Daylight Morning

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You guys are such a bad influence! I could have been finishing my English but oh no, I wrote this! Ah well. I'm hiding out in the music block to skive chapel so this was a fun distraction. I never want to go to prison…I am sick of this 12 X 6 room! Please read and review.

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'I see the parents are back to their nauseatingly affectionate selves,' Seth commented, glancing disgustedly out of the window to the patio table where Kirsten and Sandy were sat sharing a chair and feeding each other bits of bagel.

Ryan stuffed a handful of Captain Crunch into his mouth before looking up. 'Sumfing's beenf gofing fon,' he declared.

His brother rolled his eyes, 'In English Ryan?'

'Something's been going on.'

'What? Where?'

'With your parents dumbass.'

'Don't say 'ass', mom will have your head.'

'Stop trying to ignore the fact you hadn't noticed.'

'They're my mom and dad, I try to ignore what they're doing most of the time because they're usually doing something like…euch…that.' He pointed outside where his parents were kissing fervently.

His foster brother quickly averted his eyes. 'Yeah, see what you mean but they haven't been like that for a while.'

'As a matter of fact I think I did realise…I was revelling in it actually. No awkward moments walking in on them kissing, not having to worry before opening doors, breakfast without the flirtatious banter, dinner without overt sexual undertones…'

'Seth.' His brother cut off the rant.

'What?'

But Ryan wasn't listening; his eye had caught sight of the sun reflecting on something outside. Kirsten's rings were flashing gold in the sunlight and that's when it came to him. The past few days they hadn't been there.

Since he'd arrived he didn't think he'd seen the platinum bands leave her finger but just recently they'd been missing. He frowned. Had he been hallucinating? But the more he thought about it the more the truth hit him in the face.

'What Ry?' Seth was whining.

'Your mom took her rings off.'

'Huh?'

'Her wedding rings…last week she wasn't wearing them.'

'Oh she lost them,' Seth said undisturbed, 'that's the reason we didn't have a kitchen sink for three days remember? Dad took the plumbing apart to try find them. Spent all day Saturday in that cupboard and managed to lose the screw that fits the thing to the...thing.'

Ryan shook his head, something wasn't right. Kirsten didn't just lose her rings, she never took them off.

'All day?' he asked.

'Yeah. He was bored I guess.'

'More like he was worried.'

'Why? They're only jewellery.'

'No, they're not Seth, it's more than that and…'

'And what?'

'I just, have this dumb feeling that, Kirsten didn't lose them, she took them off.'

'But mom never takes her rings off.'

'I know. That's why it's weird. But they've been weird lately. I'm worried there's something going on.

'I see what you're getting at Ryan but really, all I can see that's going on out there is way too much PDA.'

His brother sighed, perhaps he was overreacting; his guardians looked happy enough now. It was just…he was used to them being all over each other, embarrassing though it was.

The recent tension in the house, the silence at mealtimes, the false jokes, chaste kisses, their bedroom door not being closed, it wasn't right.
Kirsten's laugh was heard from the poolside and Ryan could see she was now sat on Sandy's knee running her hands through his hair, his arms tight around her waist.
He shook the dark thoughts from his head; it seemed alright now