Chapter 16
Lightening Bug
AN: So I was drugged on Bendryl and up at 4 am with my sick cat when I wrote this.
I hope you enjoy it, despite any potential flaws it may have.
Also, a bit off topic, but does anyone know a good chocolate chip muffin recipe?
I want muffins.
I hope you enjoy it, despite any potential flaws it may have.
Also, a bit off topic, but does anyone know a good chocolate chip muffin recipe?
I want muffins.
~Blake's POV~
My dad had left for a cabin in the mountains with my "aunt" Chloe.
More babies. Iris was still a baby herself.
Not only had he taken June with him, but he'd left Iris here.
With me.
Ugh, whatever.
My phone dinged, indicating a text.
It was Lucy.
Hey u on ur way yet?
I smiled.
Lucy was in Sunlit Tides now, and we were going to go see the new community garden.
I tapped my foot, waiting for Mia to respond to me calling her.
She was ignoring me.
"Mia!" I shouted at her again.
I think I saw her rolling her eyes at me.
"MIA!" I yelled, causing Iris to start to cry. I shifted her in my arms.
Mia was outside pushing around a baby stroller.
Inside the stroller was Willard, strapped in tightly with a bonnet tied on his head.
"Come on Willard! Let's go faster!" she shouted, beginning to run with the stroller and make race car noises.
"WILLARD!" Mia shouted as the stroller tipped.
"WILLARD! WILLARD! ARE YOU OK WILLARD?!?! COME IN WILLARD!" Mia screamed.
A loud meow came from underneath the tipped stroller.
"Willard! I knew you'd come through for me Willard!" Mia squealed, pulling him from the "wreckage"
"Silly Willard, you forgot your bonnet," Mia said, and Willard squirmed to get away.
I sighed and rolled my eyes.
My phone indicated I had another text from Lucy
Am I at the rite place? where r u?
I fumed at Mia.
"Chance?" I called, carrying a screaming Iris with me as I searched the house.
I found him in the bath.
"Chance!" I shouted relieved.
"Dude! I'm kinda busy!" Chance said, shrinking down into the water.
"Hey listen, I need you to watch Iris-"
"I'm not available right now!" he told me in a duh tone.
"Don't bring a girl in here!" Chance said when he saw Iris.
"She's barely one, get over yourself," I told him.
"Um, you're the responsible babysitter here, you get over yourself," Chance retorted.
He's been hanging around Mia way too much.
"Listen-" I started, but I was cut off.
"What is it you wanted?" Mia huffed from the doorway.
"All I want is to take a bath!" Chance shouted, submerging himself fully underwater.
I ushered Mia into the hallway.
My phone dinged again.
"What's that smell?" Mia asked, her nose scrunched.
I rolled my eyes, probably another werewolf thing, but then I smelled it too.
"Listen, I need you to watch Iris," I explained to her.
"Um, yeah, no way," she told me, hands on her hips.
"Mia, you just need to watch her. If she's hungry give her a bottle, if she smells-"
"I am not changing that," she said, glaring at me.
"Mia, it's a pull up, pull this one off and then the other on," I sighed at her.
"If it's so easy why don't you do it?" she asked me.
"Mia!"
"Blake!"
"Mia, you will watch her," I told her sternly.
"That sounds like effort, which means it's not gonna happen," she told me, turning to walk away.
"Come on Mia, I'll do anything!" I begged her.
She slowly turned toward me, a smirk slowly forming.
"Anything?"
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Meanwhile in the mountains in Sunlit Tides...
~June's POV~
"Stupid snow, stupid mountains," I muttered to myself.
The smooth stone made my skin tingle, but the cold upset my hand.
"Stupid winter. Stupid Cabin," I growled.
Dad and Aunt Chloe were going to have babies for dad's challenge.
For some reason we had to come to the mountains to do this. To a cabin.
This was my first time seeing snow, and I didn't like it.
