A/N: Sorry I took so long to do this… hopefully the updates will be at least once a week on either story… I'm not sure. I get the feeling with this chapter, some of us will be able to relate to this. I know that the other chapter in events after Perfect Dark was a little Sean focused too, but I figured it would be easier to write this about Sean then any other character.
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Sean woke up… something didn't seem right. His Mum went out to work at the hospital as always and Dad never seemed around, he was always very busy… but still something was not right… he looked over at the clock. 8.45!!!
"Oh crap!" Sean shouted out, normally he wouldn't even use the slightest foul language for fear of being told on, but he couldn't help it. He had to somehow be at school in 15 minutes…the bus had long gone, on top of that he had a sore head as if something had hit him. He tried to get out of bed, but he couldn't…
"EH?" Sean was very puzzled no matter how hard he tried to get out he couldn't, he felt something was holding him down. After lifting the quilt off the bed he soon saw what it was. Ropes were wrapped around his chest and legs…
'How on Earth did THAT get there' Sean thought…
Trying to use his hands to get rid off the ropes he realized the ropes was covered in honey… but after about 5 more minutes he managed to remove it and pull himself out. He'd have to deal with the mess later, how did it happen he thought. He just washed the honey off his hands and threw off his clothes he slept in that were in a bit of honey as well and put on a dark blue t-shirt, some black tracksuit pants and his red and white jacket before quickly throwing socks on and shoes, 8.54 on the clock, he'd be 5 minutes late at the least, well that wasn't too bad. He grabbed his bag and hurriedly locked the door and left.
"Well at least it's a nice day to run in" Sean said out loud
Of course, like all bad days go, Sean had spoken too soon. As he started to run, the clouds increased and within 2 minutes it was pouring with rain.
"Not fair…" Sean grumbled, usually he doesn't mind the rain but today it just seemed everything that could go wrong would go wrong. He then went to look at his watch, only to realise he had forgotten it in his rush. Pulling his hair in frustration he ran on. He continued running, his hair was soaking wet and he could fell the water in his feet by the time he could see the school. Then a wooden plank dropped his path, but he was running too fast and he tripped over it causing him to slide across the ground and badly hurt his right hand on sliding.
"Got ya good!!" a voice laughed. Sean turned around but nobody was there, maybe he was just imagining it, maybe this was all some stupid dream. He walked up to the school and thought about all that happened, somehow he gets tied into his bed with ropes soaked in honey, then he in his rush he forgets his watch and who knows what else, then it pours down with rain on the way here and a wooden thing just decides to fall in front of him… however it wasn't over for Sean yet.
"Hey you jerk, you bumped me!" Somebody said
Sean looked up, it was Terrence.
"Sorry…" Sean replied, he was lost in thoughts and wasn't watching where he was going. He tried to walk away from Terrence but he wasn't going to get away that easy.
"Sorry doesn't cut it pal. Nobody bumps me…" Terrence went and punched Sean hard in the mouth before pushing him down hard on the ground.
"Ha, serves you right" Terrence laughed as he went inside.
Sean only groaned in pain wondering how long this was going to last, he then rubbed his mouth where Terrance had punched him, then struggled a bit to stand up, breathing to himself and trying to calm down as he walked inside. He tried to dry off just a little before going into the classroom. Dr. Caroll was using his motorized hands to write things on the white board.
"Sean, 30 minutes late?" Dr. Caroll asked with a frown of disapproval appearing on the newly added screen below his eyes.
"30 minutes" Sean thought out loud, he couldn't believe that. "Sorry" Sean said again
"Hmm… sit down… if you are this late again you'll get a detention, although you are always on time so I'll let you go just this once. Speaking of detention Terrence, or Terry as some of your friends have started to call you, you have detention, you are at least 20 minutes late everyday, and I'm going to put a stop to it, or you'll just make double the time up in detention. Understood?" Dr. Caroll said
"Yes, Dr. Caroll" Terrence replied in a fake sing song voice. Sean was slightly pleased to see Terrence getting detention, but it still didn't make up for what had happened. He took off his jacket and tried to let it dry on the chair, and he pulled out his book, something he didn't forget.
