Chapter Seven: Living Out Sunday
"Chan!! Get up, sis!" Shouted a loud male voice from the hall.
Pink eyes looked up at the ceiling. Chan had been up for a while. However, she didn't want to leave until the very last minute.
"Channy, Chan, Chan," said a low toned boy voice.
Chan looked down. It was her little brother Alex. He, like her, had black hair, but he had blue eyes that reflected and ocean. Alex was only ten years old, but very mature for his age. Her brother and sister, however. . .
A girl with long blonde hair peeked her head in. She was smiling from ear to ear. "Chan!! Chan's up!!" Exclaimed Lily, her older sister. "I made some chocolate chip pancakes! They are yummy!!"
Chan rolled her eyes as her sister skipped out of her room in her short overalls and pink tank top. If only her family were anything identical to normal. . .
"Hey, Alex, what's up?" Chan asked as she plopped out of her twin sized bed from her thin black and white blankets.
"Nothing much. Good morning," He said.
"You too," She replied, smiling widely. "Hey, I'll tell you what! If you let me get washed up real quick, I will take you to the park!" She thought that would catch his attention since he wasn't able to leave the house to go to the park or a friend's house without someone else. Most likely, she was the one that had to take him. Sometimes she would volunteer just to get out of the house. It was that crazy.
"Okay!" Alex exclaimed, running out of her room. He was so excited that when he was running that he tripped, followed by a loud noise. Then. . . "I'm all right!"
Chan rolled her eyes and laughed as she looked to see ten-year-old Alex with his skateboard on his back and smacked down on the hard floor.
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Thirty minutes later, Chan came out of her room wearing a pair of black jeans and a black tank top with Dickies written across it in orange and red flames. She had left her hair down and put in three different pairs of earrings: black, red, and pink. They were all in the shape of teardrops. She loved those earrings because they were just so peaceful.
"Chan!! Come on!" Called Alex from downstairs.
"I know! Hold on!!" she screamed. Chan on the other hand was. . .
"Hey, sis!" called a young man. He was about her age. This boy had black curly hair with a lower lip piercing and a left ear piercing. His clothes consisted of loose black pants and a white Simple Plan t-shirt.
"Oh, hi Adrian!" she smiled at him and hugged him. She was about two years younger that him. But, even so, he was over protective of her.
"So, you like it here, so far?" He asked her.
"Yea. It's okay. Last night my friends ditched me because they wanted to go out and drink and party." She paused as she saw her brother's shocked and angered face. Then laughed and continued. "Don't worry! I didn't drink. Besides, you already know I think that stuff is just plain stupid. So, instead, I waited outside. Then, I met this girl. She was really sweet. She said her name was Garnet or something. . . Anyways, then - "
She was unable to continue because her brother's face was insanely blank. He spoke to her only four words. "What was her name?"
Chan tossed her head to the side. "Garnet or something. She was a sweet girl." She paused and looked at her brother. Then began to speak. But not about the person she had met last night. "Adrian? Are you okay? You look a little uncomfortable."
"Oh, yea! I'm fine. I uh, just need to go do something real quick. Okay?" He asked, rushing to his room.
"Wait! I'm gonna take Alex to the park!" She called. But it was too late. He hadn't heard her. Chan laughed. Why was he always so weird?
So, instead of going into her brother's room and disturbing him, she just grabbed a pair of socks and her Converse or Chucks as she called them and headed downstairs.
"Chan!! Chan!! CHAN!!" Called her older sister. She came in the room with some cinnamon sugar toast, which she knew was Chan's favorite breakfast.
"What?" Then, Chan turned around and saw her sister holding the plate. Her eyes grew wide. "YUM YUMS!!" She exclaimed, grabbing them off the plate and heading outside with her brother.
Alex smirked as his sister devoured them yelling 'yum yums!!' It was a bit embarrassing to watch his sister be her stupid self. But it was still better to have her than his other sister. Then, his brother Adrian was usually acting depressed or something. So, Chan was the best he could get.
While Alex was skateboarding, he remembered something that happened the night before. So, he did what any other concerned brother would do. "Hey, Chan, who was that guy you were with last night. It wasn't your friend's car. Plus, when he said bye it didn't exactly sound like any of your friends you got now. He sounded familiar from somewhere."