It was cold and it made my skin itchy and prickly. Then when it landed on your it was water and hundreds of sensations raced through me as it melted and dripped down my skin.
I held the rock to the side and prepared to flick my wrist.
Just like Blake had taught me.
I released the stone, it skipped once.
"Stupid stone."
I smiled remembering when Blake took me to Appaloosa Plains for a visit, and we went to the lake.
It was too cold for swimming there, so he taught me to skip rocks.
He could do 6 skips!
He also gave me lots of marshmallows.
Marshmallows are the best.
I love marshmallows.
I'm gonna go get some!
Heading back inside I remembered meeting my new cousins.
My aunt Amanda had her babies after my grandpa's funeral.
Grandpa wasn't there during my visit.
Because he's dead.
Dead means your gone forever.
I hope I'm never dead.
I usually didn't like babies, the noise was too much and they made my ears hurt.
Aunt Amanda's triplets were OK though. They were also nice and gentle.
I even carried the youngest one to bed.
She had two boys and one girl.
That's a lot of babies at one time. I asked her if it hurt and Blake didn't tell me I wasn't allowed to ask that, Adele would've told me not to ask that.
She said it hurt a lot but it was worth it.
Maybe I will maybe have kids. Maybe.
It was a fun trip, I liked petting the horse.
Horses are real.
The horse bit Blake and I started screaming, and then the horse ran.
Nobody got mad at me though.
Cause horses can be scary.
I'm not having horses ever.
Just lots of cats.
I saw Aunt Chloe's car pulling up and started racing toward her.
"AUNT CHLOE!" I screeched.
"June, remember, no screaming at people," My dad said gently.
I like Aunt Chloe cause she doesn't try to hug me.
Instead she pulled out a gift wrapped in pretty paper.
"Hey Junebug! I got you something!" she cheered when I approached her.
My eyes widened, the gift was so pretty.
"You can open it now," she said, answering my unasked question.
I eagerly tore off the paper.
"ITS A MARSHMALLOW BEAR!!!" I screamed.
Aunt Chloe gave my dad a hug, although it kinda looked like they were trying to choke each other.
Maybe a little bit of both. Dad and Aunt Chloe were weird like that.
Aunt Chloe launched into discussion with my dad about him building her a house. He rolled his eyes at her and repeated something about perfection and she nagged.
Man this is boring.
I decided to go inside and be a marshmallow astronaut.
I bounced around my room, well my room at the cabin, pretending to walk on the moon.
Neil Alden Armstrong walked on the moon once.
He would make jokes after with people about the moon, and his punchline was always "I guess you had to be there."
I think I would've liked Neil Armstrong.
Maybe if I have babies I will name one Neil.
Or a cat. A cat named Neil.
Then Neil and I can go to the moon, except Neil can't because cats going to the moon is just pretend.
I started singing a song from one of the musicals I loved, Wicked.
It's time to try...
Defying gravity...
I think I'll try...
Defying gravity...
And you can't pull me down!
"Heya Junebug," Aunt Chloe greeted me, patting the spot next to her. I hopped up next to her and sat like a pretzel.
"Hi Aunt Chloe," I responded, remembering manners. I only remembered them when I wanted to.
"Wanna boss your dad around with me?" she asked me smiling.
I could feel my face light up "YES!" I shouted, and she didn't correct me to use indoor voices.
Instead she just laughed.
"LOGAN!" She shouted, and I guessed my dad was in the other room, "I NEED YOU TO MAKE ME THREE SANDWICHES INSTEAD OF TWO!" she hollered.
I wondered if anybody ever told Aunt Chloe to use an indoor voice.
A mumbled response came from the direction of the kitchen. It was my dad saying stuff about "drowning in estrogen".
"What do you want on your sandwich?" she asked me, leaning back into her pillow.
"MARSHMALLOW FLUFF!" I told her, rocking excitedly on the bed, viewing Ellen out of the corner of my eye.
I don't like to look straight at the tv.
