n. a moment that seemed innocuous at the time but ended up marking a diversion into a strange new era of your life-set in motion not by a series of jolting epiphanies but by tiny imperceptible differences between one ordinary day and the next, until...
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
After my talk with Diego, Luther, and Vanya I decided to drive separately. I head to the hotel, earlier than the rest. I look around the lobby, looking for the elevator. Before going up I find the cafe downstairs.
Grabbing a coffee and a muffin, I sit down and wait for one of my siblings to show. I sit there for thirty minutes, finishing my coffee and muffin, I stand up and head to the elevators.
I press the up button and wait for it to show. Once it arrives, I get inside but before the doors could close, Five steps in.
I smile slightly before moving to the side. The door goes to close again, before a hand tops it. "Wait up." Diego's voice says.
We hear more footsteps, before Allison appears. "Hold it."
Vanya appears next, not saying anything.
Then Klaus appears, seemingly drunk off his ass. "Hey, everyone."
Luther appears next, taking up most of the space. "Excuse me."
We all move aside to make room. Diego taking the left corner away from the door, Vanya in front of him, Klaus in the middle back, Allison in the right corner away from the door, Five in front of her, me in front of Five, and Luther takes up the middle of the elevator.
"Good. We're all here." Five says, snaking his arm around my waist and pulling me into his chest.
The elevator dings and starts to move up the floors.
We're three floors away when Luther grunts, an awful smell following him.
Allison leans in to sniff, immediately retracting and covering her nose with her sweater.
"Oof." Five and Vanya say at the same time, plugging their noses. Five pulls me into his chest and turns me around so that my face is hidden in the crook of his neck, my nose not being able to smell anything but Five's cologne.
"Luther!" Allison exclaims.
"Oh, my god." shudders Vanya.
"Sorry, I'm nervous." Luther mutters.
"Oh." Klaus says, twitching his nose.
The elevator finally dings and opens, Five pushing me out quickly as the rest of our siblings come flowing out behind us.
"Nasty. I'm choking!" Five grumbles.
"None of that." Klaus responds.
Island music plays softly over a speaker, going along with the whole island theme of the bar.
Five walks towards the table. "All right, when dad gets here, I'll do the talking, Okay?"
"Got a few questions for him myself." Diego states.
"Hey, we don't wanna scare him off." Five comments. "He might be able to help us stop doomsday, get us home."
"No, we need to figure out why he's planning to kill the president." Diego continues, needing to know how to save the president.
