Darkening Sky Chapter 5

Chapter 5: The Others

We arrived at the longue with Charlotte bounding up to greet us with a bright smile and chipper voice. "Hey guys! Where have you been?"
"Just talking….and stuff." I replied briskly.
We went back with her to where she was sitting with Nicolas and the two other girls that sat at the table today. I looked over at Skyler and raised an eyebrow in confusion. He gave me a look that I knew said "Don’t be asking me. Ask your brother!" I rolled my eyes. He was right.
"Nicolas, who are they?" I hissed in his ear.
"Rose and Rebekka." He pointed to them. Rose was the skinnier of the two and had greener eyes. She was wearing semi-skinny jeans, high tops, an Ed Hardy shirt, a vest and her hair was done in the perfect poof. She had the perfect pouty lip that completed her face and look. I noticed she was extraordinarily pale, even paler than Darris! Once you started to look at her though it was hard to take your eyes away. Next to her was her sister, Rebekka. She was tanner than Rose by a long shot, her green eyes flicked with gold and long light brown hair that shined when she shook out her long mane, her nails were long and paint blood red. She was wearing something similar to her sister except it looked softer in a way, maybe because she was wearing it in gray and pink instead of black and gray and without the vest. They were both brilliant looking, almost as if they didn’t belong in this world, too beautiful and too graceful.
Rebekka spoke up first. "So your Nicolas’ little sister? You are as pretty as they said."
"Correction, twin sister and I’m flattered he would say something like that about me."
Nicolas cleared his throat. "I wanted to make sure they knew the looks ran in the family, sis."

"How does that not surprise me you would do that? But I think one look at you was enough to turn away." We laughed. I looked over at Charlotte who was clearly glaring at Rose and Rebekka. I understood why too. Their eyes praying on Nicolas’ fine features. Rebekka looked like he wanted him the most; Rose looked just easily entertained by him. I caught myself looking baffled at the twins. Something about Rebekka wasn’t right. I couldn’t pick up on anything she was thinking. Her body language was enough to set me off though. I fell down in the seat in between the twins and my brother. Skyler followed sitting to left, the closer side to the twins, I began to look over at Rose which looked the most bored. I wanted to talk to her so I could at least understand something about her and her sister. Then I noticed she didn’t look the least bit interested in her sister as a human being she was to focused on Danny who had just walked into the door. I followed her gaze to him and then I followed Danny’s gaze back to her.
He walked over right away and sat down next to her unsure of what to do, he was socially awkward and by the looks of it so was she, they looked at each other, but barely made eye contact. His eyes kept dropping and she wouldn’t even look up! I kept thinking to myself "Come on you two! Talk!" Slowly but surely words started to come out of theirs mouths and they seemed to be able not to shut up! I looked over at Skyler and rested my head against his arm and he put his arm around me so that I was in the nook of his arm. Everyone was talking and laughing and enjoying themselves, except for Rebekka who looked envious of Charlotte, which sat blissfully unaware of what was going on around her.

The time passed by and I started to yawn. Skyler looked over at me and noticed. He knew that I wanted to leave. He got up and said good-bye to everyone. I did too except unlike him I hugged everyone good-bye instead of just waving, although I didn’t hug Rose and Rebekka good-bye. Especially not Rebekka, who was still eying Charlotte scornfully and turned her glare on me. It was scary, but I could out do her. I glared back and it seemed like a long time before it was broken by Skyler whispering in my ear "Come on baby lets go" and grabbing my hand and whirling me around.