Aunt Chloe grinned. "LOGAN WE WANT MARSHMALLOW FLUFF AND PEANUT BUTTER ON THE THIRD. OH, ADD SOME EXTRA FLUFF TO THE TURKEY SANDWICH TOO!" she screamed.
"Really Chloe? You aren't even pregnant yet! This is gross! You can't just order me around, I have important stuff to do!" my dad exclaimed, walking through the door with plates of sandwichs. I greedily snatched mine and didn't say thank you, since Aunt Chloe didn't either.
"Important? Playing Fruit Ninja is not important!" she scoffed at him.
"Oh because your need to play Angry Birds is SO much more important," he replied.
"Angry Birds is an intellectual game that stimulates the mind, for your information,"
"Fruit Ninja calms the nerves, which a certain SOMEBODY is getting on."
"Well maybe if I wasn't so HUNGRY I wouldn't be getting on somebody's-"
I finished my sandwich and went off to do my own thing since they were being to loud.
I had places to be.
Except for not really.
That night I became a teenager.
I still had to wear glasses. But it was OK since I got to wear makeup.
I still loved how it felt on my face. Maybe I could sleep with it on.
I looked like my mom and my dad I think.
Baby #14, June. That's me.
~Back in Sunlit Tides~
~Blake's POV~
I held up a hand in greeting to Lucy who smiled and waved at me.
"Hey you," She said approaching me.
"Hey, sorry I'm late," I apologized.
"It's fine, it's good to see you again," She said.
"Yeah, so you ready to explore the garden?" I asked her.
"Yes!" she said, grabbing my hand and tugging me toward the entrance.
At the entrance she stopped and stroked a petal on a sunflower.
"It's so pretty," she sighed happily.
"Yeah, sunflowers, flowers of happiness," I told her, not actually knowing if they were the flowers of happiness. But hey, sunflowers seemed happy so it was legit.
"Actually sunflowers symbolize spiritualism turning toward the life of truth," Lucy told me with a smile.
"Um, uh, I...that's what I meant," I stammered.
She just laughed at me.
We entered the garden together, playfully nudging each other and joking around.
"Oh look at those tulips over there," I said, pointing at some light pink flowers.
"Those are Lillies," she giggled.
"Right, it's hard to tell from so far away," I said, running a hand through my hair.
Way to look like an idiot Fey, I thought.
"Lillies are the flower of truth. The Greeks considered white ones flowers of the pure."
"There's a Greek restaurant nearby, we could go there after this?" I asked her.
She giggled and nodded "Sure, I'd like that."
The laughter was evident in her sparkling blue eyes.
Well, I guess I could appear like an idiot as long as it made her laugh.
We wandered through the rose garden out back, Lucy gesturing toward the different rose colors.
I had no idea that flowers had so many meanings, and it was mind blowing that she seemed to know them all.
"Which are your favorite?" I said as she continued about the rare black roses.
"My favorite flower?" she asked me, finger tapping her chin.
"No, your favorite color rose," I said, figuring I couldn't memorize to many flowers in one day.
"White," She told me, not hesitating to think about the answer.
"White," I repeated, racking my brain for what she had said earlier.
I plucked a white rosebud off of the rose vine (they wouldn't miss just one) and tucked it into her hair.
I grabbed her hands and gently held them in mine.
"White, I am worthy of you," I said, repeating what she had told me earlier.
She flushed a pink similar to those tulips, er lillies, from earlier.
A smile spread across her face. "That's right. White. I am worthy," she told me.
I bit my lip nervously, her stare making me flustered.
"Come on, I'll show you the florist shop!" she said excitedly, dragging me toward a pastel pink building.
I smiled at her still flushed cheeks.
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Beck's POV
"There you go!" I cooed at Iris when I handed her a bowl of rice cereal.
Mia had just dropped her off, exclaiming something about meat and a barbeque as she ran off, dragging Willard behind her.
It's probably better that she brought Iris over here.
