Sonny arrived on his brothers doorstep about 9:20, he needed to find away to get his youngest son home.
Miles opened the door, and saw his brother.
"What are you doing here?" he asked gruffly.
"I'm here about Alex" Sonny said nervously, he always felt belittled by his brother.
"I don't know what you've done to that boy" Uncle Miles said cynically.
Sonny's eyes flashed with annoyance.
"Are you going to let me in?" Sonny said impatiently.
Miles glared at his brother as he opened the door. He kept on staring as his brother shuffled passed.
"So what do you want me to do?" Miles asked darkly.
"Tell him to come home…" Sonny pleaded, also noticing Betty was nowhere to be seen.
"I ain't telling that boy nothing, he was looking pretty beat up last night" Miles said with an accusing stare.
"Don't pin this on me, Alex gets into his own fights" Sonny said, looking at his brother with dislike.
"Well whatever it is the kids pissed," Miles said looking to examine his fingers.
"Everyone gets mad once in a while" Sonny said agitated.
"Not this mad" Miles pointed out.
"What do you mean?" Sonny asked a little taken aback.
"You don't notice much do you?" Miles said raising an eyebrow.
"Yes I do!" Sonny said defensively.
"Right…" Miles said sarcastically.
"Just get on with it" Sonny said getting more annoyed.
"Something's been eating away at that boy… something big" Miles explained.
"What?" Sonny said expectantly.
"I don't know, you're supposed to be the father" Miles said irritated.
Sonny looked at him darkly.
Amigos High School
Nat, Qaasim, Thomas, David, Rosalina and Cooper trudged up to their principal's office. Mrs Schnamp was usually easy to get along with.
"You six, in my office now!" She said nostrils flaring.
The band silently walked into her office. They weren't actually sure why they were there.
"Do you think it is appropriate to be picking on a 5th grader?" She asked, glaring at them as she sat down behind her desk.
"What!? That's not what we were doing!" Rosalina said surprised at how it was interpreted.
"Why? What would you call it? You surrounded the kid and used force to keep him there," She said sternly looking over her glasses.
"We were talking" Nat said trying to explain.
"Talking or intimidating, you chased him through the Middle School for crying out loud… and you want me to believe you were just talking." Mrs Schnamp said annoyance rife in her tone.
"Ms, it was Nat's little brother Alex. We were trying to explain something to him," Qaasim explained.
"I'm well aware who it was, and it does not change whether it was right or wrong. You can do these things at home… but do not do it as school" Mrs Schnamp said angrily.
"Uh, Alex isn't living at home… he ran away last night" Cooper informed.
Mrs Schnamp looked a bit troubled and sat silently trying to work out what to say.
"Awkward…" Thomas said quietly.
At that moment the bells started ringing and did not stop.
"We'll finish this later!" Mrs Schnamp shouted over the bell as she ushered them out of her office and the school.
Nat looked around and saw everyone filing out of both schools. He looked along the road to his left. He saw a figure running away almost getting hit by one of the fire engines racing it's way to the school.
Alex began walking the rest of the way to Uncle Miles apartment. He hoped the Principal Schmoke did suspend him so he could avoid Juanita and the band easier. Alex turned the corner and was almost bowled over by a police officer.
"Shouldn't you be at school young man?" The police officer asked, looking down at him.
"Shouldn't you be eating doughnuts…oh wait you are" Alex asked angrily, seeing the doughnut in his hand.
"Listen Here You!" The cop said irritated, 'when did youth become so disrespectful?' he thought to himself.
"NO!" Alex yelled darting around the cop.
The police officer reached out to grab Alex, and received a kick in the shins for his effort. He gasped in pain, but still turned around and gave chase.
"Oy! Stop!" he ordered panting as he chased Alex.
Alex ignored him and kept on running. He sensed the police officer falling behind, but he kept on running. Up ahead Alex saw a police car coming in his direction with sirens on. Alex knew he had to reach his uncles apartment before the cops saw where he went, and with this determination he began sprinting, made all the more uncomfortable due to his arm being in a sling.
Alex looked back and saw the other police officer a long way back, he quickly disappeared into his uncles apartment building, he didn't know if anyone had seen him, but he wasn't taking any chances he ran up to his uncles apartment and opened the door. He saw his dad and Uncle Miles sitting on the couch talking.
"Alex!" Sonny said awkwardly, but still surprised.
"You're supposed to be at school" Miles said irritated.
Alex thought about going back outside, but he heard voices he did not want to hear.
"He went up here," one voice said.
Alex quickly shut the door, and ignoring both his dad and his uncle went and hid.
Miles and Sonny just raid an eyebrow, if that wasn't odd then what was?
They were both about to get up and find out what was going on, when there was a knock on the door.