However Sean then realised he had forgotten his pens and pencils and had to ask Jonathan to borrow things, and naturally Jonathan milked it for all it was worth.
"Hey Jon, can I borrow that pen?" Sean asked
"This one?" Jonathan held up a red pen and knew very well it wasn't what Sean meant.
"No, the black one" Sean said
"If you beg" Jonathan smiled
"Come on Jonathan" Sean said
"I'd hardly call that begging" Jonathan smiled again
"Please Jonathan" Sean went along with Jonathan's game
"Okay, but on one condition" Jonathan said and Sean rolled his eyes
"What is it?" Sean began to get really annoyed
"You have to go Joanna and kiss her" Jonathan smiled
"Fine be that way. I'll ask somebody else" Sean said rather coldly
"Hey, I was just joking, take it easy" Jonathan passed Sean the pen, and he took it with his right hand and realised he couldn't hold it properly due to the pain. Damn, he thought, there was no way he could write anything that was readable like this. He'd just have to copy down whatever somebody else had put later, and it probably wouldn't be Jonathan. At this point Sean couldn't wait until the day ended, he could just sit back with Jonathan and play Perfect Light, although Jonathan was being really annoying at the moment, Sean had second thoughts, maybe it would be better to sit back and forget everything, nah Jonathan was just mucking around he has no idea what's happened. After Sean had thought it out he was thinking about Perfect Light and playing with Jonathan.
Soon lunch came around and because it was still raining all the kids were in the canteen area or the classroom. The table and chairs that made a runaway still hadn't been replaced so Joanna, Natasha and Jonathan just sat down at another table that had a few people on it, but enough for 4.
"Hey Sean sorry about before" Jonathan said
Sean turned to face Jonathan.
"It's alright… things haven't gone my way today" Sean said
"Hey Sean those marks look really bad, you seen the nurse or something?" Jonathan asked
"No, but I might later" Sean replied
"AND Anyway, that's when I pushed him over" Terrence was bragging to Cassandra, Alec and Xenia.
"He's right over there you know" Alec said
"So what? What's he going to do? Bash me?" Terrence said before laughing
"True point Terry" Alec replied
"You have quite a temper" Xenia said "I like that"
"Yeah I know, isn't it great" Terrence gave a smile
Sean looked over in their direction but turned away whenever Terrence went to look in his direction.
"I take it that was you, who ran in with so called Terry" Jonathan said
"Pretty much, that's how I got this mark" Sean pointing to his face
"Wake up late today?" Jonathan asked
"Yeah, I could have sworn something hit me over the head this morning, it was sore for ages. When I tried to get out of bed…" Sean started
"Oh is that the time!" Jonathan said looking at his watch
"What do you mean?" Sean asked. There was at least 30 minutes before they had to go back in looking at the clock from a distance
"I've got to go to the doctors, sorry I didn't tell you this sooner, so I can't come to your place" Jonathan said
"Oh… alright" Sean replied disappointed.
Jonathan went out and got into a parked car and it drove off. Then Sean did forget his lunch money as well but didn't want to play another round of let's beg for something off Jonathan before he left. However somebody called out to him, it was Natalya, Sean walked over to where she was sitting.
"Hi Sean" Natalya smiled "Having a rough time?" Natalya asked
"A bit" Sean replied
"What you have for lunch?" Natalya asked
Sean didn't reply
"Forget your money in your rush?" Natalya asked
Sean only nodded
"I know the feeling, and I saw what happened with the pen this morning. Jonathan is being a real meanie isn't he?" Natalya asked
"I dunno what's with Jonathan" Sean said
"Oh it's just the way he is" Velvet said. She was sitting with Natalya.
"What do you mean?" Sean asked
"Well sometimes he will look at any opportunity to crack a joke, regardless of who he hurts in the process, although most of the time he doesn't notice he hurts anybody. Although it's not very often, you just happen to be on the receiving end of it today" Velvet explained
"Yeah okay, thanks" Sean said as he walked off and bought just a small amount and gave the change back to Natalya.
