Explaining how we got a time machine is a long story. It involves me and Kai in suitcases with blasters trying not to breathe in Alpha's sweaty socks, a dancing leprechaun and me being saintlike. Harry Potter may be just under four hundred years old but Fred and George's humour was on point, much like the hole in my hands. Kai dabs my right hand with gauze and I growl.

"Stop dabbing my hand and just wrap it up," He dabs again and I stamp on his foot. "Kai, can you just wrap it up or I'll tell Kansas that you ripped her bear," Kai fakes surprise before putting the Anticine-patches on my hands and I smirk at him. "Thank you, even if it's your fault this happened." Kai gives me the stink eye.

"I warned you but you didn't listen," I hold up my holey hands and he grabs my wrists, pushing them down. "I have slow reflexes so I may have been a second late saying what I saw. So sorry for accidently making you saintlike." He lets go and we walk through the ship to where Alpha and Mak are checking on the time machine. I cross my arms as Alpha smiles at me.

"Alpha, why did you have sweaty socks in your suitcase? I nearly died from the old guy smell," Alpha shrugs with a smirk. He's only thirty but he's the old man of our ship. "So, my holness worth anything?" Mak grins at me, her blue green hair sticking to her face.

"It works and is the 36D version," I give her a cocked eyebrow that I know Kai is doing as well. Mak's our mechanic but she forgets the rest of us didn't grow up in a chop shop and work at a mechanics until Alpha found us. "Right, 36D is the newest one, so new that we are the only owners of one apart from the factory itself." Kai grins at me.

"So going for the biggest one was a good idea? Is that what you're saying, Mak?" I hold up my holey hands and place them over his eyes. "OKAY! We may have gotten the newest one yet but getting my best friend shot in both hands leaving her saintlike wasn't a good thing even if it's somewhat hilarious." I elbow him in the ribs.

"Dick. Why are we best friends again?" He shrugs and I elbow him again. "That's right, it's fun to elbow you and run away." I run as he reaches for my elbow and he laughs before chasing me. Alpha laughs loudly.

"Bunch of kids." I run into the kitchen and hide behind the breakfast bar. Kai's twin, Asher gives me a quizzical eyebrow from where he's perching with a bowl of cereal. I mimick zipping my lips and he nods, giving me a supermodel worthy smile, I hate their genetics, honestly. I look at the reflection of the kettle to see Kai running in, glancing around before focusing on his brother.

"Where is she, Ash? She elbowed me again," Asher laughs with a mouth full of cereal and shakes his head. "Ash, I will tell Kansas about you stealing her cereal which I have proof of as of now." He takes out his commie and snaps a photo as he says this. Asher looks down at me.

"Sorry Sanya. He played hard ball," I stick my tongue out and raise my hands in surrender. "But I have an even harder ball about who he fancies but his reply is even more harder." He hops off his perch and saunters away. I stand up, frowning after Asher.

"He knows that I know who you fancy right?" Kai nods and puts an elbow on my head. "Really, Kai? I know who you fancy and I can tell him." Almost on cue, Mazen walks in, his white hair covering one eye and with his usual scowl.

"Hey, is there any caffeine? Kansas doesn't understand the concept of a hangover," I nod at the coffee maker. "Cheers, Sany. So, I heard you guys the time machine, how new is it?" Kai grins, taking his brother's perch.

"It's so new that we're the only owners of one," Mazen's scowl gets replaced with a smirk that is somewhat terrifying. "Bets on where we'll go first? I think fall of Rome or the Titanic." Mazen sips his coffee loudly.

"I think we'll go to the crucifixion and prove Jesus didn't come back to life while robbing his corpse," Kansas skips in with an uncharacteristic grin. "My eyes! Why are you smiling?" She kicks him in the leg. "That's better. Now, where's our sulky thirteen year old?" Kansas sits beside Kai, swinging her legs.

"Alpha says that we can use the time machine to find out what happened to my parents," Sometimes, I forget that we're all not an actual family but finding who abandoned an eight year old on the streets is something we all want to do. "Do you think they abandoned me because of my heart? Because I'm not completely human?" Kansas has a mechanical heart but is the most human out of us all. Before I can say anything, Mazen picks her up and swings her around, making her squeal.

"I don't know, you sound completely human or part pig," She kicks him and he sets her down to pick up Kai. "It happens with everyone, watch," Kai squeals as he gets spun and my camera eye records it. Mazen sets Kai down and they stare at each other too long. "See? It happens to everyone." He drinks his coffee, walking out, his face red. I replay the stare a couple of times and Kansas claps her hands, squealing.

"HE LIKES YOU!" I cover her mouth as Brae walks in. If Alpha's the old man, Brae's the old lady which is scary since she's barely twenty five. She studies us all with a frown as she gets some coffee.

"Who likes who?" Kansas says something muffled by my hand which rhymes with Prochlorperazine but Brae just walks out with her coffee. "Meeting in ten." I remove my hand and get a kick right in the shin.