Mindworks

Sissy*

Sissy smiled as she listened to the others talk back and forth.

Cale? You there? No answer.

Hmmm.... wonder where he is. Sissy shruged and continued to take observations of the plant she was growing.

Would ya keep it down there Sissy? A voice echoed through her head. Inwardly, she stuck her tongue out.

Sorry! She moaned.

She had a habit of doing her work in her head, thus, allowing everyone else to know what she was doing.

2x-3+4y-6 Her thoughts were interrupted by aloud groan.

Sissy! Ty groaned in his head.

My bad My bad! Sorry. I'll just stop now, and head on over to the Hill with Chloe.

She sighed as she replaced the lid of the container.

Another day, she promised silently.

Aiden

Sleep it was a beautiful thing, until you hear others thoughts which wasn't a big turn on. I knew I was sleeping. I never had dreams the only thing that did come in handy I could see myself while I slept, to see if anyone crept up on me. I was asleep in my hamick, my boots were still one and so were my jeans that were ripped now. I was shirtless and shamelss at the same time oh goodie. I felt cold water get splashed on me.

"Rise 'n shine lazy ass." A females voice rang in my ears.


***anyone who needs to brang in here ya go***

Tyler

The alarm clock next to my bed read 12:17 PM, and yet I was still dead-tired. I swung my legs out of bed and pulled on a t-shirt, padding quietly into the bathroom to splash water on my face. It woke me up a bit, but didn't help as much as I had wished.

The thoughts of the others danced through my head but after a year or so of this, I had learned to block most of it out. My head was throbbing as it was, and Isabella was coming over apparently, and Sissy was shouting out math problems, using her mind as a microphone.

Hey, Isabella? Could you stop and grab me a coffee on your way? I'll pay you back.

I felt her nod mentally. Yeah, sure thing.

I sighed thankfully and went to change into something more suitable for the day. Someone mentally prodded me.

What?

Are you gonna join us? Chole asked, her voice playful but curious.

Maybe in a bit. Can I at least wake up, please?

The others laughed. I blocked them out again and went into the kitchen to grab a cold bagel from on top of the fridge. I shoved it in the toaster and sat at the tiny table shoved up against the wall and opened my laptop.

"You have mail."

I groaned and clicked the tiny email icon and the screen changed again, showing that I has fifteen new messages in the course of twelve hours. I deleted the spam and the adds, which left me with six. One from my mom, one from the car company, two from a friend that was out of town, one from the bank, and the last from Isabella. I opened that one first and was greeted with a singing green...rabbit thing and a singing pink cat. The tune was Happy Birthday.

Hey, you remembered! Even I didn't remember.

She smiled. Yeah, I noticed.

((Chloe Starks))

Blue's Hillock, one of the only places where Chloe felt safe and at peace. Trinket nickered contently, chomping away at the grass. Chloe sighed and surveyed the land she loved so much. Long, rolling hills with barely any trees. Off way in the distance stood the little town she'd grown up in and still resided today. Turning on her heel Chloe trudged up the last bit of hill to the stone altar. Legend told that a war older than the Native Americans took place and this is where it was settled. Chloe never had really thought into it too much and she'd been meaning to ask Claire about good research books.

Chloe ran her hand along the altar which had been brutalized throughout the years. She sat carefully to test her weight on the ancient stone. No different from the previous year. The rest of her body weight follow and sat. From what she'd put together it sounded like Sissy would be joining her soon. Chloe smiled and enjoyed the breeze.

Claire

Oh and Chloe I'm bringing those books you wanted. I projected.

You're coming too?

Yeah soon as my shift's over in about...three hours.

Geeze when they gonna make you manager there? Aiden's voice sounded still asleep

There isn't a manager here idioit.

Once again I tried to tune them out, by obnoxiously shouting out the Dueie Decimal system in my head as I put the books back on their shelves.

Claire! That's worse than Sissy's math! Ty groaned.

It's either that or Latin.

Aiden

"Well geez Claire no need to be rude." I sent back into her mind.

"Well there no reason for you to be sleeping still."

"Fair enough." I said. "Do you know who through water on me? And I had a weird dream."

I could tell that that moment she froze.

"What do you mean dream? We don't get dreams." She said.

I swore.

"I know, but it's about someone wanting to kill me. I think it was sent from the killer."

I could see her looking puzzled hell, I was puzzled.

"Well that was thoughtful of him/ her whatever." Claire joked.

"Who wants to kill me? I mean c'mon! Me?" I asked.

"Who doesn't?" She responded.

"Thanks Claire, always knew I could count on you, buddy."

"Anytime, friend." And just like that our conversation was over.

I didn't mention this in the origional post, it just kinda slipped my mind but I added them there today but this isn't supposed to be a romance storybook, Bella and Maybe are the only relationships allowed within the storybook (and that's only because they informed me that their plans went back beyond my non-romance thing), and when you're doing the thoughts put it in Italics (this is not a changeable rule, you either do that or your posts are going to be ignored from now on). Thanks guys!