Just before the end of lunch Sean put his jacket back on, it was finally dry enough and it had been freezing cold all day, as the heaters weren't working. As there were was about 10 minutes before Dr. Caroll would come back, Sean decided to head for the school doctor named Sarah. She was commonly called a nurse but she was actually a doctor, who called in to people at home when they were sick as well as doing the nurse/doctor job at the school since doing the call ins alone was very boring for her.
A/N: Sarah is Cristalina's character, not mine. She comes from "10 things you need to know about Joanna Dark", a great fic.
"Hello there" Sarah smiled to him
"Hi, I fell earlier this morning" Sean said
"Oh, that looks nasty. The mark on your face, did you get into a fight?" Sarah asked
"Well…" Sean stopped
"I won't tell anybody, if I did you won't come here when you are hurt" Sarah told him
"He just pushed me for no real reason. I bumped into him by accident and he just pushes me down" Sean said a little frustrated
"Oh I see… well this is going to sting a bit. Sorry" Sarah said as she went for a liquid of some kind before putting a cotton bud in there and put it on Sean's face and then before Sean could react too much she put it on his hand as well.
Sarah was wrong, it didn't sting a bit, it stung a lot. Sean tried hard not to scream but it really did hurt. Sarah put something else on it, and it did ease the pain a bit.
"Anyway, I'll write a note so you don't have to write in class" Sarah said
Sean nodded in thanks as he took the note
Finally the school day ended without anything else eventful happening. Dr. Caroll dismissed the class and everybody left. Sean left the room and went to head out until somebody came up behind him in a rush
"You never learn do you!" Terrence said
"Don't you have detention?" Sean asked coldly.
"Shut up, big mouth" Terrence said and pushed Sean into the wall.
Sean went to push back but Dr. Caroll came from behind.
"Terrence get back here you have detention and because you got into a fight you'll be here for an extra 15 minutes, you are a real trouble maker you know that!" Dr. Caroll's normally blue screen turned red with anger and Terrence walked back into the classroom.
"That's better" Dr. Caroll turned back to his usual blue.
Sean took a look at the bus, it was packed. There was even people walking away because they couldn't get on. Nobody wanted to walk in the rain and he didn't blame them as people who normally walked home got on the bus, although he normally did walk home, he caught the bus in the morning because it was easier to get ready in the morning.
'Stupid, damn Terrence" Sean thought to himself. If he hadn't held him back, he would have got on.
Sean sighed and zipped up his jacket and walked back the way he came. Suddenly a plank dropped in front of him, but Sean was going a lot slower.
"Missed!" A voice said
"Who said that?" Sean looked around, he knew he had heard it the second time.
He looked where the plank fell from, there was a table and a bunch of chairs underneath it.
"Oh no! We've been spotted! Run for your lives!" The table began to get up on its legs and started to run away it stood on Sean's foot and it flung a board in the air which Sean ducked
"Wait for us!" The chairs began to stand up too
"Hey this is the kid we got last night, did you like that honey" Part of the chair's back was going up and down like a mouth
"What!?" Sean shouted as he grabbed one of the chairs
"Oh let me go you, you…little brat" The chair was flailing its legs around pointlessly
"This is a lesson to you all" Sean was really ticked off as he took the chair and smashed it into the tree really hard.
"Nooooo!" It cried out as the pieces of wood fell all over the place.
Sean felt better when the chair smashed into pieces and he continued walking. When he got home and unlocked the door and opened it he noticed all the things he had left behind were sitting on the table waiting to be picked up. How did he miss seeing them? Sean thought.
After he went to his room and changed the sheets and threw them and the clothes he had in the night into the washing machine. Then he took the honey soaked rope and put it in the garbage, although how did those random acting chairs and tables get in the house in the first place? As he would probably need it tomorrow he put his jacket a good distance from the heater to let it dry.
"Good to be home" Sean said to himself as he started to play Perfect Light, but then his hand hurt, but it wasn't as bad as before and decided to put up with it. However the phone rang. Sean got up and answered it.
"Hey darling" it was Maria
"Hey Mum" Sean replied
"I'm sorry to tell you this, but we won't be home for dinner tonight. Things are really busy here today" Maria told him
Sean was silent for a minute
"Okay Mum. When will you be in? Any idea?" Sean asked
"No, sorry dear. You have no idea how chaotic things are at the moment. I'll make it up to you somehow, there is some stuff you can microwave if you want" Maria said
"Alright…" Sean sighed
"Sorry dear got to go… see you later" Maria hung up the line
"Bye" Sean said even though Maria had hung up the phone.
