Unintentional family

Meeting

It was a good day. Nice weather, sunny but not hot, and yet, Warriors was not having a good day.

It all started with a phone call, one that woke him from his peaceful slumber. When he grabbed it, it turned out to be nothing more than a prank. Then came the excruciatingly long line at the cafe. How anyone could be awake so early on a weekend was beyond him, but he couldn't go back to sleep, a bad habit he picked up in the military. Usually, the long lines never bothered him, but today people were being too noisy, and he was getting a bit ticked off too quickly.

The walk home was filled with the sounds of cars driving past, and the occasional honk from impatient drivers. The sidewalk had few people, mostly girls that were probably headed to the mall. For what? Warriors had no idea. It was far too early for his brain to work correctly.

The walk back home took six minutes total, if no lights stopped him before he got there. But then came the front gate which, for whatever reason, had been malfunctioning lately. The repair man had not been doing his job, so Warriors opted to go through the vehicle gate and stroll onwards. No one really cared as everyone did it now. He just needed to watch out for the manager. She had yelled at him many times before because he walked through the vehicle gate.

Before Warriors got home, he dropped off a coffee for Time and said good morning to the family. Several playful comments were thrown his way by Malon asking why he was awake so early on a weekend. He just laughed and waved it off.

Warriors shared his little house with two roommates. Of course, he had the roommate that would always want to kill him, but they managed to get on well enough.

The second he walked through the door he was greeted with; "Never would have thought that you would be awake so early, War. Where'd you go?" His first roommate, Legend, asked from the counter. He seemed to be eating cereal.

"Eh, someone called me this morning. Couldn't go back to sleep after that so I went to get myself and Time some coffee from Telma's cafe." Warriors explained as he took off his thick green jacket and long blue scarf and hung them on the wall.

"You? Getting a call this early in the morning? Please tell me it was your sister calling 'cause she couldn't find the cocoa again." Legend snickered at the memory.

"Nah, if it was I would be angry right now," Warriors laughed as well, "but no, it wasn't her. No, someone called and asked me if my refrigerator was running."

At that, Legend burst out laughing. "Oh, my Hylia," he said while wiping his eyes, "that's the oldest thing in the book."

"Yeah, I just hang up at this point." Warriors said to the still laughing Legend who was almost on the floor.

"What's so funny that has this guy on the floor?" Four, Warriors second roommate, asked.

"Nothing, Legend's just being a bully." Warriors said as he took a sip of his single cream coffee.

"Why do you go the cafe? We have a coffee machine here." Four pointed to the machine on the counter that was currently making a coffee.

"Because, Four, I like Telma's coffee better." Warriors said in a matter-of-fact voice.

"And 'cause he'll find a way to burn it, that's why I stick to cereal in the morning." Legend snickered.

"Har har har, Legend." Warriors rolled his eyes while heading to his bedroom. "Hey, Four. You still heading to work?"

"Yeah, Time said he'd take me." Four answered as he grabbed his black coffee from the machine.

Warriors' room was clean, very clean. Everything was in order, just the way he liked it. The walls were a bluebird blue, his bed was tucked under his large open window on the left, a small black lamp stand was located at the right side of his green bed, his drawers were right in front on his bed with his TV and DVD player on top, to the right was a small desk with books and picture frames on it, and his closet was right behind his open door.