Anything but Ordinary

“Look at this place! It’s huge!” Kyree’s voice boomed across the room as Ember-Rose tried to contain her little sister’s excitement. The pale girl covered the little girl’s mouth muffling what she was saying but it didn’t seem to affect so since she kept on talking even if no one understood what she said.

“Ky you need to relax. We’re in a building” Ember whispered to her little sister feeling the eyes on her back.

“It’s not just any building Emmy, it’s the building mommy works at. Where is she?!” yelling at the end as Ember covered Kyree’s mouth once again.

Ember felt the stares continue as they muttered about how irresponsible she was as a parent letting her child do whatever she wanted. Turning to the workers she sheepishly apologized, “So sorry about that. She gets a bit hyper”

Since people continued to give her a blank stare instead of the understanding one that she was looking for, she picked up the little girl and bolted out of the lobby to an elevator. Ember saw a map beside the elevators trying to figure out which floor they were supposed to stop at as Kyree kept pushing the up button countless times.

Once she figured it out multiple doors were opened and closed by the time she walked over to her little sister who was standing in an elevator by herself, “Why are you standing there, get in. Get in” she beamed when her older sister accompanied her before she put her hands to her side asking what floor they were going to.

“27” Kyree scanned the buttons before she pressed the button waiting for the door to close.

“Hold the door!” Ember stuck her leg out waiting for the mysterious person to dash right in and once he went in, Kyree closed the door looking at the panting man.

“Hey you’re Haner Baner” Kyree pointed out with a smile.

Ember blinked seeing that it was indeed Brian that was panting before he stood up to his natural height chuckling at the nickname the four year old gave him. “And your Kyree Whyree and Ember Dember”

Kyree giggled at the random nicknames that he gave to them but Ember couldn’t help but step back a little bit from the distance that they had from one another. It was too close to her liking but Kyree on the other hand stepped closer rambling how much she missed him.

“-and then some lady took Pinkly away!”

“A lady? Oh, you mean Michelle?” Brian gazed down at the little girl who nodded “its okay, Pinkly is her dog too”

Kyree tilted her head in confusion “How?”

Brian fidgeted as he felt the gaze of Ember on him wondering how he was going to explain this one before he could answer Ember cut in saying it was rude to ask too many questions. The four year old dropped it and changed the subject just as fast.

That was until the guitarist realized that they were in a recording building…what were two girls doing here? “Kyree what are you doing here?”

“To see our mommy” she beamed “This will be the first time I get to see her work but Emmy has seen her plenty of times so it’s no biggie to her anymores” bouncing on her toes.

Brian thought nothing of it and didn’t ask for their mother’s name since the elevator dinged as it opened to the 27th floor. It was a long silent hallway that had sound proof rooms so you won’t be able to hear any of the artists recording unless the door was open.

All three of them got off which peaked Brian’s interest as Kyree started to run down the hall in glee, “Ky! Ky! You don’t know where you’re going!” Ember yelled to her baby sister who continued to run.

“Then tell me which room it is silly banana!”

Ember sighed as she fixed her thick glasses before telling her which room it was in, she didn’t see the tense reaction Brian got when she shouted the room number to the little girl. Was he going crazy? That was the same room he was going in; of course he was extra slow today so he didn’t put two and two together until they all arrived at the room and the door was opened having Kyree fling to her mother in a tight embrace.

Angel laughed as she kissed her daughter’s temple “Hey how was your day today? Have fun at the park with Emmy?”

Kyree nodded “I sure did! We had lots of fun and we even saw Pinkly again!” the little girl froze when she realized there were other people in the room. Her blank expression quickly turned into a smile before she introduced herself.

“Hi strangers I’m Kyree what’s your guys names?” looking at each one in question.

The boys were taken aback at the little girl’s forwardness they were so used to having shy girls around them especially little ones, well the ones that they have met anyways which weren’t that many. Each of them introduced themselves before Zacky said “Aren’t you the cutest little thing how old are you?”

Kyree smiled as she stuck out four of her fingers “This many! Why do you have holes on your lips” pointing to each side of her mouth as reference.

“Their piercings, called snake bites. See?” showing her that they were holes which made Kyree even more fascinated by the second as she turned around to her mother, “Mommy I want snakey bites!”

Angel rolled her eyes “You are far too young to have piercings”

“But I have them on my ears” she pouted, Kyree hated that she wasn’t able to get snake bites like Zacky until Angel said she had to be older to get some. When she asked how old she was devastated to hear that she had a long way to go before she got her piercings.

Zacky was able to get along with Kyree the best since he has little nieces and nephews of his own and was able to keep the conversation going. Kyree was ecstatic when she asked if she could play the drums which Zacky followed making sure that she wouldn’t destroy the instrument.

Angel realized that Ember moved stealthily and hugged her oldest daughter before Kyree yelled out, “Oh yeah and that’s my big sister Ember-Rose but I call her Emmy” with a huge smile.

Ember froze as all eyes were on her, her heart started to race as the bundles of nerves in her stomach started to twist in weird ways. None of the boys saw someone like Ember before, her skin and hair were white as snow while her eyes were slightly hidden from view but can see the purple in her eyes if you looked hard enough.

“Nice to meet you. “All of them greeted friendly feeling the shy girl vibe emitting from her; this was the type of girl that they were used to. They thought that they would have switched roles since Ember was the oldest one but having the pale girl sit on the side they couldn’t help but wonder if she was adopted.

She couldn’t be though; she looked too much like Angel to not be her daughter.

Everyone’s attention was on Kyree and Zacky since the little girl was beating the drums as loud as she could but Zacky told her not to beat on it so hard and to tell her to create her own little beat. She did it with difficulty sounding horrible but as a four year old she was quite proud of herself for creating her own beat.

It was just a loud annoying mess at the end.

“Looks like Zacky found a best friend” Matt mumbled at the rest of them agreed.

While they were banging Kyree yelled at the microphone remembering something “Matt! Matt! Matt!” grabbing the muscular man’s attention “Can you sing that I’m not insane song?” he chuckled at the title that she thought the song was called.

“Almost easy?” he corrected her as she nodded vigorously

“I wanna learn how to sing that song! Oh wait I got a better idea how about you teach me how to scream like you do in some songs. Yeah?” Kyree waited for the singer to reply back as she lightly tapped the drumsticks on the drum as her drum roll.

“You don’t have to Matt. Don’t let her push you into anything” Angel said to Matt but he shook his head not bothered at all that she wanted to learn.

Matt already liked the girl as he beckoned the girl to come out of the booth and towards him so he can give her some lessons. It was slow and she didn’t get it right but she had fun nonetheless, Ember just watched from the sidelines seeing how she was getting along with all of them great.

Interacting with each one differently and asked questions left and right making sure that she talked to all five of them. Brian escaped discreetly since Kyree talks to him the most she let it slide as he sat next to the pale girl that grew tense with his close distance.

“Hey”

“…Hi” she answered back shyly

“Having fun?” he turned his head as he put his elbows on his knees seeing the red blush that crept on her face as she nodded.

“Want to join them?” nodding over to the large group that was surrounding Kyree who was yelling “You have to put money in the swear jar!”

Ember couldn’t help but smile as she declined his offer to get her to interact with everyone else; she would love but she rather stay in her comfort zone. Sitting in the sidelines she couldn’t help but feel uneasy as Brian kept staring at her with no shame.