He went to the kitchen and used the microwave to make something basic as he was still really hungry. After eating he went to play Perfect Light and Smash brothers melee. He was really exhausted from everything today so decided to head into bed a bit earlier then usual wanting to put an end to this day. He closed the door, got in bed and turned off the bedside light.
Later that night however he heard somebody open the front door. Sean was wide awake, he went to the door quietly and opened it, but then after hearing their voices he realised it was his parents.
"Why did Carrington want to hide this here?" Maria asked.
"Seems to be one of the last places they would look. Wouldn't you think?" Adrian replied
"I guess so. Anyway let's be quiet in opening the safe, Sean's probably asleep" Maria said.
Sean heard something open which he guessed was the safe wherever that was, then close again.
"I'm going to see Sean…" Maria said
"Alright, I need sleep. I haven't seen my own bed in days" Adrian replied
Sean closed the door quietly and went back into bed. His Mum came up and opened the door, she knew he wasn't asleep just by looking at him even in the dark, but this didn't matter.
"Hi, how are you?" Maria asked
"I'm okay" Sean replied as Maria came into the room
"You don't sound okay. I know we haven't been around but we are doing stuff that is important at the moment" Maria said
"I know, it's okay… things just didn't go well at school today" Sean said
"Oh… want to talk about it?" Maria asked
"Not at the moment, I'm a bit tired" Sean said.
"Alright I must admit I am too, I should be here in the morning" Maria smiled
"Thanks" Sean said.
Maria got up and left the room and closed the door again
What had happened with his Mum and Dad with that safe. The name Carrington also reminded him of something. Then it hit him, somebody in the class was called Daniel Carrington. His dad ran some kind of space research program with some kind of science, but it wasn't medical stuff he knew that, what would they have to do with a hospital. Maybe it was just an amazing coincidence, but still who was looking for what was in that safe, since this would be the last place they would look. It was really none of his business anyway, but it was probably the reason his Mum and Dad were hardly around.
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Sean woke up… something didn't seem right. His Mum went out to work at the hospital as always and Dad never seemed around, he was always very busy… but still something was not right… he looked over at the clock. 8.45!!!
"Oh crap!" Sean shouted out, normally he wouldn't even use the slightest foul language for fear of being told on, but he couldn't help it. He had to somehow be at school in 15 minutes…the bus had long gone, on top of that he had a sore head as if something had hit him. He tried to get out of bed, but he couldn't…
"EH?" Sean was very puzzled no matter how hard he tried to get out he couldn't, he felt something was holding him down. After lifting the quilt off the bed he soon saw what it was. Ropes were wrapped around his chest and legs…
'How on Earth did THAT get there' Sean thought…
Trying to use his hands to get rid off the ropes he realized the ropes was covered in honey… but after about 5 more minutes he managed to remove it and pull himself out. He'd have to deal with the mess later, how did it happen he thought. He just washed the honey off his hands and threw off his clothes he slept in that were in a bit of honey as well and put on a dark blue t-shirt, some black tracksuit pants and his red and white jacket before quickly throwing socks on and shoes, 8.54 on the clock, he'd be 5 minutes late at the least, well that wasn't too bad. He grabbed his bag and hurriedly locked the door and left.
"Well at least it's a nice day to run in" Sean said out loud
Of course, like all bad days go, Sean had spoken too soon. As he started to run, the clouds increased and within 2 minutes it was pouring with rain.
"Not fair…" Sean grumbled, usually he doesn't mind the rain but today it just seemed everything that could go wrong would go wrong. He then went to look at his watch, only to realise he had forgotten it in his rush. Pulling his hair in frustration he ran on. He continued running, his hair was soaking wet and he could fell the water in his feet by the time he could see the school. Then a wooden plank dropped his path, but he was running too fast and he tripped over it causing him to slide across the ground and badly hurt his right hand on sliding.
