Hiwalani-Noa was indeed pleased, her eyes shining some until she glanced over to see Cameron dashing off to drag Yum Yum inside. She was about to call after him, but Wesley's cheesy pun made a smile creep across her lips. She turned her gaze back to him and rolled her eyes. “You can't. So don't try.” Her attempt at being sexy. It might have worked if she didn't have yolk sliding down into her eyes and making her squint. She turned around at Emilia's question and immediately beamed a smile. “Yeah! Of course! C'mon up whenever you're ready.” She sidled past Emilia and headed up the stairs, calling over her shoulder. “I'm going to jump in the shower first, though!” Even though she was lacking her bathroom bag. Mentally facepalming, she resolved that she would just get Cameron to do it. As well as clean up the mess since he wanted to be an asshole and not even try to help her up. Damn camera-jockey.
Wes raises an eyebrow at Lani as she makes her comment, the one in which she is quite clearly entering a sort of flirting mode, at least as far as he's concerned, and he's had enough girls flirt with him to know, of course. However, she's certainly the first person he's met to attempt sexiness with egg and flower splatted across her shirt- and very nearly succeed at it, strangely enough. "Yes, ma'am," he says with a teasing tone to his voice, going so far as to make a little salute gesture. As Lani begins speaking to Emilia, it occurs to him that he really ought to go and shower all of this egg out of his hair now. Besides, he doesn't want to drag uncooked breakfast through their house- not with the overly affectionate Yum-Yum there, as she'd likely lick it off of him and consequentially become ill. He'd hate to be the source of such a thing. Thus, when Lani calls out behind her that she'll be taking a shower first, he has no complaints. "Ditto- see you in a bit," he shouts after her, grinning still.
"See you at breakfast," he bids Emilia farewell with a smile before heading up to his own apartment, where he promptly showers, leaving a pile of dirty clothing on the floor to be dealt with eventually.
Meanwhile, Emilia, after watching the others depart and thinking that the scene she had missed probably resembled a slapstick cartoon from the black-and-white cartoon days of Mickey Mouse and co, finally launches back into motion. Well, launches might be a bit of a stretch, as unlike the others, she doesn't need to shower, and thus is able to take her time returning up to her apartment to put away her bike. The young woman waits a few extra moments in her apartment before leaving, not wanting to burst in before Wes shows up and Lani is out of the shower.
Luckily for her, Wes exits his apartment just before she leaves hers, and thus has already knocked on the door, but not entered quite yet out of courtesy. Emilia walks over to where he is, absentmindedly twiddling with the end of her braid while her mind wanders to the project she is currently working on. After it is done, she might have a week or so to rest before getting started on the next project, a little short that one of her bosses has written up and asked her to animate so that it can be previewed at a meeting to decide whether to go ahead with the concept as a full-length film.
"Hello again," she finally greets Wes, mind popping back into reality. He smiles in response, giving a nod.
“Already on it.” Cameron was on his way out the door already, having literally read his sister's thoughts. After Wes and Em both disappeared into their apartments he made his way to the mess and closed his eyes. Focusing his energy, he opened his eyes and targeted the mess on the floor, causing it to rise and form into a ball. He guided it upstairs past his sister who was waiting outside their home. After depositing the ball into the trash, he raced downstairs to their small rental car where he pulled out a small black bag before returning to the building and entering the code to access the building.
As soon as he passed by, Lani snatched her bag and dashed to the bathroom where she indulged in a shower. She had one in her bedroom, but she had to call maintenance to get the pipes right. Cameron had followed behind her until she shut the bathroom door, collecting up the mess that she trailed and putting it in the trash. He would have gotten the food ready, but he was a disaster in the kitchen. Instead, he flopped onto the couch and turned on the television and grabbed his PS3 controller, launching himself into Heavenly Sword. Hearing the knock on the door, he immediately called out that it was open.
Wes is the one to, upon hearing that the door is open, turn the knob and enter in, seeming comfortable at once as though he's been here for breakfast a million times, at least, before. Of course, he's always had this way of making it seem like he simply belongs wherever he is- the man could look completely relaxed and in place in the middle of a Victoria's Secret store. "It's Wes and Millie, here for your food," he calls out, flashing a smile at Emilia before heading over towards where Cameron is.
