Jack and his father gets home with less fishes than normal.
Cassie went to pick up the basket from her husband as Jack went to place the things they used back to their places. And David was again by the door, leaning. "So?… what was it like?" David then smirks and was excited to hear it. Jack was silent for a while and sighed. "They were….they were only in their undergarments so I looked away." David's excitement turned into a disappointment. "what?! But those are the good stuff!" He explains to him waving his hands here and there like crazy. Jack stays silent for something else was in his mind keeping him unapproachable. David notices his utterly strange silence then mouths to his father asking about what happened but Damon just grinned it off and looked away from his matter leaving David in a big curiosity.
"everyone! Dinner's ready!" They all ate dinner being concerned about Jack and something else beside that was bothering Mrs. And Mr. Liege.
Children are asleep and David's repeatedly asking Jack what's happening while jack's response is nothing. Damon and Cassie are talking about what parents talk about. They were sitting on the seats that was by the dining table. "Aren't you gonna tell me?" Damon then looks at Cassie who asked him. "what?" He cluelessly asked her back. She sighs smiling. "What happened in the lake today? Was he upset of the less caught fishes?" He then nods as he understood now. "Well..little Faine was bathing in the lake today. He got upset of himself. " It was silent for a bit. "Not the fishes" He jokingly added. Cassie giggles then slowly got serious. "But it's no ones fault. He should know that. He's the prince of facts." Then giggled quietly so they won't wake the kids."maybe little Valerie here turned his prince switch from being on to off." They look outside to see a quiet and peaceful neighborhood. "To think of it, Women can really be the finest and most explainable weakness to men." Then both shared a thought. "Young Love.." They sighed thinking this as they smiled through.
Jack again woke up from the bad dream and heard a BANG downstairs. He quickly gets up from his bed and hurries downstairs to see the family moving things around. He stopped and walked down to finish the stairs. "Did you sleep well, jack?" His mother asks and everyone looks at him. He rubs his eyes and apologized for waking up late than before. "It IS unusual for you to wake up late Big Brother.." Phinn pouts as Jack was surprised of what he called him. "David asked me nonstop about women in the lake last night. Sorry.." David's Mouth dropped as the triplets scold him.
Jack went to his mother. "Let me carry this instead." Then holds out his hands but the triplets took him away with all of them saying "Rest." He was seated on the couch as the triplets makes him stay on the couch when he tries to get up. They are struggling so he stopped resisting.
He was given breakfast and was treated like a king. He wanted to help them so much but was always stopped by the triplets. Later on, he decides to go outside but saw the triplets following him. He looked up at the sky, closed his eyes and slowly smiled. "I won't do anything Palle," Palle gasped as the other two chuckled at her. "Phinn," He adds as phinn slowly lost his smile while palle and Paula laughed at him. "And Paula." Then the two laughed at her but she fought for her stand and told the others they sucked at hiding too. Jack leaves them fighting who sucked more.
Jack is walking through the neighborhood and saw a flier flying around. He catches the flier and saw a bunch of girls in this big house, not really a mansion, of the village chief. They were running around the house up and down the stairs as Jack watches. They were loud that they were heard outside the house. He was enjoying watching their fun when he saw Valerie. He quickly looked away and looked at the flier instead. "Available Job. Come to the Faine Residence for more information." Jack debates with himself If he should go or not since he already knows about Valerie being the daughter of Chief Faine. But he discovers that only one time he'll see her again. Only one time and all is done, done is all.
Jack comes back to his house and picks up the things he and his father are gonna use for their fishing time when suddenly, a hand swooped in and snatched all the things from his hand. "Thank you" Jack looks up to see that it was David than Damon walking behind david carrying a basket. "You won't be coming with me today kiddo." David proudly smiles. "Though I know im gonna catch lesser today than yesterday wit this idiot." He added jokingly as he aggressively rubs David's hair with his other arm wrapped around his neck. "This is my lucky day! Whoo-hoo!" David shouts as the two walked away from the speechless Jack. The triplets were peaking by the door and reminded jack today is his rest day.
Jack is sitting on the couch watching his mother sweep the floor. His silence bothered Cassie. "do you want to tell me something, jack?" she says out of the blue, but jack was in deep thinking. Cassie walks close to him and snapped her fingers which made jack come back to reality. She giggles. "You've been spacing out a lot, Prince of facts." She jokingly calls him that. She sits beside him and had this concerned look on her face. "I'm deciding if I should get a job…" Her eyes widened and stuttered asking him why. "I didn't eavesdrop but I heard that we are tight on expenses and when I was walking around the village, I saw a flier." He gets the flier out his pocket and handed it to her. She opens the folded flier. "Available Job. Come to the Faine Residence for more information." She was silent debating with herself what to say. "I don't want to be a burden.." Cassie looks at jack and saw his eyes sparkling that it is his desire to help them. Cassie sighs and tells him to talk about it when Damon gets home. "But for now, just wash yourself please. You might've walked the road full of pigs and dirt." Jack agrees and when he was done, he tiptoed out to the village and sees that Damon and David are back. He knows they'll take a lot of time to prepare so he hid behind this store until the two got to the house.
