Chapter 382: 1-6

“Nana, aunt Lucy this is my Ben,” Kayla said behind me, my face reddened but I liked that she said it, “we made – what’s it called again?” she continued. “Brownies,” Chris helped while I just continued to turn apple red. “Yeah we made two pans of them, and he made me a puzzle,” I turned to see that she was wearing a small smile on her lips. The woman came over, her face a mixture of sadness and happiness, “Wow… this is pretty awesome,” she said clearing her throat, then beamed at Kayla. “I came to start on dinner… are you done with the kitchen?” Chris nodded. “Ben will you be staying for dinner?” I shook my head. “Oh –oh, I almost forgot. Do you want to come to sleepover movie night at Chelsea’s?” I turned to ask Kayla, and then turned to Chris, “Can she go? Chelsea’s making pizza and Kiley, Kieran and Tera are going to be there, and Bumblebee too,” “Bumblebee?” Kayla asked Laughing, I nodded, “Yea, that’s Oakley, she’s my older sister – well Chelsea is my older sister too, but Oakley – we call her Bumblebee or Oak, she’s thirteen-” I rambled. I turned back to Kayla, “So do you want to come? It’ll be fun I think we’re watching either Sandlot, Toy story or I think Oakley said something about Stick it.” “It’s a large room I think it has a lot of sofas in there and a big screen on the wall, and there are lamps if you don’t want to be in the dark Kayla, we can sit together if you want… I – I’ll even shift into my wolf, if you want…” I offered and I think when I mentioned my wolf was when Kayla actually seemed to like the idea a bit. “Can I papa?” she looked at Chris who twisted his lips thinking. “What if you-“ “Hey Ben, you think I can come too?” Lucy came over standing behind Chris, I nodded with a one sided shoulder shrug, ”Yeah, sure.” “You can go, but if you want to come back home just tell Lucy okay,” Chris finally answered, his answer pleasing Kayla, and me. Nodding, she went back to her puzzles, “Okay I’m going to pack your pillow and blanket and pajamas Kay,” Lucy said turning to leave the room. “Can you pack my wolf too?” she lifted the gray and white toy in her aunts direction. “Sure thing.” We completed two puzzles, and during the third one, Quinn and Fiona came into the kitchen, followed by three identical girls, two identical boys and two other boys that were older. “Wala up!” Quinn asked when she got to Kayla’s chair. “Oh no you don’t,” Chris said standing to lift her in his arms, turning to me, “Ben these are Kayla’s brothers and sisters. Bailey, Michael and Kayla are triplets, Keith and Cole, they’re six, Sarah, Lilly and Hannah are three years old and you already know Quinn and Fiona,” I took a moment to look at each of them, noting that the children older than Quinn and Fiona all had scars on their face, and arms, the younger triplets however didn’t have too many. Were they all like Kayla I wondered, I was just a little person and they all seemed to be afraid of me, watching me warily the way Kayla had when I first met her. Now though, I guess even though she was still not sure, she wanted to be around me and I was happy for that. Two hours later, Kayla, Lucy and I left their house going to Chelsea’s one of the larger puzzles with us. Lucy carrying two pillows and two sleeping bags, while I had their two bags. Entering the gate I saw Oakley and Kiley, in the swimming pool. “Oakley,” I called her and she climbed out immediately, coming over, “Hey, you must be Kayla,” she smiled at my mate. Kayla nodded not speaking, “We’re just getting out now, I’ll show you guys where to go,” Oakley took one of the bags after she wrapped a large blue towel around her. “Hey I just pulled the pizzas’ out, you guys can serve yourselves,” Chelsea said her back to us. “Do you want pizza now Kayla?” I asked her. “Are you having some now?” she asked me. I was going to say no, but I had a feeling that she wanted some but wouldn’t say that. Instead I nodded, “Yes.” “Ok, me too.” “You guys can follow Oakley-” “I’ll stay with you,” she whispered to me, only two feet between us. I glanced at Lucy, who shrugged and followed Oakley. “What kind do you want?” I asked taking two paper plates from the counter. “Cheese,” she pointed.