Emilia, on the other hand, takes a quieter step in, giving him a strange look, eyebrows raised, when Wes announces her name, or a variant of it, when he steps in. She closes the door behind her and follows the young man in, standing behind where Cameron sits on the couch. She is immediately engrossed in the game play. "How far in is this?" she inquires, eyes not leaving the screen. It's been a while since she's played the game- around five years, to be exact, and she can't remember the chronological order of it all.
Wes is comparitively less interested in the game, not really being much of a video game person, really. He'd rather be playing outside than in, most of the time.
Cameron gave the two a grin as they joined him on the couch, immediately addressing Emilia's question. “I already beat it a few times – I'm on chapter three right now, actually. I'm about to take on fourteen clansmen.” He was completely engrossed in the game, far too much to notice Lani peeking around the corner. She hadn't expected them to be over so soon, wishing her bathroom was fixed. She had done a few faux sex scenes in a couple of her movies and had no problem parading around in her underwear around other people; She wore bikinis every day so she didn't see the difference because they both showed the same amount of skin. She didn't know why she was being so hesitant now. Shaking her head at her “silly” fear, she strode across the living room in only a towel, shooting them a smile before dashing into her bedroom.
Cameron rolled his eyes before nudging Emilia. “Breakfast could take a while. I've got a GameCube and an Xbox360 with a crap load of games. After this chapter, I could pop in some Need For Speed.” He gave his best boyish grin to the girl with the loud hair, wiggling his ears like Alfalfa.
“Oh, get a room.”, Lani teased with a smile, rounding the corner with her hair down, nearly dragging on the floor with its length. She was big on Neo-Druidry and everything natural while keeping with the modern pace. What did that mean? She hadn't had a haircut since the day she was born. She trimmed dead ends, but that was it. She had also traded in her robe and black pajamas for a pair of denim daisy dukes and a pink and blue plaid shirt thrown on over a sports bra. “So – You going to help me cook?” She eyed Wes, a small gray, white, and black head peeking out from her cleavage to stare at the two new people with large brown eyes.
Emilia raises an eyebrow at him while he states that he has already played the game multiple times. She had only played it once, of course, but has always been very easily distracted when it comes to games. She finishes them, sure, but then moves right on to the next one, consuming them like water after a long drought. A few of her favorites she has replayed, and there are one or two that she'll play through after a particularly stressful project, calming down with the familiar battles and sequences. Eventually, she simply nods, still staring at the screen so that she, too, does not notice the towel-clad Lani peek around the corner.
Of course, this is something that Wes, very much less interested in the game, does not miss this. He looks over at her with a curious look, wondering at first why she is peeking around like a deer about to make a break through a clearing. It dawns on him rather quickly, though, what the reason for this quick look around might be, as he recalls that she was taking a shower recently- and notices her wet hair. "Want me to cover my eyes or something," he adds, but while his voice seems perfectly gentlemanly, it clashes with the smile on his face, nearly twitching in the direction of an amused smirk. He's fairly certain that she's worn bathing suits with less coverage than the towel, after all, and thus is just being unnecessarily shy. Something with which he does not necessarily have a problem- her blush from earlier had been admittedly adorable. Apparently, Lani managed to overcome her concerns, for she ends up walking calmly across the living room, giving the group a smile before, he notes with amusement, darting towards her bedroom once she is closer to it. "I forgot to cover my eyes!" he calls out after her jokingly.
At the feeling of being nudged, Emilia looks back towards Cameron, who invites her to play Need for Speed. She merely smiles at first, and is midway through saying "If you don't mind l-" when he wiggles his ears. Laughter comes almost immediately, and she clamps her hand over her mouth to muffle it, having been caught off guard by the gesture. Strange as it may seem, she's never seen anyone wiggle their ears so well before. Lani's teasing comment grabs her attention, though it also succeeds in making Emilia flush slightly- though perhaps that was just from the laughter.
Lani's entrance, and her impossibly long hair, gets a different response from Wes. "Just climbed down the tower, Rapunzel?" he asks, referencing her hair, naturally.
