The next morning, I woke up early wanting to leave for school before I had to face them. Quickly getting ready, I raced down the stairs catching my father just as he was getting ready to leave with Ryker. Barrelling through the front door and waving them down as they started to pull out of the driveway.
Ryker stops the car and I swing the back door open and hop in. "Is there a reason you are coming to work with us?" My father asks, turning in his seat and looking back at me.
"I'm not, I need a lift to school"
"School doesn't start for three more hours Lana"
"I know, I just wanted to get there early today" I lie.
"More like you're trying to avoid your mates" Ryker says but reverses out anyway before driving down the long driveway.
"You know you can't avoid them forever?" My father asks.
"I'm hoping they will get that I don't want mates and leave"
Ryker snorts, shaking his head at my logic.
"Pretty sure it doesn't work like that Sis" Ryker teases as we drive into town. When we drive past my high school though, I sit forward.
"I am not leaving you at school for three hours, you can come help at the office and Ryker can drive you when school starts" I sat back, I had no idea what I was going to do once I got to school, so I was glad to go to work with my father and brother.
That changed once my father dumped a heap of paperwork in front of me and asked me to file it. I groaned at the sight of it.
"If you are going to be sneaking out every morning you can help or you can catch the bus with Arial" He states.
"Fine" I tell him, sulking before grabbing them from the desk. It took two hours to sort through them and put them in alphabetical order. When I was done my father came out with Ryker.
"In this day and age you would think everything would be electronic" I tell them, laying my head on the secretary's desk. My fingers felt numb from flicking through pages.
"It is, we just wanted to see how badly you wanted to avoid your mates" Ryker snickers and my dad elbows him, but I could see the amusement on his face.
I cross my arms annoyed they just made me do a pointless task. "Come, I will run you to school" Ryker says, grabbing his keys and walking toward the elevator.
"I take it you didn't have breakfast?" My brother asks in the elevator and I shake my head.
"We will grab something on the way," He says. Ryker drives me to school, stopping at McDonalds on the way and to grab breakfast and coffee.
Once I get to school, I sit in the car eating. The school bus pulls up and I see Arial looking around before her eyes stop on Ryker's car. She glares at us before stomping over. I groan, she was pissed off because I ditched her.
"Morning Arial" Ryker says, handing her a bag with food as she climbs in the back, her anger forgotten with food and caffeine.
"See this is why you're my favourite" Arial states and Ryker chuckles.
"I'm your twin" I tell her.
"You're also the one that abandoned me to deal with your mates"
"She was helping Dad and I" Ryker tells her, sending me a wink.
"I saw that" Arial says pointing a finger at him.
"Both of you get out, I have work to do, and before you ask, yes Lana I will come get you after school" A smile slips on my face, he knew before I even had to ask.
Arial and I hop out, both walking through the school gates. The day goes by quickly much to my horror and before I know it my brother was out the front waiting for me. Arial skips over to me, looping her arm through mine.
"I'm not going home if you are not" She states but I could tell she was nervous about something. As we near the car Arial lets me go. "Shotgun" She screams, darting for the front seat and opening the door and sticking her tongue out at me. I roll my eyes. I was going to let her have it anyway. Getting to the office we both hop out and head upstairs. My father was in a meeting. Ryker came out with more files dumping them on the desk and I glare at him.
"Arial file those, Lana come with me, you can file the ones in my office" Ryker says.
"What? All of them? That will take a week" Arial whines and I shake my head not even bothering to tell her she didn't have to. Following Ryker into his office, I put my hands on my hips wondering what phony task he was going to make me do.
Instead, he sits at his desk and motions for me to shut the door. I shut it before sitting on the sofa.
"So, what crap do you want me to do that is unnecessary?"
"Nothing," he tosses me a paper bag, opening it I find donuts and steal one out.
"She is going to kill you?" I tell him. He shrugs, a smirk on his face.
"Would be the most work she has ever done" He states before laughing. I sat in the office playing candy crush for a few hours when suddenly Arial walks in and spots me relaxed on the sofa.
"What the fuck Ryker," Arial screeches.
"And you knew? I knew something was up when the dates were all wrong" She accuses and I laugh.
"I have donuts" I tell her, holding up the bag. She really was too easy to satiate.
"Seriously don't understand how you're not the size of a house" My brother teases as she shovels one in her mouth, she flips him the bird before flopping down next to me and putting her feet on my lap.
"I have papercuts, that's the last time I ever help you" She glares at him, but he pays her no attention, used to her rants.
"They have an electronic filing system, they got me with the same thing this morning" I tell her and her eyes blaze.
"You mean I just wasted my bloody time?"
"Yep" I tell her.
"Think of it as work experience, dad made me file for three weeks when I started before the secretary let it slip that they were fake files and that everything was done electronically" Ryker says.
My mouth falls open, three weeks of filing fake files. My father has a strange sense of humour.