Keep Dreaming Up Ways to Survive

Chapter 8

When Dawson woke up, they went to their next class like nothing happened. After school was over he dropped Felix off at his house then drove to his own. Dawson walked into his house and was hit with the smell of hamburger, that meant dinner was soon.

"Hey Dawson! Can you get Wyatt and put him on the play mat in the living room?" Yelled Octavia, Dawson's older sister.

"Sure."

Then he walked up the steep steps to his baby brother's colorful room. When he opened the door he saw the small child wide awake playing with an old, squeaky hippo toy. As Wyatt sees his brother he drops the toy and babbles loudly, making grabby hands at Dawson. Dawson reaches down and picks him up, and just as quickly as he got there he left the room. Placing the baby on the play mat and turning on Disney Junior, he walked back into the kitchen to talk to his sister.

"So... why are you so late?" Asked Octavia while making dinner.

"I was doing something." Dawson replied secretively.

"Oh! Doing what! Hanging out with your girlfriend?" Octavia gushed.

"No."

"Boyfriend?"

"...No."

"Ha! You hesitated!" She yelped as she pointed at him with the spatula.

"Stop! I honestly was just dropping a friend off at their house! There is nothing weird happening!" Dawson growled aggravated.

"Fine, let me hear about this friend though! I haven't seen you have friends in so long, it's really refreshing to hear some good news!" Octavia laughed to herself.

"I heard a rumor about him, I wanted to see if it was true so I stalked him throughout the day. It ended up being true and we bonded over that, but bad things keep happening that I keep causing! I honestly don't know what to do anymore, It's stressing me out on my end! I don't even want to think how it feels for him!" Dawson panted out as he pulled on his hair slightly. Octavia looked at him dumbfounded, she had never seen him so worked up over something.

"Well, let's go piece by piece. What bad things are you causing?" Octavia questioned as she started to plate the burgers.

"Well-it's... um hard to explain..." Dawson stuttered quietly. He knew he shouldn't tell his sister he had powers and was going to save the world with them, that would sound dumb.

"Are you hurting him? Manipulating him?" Octavia suggested suspiciously as she squinted her eyes.

"No... I'm not manipulating or hurting him, but..." Dawson lowered his head.

"Wait, didn't you say you stalked him?-" Octavia shook, but before Dawson could say anything Wyatt started whining loudly for food.

"Ok! Give him this before he gets CPS on us again!" Octavia shouted, while handing Dawson a small plate with cut up pieces of hamburger patty with a little dollop of ketchup on the side. Dawson took the plate and walked to the whining baby.

"Hey, it's ok. Here's your food." He said as he placed the plate on the colorful mat. Wyatt started to slowly belly crawl over to the plate and used his tiny fingers to eat sloppily. Octavia handed Dawson his plate as she sat on the other side of the baby to eat together, then they turned on a better show than whatever Wyatt was watching.

Dawson headed to his room after a few hours of hanging out with Octavia, since it had been Friday he didn't have to go to bed and his sister wouldn't haggle him about it either. Dawson was lounging on his bed as he began to get bored, he wanted to text someone. He got out his phone, went to his contacts and looked for Felix. That's when it dawned on him, he never got Felix's number.

"Ok, I'll go get it tomorrow." Dawson whispered to himself as he got up to turn the lights off. He jumped in bed, closed his eyes and fell asleep.