A/N: Playing catch-up today, Here is day two with a nod to two different holidays. Enjoy!
"This movie is dumb," Isaiah grumbles.
"You ain't gotta watch," his older brother says. They had been stuck inside all week from snow days and were getting on each other's last nerve.
"Papa's gonna make us ice cream sundaes! Do you want one?" Jordan asks, sliding into the room on his socked feet.
"Nah, I'm good," Tyler answers; he wasn't much for sweet things.
"Sure," Isaiah says, following his brother back into the kitchen, mostly to get away from the absurd movie.
With the others gone, Tyler goes back to the movie. He daydreams about what it would be like to relive the same day over and over again. How interacting with different people could change how the day would end up. Would it mean his dad never got shot? Or his mom never got lost and forgot all about them? Would they get put in different group homes? Would he still be with his brothers? Tyler shakes off the bad thoughts and thinks of happier ones. Teaching both of his brothers to ride a bike. Hitting a buzzer beater from the half-court line in eighth grade. Getting adopted by Momma and Papa.
Other voices in the room pull him from his thoughts and he realizes that his brothers and Papa have come back with bowls of ice cream in their hands. Jordan already has it all over his face, and Isaiah is too focussed on getting the perfect bit, he hardly notices the movie anymore. And Papa? Well, he sits back down next to him and hands Tyler an extra spoon.
"Thought we could share," he says with a smile.
"Yeah, okay," Tyler replies. And the movie sucks him back in once more.
Yeah, Tyler thinks, he'd love to get stuck in a Groundhog Day if it meant coming home to this family at the end of it.