Other than being late, the first day had been uneventful so far. The highlight of my day had been Seth falling off his desk in History because he fell asleep, it wasn't even that funny.
Lunch came quickly and I was just glad to be out of that hellhole of a class, I mean the teacher wasn't even paying attention half the time and seemed to be agreeing with Seth on sleeping through the whole thing. I'd rather they teach than sit there all lesson listening into other people's conversations.
Seth was being pushed around by some guys that are obviously a lot older than him. While that was happening, he was shooting me dirty looks, obviously knowing if one of them actually hurt him I'd be the first to punch them.
It turned out I didn't need to do anything in the end because Dad came over and pulled Seth away.
"Hey!" Seth protested, he probably thought that it was one of the guys pushing him around.
"Enough!"
"Alright, you heard the lady, let's break it up guys, come on." The crowd starts to dissipate after Murney's arrival. "Relax popeye, boys will be boys, huh?"
I picked Peter up to stop him from running away, placed him on my hip and went to stand by Seth, who was now by my dad, and set the babycarrier with Tyler in it on my left.
"Anyway, it's kinda good for the creeper, gives him a chance to punk up, learn to defend himself."
"Six against one?" Dad asked, almost scoffing.
"Well, the odds are never pretty. But look at it like a preparation for him. The naked streets of Bethesda can be so dark and dangerous. Right, creeper?" Seth nearly charged at him, if Dad hadn't been there to stop him, he would've. I chocked back laughs, what were these insults?
"Woah." I gripped Seth's wrist to stop him from going anywhere.
"You were pretty quick there frog man. I myself happen to be a black belt, that's why they wanted me to be the coach of the wrestling team." Then he did this weird thing that I'm not even going to attempt to explain, but he looked like he was in pain. "You know what that's called, homeboy. Total control. You alright? Tell you what, maybe sometime you could pop by the wrestling class. And, uh, we'll show the boys how a couple of pros do it, what do you think? I'll go easy on you."
"I'm on duty."
"You're on duty? Oh that's right, that's right, you're a babysitter. So it's kinda like doo-doo duty." He laughed. "Don't worry about it, we'll do it on a day when you're not, uh, washing your hair." He stalked up to Seth. "And I'll see you in class. At ease." He strutted off, causing me to roll my eyes.
"That guy don't have his head on right." Dad said.
"He's the wrestling coach?"
"I was fine! I don't need your help!" He yanked his hand away from me and walked off. I hand Tyler and Peter to Dad then follow Seth to wherever he's going.
"He shouldn't be allowed to insult you like that."
"Well he does."
"I just don't want you suspended because you were defending yourself because he insulted you. You shouldn't put up with it. He can get in serious trouble for that. If my dad hadn't have came, he would've just left you."
"I know."
Fletcher brought us home, so I'm guessing something happened. But we're all here, so it could be something to do with the fact that Seth and Zoe's tracking devices have disappeared.
The front door opened and closed, bringing in a stench that reminded me of the school toilets; gross.
"Uh." Everyone chorused, Lulu dropped her apple and Peter just stared. I held back my laughter, biting on my bottom lip, hard enough to draw blood.
"Ha ha." Is all he said, holding up, surprise surprise, two traking devices with a note tied to them.
"I should go, okay?" Fletcher broke the silence, most likely wanting to get away from this horrible situation. "Just call me you guys if you need anything, my number's on the fridge. Are you okay? Oh, wow." She coughed and blocked her nose. "Is there anything I can do?"
"I'm okay."
"Okay. Can I get you anything?"
"I'm fine."
"I mean, they're just kids, you know. Call me if you need anything, okay? After you shower, or before, it doesn't matter. Okay, I'll see you guys." She let out a big breath as she leaves.
"Very funny. Thank you for the letter." He walked off, hopefully to take a shower.
Lulu motions her finger across her neck. I can't believe they got away with that! As soon as he's out of earshot I laugh a little and everyone joins in.
"Can I ask how?"
"Seth gave his to me and I flushed them down the toilet, must've gotten pretty far for him to look like that." Zoe explained. It explains the smell.
It was after Zoe had finished talking to Julie over the phone, after Seth came back from wherever he was and after Lulu had somehow managed to convince Dad to take her and the Fireflies to sell cookies.
I was sat on the edge of the pool, my toes dipped in the water; I had abandoned my shoes on the tiles. We should be having dinner by now, but Dad wasn't back yet. It can't take you that long to sell cookies, right? I sighed, hearing the back door open and a few steps until the person reached the grass.
I can see why my dad likes Fletcher, she's nice, anyone could tell he-
"Hey." Seth hesitantly walked towards me, kicking his shoes off and leaving them by mine.
"What's up?" I ask as he sat on the edge of the pool and soaking the ends of his jeans with water.
"The sky." He muttered, not bothering with an actual conversation.
We sit there in silence listening to the water running through the pool filter. It was nice, peaceful even.
"Are you hungry?" Seth asks looking at me.
"Yeah..."
"Wanna go for ice cream?"
"Hell yeah!" I shout a little too loud, he chuckled at me then stood up, offering me a hand.
"So I'm guessing you like ice cream?" It's a rhetorical question, so I ignore it.
"Thanks. Are you gonna put some other pants on, you kinda soaked the bottom of them." I said to him as we slip on our shoes.
"One sec." He ran upstairs and appeared back a minute later with a different pair of jeans on.
We head for the door but are stopped when the door is blocked from the other side.
"What?" Seth muttered pulling on the handle again.
"Why don't we go out the back way?"
"Right." We take our coats and go out to the gate.
Oh look I actually updated for the first time in forever. Wait did I just quote Frozen? Anyway, sorry it took so long, this has literally been written for centuries and sat in one of my files, but here it is! I hope you enjoyed it and it cheered you up if you have any exams (because I do and they suck). I'm also sorry if there are spelling mistakes, because I'm British and I'm attempting to write with the correct American words and spelling, so feel free to correct me. I'm also sorry if anything has autocorrected to caps lock because I get way to excited and it happens so often that it doesn't really keep it as the regular way anymore.
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