A/N: Sorry for the delay, I just finished school for the summer holidays I dont get to write as much when I'm just at home. Thanks for reading, reviews are great :) Love to get them! Also thanks to Luna Baudelaire, who shared my story on her Tumblr page and was my first reviewer for this story :)
A month had passed and the children's father had finally got some accommodation sorted and they were about to spend their first weekend with him.
Their Dad's new flat was a twenty-minute drive across the city from their home. The 2 story, 5 bedroom house in the suburbs was still their home, and nothing was going to change that.
Tis was possibly the most awkward car journey yet. Accept from that tip home after her first kiss and Violet had told her mother. This was just as bad.
She was sitting in the passenger seat, beside her Mum. Headphones in blocking out the world. Klaus was sitting in the back right window seat, playing Angry Birds on his Ipad,. Sunny was at the other side in her booster seat, chewing the arm of her doll as always.
Violet's Ipod was on shuffle and starting to really annoy her. Skip, skip, skip, why was that even on it? She thought as she tried to find a song to suit her mood. 1000 miles, she loved that song and this was the first time she had skipped it, like ever, but it was just the wrong time. Eventually she f,licked to a Greenday album and let it play through.
The twenty-minute journey, though it had the perfect soundtrack became more and more torturous. There was nothing worse than silence in the Baudelaire house, or car this time. If they weren't sniping and fighting with each other, that meant an argument had gone too far and they weren't speaking at all. That was a very bad sign.
Just before leaving the house, Violet had said something she regretted. She had told her mother she couldn't wait to get out of the house, and leave her behind that she was sick of living there. Now however, as the apartment block, where her father now resided came into view.
It was dark and gloomy and she really didn't want to spend anymore time than driving past there. The prospect of spending and entire weekend, and worse still, the holidays there.
Her mum's car pulled into the small parking lot by the apartment. Violet did not want to move from the car, Sunny started to cry, Klaus stayed rooted to the seat. This would be a really bad weekend, they could tell.
After hugs and kisses and goodbyes their mother left the three children in the sitting room/kitchen area of the flat. In the corner of the room, was a glass tank, and soon Violet saw what inhabited it; a snake.
Their Dad could not be normal of course, most people get a car, or even a tattoo as a midlife crisis, but no Bertie had gotten a 6 foot long snake that lived in his sitting room. It was yellow and scaly and made Violet jump as it slithered to the front of the tank.
She could tell by no that things good only get worse. Sunny began to crawl over to the tank, Violet murmured to her to come back.
"It's ok Violet, he's friendly" he dad explained.
"Yes I'm sure the six foot reptile in the middle of your living room is perfectly friendly" she snapped. "Come on Sunny, let's go." She said picking up her sister and heading towards the room she would share with her and her brother.
She hated it here, already. Nothing good make this anyway livable. She almost slammed the door on her brother, she didn't know Klaus was following her, as he seemed somewhat fascinated by the snake.
"Give Dad a chance Violet, he's doing his best," he said.
"You're as bad as they are," Violet retorted.