Hey everyone! How are y'all doing? So I'm trying to finish the chapters, and I'm using my second period (a computer based class) to write, even though it ticks my teacher off, he gives free time, I write.
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"Hey, son, how are you feeling?" He asks, his tone suggests he actually gives a shit about me. I just stare at him for another ten seconds before I look away and walk back to the kitchen. He shuts the door and follows me, quietly.
"Who was at the door, honey?" Mom asks still turned around making food, actually, breakfast food, for dinner. My favorite, because well, BACON and BACON WAFFLES! Which she is currently working on, mmm!
Last time I ate bacon was at an all-you-can-eat buffet, it totaled two and a half pounds, all by myself. But then Max just had to out shine me, and ate five plates full, which equaled about three pounds. She's really annoying like that, she can eat more than me and put even champion eaters to shame, but I love that about her.
"No one important," I mumbled while walking over to her. "Well maybe, look." With that she and everyone else turned to look at the doorway. Dad was standing there, he had nothing in his hands, probably put the bags on the couch and the flowers in the empty vase mom always leaves for the flowers he brings home.
When screams and squeaks erupted, all I did was steal the plate full of bacon from the stove, about two pounds, and slouch in my seat, munching on it while everyone else cried and hugged and acted all happy and love-y.
After I finished most of the bacon, everyone went back to normal, Nudge, Iggy, and Gazzy all sat in their seats, while Angel got everyone orange juice. Mom just let go of her hold on dad (they were hugging for almost three minutes, mom was and still is crying) and was going back to the stove. Wait for it, wait, hang on, wait, NOW!
"NICOLAS WALKER!" Mom shouts this, and then turns on me with her spatula, shaking it at me menacingly, "did you steal all the bacon? You better not ha-," then sees the plate with bacon scraps in front of me, "you little thief!" She walks over to me and takes the plate, smacking me lightly on the head.
"But mooooooooooooooooooooooom," I groan, "I was hungry, y'all were starving me!" Everyone burst into laughter; Angel puts the orange juice on the table and sits down.
Everyone starts eating about half an hour later, mom made (more) bacon, cornbread-mix pancakes, (A/N: The best pancakes ever are Jiffy Mix ones!) sausage links, and scrambled eggs. Have I mentioned, my mom is the best mom ever? She knows just how to make everyone feel a million times better.
Once everyone dug in, Nudge decided to start asking a million questions. "So, dad, how was it?" I hope it sucked. "Did you have fun?" Yeah him have fun? Puh-lease. "Did you make any friends?" What with how much of an ass he is? Doubt it! "How long are you home?" Hopefully only the next five seconds. "How are you?" Perfectly fine, since you know, he hasn't even asked about me besides the normal 'how are you' shit.
"Nudge, don't overwhelm your father! He just got home!" Mom scolds her, but in a very caring, loving way.
"It's fine, darling, I can handle the Nudge-Channel, even if I haven't heard it in months!" Dad looks affectionately at both mom and Nudge, "so, hon, let's begin. It was a lot of fun, some of the guys dressed up like girls and had a show of what they think girls do in their free time, and then the women dressed like the guys and did the same. The women won, but the guys looked so hilarious. I made a lot of friends! Actually one of the guys in my unit is only 19, he lives in town! Our whole team got sent home, because, well I don't know. He's coming over for dinner sometime this week. He said he's heard of Fang, and Iggy, his name is Ari, Ari Batchelder. I'm perfectly fine, Nudge."
"I know Ari! He was nice to me my first day of high school! He helped me find my fourth period!" Iggy shouts with so much enthusiasm it hurts.
"Daddy, how long ar-" Angel starts but gets interrupted by Gazzy.
"Dad! Now that you're home you have to help me with football! I've got to get on the team!"
"Yeah, and you've got to help me practice softball and field hockey! You promised! No actually you pinky promised! You can't go back on a pinky promise unless you pay me $50. Remember our deal? Yeah I know you do! I've made $750 off you since I was three! So you have to remember!"
"Nudge!" Mom yells, "Calm down, right now or you will go to your room, with no dessert!"
"I'm not four anymore, mom! But I will calm down, I want dessert!" Nudge pouts, yet remains silent.
"Dad, how long ar-" Angel tries again, but is cut off by him saying, "I know I promised, and I will help you both okay?"