"Got ya good!!" a voice laughed. Sean turned around but nobody was there, maybe he was just imagining it, maybe this was all some stupid dream. He walked up to the school and thought about all that happened, somehow he gets tied into his bed with ropes soaked in honey, then he in his rush he forgets his watch and who knows what else, then it pours down with rain on the way here and a wooden thing just decides to fall in front of him… however it wasn't over for Sean yet.
"Hey you jerk, you bumped me!" Somebody said
Sean looked up, it was Terrence.
"Sorry…" Sean replied, he was lost in thoughts and wasn't watching where he was going. He tried to walk away from Terrence but he wasn't going to get away that easy.
"Sorry doesn't cut it pal. Nobody bumps me…" Terrence went and punched Sean hard in the mouth before pushing him down hard on the ground.
"Ha, serves you right" Terrence laughed as he went inside.
Sean only groaned in pain wondering how long this was going to last, he then rubbed his mouth where Terrance had punched him, then struggled a bit to stand up, breathing to himself and trying to calm down as he walked inside. He tried to dry off just a little before going into the classroom. Dr. Caroll was using his motorized hands to write things on the white board.
"Sean, 30 minutes late?" Dr. Caroll asked with a frown of disapproval appearing on the newly added screen below his eyes.
"30 minutes" Sean thought out loud, he couldn't believe that. "Sorry" Sean said again
"Hmm… sit down… if you are this late again you'll get a detention, although you are always on time so I'll let you go just this once. Speaking of detention Terrence, or Terry as some of your friends have started to call you, you have detention, you are at least 20 minutes late everyday, and I'm going to put a stop to it, or you'll just make double the time up in detention. Understood?" Dr. Caroll said
"Yes, Dr. Caroll" Terrence replied in a fake sing song voice. Sean was slightly pleased to see Terrence getting detention, but it still didn't make up for what had happened. He took off his jacket and tried to let it dry on the chair, and he pulled out his book, something he didn't forget.
However Sean then realised he had forgotten his pens and pencils and had to ask Jonathan to borrow things, and naturally Jonathan milked it for all it was worth.
"Hey Jon, can I borrow that pen?" Sean asked
"This one?" Jonathan held up a red pen and knew very well it wasn't what Sean meant.
"No, the black one" Sean said
"If you beg" Jonathan smiled
"Come on Jonathan" Sean said
"I'd hardly call that begging" Jonathan smiled again
"Please Jonathan" Sean went along with Jonathan's game
"Okay, but on one condition" Jonathan said and Sean rolled his eyes
"What is it?" Sean began to get really annoyed
"You have to go Joanna and kiss her" Jonathan smiled
"Fine be that way. I'll ask somebody else" Sean said rather coldly
"Hey, I was just joking, take it easy" Jonathan passed Sean the pen, and he took it with his right hand and realised he couldn't hold it properly due to the pain. Damn, he thought, there was no way he could write anything that was readable like this. He'd just have to copy down whatever somebody else had put later, and it probably wouldn't be Jonathan. At this point Sean couldn't wait until the day ended, he could just sit back with Jonathan and play Perfect Light, although Jonathan was being really annoying at the moment, Sean had second thoughts, maybe it would be better to sit back and forget everything, nah Jonathan was just mucking around he has no idea what's happened. After Sean had thought it out he was thinking about Perfect Light and playing with Jonathan.
Soon lunch came around and because it was still raining all the kids were in the canteen area or the classroom. The table and chairs that made a runaway still hadn't been replaced so Joanna, Natasha and Jonathan just sat down at another table that had a few people on it, but enough for 4.
"Hey Sean sorry about before" Jonathan said
Sean turned to face Jonathan.
"It's alright… things haven't gone my way today" Sean said
"Hey Sean those marks look really bad, you seen the nurse or something?" Jonathan asked
"No, but I might later" Sean replied
"AND Anyway, that's when I pushed him over" Terrence was bragging to Cassandra, Alec and Xenia.
"He's right over there you know" Alec said
"So what? What's he going to do? Bash me?" Terrence said before laughing
"True point Terry" Alec replied
"You have quite a temper" Xenia said "I like that"
"Yeah I know, isn't it great" Terrence gave a smile
Sean looked over in their direction but turned away whenever Terrence went to look in his direction.
