Chapter 2 – So It Begins
Parker walked up the stairs and got ready for bed. 'I feel so much better now that dad knows all that stuff about Drew. I wish I would have told him earlier, I could have lived here with him and Tempe.' Parker went into the bathroom to brush his teeth. 'Now I just need to come up with a way to ask Aderyn to Prom, and try to convince her to let Tempe buy her a dress, and then all my major problems will be resolved. How do I get Aderyn to go with me?' Parker walked back to his room and crawled under the covers. He pushed himself up on one arm so he could set his alarm, then laid back down and tried to fall asleep. He finally nodded off around 5am.
His alarm went off and Parker rolled over, hit his alarm and grumbled, 'It feels like I only fell asleep ten minutes ago! This is going to be a LONG day.' Parker rolled out of bed and stumbled to the bathroom to take a shower. 'Dad is going to be here in a half and hour, just enough time.' Parker felt better after he got out of the shower; he walked back into his room with a towel around his waist and went to his closet, 'Shit I left my bag at Trey's.' His clothes selection was very small. He pulled out a pair of jeans and a striped button up shirt. He was rolling up the sleeves as he was walking down the stairs; he walked into the kitchen and saw the coffee pot was still half full and he sighed in relief. He was about to pour a cup when Booth walked in.
"Hey, pour that into a travel cup, we have to go." Parker nodded and reached into a cabinet and grabbed a travel mug. "Why are you so dressed up? Normally you don't wear a button up shirt."
"It was this or a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles shirt that is three sizes to small. Could you pick me up from school and take me to moms' so I can get more clothes? I left my bag a Treys' last night."
"Um, Yeah I'll call her and let her know, I want to talk to her too. You ready?"
"Yeah let's go." They walked out to the car.
"Did you have any homework that you have to turn in that you don't have?"
"Um, yeah but it will be cool, I have like a 102 in the class, Mrs. Osman will let me turn it in late, especially if I tell her why I don't have it."
"Okay, 'cus I will talk to anyone you need me to." Booth pulled out his phone and dialed a number. "Yes I would like to leave a message for Rebecca Bates… Yes tell her Seeley and Parker will be by this afternoon to pick up more of his things… Okay, thank you." The rest of the drive was in silence. When they got to the school they both got out and walked into the building.
"Hey Parker, where you been?" They secretary asked with a smile.
"Family stuff." Parker mumbled as he was signing in.
"Okay do you have a note from your mom?"
"No, I'm with my dad."
"Hi, Seeley Booth," Booth said, smiling at the woman.
"I'm sorry but the only people on Parkers forms are a, Rebecca and Drew Bates."
"No. I put down Seeley and Temperance Booth, too." Parker said confused.
"Well here look at the forms you filled out," she handed Parker the paper.
"Well that enplanes it. That is Drews' handwriting not mine."
"Sorry, but seeing that Mr. Booth is not on your form he cannot sign you in."
"Okay," Booth sighed and pulled out his badge, "I'm Special Agent Seeley Booth with the F.B.I. and I am here to sign in my son, who will be living with me and my wife for the remainder of the school year."
Parker smiled, he loved how his dad can get whatever he want just by flashing a badge. "Oh uh, okay sorry about that Agent Booth, here's you pass Parker. I will put you down, and what was your wife's name?"
"Dr. Temperance Booth." Booth said trying hard to keep his face straight.
"Okay well I have to get to math, see you after school dad, bye." Parker said as Booth strolled out of the school and back to his car.
Parker walked to his locker and grabbed one of his extra notebooks and his books for his next class, seeing that math was almost over. He walked into class and handed his teacher the pass, then walked to his desk and sat down. He looked around and saw two girls smiling at him, he gave a small smile, not even showing his teeth, they turned to each other and staring, whispering, and giggling. 'God. I hate Prom season. First off you have THAT and second you have to work up the courage to ask someone, that someone who will probability say 'no' when I ask her to prom next period. I must think like dad, be persuasive, be dad, be Seeley Booth.'
The bell rang and interrupted his thoughts. He got up and walked into the crowed halls hearing all the boys yelling, the girls squealing and giggling and lockers being opened and then slammed closed again. Parker fixed a smile on his face, not feeling like having every person in the entire school asking him what is wrong.
"Hey Parker." A girl said sweetly.
"Oh, hey Candi," Parker said slowly hoping to get away from his ex.
"Where were you in government today, I missed you?" Candi said running her hand up his arm.
"Oh I was up late with my dad and step-mom, he brought me to school," he said shrugging her hand of his arm. "Well I have to get to chem., so I will talk to you later."
"Yeah, I have a question for you first."
Just then Trey walked up and slams into Parker "Hey man what's up, everything okay after last night?"
"What happened last night?" Candi asked, fake concern in her voice.
"Nothing." Parker looked at Trey like he wanted to kill him "I have to go to class bye Candi." Trey and Parker walked towards the science hall leaving Candi standing there all alone.
"Oh, Parker I want to go to prom with you and have your babies," Trey said imitating Candis' voice.
"Hey your getting better that sounded a lot like her, but you need to put more of a winey-self-absored touch to it." Parker laughed. "See you later man, and thanks for the save!" Parker walked into class knowing exactly what she wanted to ask him '"Do you want to go to prom with me"' 'Hell no! Why did I even date her to begin with?' He sees Aderyn already sitting at their lab table. She glanced up from the book she is reading and smiled at Parker, he smiled back, throwing his best charm smile.
"Hey Parker, I though you were going to leave me alone for the lab assignment today."
"Nah, I just had a late night, my dad let me sleep in."
"Nice, I wish my foster parents would let me do that. I thought you lived with your mom?'
"How do you know who I live with?" He asked and smiled "Yeah I did live with her, up until last night that is. A lot happened there."
"Nothing bad I hope."
"I wish." Parker mumbled as he sat down. "How was your night?" He asked with a smile.
"Ugh, foster parents can be so… I don't know. They just don't understand sometimes." She sighed.
"Yeah that's what my step-mom said. She was in the system for, I think, two years."
"So you kind of understand it! It is so frustrating!"
"What don't they understand?"
She looked at him and he could have swore she blushed. "Um, it's nothing."
"Doesn't sound like nothing the way you were ranting a few seconds ago."
"Well, it is stupid, and a uh, a lot of little things, just stupid stuff." She lowered her head.
Parker raised an eyebrow; he also had his dads' ability to read people and could tell she was lying. He put a finger under her chin and lifted her head. "I doubt it is stupid. You can tell me you know" She just shook her head and sighed. 'What was it that dad said? You have to…give a little of yourself to get something back? Is that it?' "I almost got into a fist fight with my step-father last night." She looked at him kind of confused, "Yeah I told my parents that I wanted to join the Army, and my dad told me about what he went through while he was a Ranger. My mom and step-father wanted to know what he said and to talk me out of it. I just wanted time to think about it and they wouldn't give it to me, and we got into a fight and I left. Then I had a good night with my dad and step-mom talking."
"My fight with my foster parents was about… prom. Like I said stupid, I feel like I am 6 getting so mad about it."
"What about prom?"
"Well, I kinda want to go, but then again I don't, and they can't afford to get me a dress, because their real daughter got one. One that was like 300."
"Oh I see." Parker swallowed, his throat was really dry. "This is prolly gonna sound bad at this point, but I was wondering…"