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Chapter Five~Bonding Time, Fun Time

Tuesday

4:10 pm

Neighborhood Park

Harumi was bored. She was so bored she wanted to listen to music or watch some anime. But instead she had to spend family time with her father and her brother Shaun at the neighborhood park.

The Mars' were sitting on the park bench as they were in complete silence. Shaun and Harumi looked bored and have loss of interest, especially the emo teenager. She was a growing teenager and she doesn't want to be in a children's playground anymore, plus it was embarrassing.

Ethan was the first to start up a conversation. "So, how did things go at school today?"

"The teacher yelled at me for being late again." Shaun responded to his father. "She's going to send me home the next time it happens."

Harumi turned to face her brother. "Who's your teacher again?"

"Miss Yamato,"

"Oh, I hated her," Harumi replied disgusted. "I almost got that teacher fired when I thrown a fit at her and she didn't know what to do."

"Really," Shaun laughed.

"Yeah, bro,"

"Now, Harumi, you've known better not to be throwing a tantrum in front of the teacher." Ethan explained as he was stricted. "You could have cost the teacher her job or me or your mother to come to the school, but we did anyway."

Harumi kept quiet.

"Now, I'm sorry about that, Shaun," Ethan respond to his son without looking at his daughter or son. "Next time, we'll really pull it together ok?"

Shaun didn't respond back to him.

"Can I go home now?" Harumi asked.

"No, your stay here where I can keep my eye on you." Ethan replied to his daughter's question.

"Fuck…" she swears under her breath.

"What was that?" Ethan asked. He thought he heard his daughter swearing under her breath. Harumi didn't respond as she kept looking away from him.

"Is there something that matter with you two?" Ethan had finally ask the question to both of them.

"No, I'm alright." Shaun replied.

"I don't want to be here." Harumi replied to her father. "I'm not a baby anymore. I rather be a game store or a bookstore catching up on the latest games or books."

"Well I'm sorry, Ethan apologizes. "I thought bringing you and your brother to the park will help us catch up with things, but somehow I was wrong."

Ethan stood up from the bench and he accidentally tripped over Shaun's backpack and a boomerang fallen out of it. The architect father picked it up before looking at his son.

"A boomerang?" Ethan said. "Do you know how to use it?"

"No, not really," Shaun replied. "I can't make it come back."

"Can I give it a try?" Ethan asked, before he walked over to a good patch of grass. He aimed the boomerang in the air and throws it. Harumi, Ethan, and Shaun looked up at the sky before they noticed it coming back, until the architect father catches it.

Shaun clapped his hands and Harumi blew a Japanese raspberry.

As Ethan done it a second time, Shaun wanted to give it a try. Shaun had finally did by himself and he master it. He gave his father a hugged to show how he appreciated his help. When Ethan walked back to Harumi, as Shaun was putting up shirt boomerang, he taken her iPhone and her earbuds out of his pocket.

"Hey Harumi,"

Harumi looked up at her father. "What?" She said bored.

"Here, if it makes you feel any better." He pulled out her iPhone and earbuds in front of her and she immediately grabbed it and listen to her music.

She laid down on the bench as she was listening to Japanese classical music. She loved hearing the great sound of the cello playing through her ears. It helps her calm down her emotions, but she was missing something from it. A cigarette break. As she went into her backpack to pulled out her pack of menthol cigarettes, she realizes that she only have one left. She makes a mental note to remind herself to buy some more cigarettes with her fake ID.

Walking towards her father, he was playing with Shaun on the merry go round. Before he started moving it around in a circle, Harumi catches him at the right time.

"Hey, can I take a little walk around the park for a bit?" Harumi asked.

"Alright, but stay close to the park, so I can see you." Ethan said, before he started running the merry go round with Shaun sitting on the seat as he held onto tightly.