Jack gulps as he is now in front of the Faine Residence. He slowly walked to the door holding the flier close to his chest and knocked.
The door opened with a creak and what came as a surprise to him was this Black haired woman with a blanket covering her. The blanket slightly fell and he saw the strip of the girl's Bra. He quickly looked away as the girl greeted her a very good afternoon. Jack couldn't look at the woman so he greeted her back. "Umm..I was hoping to meet Chief Faine? If he's available.." The girl let him in and he hears he loud noises from upstairs more loud than it was outside. "I'm sorry about the chaos. I will lead you to his office." He looks around and was amazed by the on next level house as he nodded to her.
"May I ask?" She asks as they were walking. Now, Jack made sure to look at her eyes. "Of course…um.. What is it?" He politely talks back as the girl was silent when she saw jack's blonde hair shining when the lights hit. She stutters quite a bit asking for his name. "Jack Liege." He replied as the girl sighs relief of hearing his soft voice spoke to her. The girl shooks off all the blushes and as they stopped in front of the door's office, she introduced herself to him holding out her hand to shake his. "Madeline Aniston Vial." He shakes her hand saying that it was nice meeting her. Madeline shouts to the office door. "Chief Faine! There is someone who wants to see you!" Then leaves after she opened the door for Jack when the chief shouted back to let them in.
Jack comes in and the chief turns to face him. The chief was smoking and asked what is his deal with him.
"I..umm saw this." He places the flier on the desk. The chief looked at it for a second and observed Jack up and down.
"You're not fit for this job." He mumbles with the cigarette in his mouth. Jack's eyes widened and explained to the chief what he can do which is EVERYTHING. The chief was silent as he was thinking. "You'll be babysitting my child 24/7 and do the chores I give you every single day. You'll be waking up earlier than I do and The only rest day you can get are the weekends. Protecting my daughter is gonna be your top priority. Valerie had a lot of people taking on this job and after just 5 hours, they quit." Jack was speechless.
"Valerie treasure her friends so much but I'm worried of her when her friends take her to the lake to bathe. So you also have to be aware of that." Jack was suddenly curious. "I fish in the lake everyday Chief, but I don't see any problems." The chief sighs and opens a drawer. He gets out tons of newspapers and placed it on the desk. "Less fishes and problems with it's healthiness. People have been bathing in the lake and it is getting Unhealthy. Not just that, we don't have any clue on why the lake is turning pure black as hell." Jack looks at the newspapers. "But I've never seen these Chief.." The Chief sits on his seat and places the finished cigarette on a "platito". "I stole those from the post so we, in charge, won't alarm the people. The others are from other villages. It's happening almost everywhere as the king observes it more."
Jack looks at all the newspapers and was really concerned when the chief asked him. "what's your name?" He asked him as he responded "Jack Liege" The chief stood up from the seat and went to jack. Chief Faine holds jack by his arms and had this surprised look. "Are you that boy who talks to my precious every time you fetch water here, before?" Jack chuckles nervously and replied. "Uh..hehehe.. that's one way to put it. But that was before chief. I can focus to my work if really needed." The chief lets him go and went back, sat on his seat again and looked up and down at him as Jack stood there and placed the newspapers down when the chief snatched it and said. "You get the job if you're interested and if you can do it. Valerie and her friends have their ways to make you quit and it won't matter to me 'cause there are lots of other people in the line trying to get this job." Jack gulps a bit and turned his head back to look at the door so he could debate wether to take it because of Damon and Cassie.
"You can still decide about it. It's already late and I have to wake up for duties. Don't waste any more of my time." Jack promised the chief he'll be back and then sprinted out of the house.
Jack is now sneaking in the house and stay in a place so that they won't suspect he went out. He climbs this big tree and through the tree, He went in using the opened window that leads to the room of Damon and Cassie. "This is much easier than climbing a beanstalk.." He thinks as he looked at the tree from the inside of the room. "what are you doing here?" A voice was heard. Jack quickly looked over to who it was and saw David coming at him with a big frown. "Man forget it. I won't ever see anyone in those sexy thingies." Then sits on the side of the bed. Jack sat beside him and asked what did he meant by that. David looks at him with a frustrated look and explained. "The lake was empty when we got there. I thought the ladies will come later but no Ladies came!…Man why do you have to see the fun things and I don't" He added with a little tear on the side of his eye. Jack stood up with a look like a smack in a face and told him to just come down with him.
Everyone was seated and Jack has been waiting everyone to tell this since he came back and they ate dinner.
"Father…, Mother,….. I am going to get a job. The chief said I can get the job if I'm interested and I am.. so I told him I'll come back with a decision in mind." Damon was in shock while Cassie was waiting for him to answer jack. "I was not eavesdropping, I just heard. We are short in money and I can help with that if you'll just let me." There was silence until Damon dropped it with a big sigh. "Jack.. son, I know you wanna help us. But it is my..as the man in the house, it is my duty to provide what Is missing." He tells him which jack couldn't believe because Damon has always been his top 2 supporter in everything he does beside his late mother. "I can't put shame on a man's dignity by letting his son do his work." Jack tries to deny it is not like that. "But-" Damon interrupts.
"Please Jack.. just listen."