Aquarius' pov

Of course I had been on more holidays than this one. Plenty, actually. But none had taken longer than a few days and we'd always go to someplace close to London. There was a time my dad even took me and my brother somewhere every weekend, but I guess that didn't count, because that always ended up in the same coffee shop. Though I never found out what its name was, I could describe it from just my head, because, well, would I ever be able to forget about the small tables, or the many books on the shelfs against the wall, or the caramel coffee they served?

After that, my expectations for this holiday had been way to high. Capricorn might've liked it, just as dad, but I wasn't affected by the river, or the forest next to the small apartment we rent. But I was when dad told us we'd stay for two weeks straight, and even my brother, who seemed to like it here too at first, got a bit distracted from the trees by that.

'Nature will do you well,' said our father. 'That's something other than the dirty, old garbage on that field outside our flat. You can make some new friends here, who won't fight over every tiny thing.'

But why didn't he understand me and Cap were okay with the dirty, old garbage on the field outside the flat? Why didn't he understand we were okay with our current friends, even though they fought over every tiny thing?

And well, that's how we ended up in Scotland, and while dad had the time of his life hanging around the forest and fishing in the river, Capricorn and I stayed inside, sulking, trying to remember everything about chess Virgo had told us until even Cap agreed on just reading a book in silence. It hurt me a bit on the inside to see my brother like that, just being to himself, inside of being the happy and crazy one around. But I already knew he had another, different side to his personality.

Fourteen days had never been longer, but the day came when dad told us to pack our stuff and as we gladly did so, I thought of how it would be to back in the Chaos Flat. Of course Leo and I had stayed in touch those two weeks, and we talked and discussed about the newbies in apartment 26 for hours, but I had to see them in reality to get a good view of what they'd be like. Capricorn didn't need that; he could get along with everyone. Just his luck; it took weeks for me before I even wanted to be friends with anyone.

Back to the day where our father freed us from our waiting and said we could pack up our things again, because we were finally going back to our home sweet home. That day was today, and dad telling us we were going home was only a few hours ago, somewhere in the morning. Capricorn and I had immediately done as he said and we packed our things faster than we could imagine ourselves. Once the car was filled with everything we had taken to this place, it only took a minute for us to decide I could sit in the front, next to dad, before we left of and like that, we'd been driving for about four or maybe five hours.

The moment Capricorn started whining he had to pee very badly, was the moment our father pulled over to get us some lunch. While Cap sprinted to the closest toilets and dad went to a small shop for something to eat, I found out – yet again – waiting wasn't my thing, and I pulled out my phone to call Leo.

'Come on, come on, what's taking so long?' I mumbled. My gaze moved over to some little children running out of the shop dad just walked into, as they were screaming happily and eating ice-creams. I got up in watching them playing around so much, that I almost missed Leo's voice talking.

'AQUARIUS!' her high-pitched voice screamed and I laughed while greeting her back. 'Hey, Leo. Listen, I've got some good –'

'You won't believe me if I told you what I did today, dear!' Leo's voice just went on. I decided to listen and tell her later about me coming back. It might surprise a lot of people, but the ones who knew her knew she wasn't much of a talker, really, so when she would interrupt me to tell something herself, it must be something good.

I didn't have the chance to tell her to continue on, because she already did so: 'Remember, a few days ago, when I told you about the Dwarf throwing a water balloon to my head?' 'Actually, you mentioned it was one of her sisters,' I corrected her. I could practically see her waving my words away with her hand.

'Yeah, well, basically the same. So, anyway, I now got revenge!' she giggled. 'Guess what I did?'

'I don't know what you did, but I'm already wishing I could have been there to see it,' I told her. 'Oh, and you really should have been here!' my friend responded, a happy giggle mixed in here voice. 'But, I was serious when I said you had to guess. Come on, give me a guess!'

I could barely say 'Eh –' before Leo decided it took long enough already and she shouted: 'I turned their balcony into a swimming pool! Isn't that super great and genius? I came up with it by myself, Aqua, all by myself! I used the horse pipe to do so, and it worked perfectly! Oh, I wish I had a picture to send you, but I think they already cleaned most of it...'

She was chatting about it very fast and very much, I almost got bored following it until she asked me what I wanted to tell her.

'Oh – right! I've got amazing news,' I said. While I did, Capricorn opened the car door in the back and laid down on the back seats, his arms crossed under his head. He frowned when he saw my phone against my ear, and mouthed the words: "Who you calling with?"

"Leo," I mouthed back, to which he pulled up an irritated expression and closed his eyes, pretending not to have noticed me or the phone. Let's just say, he and Leo can't get along very well. He isn't on the Aries-side, but he also didn't forget about the time my best friend called him a lazy ass.

'Aqua?' Leo's voice asked me, getting me back to the phone. 'Oh, right! Sorry, Cap was just fooling around for a bit,' I said, ignoring the glare my brother gave me. 'But, anyway... are you ready for the news?'

'Of course I am! Tell me!'

I let her wait in a few more seconds of tense silence, before I exclaimed: 'I'm coming back today!' Leo's scream was on such an amazing level on the scale of highness, that I had to put my phone away from me for a bit, otherwise she would've blown up my ears. 'Aquarius! That indeed is some amazing news! But – did you just get in the car, or –'

'No, we're back in half an hour!' I laughed, to which Leo screamed again. 'Oh my gosh! Do you know how happy I am right now?' 'I can make a guess,' I smiled, and I just knew Leo was smiling too. 'Alright, call me again when you're back, okay? I'm going to tell the others! Love you!'