"Is it yummy?" I asked Iris with a smile. Her dark green eyes sparkled and she grinned.
Then with a squeal of delight, she pushed the bowl off her high chair and sent it crashing to the floor.
Hm. Well...that went well.
Maybe she didn't like rice cereal, Logan probably had his kids on some sort of steak diet.
I laughed aloud at the idea of Logan grilling multiple steaks and cutting them up for all his kids.
"You Missy, are a mess!" I told the laughing toddler playfully.
"Let's get you cleaned up!" I told her, and I set her in the nearby baby swing to wipe down the high chair.
Luckily she had managed to get the food everywhere but herself.
I looked at the floor, and made a note to remember to mop later.
I settled her back into the chair, snapping the tray in.
"Now, let's try this again."
I glanced at myself in the mirror as I walked toward the master bedroom.
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Meanwhile in the mountains in Sunlit Tides...
~June's POV~
"Stupid snow, stupid mountains," I muttered to myself.
The smooth stone made my skin tingle, but the cold upset my hand.
"Stupid winter. Stupid Cabin," I growled.
Dad and Aunt Chloe were going to have babies for dad's challenge.
For some reason we had to come to the mountains to do this. To a cabin.
This was my first time seeing snow, and I didn't like it.
It was cold and it made my skin itchy and prickly. Then when it landed on your it was water and hundreds of sensations raced through me as it melted and dripped down my skin.
I held the rock to the side and prepared to flick my wrist.
Just like Blake had taught me.
I released the stone, it skipped once.
"Stupid stone."
I smiled remembering when Blake took me to Appaloosa Plains for a visit, and we went to the lake.
It was too cold for swimming there, so he taught me to skip rocks.
He could do 6 skips!
He also gave me lots of marshmallows.
Marshmallows are the best.
I love marshmallows.
I'm gonna go get some!
Heading back inside I remembered meeting my new cousins.
My aunt Amanda had her babies after my grandpa's funeral.
Grandpa wasn't there during my visit.
Because he's dead.
Dead means your gone forever.
I hope I'm never dead.
I usually didn't like babies, the noise was too much and they made my ears hurt.
Aunt Amanda's triplets were OK though. They were also nice and gentle.
I even carried the youngest one to bed.
She had two boys and one girl.
That's a lot of babies at one time. I asked her if it hurt and Blake didn't tell me I wasn't allowed to ask that, Adele would've told me not to ask that.
She said it hurt a lot but it was worth it.
Maybe I will maybe have kids. Maybe.
It was a fun trip, I liked petting the horse.
Horses are real.
The horse bit Blake and I started screaming, and then the horse ran.
Nobody got mad at me though.
Cause horses can be scary.
I'm not having horses ever.
Just lots of cats.
I saw Aunt Chloe's car pulling up and started racing toward her.
"AUNT CHLOE!" I screeched.
"June, remember, no screaming at people," My dad said gently.
I like Aunt Chloe cause she doesn't try to hug me.
Instead she pulled out a gift wrapped in pretty paper.
"Hey Junebug! I got you something!" she cheered when I approached her.
My eyes widened, the gift was so pretty.
"You can open it now," she said, answering my unasked question.
I eagerly tore off the paper.
"ITS A MARSHMALLOW BEAR!!!" I screamed.
Aunt Chloe gave my dad a hug, although it kinda looked like they were trying to choke each other.
Maybe a little bit of both. Dad and Aunt Chloe were weird like that.
Aunt Chloe launched into discussion with my dad about him building her a house. He rolled his eyes at her and repeated something about perfection and she nagged.
Man this is boring.
I decided to go inside and be a marshmallow astronaut.
I bounced around my room, well my room at the cabin, pretending to walk on the moon.
Neil Alden Armstrong walked on the moon once.
He would make jokes after with people about the moon, and his punchline was always "I guess you had to be there."
I think I would've liked Neil Armstrong.
Maybe if I have babies I will name one Neil.
