"All right, you two, are you ready to go?"
I was bent over, tying my laces to my red and yellow signature tennis shoes
My mom was waiting at the door with Claus, hands in his pockets.
"Almost, just my laces."
I finished my other shoe and walked over to them.
We decided to go school shopping today, after that we'd be free of anything school related and then me and Claus could see our friends before the school year started, good plan!
She opened the door and unlocked the car, me and Claus climbed in (Claus in front and me in back, as it's always been since he was "older")
My mom started the family the car and began to reverse onto the main street to get to the city mall.
"Hopefully we don't run into other parents there, it'd just be cramped and stressful." She sighed
Claus blew up at the whisps of his ginger hair on his forehead
"It's the last week, I think we're a bit late for this, mom..." My mom sighed, ignoring his attitude, she expected it from him, as did I.
"We can also save money by buying those math kits that include calculators and compasses that are together, they're pretty cool." I beamed at Claus, who didn't seem mildly interested.
"I just don't want anything lame, weird character print notebooks are for elementary school kids..." He seemed in a more stern mood as usual, he hates doing this stuff unlike me who actually thinks its fun!
I love buying fresh, new pens and college ruled notebooks. I think any other teenager would agree with me!...I also actually like character print notebooks...
(just I agree with Claus, they're kinda kiddy...)
We finally got to the mall and went to the closest stationary store.
Things were easy to find, cheap but good pens and thick notebooks were on the shelves.
My mom was looking through with me while Claus strolled round the store, he liked to pick things for himself since he was a stubborn little shit.
He tells me he knows what mom is like and she'll pick out the chessiest crap she finds, I just laughed at him.
Little does he know I pick them out and me and mom joke with him to piss him of.
It's so funny!
"All right, I think I'm done." I say as I hold the various books and other utensials in my arms.
My mom looks and smiles.
"Okay sweetheart, just I need to know if Claus is done." She was scanning the store, we couldn't see him.
"He hasn't ran away has he?" I joked
He finally popped up from one of the small isles, he had the same amount of stuff I did
"We're almost done, just need some other things then we can head home."
Claus groaned in annoyance, I only gave him an awkward smile and chuckle in responce.
I hated when Claus got grouchy, just ruins it for people (then again he's grouchy a lot.)
When mom paid for the supplies then we headed out the store to one next door
"We just need a couple of new clothes, you two look like you're almost growing out of your own now!" She teased.
Claus rolled his eyes but I could see a smile smile forming in his cheeks
"This won't take long?" He raised a brow at her
She smirked
"More like 10 seconds...literally."
Oh snap, this is when mom gets badass and does something totally cool!
Claus didn't catch on, maybe I'm the only one know when something good is going to happen.
We wandered in the store, mom wandered up to the counter and started muttering things to a man behind the register for a couple of minutes, we saw him go through the back door and up the stairs.
We waited for about 5 minutes until he came back down with a medium sized box that was made of the same material shoe boxes are made from, she got it in her arms and smiles at the man.
"Thank you, Steve."
Whil we were heading back to the car, Claus grinned
"Wow, you're right, that was literally about 10 seconds!"
Mom gave her smirk again
"Don't underestimate mommy powers, Clausy, dear." She ruffled his hair making him chuckle like a little teenager.
I couldn't help but smile at the situation (I love when mom shows her jokey side!)
When we headed home it was about time for dinner.
We saw dad when we got back, me and Claus put our things in our rooms and head back down to greet dad who gave us our fatherly-son pat on the shoulder.
We talked about the day over dinner and made a few casual jokes here and there, teasing Claus a bit and laughing when he sulked.
We heard Boney whine for food, our Mom pointing a finger and giving a stern 'no'
(It was my fault, I was giving him bits of lasange under the table without them knowing).
Dad asked what we were going to do with the rest of our week off while readjusted his hat as he usually does.
Me and Claus looked at each other and shrugged, we just thought we'd see some friends before we go back and play with Boney.
We were still recovering from our jetlag from coming back from Dalaam (which by the way, is an awesome place to vacation!)
The place is a long journey but it was great, me and Claus mentioned how our friend knows the King, which took a little convincing for our parents to believe.
"Is it me, or am I the only one who is actually a little excited to start school again?" I bring up just as we finish our food.
Claus shrugs
"I never said I hated school but when you're there for 6 hours it's just annoying."
I nod and pull a face in agreement,maybe when we get back things will be better and not boring as always, maybe we'll have a new student or a new teacher, maybe a new type of club or activity.
Last year I tried out for the 8 melodie's piano club, which was good but not a lot of people showed up (I wanted to learn properly, I really like the piano and I'm not all that good at it.)
Claus tried for the Pollyana choir and really enjoyed it while our friends did things like the baseball team, 8-bit video game club and various other clubs like the bottle-rocket science crew or the starman tech stars (Cheesy name, I know. I laughed too).
I think our last year will probably be our best.