"I take it that was you, who ran in with so called Terry" Jonathan said
"Pretty much, that's how I got this mark" Sean pointing to his face
"Wake up late today?" Jonathan asked
"Yeah, I could have sworn something hit me over the head this morning, it was sore for ages. When I tried to get out of bed…" Sean started
"Oh is that the time!" Jonathan said looking at his watch
"What do you mean?" Sean asked. There was at least 30 minutes before they had to go back in looking at the clock from a distance
"I've got to go to the doctors, sorry I didn't tell you this sooner, so I can't come to your place" Jonathan said
"Oh… alright" Sean replied disappointed.
Jonathan went out and got into a parked car and it drove off. Then Sean did forget his lunch money as well but didn't want to play another round of let's beg for something off Jonathan before he left. However somebody called out to him, it was Natalya, Sean walked over to where she was sitting.
"Hi Sean" Natalya smiled "Having a rough time?" Natalya asked
"A bit" Sean replied
"What you have for lunch?" Natalya asked
Sean didn't reply
"Forget your money in your rush?" Natalya asked
Sean only nodded
"I know the feeling, and I saw what happened with the pen this morning. Jonathan is being a real meanie isn't he?" Natalya asked
"I dunno what's with Jonathan" Sean said
"Oh it's just the way he is" Velvet said. She was sitting with Natalya.
"What do you mean?" Sean asked
"Well sometimes he will look at any opportunity to crack a joke, regardless of who he hurts in the process, although most of the time he doesn't notice he hurts anybody. Although it's not very often, you just happen to be on the receiving end of it today" Velvet explained
"Yeah okay, thanks" Sean said as he walked off and bought just a small amount and gave the change back to Natalya.
Just before the end of lunch Sean put his jacket back on, it was finally dry enough and it had been freezing cold all day, as the heaters weren't working. As there were was about 10 minutes before Dr. Caroll would come back, Sean decided to head for the school doctor named Sarah. She was commonly called a nurse but she was actually a doctor, who called in to people at home when they were sick as well as doing the nurse/doctor job at the school since doing the call ins alone was very boring for her.
A/N: Sarah is Cristalina's character, not mine. She comes from "10 things you need to know about Joanna Dark", a great fic.
"Hello there" Sarah smiled to him
"Hi, I fell earlier this morning" Sean said
"Oh, that looks nasty. The mark on your face, did you get into a fight?" Sarah asked
"Well…" Sean stopped
"I won't tell anybody, if I did you won't come here when you are hurt" Sarah told him
"He just pushed me for no real reason. I bumped into him by accident and he just pushes me down" Sean said a little frustrated
"Oh I see… well this is going to sting a bit. Sorry" Sarah said as she went for a liquid of some kind before putting a cotton bud in there and put it on Sean's face and then before Sean could react too much she put it on his hand as well.
Sarah was wrong, it didn't sting a bit, it stung a lot. Sean tried hard not to scream but it really did hurt. Sarah put something else on it, and it did ease the pain a bit.
"Anyway, I'll write a note so you don't have to write in class" Sarah said
Sean nodded in thanks as he took the note
Finally the school day ended without anything else eventful happening. Dr. Caroll dismissed the class and everybody left. Sean left the room and went to head out until somebody came up behind him in a rush
"You never learn do you!" Terrence said
"Don't you have detention?" Sean asked coldly.
"Shut up, big mouth" Terrence said and pushed Sean into the wall.
Sean went to push back but Dr. Caroll came from behind.
"Terrence get back here you have detention and because you got into a fight you'll be here for an extra 15 minutes, you are a real trouble maker you know that!" Dr. Caroll's normally blue screen turned red with anger and Terrence walked back into the classroom.
"That's better" Dr. Caroll turned back to his usual blue.
Sean took a look at the bus, it was packed. There was even people walking away because they couldn't get on. Nobody wanted to walk in the rain and he didn't blame them as people who normally walked home got on the bus, although he normally did walk home, he caught the bus in the morning because it was easier to get ready in the morning.
'Stupid, damn Terrence" Sean thought to himself. If he hadn't held him back, he would have got on.