As Harumi walked around the neighborhood park while listening to music in the melancholy weather. She was glad it wasn't raining so she can smoke her cigarette while walking around. Harumi was halfway done with her cigarette, until she had a horrible feeling that someone or something was following her. As she turned around, people with the children were walking passed her until she noticed a blue car parked on the other side of the street. She walked ahead until she turned her head around to see that the car was slowly following her. That's when she immediately started running back to the park.

When she walked into the park and hid behind a bush, the blue car started heading down the street. Harumi was relieved that the car wasn't following her anymore. She put off her hallway done cigarette and places it into the trash can.

"Harumi!" She heard her brother's voice calling her, before she turned around to face him. He was running towards him with his black backpack behind him.

"Shaun, what's up?"

"Have you seen Dad?" Shaun asked. "When the carousel stopped he wasn't waiting for me."

Harumi was confused at first before she started looking around the park for him, until she had to come up with a lie just to keep him calm. "Maybe, he went to go take a walk around the park. He must be looking for me, since I was walked outside the park. Here, let me call me."

Harumi pulled out her iPhone and called her father, as her and Shaun sat down on the same bench they were sitting on. Harumi waited for about twenty seconds, until she decided to hang up and sent him a text message, before putting up her iPhone.

"Somehow, he's not answering." Harumi stood up and grabbed her backpack, before looking up at the grey sky. "The rain will be coming soon. I think that we should head home."

"But will Dad get worried about us?" Shaun asked when he grabbed onto his eldest sister's left wrist.

"Don't worry, I sent him a text message saying that we're on our way home." Shaun slowly let go of her wrist, as he followed his sister back home to where their Dad lives.

5:15 pm

Ethan Mars' House

Harumi was in the kitchen sitting down at the kitchen table helping her brother with his time tables. They were watching the time on the TV and also the time on Harumi's iPhone, hoping that Ethan will returned for them. Harumi was getting stumped on a very hard question on his homework, until she immediately gave up. She looked out the kitchen window, until she head knocking at the door. They both turned around to look at the door, until Shaun looked at his sister.

"Who is that?" Shaun asked.

"I don't know, but I'm going to check," Harumi walked towards the door and looked through the peephole to see a certain blonde haired guy. Her heartbeat sped up, as she held onto the door handle before answering it.

"Hi, James," Harumi greeted showing a small smile to him.

"Hello, Harumi," James greeted back as well. "I thought that you were still in the hospital, so I decided to check on your father, after what happened."

James walked in and he noticed Shaun at the table, until the ten year old boy bolted out of his seat and greeted him, before giving him a hug. Harumi remember the James and Shaun were actually good friends, ever since he came over to check on her. Shaun thinks that James is like a older brother to him, just like Jason.

"So, where's your Dad?" James asked Shaun and Harumi, until they both shrugged their shoulders.

"We don't know." Shaun said.

"I thought he was looking for me, but somehow he's not answering his phone." Harumi replied.

James looked over at Harumi, who was looking down on the floor. "Did you call the police?"

"James, this has happened before." Harumi said. "He will show up within two to three hours, confused and wet by the rain."

"Are you sure," James asked. "Because I can ask my Dad to look for him."

"No, I can watch over Shaun, until he returns." Harumi said, before walking into the kitchen and looked into the refrigerator, before closing it. "Well, it seems that Dad doesn't have anything for us to have dinner and I need to go to the grocery store."

"Do you need a ride?"

"Yes, please,"

"I call shotgun!"

"No fair, little brat!" Harumi complained.

Shaun blew a raspberry at her and James laughed at Harumi's angry face.

5:35 pm

Corner Grocery Store

James drove the Mars' siblings to a nearby grocery store that was just around the corner from their father's neighborhood. Harumi had made out a small list of food items she needs for the week and she happen to be in the need of a new pack of menthol cigarettes. As they walked in the store, Shaun got her sister's attention.

"Can I get something while I'm in here?" Shaun asked his sister, before Harumi pulled out twenty dollars from her chain wallet.