Claire

I did my best not to focus on who would want to kill Aiden. I still had three hours of work to do and I wanted to get 4 hours of work done. I put all the books back, helped three of the patrons who didn't know how to turn the computers on, and finally got to take a moment's break.

That's when I let my mind wander, and I finally came to the conclusion that Aiden was just being parinoid again.

Hey! I heard that. he grumbled.

Well you are.[i] Sissy agreed.

He made a "hrumph" sound and went back to relaying the thoughts of the news reporter in his head. I went back to thinking through the Dueie Decimal system and Sissy went back to her math.

[i]Ah! Stop it! My head is going to explode! Ty complained.

I laughed out loud for a moment before I quickly put my hand over my mouth. Every patron was staring at me, and I had no explination. Nobody but the eight of us knew about the mental connection.

Maybe somebody's found out...

***sorry my comp doesn't really work well with italics but I'll try but if it doesn't work I'm sorry I'll try though thanks Alice!!! ***

Aiden

[i]"Oh my bad I recall getting the crap beaten outta me a few months earlier because somebody forgot to lock the door and a robber broke in." [/i] I smiled smugly.

[i]"It was the house keeper! honestly Aiden."[i] Tyler's voice boomed.

[/i]"Oh yeah that's it, that's why he has a knife with him."[i] I glared and started pulling a black t-shirt over my head. I needed to get ready for work.

****Bridless bit= hackamore. If Sissy works with horses, she better be able to lift an axe. Working with horses makes for a great work out. . Trust me, that's all I've been doing all summer, and hopefully most of what I'll be doing the rest of my life. . So if anyone needs any help to make sure you got your facts straight, feel free to ask. . ****

Cale:

Cale had figured out a while back how to some what block the voices. He could still hear them, he just didn't understand them unless he wanted to and they were kept at a mute tone until he was bored. Course if someone yelled his name he normally heard it. He finished up with his last group of teenagers at the fitness center then walked out to his truck after a quick shower. He was the only one in the group that didn't hang out with everyone else as often. For some reason he just never felt the need to. Maybe he didn't want to intimidate them, that happened a lot more then he wanted. Or maybe it was that most of the people in his head were girls. That was the biggest thing. He always clammed up around girls. He could face the meanest guy around and not feel fear, or even go after a bear, which he had done three years ago, he never liked talking about that one, but put him around a girl and he didn't know what to do or say. It was one of the few times he was scared. He just didn't know how to act around them and he didn't want to hurt them. Physically or emotionally. Maybe he should go riding with them. No, he would just go on his own.

When he got to his small ranch he locked the truck then put a hackmore on one of his mustangs, he trained them as a past time. This was one was Cheif. Cale had had him for a year and had gotten him for twenty-four dollars straight from the Colorado herd. He had suffered more then one broken bone working with Cheif.

So you coming riding with us? Chole asked.

Nope. Cale responded letting the voices grow to where he could understand them.

Ah come on, your the only chicken in the bunch. That had to be Sissy, she was the only one that would tease him like crazy for not hanging out with them.

Well then call me sissy. He responded chuckling to himself.

Hey now! Sissy retorted. Cale had found out a while back he could talk to girls in his head, that was it.

Sorry if I don't like the idea of hanging out with people who know my EVERY thought. Until I find a way to keep y'all from reading all my thoughts, I think I'll keep to myself some. He let Chief have his head as they ran over the property. He knew exactly where the others would be, and knew that he lived really close to them. He would probably let Chief go that way anyways. He was bored and didn't feel like being 'shy' as Sissy would call it today.

((Yeah, I've always called hackamores bitless bridles so sorry if my terminology is a bit screwy because I have my own language sometimes =P and Chloe was just teasing Sissy about her scrawniness ^.^))

Claire

As soon as I got off of work I started out towards Chloe's house, the books in my bag.

AH! you remembered the books!

Yes I did, I thought back with a smile.

You sound worried, Ty said.

What's eating at you?

Just something about Aiden's dream is bugging me...I'm not sure what. Did anybody else see it?

The collective "no"s bothered me even more.

im lost...so alice this means...Sissy and Cale can't be romantically involved? Man......Thats my favorite part of storybooks....romance!

Sissy:

Sissy loved to tease Cale. She couldn't help it.

Hey She said as Ty offended her. [/i] I am NOT bad at math!

[i]Ok...So what are we doing today? She asked to no one in particular. Mainly herself.

I don't know about you, but I'm staying here at home....by myself. came the reply.

Cale She thought.

What? He asked.

Nothing. She swung the ax into the wood, splitting it down the middle. It was goin g to be a long day.

hey what happened to this storybook?

***Cale is on his horse headin towards where they are riding the horses***

Cale:

You not going riding with the others? Cale asked Sissy as he rode.

Probably not.

Poor, Sissy, isn't in a bad mood is she? He chuckled. I thought you liked going wtih them.

Sissy:

Not funny Cale! She retorted.

What?

Nothing.

Agravation seemed to come easy to Sissy these days. if only she could find away to stop getting agravated, then maybe she'd be alittle bit less mean. Or of course it could just be PMS.