I sat in a chair beside one of the beds. " uh, my head." Alex said as he stirred awake. he nearly jumped when he noticed me. " h-hey Charlie," he slurred his eyes slowly closed. soon he was out cold snoring softly. Luca returned to the room with a bowl of soup which he handed me saying that it was not good to starve myself. I guess he noticed that I had not had anything for lunch; it was now 4 pm. I gently took the bowl from him, thanked him and ate the soup after which I placed it in the sink, walked over to a window, and stared out of it. my mind was a jumbled mess of thoughts. "Come on Char you need to go home, we will be fine," Miles said and suddenly his face had a worried expression. He shot out of bed and walked over to me. He took my hands in his "Are you okay?" He asked look, I'm serious." He said. I scoffed and said, "Yeah dude, are you doing okay?" I said with furrowed eyebrows looking at him Intensely. " uh, what time is it?" Max asked causing us to jump apart. "No idea man." Miles said without missing a beat." Where is Luca?" Noah asked as soon as his eyes snapped open.
"I want to know how you all got to be like that." I said angrily "We_ we can't tell you...." Alex said nervously. " Really? And why not?" I replied, " Look Char, we just can't and I'm sorry for drawing g you into this." He said with a solemn expression. "Huh so there is something I've been dragged into," I said thoughtfully as I drank from the cup that Luca had handed me when he came to check k on the boys. At this point, I was so confused that if you looked up the word confusion in the dictionary, you'd see my picture right below the word. My frustration was growing more and more. At one point, I seriously considered pulling g my hair out or tossing some items across the room but I did not want to burden Luca, he had been nothing but nice to me since I got here and in some ways, he reminded me of my brother. I woke up to the sound of shattering glass. The door opened and in walked my brother. He took one look at me and came and held me in his arms. He hummed a sweet melody as he rocked me back and forth in two minutes my worried mother ran up to us and told us to go to the car. we ran into the basement where we found our Dad waiting and we all got into the car. My dad drove off and that was when I heard it. The big explosion and when I looked back, our lovely home was reduced to ruble. I fe.t tears stream down my face and my mom grabbed me and held me till I fell asleep. I was shaken awake by Noah his blue eyes held concern and a hint of annoyance. Why was he qnoyed? I'm the one who missed a whole half day of school oh well, there goes my perfect attendance. I climbed out of the car and realised that we were outside my home. I also realised that it was just Noah and I in the car. The last thing I remember was leaving the book store with all the guys. When I got into the house Jason was watching TV he looked up at me and I could see a look of relief on his face. " Charlie can we talk?" He asked looking serious. My brother was mostly goofy and carefree and I hardly saw him like this. You know, nothing good ever comes after we need to talk." I said jokingly but my brother didn't laugh he just gave me the " are you being serious right now. "look. " Do you remember when I told you that mom and dad worked for the government?" He asked sounding nervous. " Yeah," I said slowly recalling the time he told me our parents were working for the government and then he told me that they went missing and nobody could find them. I remember feeling the way I had when our home exploded back when I was four years old. " well..... I have something to tell you." He said sounding unsure " let me stop you right there Mr secretive, turns out I would have made a better spy than you." He gave me a suprised look and said " you... know, how?" " let's just say I have my ways and you are terrible at keeping secrets. I said standing up from the couch and heading g to the kitchen where I poured myself a glass of water before heading g back to the couch. He still had a dumbfounded looking his face. " I was, supposed to shield you from this world and now...." he said sadly with a sigh " and you did" I said reassuringly pla ing my hand on his shoulder. " I'm a lousy brother and son mom and dad asked me to do one thing g and I failed." He sighed again, leaned forward and placed his face e in his hands. " Jase 6ou you vare the best brother I could ever want, I mean.... you have kept a roof over my head for all this time by yourself... I'm sure mom and dad ate proud. And as for you being g a failure? Don't even say that now sit up so I can beat you at this game," I said handing him a controller " now.... that's deep." He said taking said controller. 8 grabbed the second one and soon we were engaged in a serious battle.
" ugh not again," Jason groaned tossing his controller in the couch and then going to the kitchen from where he returned with a sandwich. " you're really bad at this," I said with a laugh.