Angel looks frustrated, yet tries once more, "dad, how lo-"
"Iggy, can you go get the other bottle of syrup?" Gazzy yells, since Iggy is near the pantry.
"Dad, ho-" She's cut off again by Iggy saying, "get it yourself! It's too dark in here to see anything!"
Mom just tsks at Iggy's comment about being blind, dad chuckles, Gazzy groans, but gets up.
"So, dad, how long ar-" Angel tries one more time before being cut off by Gazzy and Iggy arguing. Iggy decided that he didn't know Gazzy was so close to him, and "accidently" tripped into him, and caused Gazzy to fall into the pantry.
Angel looks ready to bite bullets; she's visibly shaking with frustration. She is always talked over, like she doesn't exist, she's the baby of the family, and my favorite, but aside from me, the most forgotten. Since she's sitting next to me, I reach over, and pat her shoulder and mouth to her 'calm down' she mouths back 'I'll try'.
After one more failed attempt, she stands up, grabs her juice, swallows it in one gulp, then slams it on the table with a loud clunk, and runs up the stairs. I hear her door slam, and everyone gets quiet and we just kind of stare at one another. After about five minutes of that, dad breaks the silence.
"What was that about?" Dad asks, looking around to see what irritated her so much.
"I don't know maybe someone should go check on her." Nudge says, and slowly begins walking upstairs.
"She wanted to know how long you were home," I say so quietly only Iggy could hear me, ya know since he has that 'super good get-over-it-I'm-blind-not-deaf' hearing as he likes to call it. He looks at me for a second, and then asks it for me, knowing that I wasn't in the mood to ask.
"Dad, how long are you going to be home this time?" He says loud enough to be sure everyone hears him.
"Um, well, how does… From now on sound?" Mom looks shocked at what he said, I think I look impassive, Iggy looks excited, as does Gazzy.
"Really?" Gazzy shouts, "Oh my bomb! Are you serious? No more leaving?" Gazzy's voice breaks a bit at that point, his eyes already watering. Mom gets up and hugs him, patting his back when we hear a scream and stomping/running upstairs, and then down the steps.
"MOM! DAD!" Nudge screams running into the kitchen, causing dad to immediatly get up and all but runs to her. She and Gazzy are dad's favorites, more athletic the better.
"What?" He grabs her shoulders, and she tries but can't get anything to come out of her mouth, so she yanks a pink, heart covered sheet of paper out of her pocket. Is that from the stationary I gave Angel for her birthday? She loves writing songs, stories, poems, anything she can.
Dad opens the note, immediatly his jaw drops. I stand up and look over his shoulder the best I can from so far away (well like six feet, but I don't have vision like a hawk, so shove it) but I see that it looks like a poem. Dad has tears in his eyes when he finishes reading, then drops the note and runs to Angel's room.
"What's going on?" Mom says shakily, and then swipes the note before it finishes it's fall to the ground. When she reads the note, she starts whispering, "no, no, oh please, baby, no." Then she follows in dad's foot steps, but quicker. Super-mom powers?
Nudge is still crying, but is sitting at the table, Iggy is patting her back, not too worried since he knows he won't know anything until she calms down.
I grab the note that mom sat on the table. I start reading it, and I was right, it is a note in poem form.
Run Away
I don't wish to stay
All I want to do is run away
These thoughts are getting harder
My escape attempts are so much smarter
Do not ever claim I was craven
I'll never stop moving until I reach a safe haven
I simply don't belong here
I may be back one day dear
I'm tired of feeling unwanted, goodbye - A
(A/N: I wrote that from my head, so no copyright shiz. I'm a whiz at words. By the way, craven means cowardly or 'the craven man ran away', so you don't say 'dafuq.')
The 'may' in the last line is circled, and underlined, I think there may be a secret in her room. When she was younger I'd always leave her notes and circle important words, and send her on a hunt for it. I do the same as my parents, and run immediatly to her room, thinking 'no this isn't happening' over and over.
I get to the doorway and freeze, nothing was moved, except for the bag she's been keeping in the corner since dad's last deployment, (not the one he just got back from, the one before that, about two years ago) she would freak out if anyone moved it. It was always by her window, and now I know why. I drop to my knees, trying my hardest not to cry. My girlfriend, and my best friend have both left me.
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