Spain Has Secrets, Elizabeth A. [the top 100 crime novels of all time txt] 📗

like those creapy baby dolls Jamie obsessed over when we were six. "OKAY!" He bounced out of the chair and leaped all the way out of sight. Barcelona just finished eating too. We heard Jamie scream. "EDGAR! IT'S SEVEN IN THE MORNING!" a moment of silence. "SORRY, HURRY UP AND GET READY!" Edgar responded. "YOU SHOULD HAVE WOKE ME UP EARLIER!" You could actually hear her fall out of bed and scramble into her closet. Loud thuds and thumps traveled across the hallway. A loud "OW!" came after. "GET UP JAMIE! WE'RE GONNA LOSE! GO, GO, GO, GO!" I couldn't help but laugh. I mean seriously sometimes it's as though they're the twins and I'm the loner.

Later on we were all playing outside. We had made our snow forts, chose our teams and made a starter amunition of ten snowballs. We had all decided guys versus girls. Paul, Edgar, Cole, and dad on my team. Dad being the leader. Paul's mom, The taylor-Karina, my mom, Jamie, and Barcelona on the girl's team. We had to be extra careful this round, we had no idea what Barcelona was capable of. "Maybe we should go easy on them this first round." Edgar could be so niave at times. "Listen son, We never go easy on them. just because they got a new member doesn't mean we go easy on them. This is a family tradition. We barely win every year we play. The men of the house only win by one round you know. I guess it's what we get for playing 21 rounds of snowfort." Paul shrugged. "I'm aiming for the face this year." Paul is so inconsiderate. I peered up over the snowfort's wall. Barcelona was the leader this year. "Wow, mom may have made this the easiest game ever." Dad joined our little spy mission. "What?! Barcelona's captain." Paul and Cole were conversing when dad interupted telling them our results from the mission. I caught a glimpse of Barcelona cracking her neck. It sent shivers down my back. The whistle was blown, the loud chirp greeted us with a snowball in my face. Next thing I know I was slipping into the side entrance of their fort and smack hit Mom right in the neck. She flipped around and bam. "OW! MOM THAT...hurt." I crumpled to the floor with my hands wrapped around them. As though the pain would go away faster. "OH, Sweety I'm sorry are you okay?" My face hit the floor and I felt my face begin to stick in the painfilled expression. Mom pulled me up by my arm, "Walk it off, Jasper, Walk it off." I looked over my shoulder to see Barcelona smile and throw one straight at Dad's heart, She wasn't even looking at him. her stare stayed on me, her hand began pointing at her cheek. So Jamie hadn't hit me in the face. It was Barcelona, "All right mom, but first..." I aimed straight for the middle of Barcelona's chest, It flew and hit the target. Her mouth dropped as it slid straight into her bra. I saw dad fall to the floor laughing. "Nice shot son!" I turned and had to dodge the snowball Jamie was about to throw at my thigh. "Close your mouth, you'll catch flies, Barcelona." So she did, then she hit me with a glare that Would kill. She picked up a snowball and aimed and Smack she hit me right in the mouth. "How you like them apples?" Jamie has to put her two sense into everything. everyone started laughing as I started to spit out the snow. I took a big old chunk of snow and, "BAM!" I nailed Jamie right in the back of the head. She turned and showed everyone her stunned face. Even Karina laughed and she hardly ever laughs.

We all sipped our hot chocolate queitly. "You've got to be pullin' my chains! This is the first time the girl's have ever won in 30 years!" Barcelona seemed amazed. "Why does that suprise you because we're too hot to be smart?" she glared at Paul, "I hate to break it to you, but you ain't hot." Edgar made a slurping noise causing mom and dad to eye him. "So Barcelona what was your tradition in your old kingdom?" She took a deep breath, "Water." That confused me quite a bit. "Water... WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?!" Edgar just saved us from breaking our brains. "Inflatable pool full of dad's hot air. So began the love affair with water. That's how Amber became to love water. She was born in the 40's. I used to go on down to this dock where they built it beside this tree that stuck out off the edge of the sidewalk and hung over the ocean. We would tie this rope around a limb and jump off the end of the sidewalk into the ocean and we used the dock to get back out. I started when I was three years old and I was splashing water everywhere. " She laughed as she told us. "It's really more of a summer thing..." She scratched at the back of her head. "Gradon only told me this, 'On a river bank with all my friends.' and that's all I know 'bout him." The Map Turns Blue