"Alright- we'll leave the bums to lay on the couch all day," he agrees cheerily enough. When a little head sticks out of her cleavage, his eyes widen slightly in surprise, before realizing that it's another one of her pets. "Is he helping cook, as well?"
When Lani had been on her way to her room, she only rolled her eyes and smiled at Wes' comment, contemplating on whether or not she should strut. That's what girls did when they flirted, right? She wasn't exactly the go-to girl for how to get a guy. Truth be told, she'd only had one major relationship in her life. It was hard to hold one when her father was always being restationed elsewhere. Besides, she had always been too consumed by her career even at a young age to have time for guys. She let Wes' sit for a minute before answering him, watching as Cameron smiled like a five year old who had just been told by Captain America that he was the greatest kid ever. He did like to make the ladies laugh. It must be an absolute dream for him to be sitting with one of his favorite (if not number one favorite) artists, playing video games with her, making her laugh, and about to share breakfast with her. It is, so I'd thank you to not screw it up. They exchanged a glance to which she only smiled as she grabbed Wes by the hand and lead him to their fanciful kitchen decorated with various food themed things.
“She is Reina and she will not be helping, but relaxing. We're expecting babies.” She almost squealed out the part about expecting babies, but maintained most of her composure as she pulled Reina from her hiding spot and set her on the counter. She skipped to the cabinets and pulled out a giant metal bowl before going to the fridge and loading the bowl with various fresh produce items. “I'm thinking about omelets with waffles, fruit, and steak. Any objections?” She hadn't just asked Wes, but rather spoke up to direct her words at Emilia and Cameron while setting the things down and popping open a small yogurt for her tiny lemur to devour. Yum Yum was whining from the back balcony with the other pets, eyeballing the steaks that had been lain out. “You already had breakfast, fat asses.” She stuck her tongue out at the assortment of animals, speaking to them as she would a person.
Cameron had busied himself with disappearing to his room and reappearing with several game cases in his hand. He popped in Need for Speed: Most Wanted and passed Emilia a controller before taking a seat on the floor next to her legs, calling out to his sister. “Sunny-side up!” Turning his head to Emilia, he smiled again, radiating confidence as he spoke. “What do you want to bet that I can smoke your ass – At the game I mean.” He paused after realizing what he had said and immediately ducked his head while his cheeks flooded red.
Wes is caught by surprise when Lani grabs his hand and leads, or rather drags, him into a kitchen that kind of reminds him of the one his mom has back home. The nostalgia of it made him smile a bit, remembering dragging his younger sisters out of bed on a whim to make, and subsequently burn, eggs, nearly setting the house on fire. That was back before he became a certified master of all things breakfast foods, of course. "Oh, My apologies, ma'am. You're very slim, I never guessed," he says, apologizing to the sugar glider with the smile still on his face, somewhat lopsided as the right side is pulled up further than the left, giving him the look of someone with a hook pulling at one side of their mouth. As Lani begins to list off the ingredients of the breakfast they will be making, Wes is suddenly glad that all of his breakfast supplies had been smashed- this one sounds a lot more delicious than what he had planned, and with a lot more variety to boot. And he certainly didn't have a steak inside that bag of food. "Sounds good to me- I am yours to command in all ways breakfast preparation, madame," he tells her with an overdramatic, sweeping bow that nearly knocks over a decor, though he moves just enough to miss hitting it over.
"Yes, please!" Emilia calls out in response to Lani's listing of the menu. She is beginning to feel more comfortable here, as can be seen by her smile and the fact that her voice has left that hesitant waver which it had contained before. She even gives Cameron a smile when he returns from his room holding the games, one of which he pops into the console before handing Emilia the controller. She hadn't even thought to take the comment in the way that Cameron did- until he quickly specifies that he means at the game and ducks his head. She takes a similar precaution to hide her own flushing, bending her neck so that her hair falls over her face, hopefully making the red seem like just another hue in her hair. "I wouldn't make any withdrawals from the bank just yet," she responds eventually, smiling at him, hoping that the flush has gone away by now. She certainly doesn't plan on losing the race to him.
