end of of her sweater. It was a mishmash of yellow and red. Her mother made her one every time she went. They were always a few sizes too big. This time the edges were burnt. She looked down at her knees. And worry hung like a curtain in her eyes.

I leaned over, put my head on her shoulder, and hugged her. "C'mon. Something's wrong. You can tell me."

"I… It's my mom. She getting better mental wise, But her talent's getting out of control. That's why I'm not sure she'll be able to come this year. She always comes other years, and she'll be so sad."

"Oh Tiya." I didn't know what to say.

"It's fine, I just…"

"It'll be fine, maybe it's just a faze.", I think she smiled, "Anywaaayyyys," I interjected, it always gets weird when we talk about our parents, " are you hungry? Because I am." I let go of her and rolled halfway of the bed so that I was upside-down, hair dangling.

"Of course you inherited your Mom's love of food.", She rolled her eyes and leaned into my pillows.

"Then what are we waiting for!", I started to get up… but I was dangling, " Help.", I weezed.

She held out her hand and I grabbed it. "It's still to early to eat yet, its barely noon.", she rolled her eyes

" Barely-noon, Noon is eat-time!"

" Eat-time?"

" Yes, eat-time."

" I think it's called lunch."

" Okay, okay. It's lunch, but it's my voice and my thoughts, I can call it what I want."

She rolled her eyes again. I'm afraid it's becoming a habit of hers,

" Whatever, let's just wait until the others are hungry too."

" Fiiine." I rocked back and forth in a criss-cross position and stuck out my bottom lip.

"Also,", she added, "You might want to finish pouting, I've got good news too"

"Really!?", my stomach let out a involuntary growl.

She laughed, " Yes. and it is food related."

"Really?!"

"Yah, Dad agreed to let me go to Freeze after the Forest and have all of us,", she gestures around the room, "have a sleepover at my place. He had to make last minute plans for after the celebration, so he won't be there."

"Really!?", we had always had playdates/hangouts at Shane and Mea's place or Calid's or Eano's or mine, Never Tiya's, it's Chaotic, with a capital C. Not that it's messy, it's spotless, it's her parents that are the problem, you could say, when her mom's home, you can probably guess what happens, but her dad is a little… out. He's always over-protective of Tiya, and he likes to know what we're doin 24/7.