Chapter 2: Studding!
THREE WEEKS LATER!
Simon and Jeanette were sitting in the downstairs basement of the Seville home. Since Simon has been able to focus again, he has cleaned up the basement and turned it into a study room from when he was a kid. He started to do this shortly after he got out of the hospital from when he took an over-dose of sleeping pills. It was during his first couple of visits to the counsellor and started feeling sober again. He even had the old couch replaced with a much cleaner one. Dave surprised him one day with a brand new computer; it had everything that any student could ever need on a system and more. Simon decided that he would want it set up in his lab instead of the bedroom. This would enable him more privacy for when he would either study for school or the files from the cd's and mini disks that Mary sent to the survivor(s). He would even come down to work on his book.
Originally Simon was supposed to go to a party with his brother, Alvin, but he had been feeling pressured with the upcoming exams and decided that studding would be more important. He had promised Dave that he'd go and pick Alvin up later. Jeanette came by after Alvin and Dave left and thought she would help Simon study for the exam and at the same time study for hers too.
After a couple of hours the two young lovers started taking a break from their homework to concentrate on more 'physics'. They sat on the new couch and started to romantically kiss each other with their books still on their laps. The kiss slowly became passionate, but suddenly Simon stopped and sighed.
"I'm sorry, Jeanette! I'm just not in the mood right now!" He said, while resting his head against her shoulder.
Jeanette understood Simon's 'mood swings' and figured that maybe he'd just want to snuggle and talk instead, which did not bother her in the slightest. She took both of her arms and wrapped them around her troubled mate. "Is there something you'd want to talk about?" She asked in a soft, tender tone.
Not willing to move his head from the comfortable spot on Jeanette's shoulder, he answered. "I'm not sure, but I think Alvin is upset with me for some reason."
"What makes you say that?"
Slowly Simon lifts his head. "Well, he has recently had this snippy attitude around me, ever since the TV interview I had a few weeks back.come to think about it, he started when I had been receiving all those letters and emails from fans. But back then, he barely showed his any emotion towards it."
After thinking about it Jeanette thought of a solution. "Do you suppose that he maybe jealous of you?"
He looked at his love, questionably. "Why would Alvin be jealous of me? I was in bad shape psychologically for a couple of years. Sometimes I still have nightmares that cause me to wake up screaming."
"Will, think about it! You have been getting a lot of public acknowledgment for the past year. And Alvin, being the lead singer and all, well. Maybe he is feeling left out from the spotlight. Remember when we were kids and how if he didn't get his way, the temper tantrums he would create? And how he just had to always be the 'stage hog', so to speak, of the group? Both him and Brittany always had to be the centre of attention. They often fought for it too. I remember that would annoy the rest of us, but what could we really do, they are our siblings, right?"
Jeanette was right! Simon nodded in agreement. He slowly began to remember the time Dave took he and his brothers to Australia when they were eight to perform a concert in Sydney. As soon as they got to the hotel one member of the press was there to greet them. Being the 'stuck up' that he was, Alvin decided not to waist his time with just one reporter. He complained that he was too tired and did not want to be interviewed. Same with Theodore, but for different reasons, he was too hungry. So it was up to Simon, the sensible one, to go with the reporter and be interviewed.
It turned out that there were more reporters from all sorts of TV networks and newspapers in Australia. Simon became instantly popular to the Australians. When Alvin found out that everyone in Australia loved his smarter brother during the interview, he became really jealous. Simon remembered the crazy stunt that Alvin cooked up. He dragged their brother Theodore into the outback so that Alvin could pretend to save him. The plan didn't work out that way, it ended up that the both of them got lost. So it was up to Simon to go rescue them, as usual. He found them and brought them back safely. And again Simon was recognized as a hero to all the Australians. That really got Alvin's goat and he couldn't wait to get back home to America.
A guilty look came over Simon's face, as he now understood Alvin's reactions. Even though, Alvin has done his best to be very support of towards his recovery from his bad experiences from the Island and suicidal attempt, that Simon over looked the obvious. That no matter how well Alvin tried to hide it there will be apart of him that would never change. He wanted to be the one that the fans wanted to see more, and Simon knew that now.
Again Simon looked up into Jeanette's big beautiful green eyes and smiled. He gave her a big hug. "Thanks!"
"No problem!"
Simon looked at his new watch he got last year as a birthday gift and stood up. "I should get going, it's getting late! I promised that I would pick up Alvin at the party and have the car back before Dave got back home.
"I should be going too! I told Eleanor that I would help her with her socials assignment before bedtime!"
Both of them walked up the stairs and past Theodore. He stood in the kitchen baking for a different party that he and Eleanor were invited to go to tomorrow night. The three of them waved at each other and Simon and Jeanette continued to head for the front door. Each of them grabbed their coats and walked outside.
"I'll see you tomorrow?" Jeanette asked with a hopeful grin.
"Of course!" Simon replied as he got into the car. "See ya!"
