Convenience Store Nuisances

"Hi honey. I'm home." Dad spoke like people in sitcoms yet here everyone was rather focused on roasting my non-biological-mom.

"Hi, Andrew." Dad spoke in an unhinged manner, he was used to it, really... just that, 'that-used-to-homey-feeling', died the day he went inhumane.

"Oh, Mr. Herbert! How are you? How is... everything?" Andrew asked.

"Everything is the same. Like you know it used to be." Dad snickered.

"Then where's--" Andrew was going to honestly trigger dad and so I put my hand on his mouth to stop him.

"Jake, let the boy speak." Dad suspired.

"Speak, I allow you." I said feeling humorous whilst taking off my hand from his mouth.

"So what changed? Like in this house and or any of you past daily bad habits got better? Like, I haven't been here for so long... so yeah, I wanna know all the details." Andrew spoke to dad as if he'd known him forever yet rather than knowing all my dad's basic information, he knew all of my dad's horrendously ugly truths.

"You told him." My conscience interfered my thinking.

"Shut the fuck up, this is a wrong timing." I mumbled, breathing out.

"Well, I have a new wife. I guess that's something?" Dad sheepishly answered back.

Andrew just nodded in response and got the slightest pulse in his jaw... no one else seemed to notice but I sure as heck did.

"Lets get snacks from the nearest convenience store later. Anything you want Eliza?" I asked her.

"Some lollipops! Cherry flavored! Also I don't think I'll be awake till the time I'm supposed to sleep on, I feel droosy now!" She giggled.

"If that's all you need the I'm heading out but first!" I paused in my steps and advanced towards dad.

"Dad please give me money. It has been 1 month and I got no allowance." I whined childishly to cover up my anger.

"Here you go, $50. I hope that is all you need for this month." He disingenuously uttered. If you just looked closer, you'd most probably see acid breath precipitate coming out of his mouth.

"Thanks." I cockily teased him; he now started gritting his teeth a bit with obvious anger.

After wearing our jackets, we left the house.

3rd Person's Point Of View

The first question Andrew asks Jake, after leaving the house is, "What does 'droosy' mean?"

"It means drowsy." Jake rolled his eyes at Andrew's innocent question.

After Two Minutes Of Walking In Silence

"No, shit. I actually missed you!" Andrew took Jake in a gentle headlock after confessing.

"I don't know if I actually feel the same about you." Jake kidded, lightly pushing his said best friend off.

"You are kidding right?" Andrew asked still a bit taken aback.

"No." Jake shrugged.

Jake continued to be silent; Andrew, on the other hand, just couldn't stay silent.

He tried multiple times to talk and start a conversation, Jake didn't want to have small talk. Jake knew Andrew before their introduction to each other in person. He never liked to beat around the bush, he'd always boldly address the elephant in the room. Andrew however would sugar-coat and hide words and present himself as best as he could. Jake didn't care about presenting himself to strangers as he never had to as he believed he would never have to.

Basically, they both were well aware that they were undeniably different yet circumstances happened to still unite them in different times in life and they took the chance to become friends.

"So how far away is this convenience store? Isn't it like 7pm right now. IT HAS BEEN HALF AN HOUR OF US WALKING IN FUCKING NOTHING BUT SILENCE. TALK OR SOMETHING." Andrew whined from behind Jake.

"Go hump a car. That's definitely something." Jake sarcastically remarked whilst rolling his eyes at his own stupid suggestion.

"HAHA. Really funny. Hey, hey everyone! Look at me! I'm my school's depressed-edgy-emo-boy." Andrew raged.

"OH? OH! WE'RE PLAYING THAT GAME?! FINE! HEY, HEY EVERYONE! LOOK AT ME! I'M MY SCHOOL'S 'I.T' BOY, PERFECT AND A FUCKING JERK WHO BULLIES HIS SELF PROCLAIMED REAL LIFE BEST FRIEND BECAUSE HE NEEDS TO KEEP UP WITH HIS REPUTATION!" Jake shouted letting anger take control of him.

"Oh, look there. There is a convenience store! Let's buy snacks before it closes." Andrew secretly petrified of Jake's anger, changed the topic.

"Yeah. I know. I walk past here everyday but my word doesn't matter to you it seems." Jake complained.

Andrew wanted to say against what Jake just claimed but he couldn't go against it. His guilt couldn't let him do so. He didn't hang out with Jake for so long. If Andrew didn't ditch him, Jake would have someone to rely on. He would have someone to wake up for every single day. Instead, all people did to him was look down on him and leave him. Jake was so much better than any of the things other perceived of him.

Andrew mindlessly bumped into the shoulder of another customer. She looked back at him, expecting an apology. Jake, on the other hand, witnessed the whole scene.

"Dude just apologize." Jake called out to an Andrew staring right into thin air, but he still didn't get knocked into his senses yet.

"ANDREW! APOLOGIZE, YOU FUCKTARD!" Jake shouted out, knowing how much Andrew disliked being called that.

"I SWEAR TO GOD I WILL KILL YOU SOMEDAY." Andrew shouted and the manager came out.

Also minding the girl who got baffled by Andrew shouting, he apologized and she acknowledged.

"You two kids." The manager pointed at Andrew and Jake, "Please do not spread pandemonium or else I'm going to ask you both to leave." She spoke in her country-woman accent, which the two she wanted to convey her message to, didn't take seriously.

They hurriedly bought their snacks and Elizabeth's lollipops and just ran outside the convenience store for no damn reason.

They continued to just run around in a random park. They were well aware of what could go wrong, they just didn't want to think about these problems.

"JAKE LOOK AT THE SKY!" Andrew screamed.

"What about it?" Jake asked back.

"It's spinning." Andrew squealed.

"YOU DUMBASS! IT'S ALWAYS SPINNING!" Jake smacked the back of Andrew's head.

"I feel like we're high. We didn't even consume anything. Like... no sugar, caffeine and or any illegal drug yet we still manage to get high." Andrew spoke in a rough voice as he shouted a lot for one day.

"I guess we're just high because we went through a roller coaster of a first day at school and then...-- wait nothing that special happened after school. Like, just some random dude called Luke came to my house asking for me. Eliza told him off saying that I wasn't home then." Jake narrated ever-so-solemnly.

A scream was heard just then.