Or a cat. A cat named Neil.
Then Neil and I can go to the moon, except Neil can't because cats going to the moon is just pretend.
I started singing a song from one of the musicals I loved, Wicked.
It's time to try...
Defying gravity...
I think I'll try...
Defying gravity...
And you can't pull me down!
"Heya Junebug," Aunt Chloe greeted me, patting the spot next to her. I hopped up next to her and sat like a pretzel.
"Hi Aunt Chloe," I responded, remembering manners. I only remembered them when I wanted to.
"Wanna boss your dad around with me?" she asked me smiling.
I could feel my face light up "YES!" I shouted, and she didn't correct me to use indoor voices.
Instead she just laughed.
"LOGAN!" She shouted, and I guessed my dad was in the other room, "I NEED YOU TO MAKE ME THREE SANDWICHES INSTEAD OF TWO!" she hollered.
I wondered if anybody ever told Aunt Chloe to use an indoor voice.
A mumbled response came from the direction of the kitchen. It was my dad saying stuff about "drowning in estrogen".
"What do you want on your sandwich?" she asked me, leaning back into her pillow.
"MARSHMALLOW FLUFF!" I told her, rocking excitedly on the bed, viewing Ellen out of the corner of my eye.
I don't like to look straight at the tv.
Aunt Chloe grinned. "LOGAN WE WANT MARSHMALLOW FLUFF AND PEANUT BUTTER ON THE THIRD. OH, ADD SOME EXTRA FLUFF TO THE TURKEY SANDWICH TOO!" she screamed.
"Important? Playing Fruit Ninja is not important!" she scoffed at him.
"Oh because your need to play Angry Birds is SO much more important," he replied.
"Angry Birds is an intellectual game that stimulates the mind, for your information,"
"Fruit Ninja calms the nerves, which a certain SOMEBODY is getting on."
"Well maybe if I wasn't so HUNGRY I wouldn't be getting on somebody's-"
I finished my sandwich and went off to do my own thing since they were being to loud.
I had places to be.
Except for not really.
That night I became a teenager.
I still had to wear glasses. But it was OK since I got to wear makeup.
I still loved how it felt on my face. Maybe I could sleep with it on.
I looked like my mom and my dad I think.
Baby #14, June. That's me.
~Back in Sunlit Tides~
~Blake's POV~
I held up a hand in greeting to Lucy who smiled and waved at me.
"Hey you," She said approaching me.
"Hey, sorry I'm late," I apologized.
"It's fine, it's good to see you again," She said.
"Yeah, so you ready to explore the garden?" I asked her.
"Yes!" she said, grabbing my hand and tugging me toward the entrance.
"It's so pretty," she sighed happily.
"Yeah, sunflowers, flowers of happiness," I told her, not actually knowing if they were the flowers of happiness. But hey, sunflowers seemed happy so it was legit.
"Actually sunflowers symbolize spiritualism turning toward the life of truth," Lucy told me with a smile.
"Um, uh, I...that's what I meant," I stammered.
She just laughed at me.
We entered the garden together, playfully nudging each other and joking around.
"Oh look at those tulips over there," I said, pointing at some light pink flowers.
"Those are Lillies," she giggled.
"Right, it's hard to tell from so far away," I said, running a hand through my hair.
Way to look like an idiot Fey, I thought.
"Lillies are the flower of truth. The Greeks considered white ones flowers of the pure."
"There's a Greek restaurant nearby, we could go there after this?" I asked her.
She giggled and nodded "Sure, I'd like that."
The laughter was evident in her sparkling blue eyes.
Well, I guess I could appear like an idiot as long as it made her laugh.
We wandered through the rose garden out back, Lucy gesturing toward the different rose colors.
I had no idea that flowers had so many meanings, and it was mind blowing that she seemed to know them all.
"Which are your favorite?" I said as she continued about the rare black roses.
"My favorite flower?" she asked me, finger tapping her chin.
