Chapter 26 - Rose

"I can't believe you two are doing this again..."

At the sound of Rose's complaint, Grace and Alec turned automatically, their expressions alarmed, as the small character inside the colorful video game that the huge television was showing veered off course and died. However, instead of pushing the controls away and trying to pretend they weren't doing anything, like the other times she'd caught them playing together over the past week, Grace and Alec just looked at each other and grinned sheepishly, before her sister started trying to justify it.

“Alec has already finished his homework…” still sitting on the floor, where the two of them were, Grace turned completely towards her sister “He's doing very well in maths, I swear, almost as well as I am. Then the two of us started talking about how I've always wanted to play on such a console and was happy to finally be able to do so..."

"Oh sure, so you two thought it would be all right to spend a few more hours playing like you