THREE WEEKS LATER!
Simon and Jeanette were sitting in the downstairs basement of the Seville home. Since Simon has been able to focus again, he has cleaned up the basement and turned it into a study room from when he was a kid. He started to do this shortly after he got out of the hospital from when he took an over-dose of sleeping pills. It was during his first couple of visits to the counsellor and started feeling sober again. He even had the old couch replaced with a much cleaner one. Dave surprised him one day with a brand new computer; it had everything that any student could ever need on a system and more. Simon decided that he would want it set up in his lab instead of the bedroom. This would enable him more privacy for when he would either study for school or the files from the cd's and mini disks that Mary sent to the survivor(s). He would even come down to work on his book.
Originally Simon was supposed to go to a party with his brother, Alvin, but he had been feeling pressured with the upcoming exams and decided that studding would be more important. He had promised Dave that he'd go and pick Alvin up later. Jeanette came by after Alvin and Dave left and thought she would help Simon study for the exam and at the same time study for hers too.
After a couple of hours the two young lovers started taking a break from their homework to concentrate on more 'physics'. They sat on the new couch and started to romantically kiss each other with their books still on their laps. The kiss slowly became passionate, but suddenly Simon stopped and sighed.
"I'm sorry, Jeanette! I'm just not in the mood right now!" He said, while resting his head against her shoulder.
Jeanette understood Simon's 'mood swings' and figured that maybe he'd just want to snuggle and talk instead, which did not bother her in the slightest. She took both of her arms and wrapped them around her troubled mate. "Is there something you'd want to talk about?" She asked in a soft, tender tone.
Not willing to move his head from the comfortable spot on Jeanette's shoulder, he answered. "I'm not sure, but I think Alvin is upset with me for some reason."
"What makes you say that?"
Slowly Simon lifts his head. "Well, he has recently had this snippy attitude around me, ever since the TV interview I had a few weeks back.come to think about it, he started when I had been receiving all those letters and emails from fans. But back then, he barely showed his any emotion towards it."
After thinking about it Jeanette thought of a solution. "Do you suppose that he maybe jealous of you?"
He looked at his love, questionably. "Why would Alvin be jealous of me? I was in bad shape psychologically for a couple of years. Sometimes I still have nightmares that cause me to wake up screaming."
"Will, think about it! You have been getting a lot of public acknowledgment for the past year. And Alvin, being the lead singer and all, well. Maybe he is feeling left out from the spotlight. Remember when we were kids and how if he didn't get his way, the temper tantrums he would create? And how he just had to always be the 'stage hog', so to speak, of the group? Both him and Brittany always had to be the centre of attention. They often fought for it too. I remember that would annoy the rest of us, but what could we really do, they are our siblings, right?"
Jeanette was right! Simon nodded in agreement. He slowly began to remember the time Dave took he and his brothers to Australia when they were eight to perform a concert in Sydney. As soon as they got to the hotel one member of the press was there to greet them. Being the 'stuck up' that he was, Alvin decided not to waist his time with just one reporter. He complained that he was too tired and did not want to be interviewed. Same with Theodore, but for different reasons, he was too hungry. So it was up to Simon, the sensible one, to go with the reporter and be interviewed.
It turned out that there were more reporters from all sorts of TV networks and newspapers in Australia. Simon became instantly popular to the Australians. When Alvin found out that everyone in Australia loved his smarter brother during the interview, he became really jealous. Simon remembered the crazy stunt that Alvin cooked up. He dragged their brother Theodore into the outback so that Alvin could pretend to save him. The plan didn't work out that way, it ended up that the both of them got lost. So it was up to Simon to go rescue them, as usual. He found them and brought them back safely. And again Simon was recognized as a hero to all the Australians. That really got Alvin's goat and he couldn't wait to get back home to America.
A guilty look came over Simon's face, as he now understood Alvin's reactions. Even though, Alvin has done his best to be very support of towards his recovery from his bad experiences from the Island and suicidal attempt, that Simon over looked the obvious. That no matter how well Alvin tried to hide it there will be apart of him that would never change. He wanted to be the one that the fans wanted to see more, and Simon knew that now.
Again Simon looked up into Jeanette's big beautiful green eyes and smiled. He gave her a big hug. "Thanks!"
"No problem!"
Simon looked at his new watch he got last year as a birthday gift and stood up. "I should get going, it's getting late! I promised that I would pick up Alvin at the party and have the car back before Dave got back home.
"I should be going too! I told Eleanor that I would help her with her socials assignment before bedtime!"
Both of them walked up the stairs and past Theodore. He stood in the kitchen baking for a different party that he and Eleanor were invited to go to tomorrow night. The three of them waved at each other and Simon and Jeanette continued to head for the front door. Each of them grabbed their coats and walked outside.
"I'll see you tomorrow?" Jeanette asked with a hopeful grin.
"Of course!" Simon replied as he got into the car. "See ya!"