Back in the kitchen, Wes has gotten to work, doing whatever it is he thinks is productive in helping with the preparation of the breakfast. "If you guys make breakfast like this every morning, I might have to start bumping into you every day," he tells her whilst cracking an egg.
The Hawaii native grabbed various spices from the rack and set them down in front of Wesley, pointing to the garlic powder, onion powder, pepper, and seasoning salt. “Into the eggs they go. And also one-fourth cup of milk.” She motioned towards them before getting to work chopping up various fruits and vegetables, simmering and sauteing the steaks, and making piles upon piles of waffles. She and Wes were having a blast as they teased each other back and forth and dodged as waffle mix was wasted on waffle slaps, though they got pegged a few times, letting it dry and cake on their face before they cleaned it off, too busy with cooking.
Cameron was too busy enjoying various races with Emilia to notice the scents wafting from the kitchen, growing more engrossed with the game every passing second. Whenever he would win, he would jump up and face Emilia, doing a quick shuffle to an unheard bass before getting in her face and wiggling his ears. By the time Lani and Wes carried the plates into the living room, Cameron was losing; Emilia had ten to Cameron's eight. He almost didn't want to even eat until Lani pried the controller from his hand and forced a forkful of waffle into his mouth.
The long-haired young man closed his eyes and let out a cry as though he were either having an orgasm or had just been kicked in the family jewels, the delicious food exploding in his mouth. “Guys, this is just... - ” He paused to shove a piece of watermelon in his mouth before speaking through a semi-full mouth. “Maika‘i.”, he finally gasped out before taking a long gulp from a glass of fresh orange juice. Sitting between Wesley and Emilia on the couch, Lani couldn't help but to give a faint smile of self-pride before clearing her throat after a mouthful of steak. “Just wait until you see what we have for dinner.”, she slid her gaze to Wes and gave a genuine smile. “You ever have Pua‘a?”
Wes followed Lani's directions to the best of his abilities, though of course the occasional assault of breakfast food back and forth did distract him quite a bit from his work. At some point during the cooking, he had begun to doubt that eating the food would be nearly as much fun as making it would be. Already, batter was dried on his face, making the previous shower seem almost like a waste of energy. He hardly noticed it at all, however, enjoying himself too much as he cooked with, and teased, Lani throughout the entire preparation process. She had her share of teasing to do as well, of course.
On the couch, Emilia nearly doesn't mind it when Cam wins, as his victory dances are so outlandish and funny, getting at least a giggle out of the girl each time. Nearly is the key word here, though, as she certainly doesn't plan on losing after telling him that the chances of him being victorious were zero to one. Her own victory dance is a bit more subtle than Cam's, but each team she beats him, the young woman does this little wiggle thing, incorporating not only her torso, but her head as well, with a smile lighting up her face in the delight that comes with beating a worthy opponent. Her overall victory is a source of particular joy, and she doesn't mind letting Lani and Wes take the controller away from her, flashing a triumphant smile at Cam.
Proud of their work's end result, Wes put a lot of effort into pulling Emilia and Cam away from their games, because he certainly wasn't going to let them not eat this beautiful feast which he and Lani had positively slaved over, something he had told them whilst pulling the duo's controllers out of their hands mid-race. Nope, some racing game was not going to deprive him the joy of watching the two eat the food he's helped to make, that was definitely not happening.
And he is well rewarded when Lani forces waffle into Cam's mouth, as the latter immediately begins scarfing down the food as though it will all be gone in a few seconds if he doesn't hurry. Emilia seems more than pleased with her food as well, thinking, I'm glad I didn't just go to a diner. Her plate begins to clear very quickly, indeed. "You're going to choke on it," she warns Cam, but the smile likely makes it less effective of a warning. Wes gives Lani a look of pride, catching a similar look on her own face, likely from the reaction to their mutual creation. Okay, so maybe it's mostly Lani's creation. But still.
Wesley raises an eyebrow at Lani, something which is clearly going to be happening a lot. "Apparently not, as I've never heard of it before. What is it?" he asks, curious.