"Oh!! Yeah, that's right! I was gonna tell Adrian about him!" She exclaimed. Then, she began chanting, "Guess who I met, guess who I met!"
"Who?" Alex asked. He was concerned because his sister was important to him and he didn't want her to get hurt.
At first, she just stood there looking at him dumbfounded. Then she said, "No, I don't want you to guess, I was just saying that! Here's your sign!" She was just playing around. Just give her cinnamon sugar toast and she'll have all she needs for the day. That was about the only problem with her.
Alex laughed. Then, he thought. Silence just hung around for a while. But not for long. . .
"Okay, you know that guy that I was sort of dating in the seventh grade? Well, he's back! But he's still a bit of a playa!" She laughed. "But! I think he's eased up!" Chan exclaimed. She was just spitting out jibberish at the time, so it was hard to make any sense of anything.
"Wait! So far I got guy and seventh grade. Shoot!" He said.
But she didn't continue. She just stopped. Then she sighed and got all crazy and ate her last piece of toast. Chan grabbed his skateboard from under his feet, making Alex fall and skated off.
Alex just stood there. Then, it clicked. It was the guy she had wrote so much about in her diary in the seventh grade. It was the one, the only: Zidane Tribal. So, he sped up. Zidane Tribal was nothing but trouble when she was in the seventh grade. Rumors spread all over that he was going to wild parties and drinking.
"Wait! Chan, come back! Don't skate off!!" He called, running after her.
She laughed as she arrived at the park. However, she was looking back, so she didn't see it coming when she crashed into a garbage can. "Eek!" She exclaimed. "I'm all right!!"
Alex laughed as he too arrived. He on the other hand was very cautious about that. He didn't want to slip again! Not this time! "Hey, Chan! Get up!" He said, holding a hand out to her. "Grab hold."
Chan looked up at him with wide eyes and a large smile. "Ouch. . . Maybe that did hurt a bit. . ." She said, rubbing her head.
"Get up, dum dum!" Alex exclaimed.
"Oh, there are some swings over there!" Chan said, running over to them immediately. Those were her favorite playground items after all. Even now, she would swing really high then jump off of them. It was a guilty pleasure of hers.
Alex grabbed his skateboard then walked over to Chan. He wanted so bad to ask her about Zidane. What had he said to Chan? What had he done? Well, she was obviously in a good mood. So, he didn't want to disturb that or make he unhappy. On the other hand, if she were in such a good mood, then she probably wouldn't mind discussing it. "Hey! So, you got to see Zidane last night?" He asked, keeping on a fake smile.
"Hey, how'd ya figure it out?" Chan asked. But she wasn't really seeking an answer. Then, she figured it all out. "You're smart!" She laughed.
Boy, if he had a penny for each time Chan said that to him, he would be a millionaire. Why did his sister always act like that? She was always just so laid back and relaxed. "So, ya wanna tell me what he said?"
"Umm. . . I don't care!" She exclaimed, jumping off the swings. "Well, let me see! He asked me how I was doin', how the family was doing. Then, I asked the same. He said that they were all great and - "
That wasn't exactly what Alex was looking for. So, he had to ask the question in other terms. "I mean: did he ask you to go out with him or anything like that! If he did, I will have to kick his butt! You know that I will, Chan!" He paused, seeing Chan's shocked, yet confused face. Sighing, he then continued. "It's just, Chan. . . last time, he did hurt you. And I don't want that."
Chan rolled her eyes. Her little brother was just like her older siblings. They were both over protective of her in that silly, yet serious way. "Come on! It's not like I'm that helpless little girl!! I'm tough! Grr. . .! Aren't I just oh-so scary?" She joked, throwing her head back in laughs.
Alex rolled his eyes. "Sis, I think that we need to take you home. . ." He said briefly.
"Alex, I feel like I'm forgetting something." She said, changing the subject. It was just something that she did. It wasn't absolutely on purpose. Sometimes it would be though. "What could it be?" She asked no one in particular.
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A boy with blonde hair stood outside of a building. He was wearing a pair of loose jeans and a black Smile Empty Soul shirt. It was about an hour that he had been waiting.
