Thor lived only a few blocks down from where his school was. He walked Jane home after football practice as usual and then walked home. Everyone would give him weird looks on the street just by his sheer size; he looked like he belonged in college. Even though he was obviously the strongest guy at school he still got teased a bit for being a big dumb lug. Thor would admit he wasn't a super genius but he was certainly no idiot.

He came to his house at the end of the street and let himself in and was greeted by his cousins. Unlike most families in New York Thor lived with more than just his immediate family, he also lived with his cousins, Sif and Ragnarok his Aunt Atali kids and his Uncle Tyr's kids, Fandral and Hogun. His mother sister never was interested on getting married but wanted kids so she adopted both Sif and Ragnarok. And her brother had his first wife and had Hogun but then divorced and noticing Hogun needing a playmate he adopted Fandral. They all lived in a house that was big enough for normal families but too small for theirs. Not only his cousins inhabited here but also his mother and father.

And Loki Thor added in his head. Loki was his father and mother adopted child. Thor and Hogan were really the only blood children here. However his parents let Loki believe that he was their son, until he found out by looking at some old documents. After he found that out he felt betrayed by his family and went into gangs and got into some bad things and disappeared during sophomore year. He left a letter saying he needed some time on his own, and that he would highly doubt he would come back. It hurt his mother and father but it struck Thor down the most. Thor knew he hadn't been the nicest to his brother in the past and now it was too late.

"Thor! How was your practice of football?" his thought was interrupted by the powerful voice of Hogan.

"Fine Hogan, and what about your day?" he asked in return. Thor was the only one that didn't go to a private school like his cousins. They all went to a private school a few miles from their house. Thor saw no reason to go to a prep school so he chose the East River school and it was the best decision he ever made.

"Very well cousin, I accidentally hit a kid so hard it knocked out a tooth." He faced dropped for a minute. "But luckily it was just part of a retainer!"

"So all of his teeth remain in tacked?"

"INDEED! Well I'm off, I have some homework to do." And Hogan took off. Thor was just about to go up the stairs when he heard another voice call for him.

"Thor, have you seen my running shoes?" he turned around to be faced with the angry expression of Sif.

"I sadly have not Sif, have you checked the den?"

"And the car, and my room and the stairs." She named the usually places where she left her stuff.

"I think Tyr took them down to the basement wash off the mud from your last run." He offered some advice. She quickly ran to the basement to find them.

"FOUND THEM! THANKS THOR!" she screamed through the house. Thor smiled and ran up to his room before any more interruptions. Every kid had to share a room, well except Sif being the only girl child, but Hogan, Fandral and Ragnarok all shared the biggest room in the house which was most of the top floor. Then Thor and Loki shared the smaller room beside theirs. Thor walked in and dropped his stuff on the floor. Since Loki had vanished they had put most of his stuff in storage, against Thor's wishes. But one thing that no one knew about except Thor was the box he kept in the hollowed out part of the wall.

Thor stood up, moved his bed and then opened a very small door in the wall where it revealed a box. He quickly locked his door and then sat down on the floor leaning against the wall and went through it.

One of the biggest things in there was Thor and Loki's first stuff animals; Thor had gotten a baby bald eagle and Loki had gotten a little cow. They were dull and had lost most of their stuff from constant tearing and re-sowing. There were a bunch of pictures that made Thor smile, a picture of him and Loki on their first day of grade school. Thor with his already long blond hair with a red plaid shirt and jeans on with two teeth missing in the front of his mouth. And Loki smiling beside him with a green polo with too long pants on. The next picture was of all of the kids on their first day of 8th grade. All of his cousins were in their preppy uniforms with ties and blue and white shirts on (another reason didn't want to go there), Thor wearing a plain red shirt with a black jacket over it with new jeans and boots on smiling leaning against Loki- who was wearing black pants with a loose green shirt on.

The he picked up next picture was more recent. It was of him and Jane at a football game. He was in full football gear, visibly sweaty holding his helmet in one hand. The other was wrapped around Jane's waist holding her up as she was seen wrapping her legs around him and burying her head in his shoulder. It was taken from the side and you could see the stars behind him, it was just after they had won the state championship. Thor recalled how amazing that night was, him coming out cheering and then suddenly being tackled by his girlfriend. She was a foot shorter than him but he didn't mind, he liked it. He set the picture down and continued to look through the objects.

At the bottom were his class ring and his state ring he kept them in here so that it wouldn't be lost. Another object was a pocket book of mythology that his father had given him. His family was obsessed with mythology, mainly Norse, and that's why he was so good at it in school. The stories and the facts were drilled into his head since he was a kid.

The last thing he picked was something that reminded him one of the best days of his life. It was nothing more than a shiny blue rock. He and Loki were walking along a cliff in South Africa when his family went there on vacation by themselves. They were enjoying the sky and the sun when Loki pushed Thor a little too close to the edge.

"Brother, I would not do that if I were you," Thor threatened while laughing.

"And why is that?" Loki taunted back.

"Because I may try something like this!" And Thor grabbed Loki's arm and swung him over the cliffs where he fell 25 feet to the crystal blue sea below. He heard Loki's scream as he fell and Thor laughed and ran over to the edge to make sure his little brother was not dead or anything.

"THOR! You damn bastard I'll kill you for this!" Loki yelled from the bottom of the cliff.

"I'll help you with that!" and Thor jumped off the cliff to. He fell a few feet from Loki and came up laughing. Loki swam over and pushed Thor while laughing also. For the rest of the day they climbed some of the rock pillars and jumped off of them. And at the end of the day Loki found this blue rock and was about to throw if off before Thor stopped him.

"Don't throw it Loki! It's much too pretty!" Thor had protested.

"Fine, have it." Loki tossed it to him and laughed.

Thor had kept it to remind him about that glorious day. But now most of the memories brought a sense of pain with them. Loki could be dead for all Thor knew and he can't find him. He put all of the things back in the box and put it in the little door again and pulled his bed back and unlocked the door to prevent from raisin suspension. He grabbed his blue bag and pulled out his Chemistry homework and started on it, trying to only remember the good memories.