I changed a few things from the movie because it'll make more sense that way. Read and Review please!
Chapter 10
When Connor woke up the next morning he realized it was pouring outside. He knew that if it was raining he and Murphy would still go but then it started lightning. His iPod lighting up distracted him from his window. He grabbed it and read the text from Murphy. 'I don't think we are going to be able to go outside today.' Connor laughed and typed his response of 'No, really? It's thundering out. Being near a tree that height would be like a death sentence.' He waited until Murphy responded. 'I was fine with that. But I'm not feeling to good today so I wouldn't have been able to go anyways.' That kind of depressed Connor. He had been hoping that maybe Murphy would have been able to hang out inside. So he just replied 'Oh. That sucks. Well I'll see you tomorrow then?' He waited a good ten minutes before Murphy's text came across. 'Yep.' Connor tossed his iPod onto his bed and then went downstairs and watched it rain. What in the world was he going to do today? His two best options were taken by the rain: Murphy and outside.
He sighed and searched through his Nintendo DS games to find a good one. As he searched he rubbed his right shoulder where he had a tattoo branded high on his right arm. It was a single word: VERITAS. It meant truth. He had no idea when he had got it. It had been there as long as he could remember. He had asked his mom about it one day and she hadn't known when he had gotten it, just that she hadn't let him get it. There had to be some purpose to it. Why else would someone get their kid a tattoo? He glanced outside and found that it looked like, if even possible, that it was raining harder. Then a thought struck him. He went to his computer and began typing in VERITAS in the search bar. Sure enough, the first option was VERITAS and AEQUITAS. They were a pair. One didn't appear without the other one. Which meant his brother would have the other one. If he found someone with AEQUITAS on their shoulder, he would find his brother. That would be amazing. He would have someone else with him. He wouldn't have to spend days like this alone doing nothing. He was very excited about his discovery but one more question floated into his mind so he typed it in the search bar. 'Translation of AEQUITAS.' Connor scrolled through a few different sites before finding what he was looking for. 'AEQUITAS- in Latin means Justice/Equality.' Now that his round of questions buzzing in his head was gone, he was out of things to do. That was the bad thing about waking up early: you had a lot of time on your hands if you got bored. A flash of lightning lit up his room and thunder rattled the house. He loved storms just not when they interfered with his plans. If they were driving somewhere then he always wished for a storm to come so he could watch for lightning and try to take pictures of it. He had only to get one picture of a brilliant flash of snake lightning and it was saved on his computer, iPod, and camera.
Another flash and more thunder. He stood by his window and continued to watch until a movement caught his eye. Murphy's door was opening and one figure was pretty much dragging another smaller figure out into the rain. He watched as the larger figure half tossed- half shoved the smaller into the yard and the rain. Then the figure turned and walked back into the house. "What the heck?" Connor asked himself. He was trying to convince himself that the figure that wasn't Murphy but that was the only person that could fit that size. He hoped this would work. He texted Murphy: 'Murph. It's raining outside. Why are you out there?' He narrowed his eyes so he could see through the rain and watched as the figure pulled something out of his pocket and began typing on it. Connor confirmed his suspicion that it was Murphy. A text came back 'I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.' Connor sighed. 'Look Murph. I'm at my window. I can see you standing out there. You should at least sit under something so you don't get sick.' Murphy's text came back in a second 'Ok. Sorry. I'm out here because I kind of got kicked out of the house for a little while.' Connor frowned. That wasn't normal. 'You want to come over here?' he asked. He saw Murphy look up towards Connor's house and then his iPod went off. 'I don't think they'd like that. I'll be fine. It's not that cold out here anyway, just wet.' Connor shrugged. He wasn't going to force Murphy to do anything. 'Alright then' he sent and didn't get a response back. He walked away from the window but it was bothering him that Murphy had got tossed out into the rain. It was like they didn't give a crap what happened to him. So every fifteen minutes he checked to see if Murphy was ok or not just glancing out his window. It was something to do and he got to read while he did it. After about three hours or so he saw the door open across the street and Murphy was allowed to go back in. He rolled over onto his back, put his book on top of his face, and let the tense feeling that had been in his chest the whole time dissolve.
He glanced at his clock and saw it was six in the evening. His day had gone by relatively quickly. He fooled around on the Internet with VERITAS and AEQUITAS to see if he got anything more out of it but the sites all said the same thing. Finally bored with not finding any results he resorted to playing music through his headphones and writing VERITAS in huge black letters and then designed with different black markings. By the time he finished doing that it was close to eleven at night. He decided that if he went to bed now he and Murphy would be able to get an earlier start the next day on their tree house. He got ready for bed and hoped to god that it would stop raining by tomorrow. He fell asleep to the sound of the rain getting softer.
I was actually glad this chapter came out a little longer than usual. Had to change the area of his tattoo for later on reasons. Thanks for reading!