"Wasn't Adrian supposed to remind Chan that I was here?" The boy thought. Then, he stomped his foot on the ground and called out, "Chan? Chan?"
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Chan had stood silent for a long time. She was trying to figure out what ever she had recently forgot about. "Hmm. . ." She thought aloud.
"Hey, Chan! Are you coming or what?" Her brother Alex called, who was a couple of yards ahead of her. "Come on! I'm gonna leave ya. . ." He said.
Chan was a bit confused. Why was he way up there? Where was he going? Well, with nothing much to say, she caught up with him. She didn't want to be the one getting left behind. That was her constant role. "Alex! Wait up!" She called. Chan ran as fast as she could, trying to catch up with him.
Alex laughed as he watched his sister struggle and stumble, trying to meet his speed. She was falling behind. Somehow, Alex found a guilty pleasure in making his sister mad at him. Wait! Was that even a guilty pleasure? He laughed as he shook that out of his mind. "Fine! I'm gonna slow down!" He called, doing as he had said. Alex figured that if he didn't, then he would definitely end up paying for it. . . eventually.
Soon, Chan caught up with him. She was panting really hard. "Goodness gracious, Alex! You are one fast little boy!!" She said truthfully. On the outside, he was just a normal kid trying to make his way through life. However, when he hopped on that skateboard, he was a master. Alex was easy to get mad at when he was skateboarding. "How'd you get so good?" She asked, looking at him blankly.
"Come on, Chan! It's jus' a board! It ain't hard!" He exclaimed.
"No, I know that it isn't hard to learn! It's what I have to use for transportation when brother and sister aren't around. Plus, Daddy's never really home! He's usually off drinking. And when he comes home, we all scurry off, leaving Adrian. But no one said that he couldn't come!" Chan spoke fast, so Alex could barely understand her again. Yet, instead of saying anything, he just nodded.
"Right, well, if ya know that much," He paused, kicking the skateboard up as it gracefully landed in his hands. "then show me!" He handed the skateboard over to her, trying to get her to do some tricks.
"Okay!" She said, ripping the skateboard from his hands and scooting away from him. She didn't want him to get hurt if the board slid from under her feet.
The two siblings just hung out for hours. They didn't want to go home because it was just so boring. Plus, they didn't want to end up doing chores. That's usually what happened. They usually had to get up and do chores so that the house would be clean before their father got home.
Afterwards, when it was getting nighttime, the two went separate ways. Alex went to his friend's house, while Chan went to her friend's house. They had to get up early in the morning so that they weren't late for school. That was always a dreaded cause. Yet, in an odd sense, it would feel good because Chan would feel happy, knowing that there was someone she knew going to her school and not just a bunch of preppies in her grade that want to ruin peoples self esteem with their so-called perfect bodies.
Chan rolled her eyes at the thought as she made her way to her friend's front door. As usual, her friend was right there waiting for her. She was smiling as she opened the door. "Hi, Chan!" Said her brunette friend, Lilian.
"Hey, Lil!" Chan said.
"Come on in! My parents and I made some dinner so you can come and eat with us!" Lilian replied. She was always so nice, even if she did get drunk and got to parties, she didn't do drugs or anything else. In fact, she was quite a good girl when it came to drugs.
"Thanks," Chan smiled as she stepped in the door.
Over the couple of weeks, that had become her home. Lilian's mom was just so nice to take her in and treat her like a daughter of her own, that it wasn't really an issue of where to go when Daddy got home. That was where she went. When they had first moved there, she was sneaking some of her clothes over at her house since she spent the night so much. Not even that scared Lilian off. She was just that nice.
That was her new home. Where she went for a retreat. Last night her father didn't come home drunk, so she didn't have to worry. He had probably had enough work to do instead of having to stress about drinking and getting some work done. So, it was safe. Yet, tonight wasn't exactly a pleasure. Tonight he came home as a major drunk! She could just feel it.
Tonight was a night to retreat. . .
A/N: Okay, this chapter was a little weird and off the subject. But, it has a meaning to it, which you will find out about l8er on. So, as always, read and review! I would also like to thank my friendly reviewers. They are all greatly appreciated. Anyways, thnx a bunch for reading and I will see you all next chapter!
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