Intermission 1: Prologue
AN: Before anything else I am dividing all of the thank yous I have, have ever had and ever will have evenly between Gunlord500, Silver Skura Queen, Lazerman789 and Haridon for reviewing "It Just So Happens" and making all of this possible. Here you all go! Enjoy your three and an eighth thank yous! (I'm kidding, you each get at least three and a seventh thank yous) My sister Xsctavsduuiv doesn't get any thank yous though because she only reviewed because I told her too... Love you sis! This is those parents' lives I promised you guys, told through a series of one-shots (none anywhere near as long as "It Just So Happens…") through a series of photographs. They aren't going to be told in any particular order one moment they may be in high school the next they've all graduated from college or whatever. There will also be "Intermissions" where we get to visit the kids in "current" time. But mostly the parents doing stupid or cute stuff. I would suggest reading "It Just So Happens…" before this but you don't HAVE to technically. The normal chapters will be MUCH longer than this one, this is just a introduction to the scenario. Thank you to anyone and everyone who read "It Just So Happens…" and anyone and everyone who reads this. So here we go the prequel/sequel to "It Just So Happens…"; "Album of Past Humiliations"…
"Kids I'm going to show you all something amazing" Anna informs Lucina, Gerome, Owain, Noire, Inigo, Severa, Morgan, Vert, Nah and Yarne.
The ten teenagers are sprawled about Anna's living room texting; they're all there because their parents just so happen to all be doing various activities. So Anna is getting paid to watch the kids.
"Do we have to?" Lucina asks their babysitter slash vice-principal unenthusiastically.
"Yeah, I'm not sure if we want to know what dark secrets you hold" Gerome adds flatly.
"Too bad you're going to see it anyways!" Anna decides instantly and angrily.
"But aunt Anna we are busy partaking in other activities!" Owain whines. The kids had taken to calling Anna "aunt Anna" to embarrass her at school, she doesn't mind but it confuses a lot of students and co-workers.
"Um, yes, if you don't mind aunt Anna I think we're all a bit too busy" Noire agrees without looking up.
"What on earth could be more important than seeing what I have to show you!" Anna demands crossly.
"Hmm, let's see… almost everything?" Inigo suggests sarcastically.
"We're busy texting friends" Severa replies from where she is lying on the ground.
"What friends?! The only friends you guys have are each other!" Anna observes.
"Exactly" Morgan agrees smugly, "who else would we text, no one else is cool enough to talk to us."
"Besides, talking takes SO much effort" Vert nods her approval of the statement.
"…You kids are ridiculous! And you're going to look at this because I promised myself a long time ago that I would humiliate your parents in front of their kids, and or, you" Anna explains.
"Isn't there a way to humiliate our parents without us having to pay attention?" Nah suggests.
"I agree, I'm kind of scared of whatever it is you did BEFORE the whole… firework incident" Yarne shudders.
"Shut up and pay attention, you are going to check this out" at this time Anna pulls out a crimson photo album crammed full with pictures and unseen horrors, "this is my "Album of Past Humiliations" it holds every embarrassing story, every dirty secret, every idiotic argument and any other thing your parents have ever tried to hide from you…"
AN: As I said, this is just an introductory chapter, all other chapters will be longer I promise. Anna will be featured in almost all stories but not all; definitely not all and she won't be the star of all of them either. I'm going to see what I can do about getting my sister to draw the photograph for each chapter as the cover image but if she decides not to because she's a lazy poo don't be disappointed. Fun fact: when I was writing "It Just So Happens…" Anna was only going to show up in that one part where Owain visits the office; but she ended up being way more important. There isn't much to say about this chapter so here's a preview for the next one!
Meeting:
"Yeah but if he DOES die dibs on cleaning up the body" the weird one insisted cheerily.
"If he dies dibs on taking the body home with me" the creepy student decided.
"Aw, I wanted the body" the weird kid whined their protest "shouldn't I get the body since I'm going to clean it up?"
"No, the body is mine I just called it" the creepy student disagreed instantly.
I guess now that we're done with that it's Adagan OUT!