When we came indoors, we gathered in the living room. Hayley was the first one that began to speak.
"Lex, how could you live in this?" she asked. "It stinks of alcohol." I shrugged.
"Guess I´m used to it, and we´re all having to deal with it today and tomorrow, because there´s not really anything to do about it."
"I´ve got another question." Aiden spoke out. "How long will we stay here today?"
"Ehrm, because we´ve got a lot to do, and we´ve only got two days, I suppose we should stay here to like, seven or eight p.m."
"Then how are we going to get dinner?" He looked at me, with a really confused glare.
"Ehrm…" I began, I hadn´t been thinking that far, but Mr. Schue interrupted.
"At dinner- time, I´ll go buy some burgers and French- fries for everyone. That´s actually good, because I need to go home, and get some plastic sheets I promised I´d bring." He laughed a bit.
"Well, you guys," I pointed to the ones that were gonna start downstairs. "You can began over there in the kitchen, just shout if you need me." I turned around, and walked up the stairs with Tyler, Hayley and Connor after me. "We´ll start in here, I walked a few steps down the hallway upstairs and opened a door to the left. To the room that had been my dad´s. I turned the lights on and went across the room, to open the window.
"I´m just gonna go and open the rest of the windows in the house, and tell the others tyo do the same downstairs." I said, and walked out in the hallway.
"MR. SCHUE" I shouted at the top of the stairs.
"YES." Mr. Schue came to stand at the bottom of the stairs.
"If you could just, open the windows downstairs, so maybe we´ll get rid of the smell here."
"I´ll do that."
"Good." I turned around. And went into a room to the right, and then opened the windows in every room down the hall. Then I went back to dad´s room, where Hayley had started to pull the duvet covers of the bed. The boys were riffling in a pile with old comics. I went to help Hayley.
"Ey Lex." Tyler started.
"Yes." I answered.
"Would you mind if I try to sell these comics, and give you the money."
"Why would you sell them, they´re just garbage."
"Most of them are, but there´s about three or four pretty expensive ones here, and I think I could get like, fifty dollars or something for them, if I put them on eBay."
"FIFTY DOLLARS? For a COMIC?"
"No, for all of them together. Do you want me to try?"
"Do what you like, I don´t care." I took the dusty and dirty bedclothes from dad´s bed and started to walk downstairs with them. I walked out in the garden and threw them at the "garbage- side" of the front yard.
"How big is this house actually?" Connor asked when I came back upstairs.
" Ehrm, let´s see." I thought a bit. "Four bedrooms, two small bathrooms, one kitchen and living room. Why?"
"Just wondering, isn´t that a bit big for two persons."
"When we first moved here, eight years ago. It was perfect. There was one room for me, I had my own, so I could do my homework in a silent room. One for mum and dad, one for Maddie, and Zeb, and one for Wyatt to stay in, he was here quite often already back then."
"Who´s Zeb and Maddie."
"My sister and brother," I smiled a little. "Mum and dad gave all of us long names. So we made them a bit shorter for ourselves. Alexandria became Lex, Madelyn became Maddie, and Zebastian became Zeb."
"Didn´t know you had siblings." Tyler began. "Where are they and your mu…"
"I don´t wanna talk about it."
So… this is the second time Lex´s mum and Zeb are mentioned. It´s the first time it´s mentioned that her brother´s name was Zeb.
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