"Get you some snacks and hurry up." Harumi said, before Shaun ran to the back on the store. "And don't mess up the hot dog machine."

Harumi and James walked to the grocery part of the small store as the blonde boy kept an eye on Shaun who was getting himself a cherry slushy.

"Hey, Harumi," James called her name, before she dropped the carton of milk. "I have a question I want to asked you."

She immediately picked it back up, before placing it into the basket. "Yeah, James, what is it?"

"Well, um, you know me and my ex-girlfriend, Rachel, right?" James asked.

Harumi hated that girl. He hated her guts and her smart attitude. It was the same person who happened to got her into the trouble with the principal yesterday. Rachel wasn't exactly a nice girl in her junior class. She was only loyalty to her friends and to James, but when Harumi came into the picture and into music class. Everything happens for a reason.

"Yeah, you're rude ass girlfriend got me into trouble, yesterday." Harumi said before looking at the cereal. She picked up a box of Cookie Crisps, before placing it into the basket.

"Well, she's not my girlfriend anymore, but she wants me to take her back, but I can't." James said, as he followed Harumi into the candy aisle to find Shaun grabbing two bags of sour patch kids, but she ignored him.

"So, I was wondering what are you doing tomorrow night at around six?"

"Uh.. nothing in particular why you asked?"

"I have been invited to Gordi Kramer's party at his mansion and I somehow have an extra invitation, so I wandering... would like to come with me?"

Harumi blushed at James' question. This was the first time that she was invited to something since she was in high school. Plus, she was being asked out by James Izumi a high school junior student, who people called him at Seiko High School, James or Izumi-senpai.

"Uh… sure, James-senpai," Harumi said shyly.

As Harumi and James walked towards the grocery store counter to pay for the food supplies that the emo teenager picked out, until Shaun had finally returned with the snacks he decided to buy with twenty dollars. He had a cherry slushy in one hand as he drank from out of it happily and the other hand a shopping cart full of sugary foods. In his basket he had chocolate and cookies and cream pocky, hot takis, sour patch kids, wild berry skittles, and a large bag of sour cream and onion chips.

"I… think he needs more than twenty dollars, Harumi," James suggested.

Shaun giggled at James' suggested showing the inside of his mouth covered with red slushy.

7:12 pm

Back at Ethan Mars' House

Harumi was in the kitchen making dinner for her, Shaun and Ethan. She was playing music on her iPhone listening to Kanon Wakeshima and her magnificent cello. She loved listening to her music as it inspired her to be a cello player in her music class when she was a freshman. Shaun happened to dozed off after getting a brain freeze from drinking his cherry slushy all at once on the way back from the grocery store.

He opened his brown eyes to see that his sister is cooking dinner by herself, without their father still not around the house. He stood up from the couch as he was rubbing his brown eyes, before walking towards the kitchen to see Harumi grilling small pieces of chicken in the wok. She turned around to see her brother standing there, watching her cook.

"Are you cooking dinner?" Shaun asked.

"Yeah, it's chicken stir fry." Harumi left the wok to grabbed a cookie pan and chocolate chips. "And for dessert, we are making chocolate chip cookies."

"Ok, that's cool, but has Dad return?" Shaun asked.

"Shaun, he hasn't walked through that door yet," Harumi said, before walking back towards the stove. "I'm started to get worried as well. It never take him this long for him to take a walk."

Shaun grabbed her iPhone and exited out of the music app, before touching the call application. "What are you doing?" Harumi asked. "Put my music back on."

"Not until I call Mom," Shaun said, before touching the number to call Grace. He places the phone on his ear, before Harumi removed it and end the call.

"Look, if we call Mom and said that Dad is not around the house, something bad will happen to us." Harumi said, placing her iPhone down on the table.

"What do you mean?" Shaun asked. "Dad has been gone for a long time and we don't know where he is by now."

