Its good to see you enjoyed the first chapter. I am aiming to make this my best story. :)

I slept for around 45 minutes mostly from the comfy bed. I spent around ten minutes watching youtube videos on my ipod, trying to cheer myself up. There was a funnny video of a famliy of ducks being blown away by the wind. Quite amusing.

I walked down the grand stairway with my stomach growling. I was in the hallway. I looked up at the golden chandelier above my head. Only a billionare could afford it. My grandpa on my mothers side was quite wealthy. When he died a few years ago he gave all the money to my dad because his only daughter was in a mental institution. Big move. I never knew what happened to the millions of dollars he inherited. Knowing my dad, he would have donated a lot to charity.

Odie called for me. "Herry, I'm in here!"

I followed the voice to what appeared to be his office. It was right beside the hallway with a tall window overlooking the front lawn. He was sitting in a large leather chair behind an ornate mahogany desk. He seemed to have a pile of papers in his hand.

"What are those?" I asked curiously.

He looked at the the papers and then to me. "Its your dads will. The lawyer who was with us in the hospital gave it to me to give to you. According to the will, your father has left you everything he owns including your grandpas fortune. He also appointed me as the second priority guardian."

"Second?"

"Well, the first priority is always family, then close friends."

"I see." I looked further around the room. I notice a metal door to the right. "What is that?"

He looked to where I was looking. "That is my laboratory. I am currently working on an antibody that can single out cancer cells independently and take it out."

"I see." I got the taking out cancer part. That was about all that seemed to matter. Odie put the papers down.

"Well enough talk. You hungry for some subway?"

I was starting to like Odie. He was a generous man and very optimistic. He was just what I needed at the time. We drove down to subway and each bought a footlong. I hadn't eaten all day so you could imagine how quickly the sandwich disappeared. Odie, a more slow paced individual, patiently chomped away.

"So where did your parents get the name Herry?" He asked after fiishing his sandwich. I was long done.

"They told me it was the name of a great hero who fought till his last breath." Its true. It is what they told me when I was little when people would call me Hairy Potter and other unpleasant nicknames..

Odie just smiled and looked at the table. "Indeed." He was obviously thinking to himself.

"So you must get rather lonely having no children or wife in that huge mansion."

"He looks up. "Actually I have a fiance. She's exploring Europe at the moment and will be back in a few days." His eyes widened. "She doesn't know about you."

I laughed for the first time in days. It felt like a weight off my shoulder. "Well she will be in for a surprise then."

We took our drinks with us back to the mansion. It was around two o clock and I was very much cheered up.

"Seeing as you now live here, I should give you a tour." Said Odie. I gladly accepted the offer. He showed me the kitchen and dining room first. The kitchen was a massive conservatory and had a huge fridge. I was at home. he then showed me the pool. It was April so I wasn't expecting for it to be open yet. But sure enough, it was indoor so it was open all year round. He showed me the other rooms like the laundry room, the basement, the living room, the master bedroom, the bathrooms. All as grand and glorious as the next. We ended the tour in the gaming room. This man had every gaming console to exist here and countless games. I noticed a picture on the wall though which got my attention more than anything else in the room. It was a photograph of seven teenagers no older than myself.

There was a big guy with a green shirt and cargo pants with a smile that stretched sideburn to sideburn. There was a smaller skinny boy beside him. It was unmistakably Odie. The glasses and and the grin had not changed but the physique had completely changed. The Odie that was my guardian was quite jacked while the one in this picture seemed so frail. There was another guy beside him who had a hollywood grin and beach blond hair. I had seen that face somewhere before but I couldn't pinpoint it exactly. Then there were two people with theeir arms on each others shoulders. One was a girl, the shortest next to Odie with scarlet hair and tomboyish style. The other person had a bizzare hair colour of purple. He wore blue shorts and a hoodie.

At the far left of the picture were two people. One was a built guy in a purple and yellow jersey with jeans. His hair was slightly highlighted at the front and he had bags under his eyes. The other was a girl. She had long, red hair and was piggybacking on the yellow purple jersey guy. She had those unmistakably green eyes and I knew at that pint;

These are my parents.

"Thats an old one." I snapped out of my trance to see Odie behind me.

"Is that really you there? You look so... er different."

"What can I say? I had a growth spurt."

I looked at my parents in the picture. They seemed so happy. A long as I could have remembered, my dad always gave off a sad emotion. Almost like a post-traumatic depression. He didn't stop his job and he kept looking after me, but he rarely smiled or laughed. I remember once, when I was eight, I had come home early from a friends house and I walked into my living room to see my dad against the wall crying. I never did learn why he cried that one day. All he did was send me to my room to go play. I didn't understand then. I was so small. But now I am older and I see how happy he was then. Something must have happened to my dad when he was younger. Something he never told me about. I was starting to question if I really knew my dad at all...