It was quiet; he thought looking up from his math homework. Why was it quiet? The house never quiet unless…
he felt a chill run down his spine. No, he just being paranoid….wasn't he?
Dad had left him in charge of his brothers while he was away on a business trip,so it was his job to look after his brothers,keep them safe.
"Hey, Virg?" he asked Virgil who was sitting on one of the couches, sketching.
"yeah?" Virgil asked not looking up for his sketchbook.
"Have you seen Gordon or Alan by any change?"
"Gordon? Alan? um not recently." Virgil said looking up from his sketchbook. "why?"
"don't worry virg, I am probably just being paranoid," he said.
"well, we could ask John if he has seen them, I think he was down at the pool last I sew him," Virgil said, standing up.
Well okay…
well at least we know where Gordon is, he thought looking at a soaking wet john.
"woah, what happen to you?" Virgil asked.
"what do you think?" John said pushing a bit of wet hair out of his eyes.
"well, that answers half of our question," he mused. "now where the other half-"
*CRASH*
and that's the other half!
"what was that?!" he asked.
shit, I knew something was up!
"it came from upstairs!" Virgil said, "I think?"
He was already halfway up there before Virgil could finish, with John and Virgil hurrying behind him.
If Gordon down in the pool that only leaves Alan, shit I hope he's not hurt.
"John, you check Alan's room and your's, I'll check mine and dad's," he said stopping at the top of the stairs. "Virg, you check your's and Gordon's."
"he not in his room," John said, "or mine."
"he wasn't in dad's room or mine too" he really was hoping one of the other had found something. "Virgil?"
"same thing."
Okay, he was getting seriously worried now, he thought as he started pacing. It has been a while since that crash, what if Allie hurt or…
"you sure Gordon's down in the pool?" he asked, his worry getting the getting the better of him.
"yeah, but I'll go check anyway," John said, before heading down to the pool.
"where else haven't we looked?" he asked Virgil.
"well, there kayo's room but that not somewhere he would go-wait the bathroom! we haven't looked in the bathroom!"
Oh, why didn't they check there first! He thought as he hurried to the closest bathroom. The door was closed.
He could hear noises coming from inside.
"Allie? are you in there?" he asked knocking. Everything went quiet. Yep, he's in there.
"Allie, is everything okay in there?" he asked, "what was that crash? are you hurt?"
"n-nothing, i-i'm fine" squeaked alan.
Yeah, sorry little brother but I don't believe that.
"Alan, I'm coming in," he said opening the door.
What the… I was not expecting this.
The bathroom was a mess, brown hair dye boxes all over the place with Alan standing in the middle of them…. with badly dyed brown hair.
"woah," Virgil said behind him, snapping him out of his shock.
"Alan Tracy!" he crossed his arms "what are you doing?!"
"i…i-Scotty I just want to look like you and-and" alan looked dangerously close to tears now.
Shit, I should not have yelled.
he sighed, stepping over the boxes, crouching down in front of alan.
"Allie, look at me," he said, wiping away some tears that had started to fall down Alan's face. " I'm not mad at you, you just really worried us, kiddo" he explained gently. Worried me.
"I'm*hic* sorry, I just-"
"Shhh, I know. I know you want to look like me and I'm flattered, I really am," he said, pulling alan into a hug.
I really don't know why you want to have brown hair when you have that beautiful blond hair of yours but your six so…
"but you should not have tried to do it by your self; you could have gotten seriously hurt." and I would have never forgiven myself if that had happened. "a bathroom is not playground Allie."
"I'm sorry," Alan mumbled into his shoulder.
"it's okay," he said, "now, do you want to tell me what that crash was?"
"i… I knocked over that bottle and it fell" Alan said, nodded to a broken glass bottle on the floor.
"you didn't cut your self did you?!" he asked, scanning alan for injuries.
alan shook his head.
"Okay, you stay here with Virgil while I go get a dustpan to clean this up, okay?"
"uh Virg what are you doing?" he asked standing in the doorway to the bathroom.
alan was sitting on the counter while Virgil put more of that hair dye in his hair.
"what!?, it's was a crime against art to just leave it how it was!" Virgil exclaimed "plus it makes your mini-me happy" Virgil grinned.
Mini-me?… okay Allie was starting to look sort of like a mini-me.
"Scotty do you think I look like you yet?!" Alan asked, bouncing up and down.
and yeah that smile is priceless.
"Hey, stop moving, or do you want this in your eye?" Virgil asked.
"no"
"then don't move."
he chuckled "we will just have to wait and see once Virgil is done, won't we, kiddo?"