Joe pushed himself out of bed early to run, grabbing his running shoes and his ipod, grabbing a sweater over his sweats and zipped it up. He headed out for a run enjoying the nice weather of the morning. Joe passed his mother and Frankie in the car as he jogged down their street back to the house. He waved at Frankie who was waving at him frantically as they passed, his mom giving a friendly honk of the car horn before they continued to take off. Joe jogged up to the house 2 minutes later and slowed down to a walk, walking to the door and opening it up after glancing at the extra car in the driveway parked next to his.
"Hello?" Joe walked through the living room to the kitchen where there was a note on the counter. He read it quickly:
Joe,
Your father and Kevin went to a doctor's appointment; Frankie and I went to run some errands and will be back soon, you're brother is sleeping still I don't think he had enough sleep, so let him sleep in a bit more. Bridget is here for the day so its just you three for a few hours. Please clean up after yourself and do your laundry. See you when we get home.
Love mom
"Oh…Kay." Joe said as he finished reading it and moved back to the living room, ascending the stairs into the bathroom to take a shower. When he finished, he wrapped the towel around his waist and headed into his and Kevin's empty room and changed into a pair of white jeans and a blue shirt.
"Hey Nick-o." He called softly through his brother's door as he approached it. He leaned his ear against the door but didn't hear anything so he clutched the door handle and slowly turned it. The door creaked open and Joe popped his head into Nick's room, where he saw two figures laying on the bed. One was above the covers, and the other one under them.
He walked in and grasped the shoulder of his brother. "Nick-o…" Nick stirred slightly and opened his eyes, and looking at Joe before looking down at the small weight in his arms.
"Huh…?" he moaned softly as he looked up at Joe again. "What?"
"When did you get off the couch?" Joe asked.
Nick tried not to move around too much so he didn't wake the sleeping figure in his arms.
"Like 2:30 this morning…" he yawned. "I couldn't sleep after so I called Bee to help me fall asleep."
"Was she awake then?"
"I kind of woke her up actually." Nick admitted. "But she helped me fall back asleep…I guess she was still tired." He said motioning down to the girl in his arms.
"You should let her sleep, and take a shower, I'm doing laundry; do you need me to wash anything of yours?" Joe asked as he tried to help move Nick out of the bed as not to wake their friend up. Nick finally slipped out of the bed and climbed over the sleeping girl and stumbled to the bathroom with Joe following behind and closing his bedroom door slightly and stopping by the bathroom.
"Do you?"
"Um, nah mom did my laundry the other day and I think I'm good for now." Nick replied.
"Okay." Joe walked to his room to gather his clothes to do laundry as Nick took a shower.