24 year old Danny had just finished his night tour and was dropping off the meat for Sunday dinner. As he walked through the door he spotted his 19 year old brother Joe getting ready to leave for his tour, Joe was saving up to buy his own apartment and it was safe to say their parents weren't in any hurry to have Joe move out.

"Hey Joe"

"Hiya Danny, how did your tour go?"

"Well you know how exciting night tours can be"

Joe laughed "yeah I know, dealing with drunk people can be so fun"

Danny just chuckled, Joe looked at his watch and shouted "Jamie hurry up or your gonna miss your bus and I can't give you a lift!"

Danny raised his eyebrows at Joe, knowing it was very unlike Jamie to be running late and risk missing his bus. Joe understood the look on Danny's face and said "he said he had a Spanish test today and he stayed up late studying". Danny nodded, many a night he himself had burned the midnight oil for studying for Spanish tests. Just then 15 year old Jamie, who was in his second year of High School, came running down the stairs. He went to the kitchen grabbed a piece of toast and got his school bag and on his way out of the house he bumped into Danny.

"Hey watch it kid! I'm holding part of your Sunday dinner here!" cried Danny,

Jamie just mumbled,

"I was talking to you Jamie…Hello Jamie have a nice day a school"

"Stop busting my chops Danny!"

"What did I say?"

"Never mind"

"No come on kid what did I say?"

Joe could sense this was going to turn into a full-fledged argument, it already was an argument, normally Jamie and Danny didn't get into an argument this quickly. Joe figured it was because Jamie was tried.

"Just leave me alone Danny!"

"Gladly! You have no idea how hard it is to have a normal conversation with you since you've become a teenager!"

Joe was about to say something to get Danny and Jamie to say sorry to each other, but before he could Jamie walked to the door throwing over his shoulder "whatever Danny!" and then he slammed the door.

Joe sighed "that could have gone better"

Danny looked at him and said "what! He's just being a teenager"

"Danny he's been really stressed lately, you didn't have to provoke him to argue back" and then Joe left for his tour. Danny stood silent, he hadn't seen much of Jamie over the last week, he felt guilty now about their argument, he would make sure he was here when Jamie got home and would make it up to him.