Chapter 18
Just then the old lady scoffed before speaking.
"Is this how you welcome an old lady?" The old woman said, and Lila creased her brows.
"Who are you?" Lila asked.
"I'm Carla, your new caretaker for the time being." The old lady replied, her Mexican accent fluent as she used her stick, while standing straight, and walking into the house.
"Excuse me old lady, I don't care who you are! How dare you just waltz into the house without permission?" Lila snapped and Carla stiffened.
A frown appeared on her face, and she turned around facing Lila.
"Watch your tongue, young lady! I'm only here to watch over you while your sister is away." Carla replied.
Lila's eyes widened, so did Lily who had raised her head up, staring blankly at the old lady.
"My sister. Tanya? Where's she?" Lily asked immediately.
"She's wherever you were told she is." Carla replied calmly before sitting on one of dinning chairs.
Lila glanced at Lily, then the old lady.
"How sure are we to trust you?" Lila asked.
"It's your choice Lila, trust me or not. Now take my luggage upstairs, to Tanya's room, I'll be occupying it." Carla said.
"How'd you know my name?" Lila creased her brows.
The old lady chuckled, "I know everything about you, Lila. So now take my luggage upstairs."
Still with a huge amount of doubt, Lila took the old lady's luggage and dragged it upstairs still giving her suspicious glances.
Lily on the other hand stared blankly at Carla who smiled warmly at her.
"You know, you really don't have to cry much over a guy." Carla told her, and she blinked severally.
"How did you know?" Lily asked.
"I just know Lily." Carla replied and turned to Lila who was coming down the stairs.
She then stood up and made to go up, when Lila blocked her path.
"You think I'll really let you in that easily? I only carried your bag up to search it, but I can't still seem to trust you!" Lila said, scanning her.
Carla frowned, "The young generation, you all think you are so wise, when you're all so stupid!. You didn't trust me but you let me in, if I had something in mind, wouldn't I have possibly done it within that period. Look at me, what harm could I possibly cause?," Her voice was stern, "Now if you'd let me rest. I had a long journey coming here."
With that said, she ignored Lila still blocking her path, before going up, as if she'd been familiar with the house.
"Lila, what do you think can we trust her?" Lily asked.
Lila sighed, "I don't know Lily what do you think?"
"Well, I feel like she can be trusted, and she also seem to know things about people." Lily nodded.
Lila scoffed, "What are you saying Lily? You just met her and you can't trust her!" She half yelled.
Lily flinched a bit, and bent her head low, before biting her lips "I'm sorry. You only asked me what I thought about her."
Lila took a deep breath.
"I'm sorry for yelling at you. But you can't trust her, and tonight while we sleep, we take knives with us, do you understand?" Lila said and Lily just nodded.
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Carla sat on the bed in Tanya's room, she glanced around, and dropped her stick beside her on the bed.
She then smiled, "Dora, your children are grown up now, if only you were here to see them."
*NEXT DAY*
Lily woke up to see Lila standing the knife still clutched in her hands.
"Lila? What's wrong are you okay?"
"Yes Lily, I stayed up all night to keep watch."
"Of?" Lily asked.
"Are you really asking me that?" Lila rolled her eyes.
Lily then threw the duvet aside,"Okay. I'll go get ready for school."
"We're not going to school Lily."
"Huh? Why?" Lily asked.
"First of all you need a day to yourself and secondly, I can't just leave a creepy old lady in the house!" Lila said.
"Shh! Reduce your voice Lila, she might hear you, and I don't think she's creepy. Tanya sent her remember?" Lily said, with a shrug.
"Lily, you won't get it, people can't be easily trusted. Maybe you're still to young to understand that." Lila said, as she walked over to her, and placed her palm on her shoulder.
Lily furrowed her brows,"Too young? But we're twin?"
"I know. But everyone knows I'm more mature than you, so you're still younger than me." Lila said, with a hint of pride in her voice.
"Don't be so full of yourself! We're twin and none is mature or younger!" Lily frowned.
"We're different Lily, I'm more mature and you're younger." Lila insisted.
"This is my problem with you! Simply because you're older with few minutes, you think I can't do anything and always seem to order me around!" Lily folded her arm, obviously getting angry.
They were beginning to argue.
"Those minutes counts! And yeah, thank you for figuring it out, you can't do anything on your own, and now that Tanya's away, you have to follow my orders!" Lila snapped.
"I'm not your slave, why follow your orders! And if you would have listened to me I would have suggested, calling Aunt Laura or Uncle Daniel, but I know you'll not listen!"
"I know what I'm doing kid. I can handle this myself!" Lila yelled this time.
"Kid? Oh really. I don't know why you're so annoying!!"
"I'm not annoying Lily, you're the annoying one!!"
Just as Lily was about to retort a knock on the door came, and Lila rushed to the door, swiftly throwing it open, just to see Carla.
"You both should stop arguing unnecessarily. And breakfast is ready, but aren't you both supposed to be prepared for school by now??" Carla asked, and Lila sneered.
"Old lady, you don't tell us what to do. We're not going to school and that's final. Keep your food to yourself!" Lila said, and Carla shrugged, still maintaining her calm demeanour.
"Suit yourself then." She said, before going downstairs.
Lila nodded then closed the door before facing Lily who only frowned, as they avoided each other gazes in total silence.
*HOURS LATER*
It been about two days or so, since the last mission, where Crusher got stabbed while saving El, and he hadn't really seen her since then, after she treated his wounds.
Now he was standing right outside her door, ready to knock when the door flew open and El face came into view.
"Hey El" He said, nervously rubbing his neck.
"Hi." El replied before giving him a curious glance, "why are you here?" She asked.
Crusher gulped, his mind racing with thoughts.
'why was he here again?'
"Umm…i…emm…wanted to talk." He blurted out.
El, gave him a weird glance before letting him in.
"Okay, make it snappy, remember we have training." El said, gesturing for him to sit on the bed, while she sat on her dressing table.
She exhaled, watching Crusher fidget with his hands, and not saying anything.
And then she cleared her throat, "Crusher!"
"Yes!" He answered, jolting out of his thoughts, "Sorry. I was just wondering if you could help me with one of your knife, I lost mine." He lied.
"Knife?" She repeated, "Why don't you ask boss, or better still go to the mini weapons storage and get one, why get mine?"
"Well…I don't wanna ask boss, cause I collected a new one recently which I lost during our last mission, and you know the mini weapons storage room, only consist of little and not to sharp weapons, but you, since you're skilled at knives, you've got many, so why not just give me one?." Crusher replied, carefully constructing his lies.
El then nodded, considering the fact he lost it at the mission where he saved her.
"It's right behind you." She said.
"Behind me?" He asked turning to see a little shelf right above his head, where all sort of knives were kept.
"Wow." He said before facing her, "I'd rather prefer you give me your self, you know the one's which you don't really like, you can give it to me."
El, then stood up and walked up to the bed, she went to the side, to avoid standing right in front of Crusher.
Crusher too, thinking to pave way for her shifted to a side on the bed, and they ended up colliding, as she fell on top of Crusher her mouth meeting his.
Crusher on his own path didn't hesitate, as he pressed his lips on hers, enjoying every bit of of the kiss.
El shut her eyes for a while, before opening them and pushing Crusher away, before standing up.
"How dare you! You came to my room, just to take advantage of me, didn't you?" She asked, and Crusher shook his head sideways.
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