Lani grinned and pulled out her phone from her pocket and setting her plate on her lap. She leaned a bit against Wes as she scrolled through her excessive videos until she came across one in particular. Tapping her finger against the screen, she pulled up a video showing a bunch of children in bathing suits smiling and speaking a language that Hiwalani-Noa assumed was lost on Wesley's ears; Hawai'i was a dying language. The children in the video waved to the Lani behind he the camera as she followed them to where a large hog was lying on the table. Against the wishes of the adults, the children swarmed the hog with forks and knives like Walkers to fresh blood. “Pig roast.” She couldn't deny that she got a kick out of showing people the video and seeing how many could stand it without getting queasy. She had successfully caused twelve people total to vomit before the video had even ended in her time of showing how her “her people get down with the chow down”, as she says.
Cameron, meanwhile, seemed to be competing with Emilia to see who could finish first, disregarding her warning as he shoved the last bite of steak into his mouth. With bulging cheeks, he jumped into the air and proceeded to attempt talking smack, succeeding only in choking. Lani made a move to help him, dropping her phone in Wes' lap, but forced to sit down only seconds later when Cameron managed to swallow the food that had previously been stored in his cheeks, though a hunk of meat remained in his throat until he coughed it up. It flew out of his mouth, heading straight for Emilia's face and caused him to panic. His arm shot out towards the steak and held there as the steak bit stopped mid-flight and hung in the middle of the air only inches away from Em's face. Cameron stood there with his mouth open and his arm outstretched while Lani dropped her face into her hands. “Smooth move, Card.”
“Give me like two seconds and I have a totally plausible explanation for this.”
“Really? Because the first half of your statement doesn't already declare that you're lying.”, Lani spoke in a sarcastic tone with a roll of her eyes as she looked between Wes and Emi to gauge their reactions.
Wesley stares at the video, more particularly the little kids excitedly eating every part of the pig- including the face, from what he can see. Sure, he's heard of eating the head of a fish and stuff like that, but that seems to him to be entirely different than this. That's what he tells himself, anyway, to try and justify the fact that he thinks his stomach might have just flipped a little bit when the little girl dug her fork into the hog's face, which was probably blinking and snorting only hours ago. "Ugh, why would anyone-" whatever it is that he had planned to say is lost the moment that he looks over and watches as a chunk of meat launches at Emilia, who looks slightly panicked about the partially chewed projectile, and then freezes in midair in front of her face. Incredibly, his first thought is: That must smell terrible. Lani covers her hands with her face, making it clear that she already knew about this, what looks like Cameron having telekinetic powers. And then it fully dawns on Wes, who stares at Cam, trying to think of what to say, while Cam does the very same thing- though perhaps less subtly.
Meanwhile, Emilia, who had seemed shocked about this at first, has adopted a rather calm expression, with the look of someone for whom things are suddenly falling into place very quickly. Unlike Wes, whose father, the source of his abilities, left him before anything could be explained, she was raised in a family of people with supernatural abilities. The fact that they exist outside of her family is not something shocking to her in the least- it is the fact that she happened to be in the same room as someone with powers that catches her off guard. "You don't need to-" she ends up deciding that actions would speak louder than words, and grabs a piece of paper out of her pocket [the young woman always has paper and a pen on her]. She quickly sketches out a bird, and then lightly brushes it with her thumb. Suddenly, the bird sprouts out of the paper, three-dimensional, and taking one look at them, jumps up into the air and begins to fly around the room, looking for an exit apparently.
However this may have helped Lani and Cam, it only takes more words out of Wes's mouth. His younger sister's had never developed powers, or if they had then they were very secretive about it, and thus he had assumed himself to be some sort of mutant, keeping his abilities a secret from all but his mother [In fact, it is very likely that his sisters developed powers, but having the same suspicions, confided only in each other]. The fact that Emilia just made a bird come out of a drawing, and Cam can make things stop with his mind, is both thrilling and shocking for him. "Um. I do things, too," he manages to say, finally, but it comes out not seeming to mean much. Considering their personalities, Emilia should be the one at a loss for words- but background, in this situation, has made a very large difference. Well, background knowledge, to be more specific.
