Chase walked through the front door, only to slam it as hard as he could once he was inside.
He threw his backpack on the couch and looked around the room. When he saw nobody, he went over to Douglas' room. He opened the door without knocking and slammed it shut, startling Douglas who was sitting at his desk.
"I thought we were done with this!", Chase yelled "But no! They just have to go and ruin it! Again!"
Douglas looked at him with big eyes: "Chase, why don't you sit down for a moment? You can have a nice cup of tea and calm down a little bit."
"I don't want to calm down!", Chase yelled.
Douglas looked taken aback from this sudden outburst and stood infront of Chase: "What's wrong?"
"What isn't wrong?", Chase replied quietly, almost dropping himself on the bed"Trent started to mock me again. 'Who wants to chase Chase?' He chased me through the entire school, together with the rest of the football team!"
"Didn't Adam, Bree or Leo do something?", Douglas asked.
"Oh yes, they did!", Chase replied "Leo encouraged them! Bree tripped me so they could catch me! And Adam was looking while they were chasing me and just laughed!"
"Did they beat you up?", Douglas asked, suddenly in father-mode.
"No", Chase answered "I was able to escape in time. Turns out the library is a great hiding place"
"Look, I know you're mad", Douglas tried to reason with Chase "but I'm sure they didn't mean any harm. They probably just wanted to have some fun."
"Having fun is fine", Chase replied coldly "But why does their fun always relate to me getting hurt?!"
"That's what older siblings do", Douglas answered, sitting down next to Chase "They tease you and hurt you and break your toys... Wait, what was I saying again?"
Chase sighed and let him fall down on the bed completely: "... Sometimes I really doubt why I'm around..."
Douglas faced Chase cand put his hand on Chase's knee: "They care about you."
"Then why don't they show it?!", Chas exclaimed sitting up again.
"They're teenagers", Douglas answered matter-of-factly.
"So am I", Chase returned.
But Douglas shook his head: "You're the smartest guy on earth. Their mental age is lower than yours, which is normal. That's why you feel like you don't fit in and you don't like the same things."
Chase frowned: "I never said that!"
"Am I wrong?", Douglas asked, knowing the answer already.
Chase sighed as he answered: "No."
After a rather tense silence, Douglas spoke up again: "Where is everyone, actually? Shouldn't they be home already?"
"Adam, Bree and Leo went to get a smoothie", Chase explained "mr. Davenport sent me a message saying that there was something wrong with a supercomputer he invented and it was causing a huge blackout, so he was working late. And Tasha left a note that she was covering some big story about a supercomputer gone haywire... Would she know it was the computer of her own husband?"
"Probably not", Douglas answered with a small grin "So that means it's just the two of us for dinner?"
"Yep", Chase answered "Do you need my help for dinner? Otherwise, I'm already gonna do some homework."
Douglas thought for a moment before standing up: "You know what? Forget dinner! You and I are gonna have dinner at the mall!"
Chase smiled and stood up as well: "Sounds great! Wait, have you already bought a car?"
"Yep!", Douglas smiled proudly "Come on!"
The silver BMW in the garage was shining almost brightly as Douglas himself.
"Get in!", he said as he got in himself.
"This is awesome!", Chase said as they were driving towards the mall.
"It's getting even better!", Douglas said as he pushed a button and the roof opened up.
"Nice one!", Chase said as he stretched his arms.
Once they arrived at the mall, they went to a fastfoodrestaurant and ordered a hamburger with French fries. When they were seated, Chase didn't start eating right away.
"Is there something wrong?", Douglas asked.
"Can I ask you a strange question?", Chase asked.
"Sure", Douglas answered "I'm your funloving uncle who'll let you nag about anything, remember?"
Chase took a deep breath before speaking up: "When and why did you decide to go to the dark side?"
Douglas almost fell from his chair when he heard the question.
"That's a long story, Chase", he sighed "Do you really want to know?"
Chase nodded eagerly.
Douglas sighed: "Okay then. It all started seventeen years ago..."
Author's note: Hi! Here's the next story, starting off with a small cliffhanger ;).
This will probably be a rather long one.
I hope you enjoy it! :D
R&R!