"How should I feel now that you have won?" Said Arnold to Jeremiah.
"You should feel fine, you are top tier after all." Jeremiah reminded Arnold.
"How did you do it?" Said Arnold.
"Do what?" Says Jeremiah.
"Crack time travel, that shouldn't even be possible." Said Arnold.
"You know how things are in fantasy. How is it impossible when we're in a book anyway?" Said Jeremiah
"Even so, I only came in second place to you." Said Arnold.
"That doesn't mean you're truly second place." Said Jeremiah with a serious look on his face.
"It literally means I'm second place." Said Arnold with a slight annoyed look on his face and a shed of anger in his tone of voice.
"I was just trying to ease the tension. Look we can go back to normal after this, the competition is done." Explained Jeremiah.
"Fine I'm heading home, I'll see you tomorrow." Arnold heads back home.
"It is getting late and the competition is over, I'll head back home as well. I wonder if Chris ever made it back since Comadust is gone and captured by Mr. Weiss?" Jeremiah thinks to himself.
Jeremiah catches the train and heads back home. He makes it back home and when he gets there the lights are on and his family are all in the kitchen having dinner.
"We waited for you, congratulations on winning the competition." Jeremiah's mother said in excitement.
"How much money did you win?" Jeremiah's father asked.
"I won the first place prize for $50,000. Second place wins $25,000 and third place wins $10,000." Jeremiah responded.
Jeremiah notices other chairs are put up to the table and that it looks like they were having guests over.
"Who else is here?" Asked Jeremiah with a curious face.
"Oh, I called your older siblings home to have dinner. So Anthony, lyrica, and Baeby are here also." Jeremiah's mother said.
"Really? Now they can see how much greater I am than they are." Jeremiah said with an obnoxious smile on his face and a slight chuckle in his voice.
"No, Jeremiah, we're not going to do that." Said Jeremiah's mother with a stern look on her face.
"I was just joking." Jeremiah responded.
Then Anthony walks down the stairs and says "hello Jeremiah, congratulations on winning the competition of invention. I hear all about those competitions scamming their genius inventors. Let me know if you start having contract scams." Anthony said.
"He's not going to have problems and get scammed." Jeremiah's mother said.
"He already won the money." Jeremiah's father said.
"No, he may be right but I'm already prepared for that." Says Jeremiah.
"Oh? Is that so? You know if you have trouble don't hesitate to call your big brother, I am a lawyer after all. I can defend you in these matters." Said Anthony In a menacing tone of voice.
"Why do you say it like that? But thanks, will let you know." Jeremiah brushed him off. "Where is Chris?" Jeremiah asks.
"Chris is in his room. He got home yesterday and went straight to his room." Explained Jeremiah's father.
"I'll go to see him after dinner then." Said Jeremiah.
The Lynn family finishes having dinner and everyone heads to bed. Jeremiah's mother informed Jeremiah that she invited his adult siblings to visit them for a few days and that Anthony would be sleeping in Jeremiah's room while he's here. The girls shared a room and Jeremiah and Chris would share Chris's room.
Chris and Jeremiah are in Chris's room preparing to sleep for the night and they are laying in two beds that are facing opposite to each other. They turn the lights off.
"When did you make it back?" Jeremiah whispered to Chris so only Chris can hear him and the rest of the house doesn't wake up.
"It doesn't matter, just sleep." Chris answered as if he were annoyed by Jeremiah.
"You we're put in the game by Comadust?" Asked Jeremiah, already knowing the answer.
"I don't want to talk." Chris coldly says.
"I don't care. I don't care if you don't want to talk but I know what you were trying to do." Said Jeremiah in a slightly angry tone and yet still whispering.
"Why are saying this?" Asked Chris, who was not expecting Jeremiah to directly confront him.
"Because I try to be patient with you and even leave you alone completely instead of pretending to be nice to you or pretend that I even like you when I don't, but you go out of your way to spite me." Jeremiah said.
"What are you talking about?" Asked Chris trying to play dumb.
"You tried to use my own invention against me. Who even does that?" Jeremiah retorted.
"How did you find out about that?" Says Chris.
"So you did try it?" Confirms Jeremiah.
"Yeah I sure did. I can't stand you. I wish you would've been stuck in time like I had originally planned for you." Says Chris angrily and bitterly.
"What is wrong with you? I've literally never done a thing to you. What did I do to you to make you like this? Why can't you ignore me? You go too far. But lucky for me you are just an actual idiot because I literally can't get stuck in time." Jeremiah responds.
"Whatever! I wish you'd just disappear." Said Chris with nothing new to say.
"Why do you wish I'd disappear and why do you hate me?" Jeremiah continued.
"You have everything, stop acting like there is something so wrong with me for disliking you. I'm tired of hearing about you all the time. Jeremiah won this, Jeremiah invented that, ooh Jeremiah is such a genius." Chris said in an angry mocking tone of voice.
"So that's what I did to you? I have always been better than you, but I don't even speak to you and we're not close but yet you still have the thoughts of me succeeding in your mind, and that is why you won't be great. People who plot can never be great." Jeremiah says to Chris.
"Whatever I'm going to sleep. You think your doing something with that stupid speech. You're not a preacher." Chris says in an even angrier tone of voice as he turns his back on Jeremiah and faces the wall.