Cameron looked more relaxed now, adopting his goofy smile once more as Emilia presented her powers, Lani likewise. In fact, she went right back to eating as Cameron swatted the air near the steak chunk and watched it fly almost as though of its own accord right into the trashcan. His plate, fork, and glass all danced their way into the kitchen and began to wash themselves with the aid of a seemingly possessed sponge. Lani craned her head some at Wes' words and gave his shoulder a playful shove. “I'll show you mine if you show me yours.”
Emilia watches the plates and dishes dance back to the kitchen, clearly at the direction of Cameron, and clean themselves up, the scene somewhat reminiscent from the dining room part of Beauty and the Beast. "That's certainly convenient," she remarks, thinking on how much easier it would be to finish assignments if she could make the pencil move with her mind.
Wes gives Lani a sheepish short of smile at her suggestion that he show her his powers, in return for her showing him hers. The first thing that comes to mind is for him to cut his arm and have it immediately heal back, but that strikes him as somewhat gruesome- and something he doesn't want to see after watching that pig feast thing. So, instead, he stands up, offering her a hand, "You don't happen to have a car I can lift, then?" he asks brightly.
“It's why we always have so much time on our hands.”, he casually admitted. Any time that they could use their powers unseen, they did. They rarely washed dishes by hand and Cameron himself never had to spend any more than two seconds cleaning his room. Everything sorted itself with literally a snap of his fingers. It was also how he was able to document multiple things at once while still keeping his hands free or play video games while not once looking at his laptop while writing a new skit or story. Emilia really had no idea just how convenient his powers really were. He gave a bashful smile and nodded towards the window. “Maybe I could take you out for a flight trip some time.” His smile began a grin as the small bird of paper rested on his shoulder. “We can take this guy with us.”, he tapped the bird's head gently with a single finger, disregarding his sister's flirting.
Lani had taken Wes' hand and pulled herself up by it before shoving her hands into her pockets. “Actually – Cam and I scoped out this abandoned fort; Like a kid's fort. It's about a two hour drive and a thirty minute walk out. There's lots of heavy stuff for you to lift and we can all show off to our heart's content.” She grinned to Cameron who immediately threw his arms up with a loud WOOO! before she looked to Emilia and then to Wes, subtly pulling her hand from his when she realized that she had been holding it at her side.
I'll bet, Emilia agrees enviously in her mind when Cam mentions everything being a lot more convenient for him. Of course, she might be thinking how much easier things would be with telekinesis right now, but Emilia doesn't really mean it. She loves to draw and design, after all, and something would simply be taken out of it if she didn't spend all that time painstakingly sketching out each image, or digitally animating every scene. It's the little details and effort that make her work shine, after all. His offer to take her on a flight prompts a sort of hesitant smile from Emilia- he seems confident enough in his abilities, but she doesn't know that he's tried carrying two people before. "You can have him, if you like," she says, nodding towards the bird.
"You guys already found an abandoned fort? Fast workers. Sounds like a blast to me- you know, lifting things is my specialty," Wes responds with unhesitating agreement. This is a thrill for him, who has never really been able to show his full abilities to people, just practicing when no one is looking. Even during the olympics and during soccer games, he holds himself back a little bit- can't be too good, or people become suspicious, after all. He gives her hand a squeeze before realizing that he has done it, only just noticing that he's still holding it. When she pulls his hand from his, the young man looks embarrassed, and rubs the back of his neck, glancing away.
"Wait- let me get my to-go kit from my car?" Emilia requests upon hearing of his expedition. The project she's working on, and it's deadline tomorrow afternoon, is already slipping her mind in all the excitement, clearly. She wants to get her on the go art kit out of her car- if she's going to show off for people outside of her family, she wants to be best equipped.
They loaded into Lani and Cameron's car shortly after, a blue 2008 Buick Enclave. It was a gift from their father and their baby; Their very first car. With her brother, her friends, and the pets in the car, Lani peeled out. At Cameron's advisary, they stopped to grab some subs, juice, and fruit to take with them in case they got hungry. The ride there was filled with laughter, music, and quite a bit of head banging as they all took some time to bond before shouldering backpacks, grabbing leashes, and trekking through the forest and finally coming across a large piece of abandoned land. It looked as though they were going to build a condo, but the equipment had been left there and already had years of rust accumulated.