Spring came and went in a haze. Summer began and I knew exactly what I wanted to do. "Gradon So glad to have you here." I sat up bullet straight. I couldn't believe it. "When will you return with them?" I hear Mr. Princelove question. "Oh, around lunch time, seven days from now sound good?" I smiled a hundred watts maybe more. "Barcelona lie back down, it's only six o' clock." I couldn't sleep now that I knew. "I can't." He sat up, "All right, I suppose it's time for breakfast." I put on a firey orange sundress and some brown buck mule moccasin heels. The dress was simple and had that flowy feel to it, like wearing water and perfect for back in Puerto Rico. I put on the brown leather bracelet I had got from Amber on my 200th birthday. I perched on the edge of the bed. Jasper wore a navy blue T-shirt, some nice Purple shorts with yellow details, and some sandals. He put on the necklace I got him. "Do you know what that means Jasper?" He looked up at me. He didn't try to hide the fact that he was looking me up and down. He shook his head after he finished taking me in. "It means 'Eternity'. You couldn't put that together, Eternidad, Eternity. All that changes is the ending." I felt a frown appear on my lips. I skipped down the hall and wrapped my arms right over Gradon and Amber's Shoulders. "I missed you." Jasper looked way to confused to understand when he finally caught up to me. "Hi Gradon, Amber." Gradon smiled, "Hurry up and eat breakfast and then we will leave." Jasper and I furrowed our eyebrows. "where? More importantly why?" Amber did her school girl laugh. "To our kingdom for the traditions. Can't have you missing it even if it's only for a part of the tradition." Gradon smiled, "All you really need this time of year is..." I knew he was waiting for my usual responce. What I usually did the first half our of summer. Which would be right abou now. Now that I think about it. "A pair of shades and ice cold beer. Somewhere near the water." Jasper's parents laughed, "That doesn't sound bad actually." Typical guy responce. I could see it now me in a lawn chair near the beach just outside the garden. Sipping on a beer and getting ready to go as far as possible into the water. I get farther and farther each year, not only that, but Boris and my cousins always make it for the festival which should be tomorrow. Demitria, Brooke, and Jackson, I couldn't wait to see Brooke punch the crap out of Boris, because last year he kiss her then slammed the door to her car to go to the airport and never said a word to her since.


"Uh, I'm not sure this is safe." She was crazy. Jumping off a rope, I was crazy for letting her.
"your a BIG OL' WUSS if you don't jump in the water!"
"I ain't a WUSS!"
"Sure you are, look you ain't in the water yet!"
"Fine, but when I get you I'm gonna grab you by your bra and tickle the crap outta you."
I was sitting in the water watching her bicker with Boris about him being a wuss or not.
"Jasper did it and this is his first year, he's a man! Exspecially since you didn't!" Barcelona suddenly kissed me on my cheek. "Please don't bring me into this. your asking him to jump off a cliff into the ocean. Someone's gotta be scared." She laughed and, "FLOP!" She was completely submerged in the water under this fat ass. She popped up on the other side of me. Brooke and Demitria were laughing so hard they almost drowned and they were sitting on the sand at the beach. "It wasn't my fault, Jackson pushed me!" She looked pissed. "cállate o te raja tu pensamiento y alimentar a los pollos con su comida... te quiero Jaspe!" I felt akward maybe it's because I don't understand spanish. "She said Shut up or I'll slit your throughts and feed them to the chickens with their feed ... and that she loves you." Jackson didn't seem to know that she said it in spanish so I wouldn't understand on purpose. She blushed and disappeared into the water. The girls started making purring noises and meows and even a couple oohs. I only laughed, rolled my eyes and kept swimming.

She rolled out of bed, stretched then moaned in... pain? "Good morning." She just ignored me. She got up and glared at me. "What?" Barcelona put a finger to her lips all the while still glaring. She pulled on a dark purple T-shirt and some black shorts. She slipped on some black sandals, desperatly managing to brush her hair, she left it down. I had pulled on a sleeveless dark green T-shirt, tan cargo shorts, and some tan sandals. "What's wrong?" She flipped around, "I have a headache please shut the hell up and just enjoy the fact that I'm not killing you." she shuffled down the stairs grab a cup of "juice" and went back to her room. "What's up with her?" The weird sound of her cousins voice scared me. Which one was this again, Oh yeah Demitria. I forget early in the morning. "She said she has a headache." Demitria frowned. "Bummer dude. Oh well she'll be back to normal by the afternoon. Just leave her alone and let her cool off."
The lights in Barcelona's room didn't go on till five in the afternoon. Brooke took off straight to her room leaving us in the dust. "Figures, Brooke is always the first to jump on the chance