'Love you too!'

The last thing I heard, was Leo walking away and grunting something that sounded like "What is – oh no, dear gosh – not again –" before she hung up.

My face was just smiling at my phone for that moment, thinking about how amazing it would be to finally get back there after two weeks, meeting our new neighbors, getting back with Leo of course, until my unbelievably blunt brother broke it.

'So, are you going to give me your phone or what?' Cap asked me. His eyes were still closed, but he was holding out his hand. 'What? Why?' I snarled back at him. 'You've got your own phone!' 'Yeah, but it's dead. Please?' His eyes opened and now looked at me in a puppy-dog way. 'Just one call. It won't be too long, promise.'

'Can't believe I'm agreeing on this, but whatever,' I sighed and handed me my phone. Capricorn grinned and started scrolling through my contacts, but his grin disappeared quickly. 'Why isn't Gemini's phone in these?' he stated annoyed, giving me the opportunity to snatch back my phone.

'Because Leo would murder me if she found any of Aries' relatives in my phone,' I answered him mat, to which he groaned again. 'Fine, do you have anyone who is approved by your friend in your phone?'

'You can call Cancer, if you want,' I sighed again, but I smirked a wicked grin when he reached out for my phone again. 'But you've got to use dad's phone for that. I'll give you the number.' 'As long as dad's away, I'm not calling anyone,' he groaned and let his head fall on the backseats again. 'By the way; are you sure we still have an hour to go?'

'As long as dad's away,' I repeated him, 'it will take longer.' I dodged his hand, which was coming right for my head, and smiled to myself. Only half an hour, and this would be over.

Everything would be fine again.

     Gemini's pov

'What do you mean, Aquarius and Capricorn are coming back?' Aries asked the blocked door with a confused expression. 'You don't mean –'

'They're coming back, I'm telling you!' Furface yelled back, and I gazed over at Pisces for her opinion. She seemed to believe it, I made up from her smile and nod.

Leo's voice went on, slightly angry now: 'So get me out, because I want to be the first one to greet Aquarius!' 'We don't even know if you're telling the truth,' Aries stated, but before anyone could answer to that, Cancer walked out of her apartment with her phone in her hand.

'Guys, guys,' she shouted when my sister wanted to out hear Leo again while Pisces started talking to Virgo. 'Guys, silence for a bit! It's Capricorn!'

'Why is Capricorn calling you?' Pisces asked her with a weird face, but Cancer shook her head to that. 'He's not calling for me. Gemini, he wants to talk to you!'

Aries started catcalling at that and even Cancer herself sent me a big grin. I groaned in irritation. 'Oh, stop it. We're friends, remember?' I tried to remind them, but of course, fantasy lead a big role in this place. 'Ah, poor Gemini. Still refusing to see the crush he has on you,' said Virgo and shook his head, acting disapprovingly. I gave him a push – not too hard, because Pisces was near – and took the phone from Cancer, rolling my eyes at all the people in the hallway – even Taurus and Sag, who immediately turned to Aries for the story – as I cleared my throat and imagined talking to Cap in real life.

'Capricorn! Finally a sign you're not kidnapped by aliens!' I grinned. 'Actually, I am. That's why I called,' Cap stated at the other side of the line, but I could hear Aqua's voice and grinned. 'Sure you are. So, you're finally coming back, aren't you, goofball?'

'Stop stealing my lines!' he yelled with a laugh, and I laughed along. 'Then be more original! Seriously though, this took forever. You better stand right in front of me in a few minutes, because I think I'm going mad here with just Aries and Pisces, and it would be good to have your sister back too. Did you know Furface has been inside for almost seven days?'

I slightly let my gaze slip over to Aries, who was now trying to get all of the wood away from Leo's door. 'Yeah, I caught some things from Aquarius,' said Cap. 'Did anything happen back there? Anything I wouldn't want to miss?'

'New neighbors?' I suggested. 'I bet you wouldn't want to miss that. They're with three, and the second one is so funny. He thinks there isn't gonna be any chaos around here. Or, let me put it like this, he thought blocking Furface's door was a chaos.'

'Sounds like we can have some fun with that,' Cap's voice said. 'How are the other two?' 'Pretty fun, already upgraded to Chaos-Survivors,' I smirked.

Meanwhile, Aries had freed the door and a furious Leo stomped out. 'Well, took you quite some time to do that, didn't it?' she sneered, but Aries just shrugged. 'Be glad I got you out; next time, I'll leave you in and you'll have to see so yourself. Also, the answer to the riddle was "A full circle is always round".' 'I couldn't have known that!' Leo screamed with burning red cheeks, and I chuckled.

'No worries, Cap, everything's pretty normal back here. Are you any close to the flat already?' 'Dad's turning into Rustic Street, I can see the flat already! But I'm gonna go, see you in about half a minute!'

'Guys! They're coming!' I screamed and threw the phone back to Cancer, who just caught it. 'Go get Libra!' I yelled to the two brothers in excitement. They nodded and ran back to their apartment, while Pisces, Cancer and Virgo already walked down. Aries and Leo exchanged another few sarcastic remarks and I ran past all of them to be downstairs the first. Soon, all seven of us were standing right under the plate with the welcoming words, as we watched a car park and Aquarius and Capricorn get out.