"No, your favorite color rose," I said, figuring I couldn't memorize to many flowers in one day.
"White," She told me, not hesitating to think about the answer.
"White," I repeated, racking my brain for what she had said earlier.
I plucked a white rosebud off of the rose vine (they wouldn't miss just one) and tucked it into her hair.
I grabbed her hands and gently held them in mine.
"White, I am worthy of you," I said, repeating what she had told me earlier.
She flushed a pink similar to those tulips, er lillies, from earlier.
A smile spread across her face. "That's right. White. I am worthy," she told me.
I bit my lip nervously, her stare making me flustered.
"Come on, I'll show you the florist shop!" she said excitedly, dragging me toward a pastel pink building.
I smiled at her still flushed cheeks.
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Beck's POV
"There you go!" I cooed at Iris when I handed her a bowl of rice cereal.
Mia had just dropped her off, exclaiming something about meat and a barbeque as she ran off, dragging Willard behind her.
It's probably better that she brought Iris over here.
"Is it yummy?" I asked Iris with a smile. Her dark green eyes sparkled and she grinned.
Then with a squeal of delight, she pushed the bowl off her high chair and sent it crashing to the floor.
Hm. Well...that went well.
Maybe she didn't like rice cereal, Logan probably had his kids on some sort of steak diet.
I laughed aloud at the idea of Logan grilling multiple steaks and cutting them up for all his kids.
"You Missy, are a mess!" I told the laughing toddler playfully.
"Let's get you cleaned up!" I told her, and I set her in the nearby baby swing to wipe down the high chair.
Luckily she had managed to get the food everywhere but herself.
I looked at the floor, and made a note to remember to mop later.
I settled her back into the chair, snapping the tray in.
"Now, let's try this again."
I gave Iris a bottle and she shierked, waving it around.
I ducked, but luckily she wasn't throwing it on the ground.
She giggled at me and smiled, greedily working on finishing the bottle.
I laughed at her, what a cutie.
Suddenly I heard the Adventure Time theme song and began to hum along, I realized it was my phone, but I let it ring a bit longer.
I wanted to listen to my jam!
"Hello," I answered cheerfully.
"I WAS OUTSIDE FISHING AND THEN IT GOT COLD AND I DON'T LIKE THE COLD BECAUSE IT PRICKLES MY SKIN SO I WENT INSIDE AND I HEARD NOISES AND I WAS ONLY OUTSIDE FOR A FEW HOURS BUT I HEAR MOANING AND GROANING AND SCREAMING NOISES COMING FROM THE BIG BEDROOM AND YOU HAVE TO HELP ME!" June screamed into my ear.
"I'll be right there," I told her, and I left Iris with Dai and drove up into the mountains to the cabin where Logan was staying.
June had sounded frantic over the phone, but I didn't hear anything.
Most people probably wouldn't view June as a reliable source, but if she heard strange sounds I had to check it out. Of course I let my hair down and changed clothes, but I had sped the whole way to the cabin.
Logan and Chloe could've killed each other by now for all anyone knew.
After reassuring June that I would take care of it and sending her to the kitchen with marshmallows I swung open the master bedroom door.
OH. MY. LLAMA.
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Hello dear readers!
So this is my first post since...January? Before January?
Anyhow, I really hope you enjoyed it and that it was maybe like halfway up to your expectations, possibly worth the wait...
Yeah I didn't think so >.<
But hey, now that schools out there can be new posts on a regular basis! (If anyone even still reads this)
So a big special thanks to:
Chloe! Chloe is not only a dear friend, but the challenge mom this chapter!
and her tumblr
Becks! Becks takes all the posed pics that go in my blog, she is such a Saint! Without her this blog would not ever be possible! Thank you so much for all your effort, help, and patience! IT DOES NOT GO UNNOTICED!
Check out her tumblr if you enjoy using poses!
Also if you like the flower shop, I built it and it is up for download!
You can find it here:
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