A/N: Sorry I haven't updated in a while, I was on holiday. More to come soon though!
Tom woke up because some sun was peeking through the curtain. He rolled over to give Rebecca a hug but she wasn't there. He rolled back over to check the time and was shocked to see it was ten. He never normally slept past nine, and he considered that to be a sleep in on weekends. He got up and went downstairs. He saw Rebecca giving Matt a hair cut in the living room. There was a blanket that Matt was stood on that would catch the hair.
"Your monthly hair cut?" Tom asked as he came down the stairs.
"Yeah." Groaned Matt.
"It has to be done," said Rebecca. Tom gave his wife a kiss on the cheek. "The post has just been if you want to go get it?" Tom went outside to get the post like Rebecca asked. He brought it in and opened the ones addressed to him. Two of them were Ben and Hal's report card. Ben had got all A's like he normally did. Hal on the other hand hadn't done quite as well.
"It's their report cards." Said Tom.
"All done." Rebecca said to Matt who ran off outside to play with his friends Tom assumed. Rebecca joined Tom in the kitchen to look at the report cards.
"Ben's got all A's again." Said Tom holding his up first to see.
"Brilliant." Said Rebecca.
"Hal passed most of his." Tom said now holding Hal's up to see.
"He failed Math again. Why are we paying a tutor if their not doing any good?"
"He did good though, apart from that."
"He got mostly B's" Rebecca pointed out.
"Exactly." Said Tom. Hal came down the stairs, his hair was all over and it was obvious he had just woke up.
"What you looking at?" He asked.
"Your report card." Replied Rebecca. Hal stopped in his tracks.
"How did I do?" He asked nervously.
"Very well." Said Tom.
"You failed Math, but we knew that was a problem." Added Rebecca.
"Although I think we'll get rid of your tutor they're not doing very well." Said Tom.
"I didn't have a tutor." Said Hal.
"We gave you money weekly for a tutor." Said Tom.
"I still have the money, it's upstairs, I just didn't want to get a tutor." Explained Hal.
"Well you're definitely getting one for you for next term, we'll get one that comes here." Said Rebecca.
"Please don't, I don't want Ben to know I've got one."
"You had the chance to have one away from home." Said Tom.
"How did Ben do?"
"All A's"
"Standard, I didn't even see him work for it."
"I didn't see you work for yours," said Ben who had just come down the stairs. "Then again, how much work do you have to do to fail?"
"Ben that's enough." Said Rebecca.
"I got all A's?" Asked Ben taking his report card from his mum. "All A plus's, you had me worried then." Said Ben throwing his report card back down.
"Ben can you give us a minute with Hal please?" Asked Rebecca.
"Sure." Said Ben picking up his book he had just put down and leaving the room.
"I'll try harder next term, I promise." Said Hal.
"You'll have a tutor so it'll be easier." Said Tom.
"Please, can I just have one more chance without a tutor?"
"No negotiation you're getting one," said Rebecca. "We'll find a time where Ben isn't home. We just want you to do well, that's all." Hal looked from his mum and dad and knew there was no way he was going to persuade them to do otherwise.
"Fine." He agreed reluctantly.
"You did really well though, come and have a looked." Said Rebecca holding up his report card.
"Ben did better though." Said Hal comparing the two.
"Ben is Ben though." Said Tom.
"We're proud of your marks just as much as his." Added Rebecca. Tom and Rebecca had always agreed to support any marks their children got as long as they were passes. They didn't mind so much if they didn't get all A's they just didn't want them to fail. They knew in reality Hal hadn't tried as much as he could but he had tried a lot harder than Ben. It all seemed to come naturally to Ben. He was naturally curious too, he wanted to study to learn. This wasn't the case with Hal though, he was more interested in the social side to life.
Hal got some breakfast and took it to the front room to watch some TV. Rebecca and Tom remained in the kitchen cleaning up the mess that only one hour of the morning had brought. Rebecca was just finishing washing up the couple of plates that were in the sink when Tom grabbed her round the waist and embraced her from behind.
"I love you." He said to her quietly. She turned around so she was facing him.
"I love you too," she said giving him a kiss on the lips. "But we don't have time for this, Matt wants to go swimming. Am I taking him or are you?" Rebecca asked.
"I don't mind taking him." Said Tom dropping his arms disappointedly.
"If it's going to be a chore-"
"It's not, I was joking," Tom cut in. "I'll go shout him in and we'll go now." Tom replied.