A/N: Though the update speed may be slow sometimes, I don't give up on my stories. I have another story named Warm Fuzzy Feeling and I will update that one too soon. Sometimes life happens and you kinda lose that spark of will to write, but now I am slowly regaining it, so I want to thank all of you that is reading my stories and reviewing so beautifully, you make my day. Please R&R.
Chapter 2 - The Hyde Household
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"I'm home!" Steven Hyde shouted as he closed the door behind him. And the sight in front of him made him feel both pride and a anger settle over him. His curly haired twin sister sat by the coffee table in their living room, doing her homework. She was the smart one of them, both she and Forman often helped him and still he was too lousy to get something higher than a D. At least he would be graduating, she had said. And he and their mother was very grateful for that.
He remember when she would be pushed around by other kids on the playground in kindergarten, he had always been her protector, older brother, and he was damned if she was not meant for something higher than Point Place. He had swore that nothing bad would happen to her, and yet she had way more workload than him. He had one lousy job at the drive-in cinema that he was at about once a week. It was some money, but not nearly enough.
"Hey, I bought some soup and biscuits at the store with the coupons I found in the neighbor's mail.. It's in the kitchen for you" She said and smiled that heart wrenching smile.
"Thank sis'" He said and kissed the back of her head before going into their messy kitchen to eat. He had left Eric's basement after talking to Donna about her 'party' and how she really liked Eric. He felt weird when she talked about him, he didn't even know how to explain it. But he just wished that she would talk about someone else, someone that was not Eric. Steven walked back into their supposed livingroom and sat down next to his twin on the sofa. She was done with math it seemed, and she had moved onto history.
"Are you done with your homework?" She asked kindly and looked up at him, smiling at how he ate the soup without protest.
"Yeap, Forman helped me" He admitted and shrugged. It was embarrassing to ask Eric when he could ask his younger twin, but he felt that he would have some pride and higher ground, if he managed to at least graduate without her help. Sometimes he had to through that pride out the window though, because sometimes not even Forman did a good job tutoring.
"Good" She said and turned back to her homework. Steven started their tv and so their night turned rather calm and normal. They liked it though, their mother wasn't home yet so there was no shouting or crashing of furniture. Nor was there any strange men around either.
"Forman's thinking about working at Fatso Burger" He stated, waiting for his sister's reaction.
"Fatso Burger? Why?" Nyssa turned fully to look at him.
"Didn't like the dump I guess… Maybe I should apply too" He chuckled and looked at Nyssa, as if she would get the joke. He almost wished her to laugh out loud and state that he didn't need to apply for a shitty job like that. But he knew she would never do that, Nyssa above all else, was a survivor. She knew when money was getting tight, tough it had always been like that, some periods were way worse than others. Right now, they were in one of those periods.
"You? Working at Fatso Burger?" She asked and pushed her round glasses up her nose. Without them she was blind as a bat. But first day of high school, a cheerleader had 'accidently' pushed her down the last few steps of the stairs and made Nyssa's glasses crack. Steven knew what to get for her christmas present, but for a new pair of glasses one would need a lot of money. So either a new job or saving for the next few months.
"Yeah, why not?" He grunted.
"If you want a job, I can talk to Macy at the diner.. maybe you can help Hugh in the kitchen" She offered, not wanting to see her brother in a lousy Fatso Burger uniform.
"But I hate Hugh" He countered. He was a kind old man that was the husband of the diner's owner Macy. But the first day they met, he had called Steven 'young boy' and so he hated him for it.
"You hate everyone except me" Nyssa said with a shy smile and brushed a strand of her plain curly hair behind her ear.
"True" He sighed. Maybe Macy's was a better deal than Fatso Burger, he would just have to get used to Hugh.
"I will go to the interview at least" Steven stated. Nyssa looked at him for a few seconds and then hugged him tightly. What would she do without him?
"Okay… thank you" She mumbled into his shoulder. He chuckled and hugged her back.
"For what?" Steven asked.
"Being the best brother in the world" She said, and strangely enough. Steven accepted the compliment, with a new goal of taking a part of the workload and getting his sister out of Point Place.