The Last Of Us

Chapter 1

Perrie slowly starts to come back to reality from her precious dream, her eyes fluttering open to find Jade's chocolate brown eyes already staring back at her own blue ones.

"Mornin' sleepy head.", Jade says, and Perrie just smiles.

"Morning.", she replies, her voice groggy and raspy with sleep as she turns over and sits up out of Jade's hold.  The sheets fall around her waist to reveal her pale skin with just a baby blue bra to cover her chest.  "Where's Jade?", she asks mid-yawn to the Jade that's standing by the end of the bed, a smirk on her face.

"Helping Liam with breakfast.", the Jade replies, and the Jade that was sleeping next to Perrie sits up and joins the other one once Perrie rips the sheets away and get's up to walk to her closet.

Perrie sighs as she looks through her clothes.  "Ugh, she really thinks she can fool me?  She's the dumbest smart person I know.", she says to herself, throwing on one of Jade's hoodies and leaving on the comfy track shorts she wore to bed.  When she turns around again to grab her phone, the two Jade's are gone.

Perrie just shurgs and walks out of the room, shutting the door behind her before walking down the empty hallway.  As she walks, she remembers when this same hallway used to be filled with a bunch of other kids, constant chatter always being heard throughout the day.  But now, you could rarely find more than one person walking down the hall at any given time...and it was quiet.  All of the rooms she passed were empty, no longer in use.

When Perrie walks through the double doors into the dining room, she frowns at how empty it is, only a couple seats being occupied.  She should be used to it though, it's been like this for the past two years.

She walks across the room and into the kitchen, a small smile forming on her lips when she finally sees two familiar faces.  Liam was mixing the pancake batter while Jade was currently flipping a pancake in her frying pan.

"So, where's Jade?", she asks, announcing her arrival as well as telling Jade to stop with the games.

"Damn it!", she hears an adorable voice say from the back of the kitchen, and it doesn't take long before Jade is appearing in front of them, a pout on her face.  "I thought I got you!"

"You can never trick her.", the Jade that's frying the pancake says, and Jade turns her head to glare.

"Oh shut up, missy!  Nobody asked you!", Jade says sassily, and Perrie watches as the duplication merges back into Jade, only one Jade left now, and it was the actual real one.  Jade turns back to Perrie with a smile on her face.  "So, how'd you sleep?", she asks after a quick peck on the lips.

"I slept pretty well, although I'd really like to wake up in your arms for once."

"Well, you technically did wake up in my arms..." 

"You know what I mean Thirlwall.", Perrie says pointedly.  "As much as I love this duplication thing, I'd like to be able to wake up all cuddled and warm in your arms, not some duplicate's."

"I know, I know.", Jade says, but before she can continue with an apology, Liam speaks up.

"I hate to interrupt, but I kinda need a hand here.", the boy says, trying to flip the pancake Jade has now left unattended and mix the batter at the same time.

"You're a big boy, you can handle it."  Liam just sighs and goes back to trying not to burn the building down.  "Look Pez, I'm sorry.  How about we meet up at the library later on so we can be in private.  I'll make it up to you.", Jade says with a purr in her voice, adding a wink at the end just to irritate Liam and make him uncomfortable.