Gemini Files:Take one

Cleopatra-8/1/12

I’m sure that my sister already explained just what the heck this stupid journal is for(I kinda just skimmed her entry) so I guess I’ll just continue where she left off.

I honestly didn’t know why I went along on this little outing, but food is food so I figured it couldn’t hurt. We tend not to make a habit of home cooked meals in the Gemini household. Our parents are almost always out on business so they are never around to cook. Not that I really care. It’s not as if I ever eat much anyways. But, I’m smart enough to appreciate a decent meal when it comes along.

After walking back to Nub’s house and Alex does her special little knock thing, he answers the door and we head up to his room while his mom finishes cooking. I plop down into one of the few comfortable chairs in his room and go straight to his laptop. Rude, you think? Well not if I fixed the thing it’s not! Dude has burned through more hard drives than I thought possible. Not that I haven’t but that is beside the point. I promptly ignore my sister’s pointed look and start tinkering with it.

Without looking up I ask, “So what movie are we seeing?”

“Either of you seen Men in Black 3, yet?” He had taken a seat at the foot of his bed and Alex sat in the bean bag chair next to it.

“Yea but I can see it again, that good with you Alex?”

“Sure.” She replies, still warily eyeing his laptop, which I have turned upside down and have proceeded to completely dismantle the back with the multi-purpose tool I always keep in my pocket. I’ve learned by now that as long as I put it back together afterwards, Nub doesn’t mind if I take apart his toys. He claims it keeps me out of too much trouble and the collateral damage is kept to a minimum.

“So you excited about the transfer, Cleo?” He tries to start.

“As I’ll ever be.” My lack of enthusiasm obviously isn’t what he was expecting.

“Come on, you’re not even the tiniest bit excited that-”

“Anubis,” She interrupts him, “Maybe this isn’t the time to talk about this.”

The poorly covered urgency and unease in her voice irked me and I’m sure it showed. I ducked my head down and started to replace the parts in the laptop.

The thick as concrete tension in the room was cut when his mother called us down to eat. So quickly replacing the cover on the back I say, “Let’s go guys, food is calling!”

The three of us run downstairs to discover the delicious spread of food his mom made. Oh I love this woman! After we sat down, I immediately went to work on clearing my plate. She is undoubtedly the best cook ever! Since our parents are never around, we are almost always eating with Nubs and his mother so I had a pretty good idea that she did this for a reason. After a few minutes my suspicions were confirmed when she asked, “So, girls, are you excited about going to high school this year?”

PART One: It wasn’t like we were normal BEFORE

Alexandra-8/1/12

Ok so, I’ve never journaled before but my mom said that since we would be under a lot more pressure that my sister and I should start one. We will be starting tenth grade this year, we left public school to go to England with our parents and be homeschooled. We are getting back and re-claiming the house that we have and going back to high school. Now we just got of the long flight and we have some cleaning to do, we have A LOT to do now that I look around my room. My parents are still in England so we have to live without them for a while. My sister and I are writing this to give the nerds and geeks a chance to live through the horrors that most call high school. But I must warn you this is a PERSONAL journal, if you don’t like what we write then stop reading and go find a book that’s nice and polite. Don’t expect it from this. I’m Alex, my sister’s name is Cleo and my bestfriend is named Anubis. He and his mom were with us too. Now our names may be out of the normal names, that’s because our parents teach Ancient history. So they decided to name us all after historical figures. Cleo is short for Cleopatra and mine is the female version of Alexander the great.  And Anubis is the jackel headed The funny thing is that all of our names have to do with death.

Still, onto today. I run to Anubis’s house and knock on his door 3 times a pause and then 2 more knocks and almost as soon as I finish knocking I get tackled by a huge hug and when I say huge I mean anyone else would die.

“We made it back!!” (He doesn’t like planes very much.) He is lifting me off of my feet, I’m laughing and giggling as hard as possible.

“Yes we did!!” I am trying to get him to let me down now, “Let me down Nub!”

“Fine! just as long as you don’t call me Nub!” But he’s playful not mad.

We walk inside to get some Ice tea and cookies. (our normal snack). While we eat, Anubis’s mom comes in, she is just as happy to be back as we were.  And to celebrate she invites Cleo and me to eat dinner and go see a movie. And so I run back to get Cleo. But when I find her she’s not as happy.

“Do you know what this means?”

“Ya it means to be back in a social setting! And a lot better books.” At that thought I was almost jumping up and down again.

“No it means that we have  jerks and brats to deal with. Again.”

“Maybe they’ll leave us alone?” I suggested.

Cleo laughs her “good try laugh” and then continues. “Ya, they’ll leave a bunch of homeschooled kids who don’t like being told what to do alone. Right.. When we open our mouths in class they’ll listen because they have to. But once we are out of sight of any teachers we’ll get all kinds of crap.”

“Well I’m just looking forward to the classes, I won’t talk much other than that.”

“I know but what about me and Nubs?  We are a little more outgoing.” With that she held up her fingers  to illustrate her point.

“Do you want to come or not?”