Sean sighed and zipped up his jacket and walked back the way he came. Suddenly a plank dropped in front of him, but Sean was going a lot slower.
"Missed!" A voice said
"Who said that?" Sean looked around, he knew he had heard it the second time.
He looked where the plank fell from, there was a table and a bunch of chairs underneath it.
"Oh no! We've been spotted! Run for your lives!" The table began to get up on its legs and started to run away it stood on Sean's foot and it flung a board in the air which Sean ducked
"Wait for us!" The chairs began to stand up too
"Hey this is the kid we got last night, did you like that honey" Part of the chair's back was going up and down like a mouth
"What!?" Sean shouted as he grabbed one of the chairs
"Oh let me go you, you…little brat" The chair was flailing its legs around pointlessly
"This is a lesson to you all" Sean was really ticked off as he took the chair and smashed it into the tree really hard.
"Nooooo!" It cried out as the pieces of wood fell all over the place.
Sean felt better when the chair smashed into pieces and he continued walking. When he got home and unlocked the door and opened it he noticed all the things he had left behind were sitting on the table waiting to be picked up. How did he miss seeing them? Sean thought.
After he went to his room and changed the sheets and threw them and the clothes he had in the night into the washing machine. Then he took the honey soaked rope and put it in the garbage, although how did those random acting chairs and tables get in the house in the first place? As he would probably need it tomorrow he put his jacket a good distance from the heater to let it dry.
"Good to be home" Sean said to himself as he started to play Perfect Light, but then his hand hurt, but it wasn't as bad as before and decided to put up with it. However the phone rang. Sean got up and answered it.
"Hey darling" it was Maria
"Hey Mum" Sean replied
"I'm sorry to tell you this, but we won't be home for dinner tonight. Things are really busy here today" Maria told him
Sean was silent for a minute
"Okay Mum. When will you be in? Any idea?" Sean asked
"No, sorry dear. You have no idea how chaotic things are at the moment. I'll make it up to you somehow, there is some stuff you can microwave if you want" Maria said
"Alright…" Sean sighed
"Sorry dear got to go… see you later" Maria hung up the line
"Bye" Sean said even though Maria had hung up the phone.
He went to the kitchen and used the microwave to make something basic as he was still really hungry. After eating he went to play Perfect Light and Smash brothers melee. He was really exhausted from everything today so decided to head into bed a bit earlier then usual wanting to put an end to this day. He closed the door, got in bed and turned off the bedside light.
Later that night however he heard somebody open the front door. Sean was wide awake, he went to the door quietly and opened it, but then after hearing their voices he realised it was his parents.
"Why did Carrington want to hide this here?" Maria asked.
"Seems to be one of the last places they would look. Wouldn't you think?" Adrian replied
"I guess so. Anyway let's be quiet in opening the safe, Sean's probably asleep" Maria said.
Sean heard something open which he guessed was the safe wherever that was, then close again.
"I'm going to see Sean…" Maria said
"Alright, I need sleep. I haven't seen my own bed in days" Adrian replied
Sean closed the door quietly and went back into bed. His Mum came up and opened the door, she knew he wasn't asleep just by looking at him even in the dark, but this didn't matter.
"Hi, how are you?" Maria asked
"I'm okay" Sean replied as Maria came into the room
"You don't sound okay. I know we haven't been around but we are doing stuff that is important at the moment" Maria said
"I know, it's okay… things just didn't go well at school today" Sean said
"Oh… want to talk about it?" Maria asked
"Not at the moment, I'm a bit tired" Sean said.
"Alright I must admit I am too, I should be here in the morning" Maria smiled
"Thanks" Sean said.
Maria got up and left the room and closed the door again
What had happened with his Mum and Dad with that safe. The name Carrington also reminded him of something. Then it hit him, somebody in the class was called Daniel Carrington. His dad ran some kind of space research program with some kind of science, but it wasn't medical stuff he knew that, what would they have to do with a hospital. Maybe it was just an amazing coincidence, but still who was looking for what was in that safe, since this would be the last place they would look. It was really none of his business anyway, but it was probably the reason his Mum and Dad were hardly around.