Harumi sighed before looking down at her brother once again. "Ok, here the truth and I can't believe that I'm saying this. If we call Mom and tell her about Dad's disappearance, we won't be able to see him again."

"We won't be able to see Dad again?" Shaun repeated her sentence. "I want to see Dad more often, Harumi. I never get to have the time to talk to him about school or what's been going on with me and you."

Harumi pulled her brother in for a hug. This time she was acting like a true big sister. She really misses that feeling, ever since Ethan was in his coma and she was more distant. "Ok, look at me," She stood on her knees looking at her brother's worried brown eyes. "Here's the plan, once I finished cooking, we are going to call the police and let them know that Dad hasn't returned, but we can't tell the police that he left us alone."

"Ok, I hope we'll find Dad soon, Harumi." Shaun decided to hugged his sister. "But can you make a promise to me?"

"Sure, what is it?"

"Promise me that you will change for me and for Mom and Dad. I was afraid that you were going to die, last night."

"Don't worry," Harumi ruffled his brown hair. "James got me covered. He gave me this nonsmokers patch to place on my arm, so it will help me not give into the temptation of smoking."

Harumi showed her left arm to see that the patch was on her shoulder. Shaun nodded."Ok, Harumi,"

They hugged once more, before they heard a knock at the door. They suddenly looked at the door, before looking back at each other before letting go.

"Who's that?" Harumi asked.

Harumi and Shaun both walked towards the door and the emo teenager looked through the peephole to see a man in blue. A police officer. She was relieved, before she opened the door slowly to look at the officer's face. The man was wearing a normal police uniform. He was in his fifties with brown greying hair and hazel looking eyes.

"Oh, how can I help you officer?"

"Why, yes. I received a complaint call from the woman next door, talking about having loud music coming from this house." He said to Harumi before she opened the door completely for Shaun to see the police officer. The officer looked down at the ten year old boy, before looking back at the emo teenager.

"Oh, that I was me." Harumi apologized. "I was cooking dinner for me and my brother and we were just about to call a police officer."

"Well, I'm here to help." The officer said. "May I come in?"

Harumi opened the door and moved out of the way for the officer to come and walked around the house to looked at the atmosphere of the house.

"Miss, are you home alone with your brother?"

"Yes, we are officer…"

"John Sheppard."

Harumi looked at Shaun who happened to have hot takis dust all over his shirt and all over hers as well. She groaned at their messy shirts before looking at her brother. "Shaun, could you please put on a clean shirt?"

Shaun nodded before leaving Harumi alone with the police officer. "Would you like some water officer?"

"Of course and please tell what you and your brother been doing while home alone."

"Ok sir, while me and brother were here, somehow our father walked off somewhere and we don't know where he is. So I decided to watch my brother but somehow I'm not a responsible teen, because I almost burn my mother's house down with a cigarette when the ashtray was next to the curtains."

Harumi walked into the kitchen and turned off the stove to see that chicken and the vegetables were done and she covered them up to keep them warm and have their steam in the pots and pans. "So, I have a recent photo of my Dad in my phone for you and the other policeman to find him and I was wondering if you can't tell our mother about this, it will be great."

She walked towards the sink, before grabbing a clean cup and began to fill it up with water. "Don't worry, I won't tell anyone…"

"Huh?" Harumi said confused, until his arms were wrapped around her as she tries to fight back, until a white tissue was placed over her mouth and nose as she slowly closed her blue eyes and blackouted.

Shaun has all of that food and he's going to try and eat it all. I just thought of food and candy at random for him to pick out.

Anyway, who loves my first story, My Love Will Never Die, I have finally made the sequel and it called My Love Will Never Die Too. I hope everyone loves Yuuki and Norman and also Ethan and Harumi as the main characters to my Heavy Rain stories.

We will be meeting James' father in the next chapter, so I hope you are ready to meet his mystery father who works at the police station.

Harumi Mars~(Horrible Babysitter Ever) She will burn down your house, if she was smoking a cigarette.