Chapter 17: Tom:

"Hey, Tom, have you seen your brother?" It was my host's mother, it and my host's father were leaving in a few minutes to go on a trip over the weekend. I was on the computer finishing up some work for Chapman. I had to be leaving in a few minutes to go to the Sharing camping trip. It had better not bother me, because I might just drag it to the pool myself.

"What?" I asked back, trying my hardest to sound happy and upbeat.

"Have you seen Jake, he was supposed to be back by dinner and now it's after eight. I'm starting to get worried."

"I bet he's fine, mom, he's probably just with Marco at the hospital." I was starting to get fed up with this human. "That's where he told me he was going after we went to get lunch."

"Can you go over there and pick him up then? Go ahead and pick up Marco too, with his dad in the hospital and his mom out of town he might be staying at our house for a few days at least while we're gone, I already gave Jake permission to let Marco stay over if he needed to ." It told me as it handed me the keys to my car.

"But I have important stuff to do. I was going on that overnight Sharing trip remember?"

"Well you can do that after you pick up Jake and Marco from the hospital."

"Fine. I'll go pick up the munchkin and his little friend from the hospital." I tried to sound happy and upbeat but this woman was getting on my nerves.