The Parks Brothers

Chapter Two

*Early the next morning*

“Cameron,wake up. We’re here.” Max said,shaking me to wake me up. I yawned and sat up,running a hand through my hair.
“Are we going in there to get him?” I asked.
“Yeah. Was just waiting until 6 to wake you up.” He said.
“Well,lets get going then.”
“You’re going in there like that?” He asked,eyebrow raised,a smirk on his face.
“I can change before we see him.”
“I’m just kidding. But do bring your clothes in with you so you can change before we go to breakfast.” He  said,opening the driver side door.
“Are they going to let Thor in?” I asked as I got out and stretched. I pulled my black hoodie out of my bag and put it on then threw my bag over one of my shoulders.
“Yeah. You want to walk him in?” He asked,opening the back door and putting a black leash on Thor.
“Sure. I’ll be the one who’s arm he rips out when he see’s Tyler.” I said. Max chuckled and closed the door,handing the leash to me.
“Ready to go see Tyler?” I asked Thor as we approached the airport. Thor barked and jumped around excitedly,which was making it really hard to walk straight. Max laughed the whole way to the airport doors. Once we were in I saw a bunch of people in Military uniforms. I sighed and looked around trying to find Tyler.
“Let’s go walk around and try to find him.” Max said. I nodded and followed him as he started walking forward. When dad died we called Tyler,which was rather difficult I might add,and he said that he was coming back soon for a vacation. Guess that was planned well. Only part that sucks is that we only have a month or so with him,unless he gets a call,then he would have to leave even earlier.
“I think Thor found him.” Max said. I felt the leash moving around and  saw Thor jumping around and making this weird whining sound that he used to make when he was excited. He was staring right in front of us. I followed his stare and saw Tyler standing there,arms folded over his chest,shaking his head and chuckling.
“Go get him boy.” I said,dropping the leash. The second the leash hit the floor Thor was off,running as fast as he could to Tyler,jumping into his arms. Tyler caught him and let squirming,whining Thor lick his face.
“I’d say he missed you.” Max said. Tyler laughed then set Thor down and grabbed his leash.
“I’d say so too. It’s good to see you guys.” He said then hugged Max then me.
“How have you been?” Tyler asked me.
“Do you really even have to ask?”
“No,I guess I don’t. That was a stupid question to ask.”
“No,it’s fine.”
“You do have to remember,I don’t know all of what happened. Max just called me and told me that dad died and how he did it,nothing more. But I know by the way he sounded that there was more to it. I expect you to tell me,but when you’re ready to.”
“Alright. How about after breakfast while we are heading home?”
“Okay. Breakfast sounds amazing right now.”
“Then lets go. I saw an outdoor cafe on our way here. We can go there so Thor can sit with us.”
“Sounds like a plan. I don’t think Thor is ever going to let me out of his sight again.” Tyler joked.

    Twenty minutes later we were sitting at the cafe,drinking coffee and eating bagels. Tyler was taking about some of the guys he had met at his station and by the sounds of them,they were pretty cool.
“A couple of them are actually on break right now. They may come visit,if you guys don’t mind having two military men in the house.”
“We already have one,whats two more? I’m fine with it.”
“I’m fine with it too.”
“I’ll let them know soon. But what have you been up to lately,Cam?” Tyler asked.
“Uh,not too much. Been at home.”
“You haven’t been at school?”
“Max has been picking up all my work and I’ve been doing it. Teachers told me not to pass it in until I come back so they can just grade it all together.”
“His teachers are being pretty understanding right now. They told me he can come back whenever he feels comfortable,they don’t want to rush him.”
“Thats good. Have you seen anyone since this happened? Besides the family?”
“Chris came over last night. Oh,Max I forgot to tell you. He wants me to start running with him.”
“That sounds good. It will get you out of the house and you’ll be hanging out with someone. When are you going to start going?”
“Sunday. So in two days.”
“Alright.”
“And he wants us to go over and go swimming.”
“How about tomorrow? I’d like to see how Jackson and Chris are doing.”
“I’ll text Chris later and let him know.”
“Sounds good. So what time are you guys going running?”
“4:45am on Sunday,just so we can get used to waking up early and such. After that we are gonna go at 5. And since I know you are going to ask,we are going running on the beach.”
“I used to do that. Before I went into training I would run the beach ever morning and every night.”
“Thats where you would go! I always remember you would be gone when I woke up,and you wouldn’t get home until dinner was almost done.” I said.
“Thats where I was.”
“I just figured you were out with Casey or something.” Max said,which caused me to laugh. Casey was this guy that Tyler used to “hang out” with. He’s a pretty cool guy,tall,brown hair,green eyes,has the best taste in music,drives an amazing car. Him and Tyler used to hang out all the time and play on the football team together. We thought they were just friends until one day Tyler told us that he was gay and that Casey was more then just a friend. He expected dad to be upset,but he wasn’t. He was actually happy about it for some reason. They ended up breaking up before Tyler left for the military. Casey said it would be too difficult to be with someone who he couldn’t see. Tyler agreed obviously.
“He would go running with me.”
“Do I want to know what else happened while you were out running?” Max asked,which made me laugh even more. Tyler rolled his eyes.
“Nothing. We went running,thats all that happened. But speaking of Casey,how’s he doing?”
“He’s doing pretty good. He works at that restaurant with his family.”
“Oh right. I should go visit him.”
“He would probably like that.” Max said before taking a sip from his coffee.
“You know what else you need to visit?” I asked him,finishing my bagel.
“Hm?”
“That building in town. Nobody has bought it,I keep checking.” I said. There’s this old building in the “popular” side of town. Dad always talked about buying it and making it into a music shop that we would run. He was going to buy it too,but then things happened.
“I don’t know,Cam.”
“Come on. Dad wanted this. We could see if anyone in town has old cd’s or albums or anything they want to donate to us. There isn’t a single music shop in town and teenagers love music. We’d get a lot of business.”
“That does sound like a good idea.” Max said.
“Fine,but only if we can donate dad’s old albums.”
“No.” I said flatly.
“You know we are going to have to get rid of them at some point. I’ll even donate the cd’s I don’t listen to anymore.”
“I can do that too.”  Max said. I sighed.
“Fine. I’ll do that as well. But I’m going through the albums. There are some that I have wanted that are way to valuable to sell.”
“Alright. Guess this is a plan then. I’ll call whoever owns the building and see how much we can get it for. It’s going to take a lot to fix that place though.”
“I know where we can get band posters and such.” Max said. This is actually happening. We are actually going to do this.
“We can ask Chris and Jackson if they can help us fix up the place.”
“I can ask Casey.”
“And I can ask some guys from work.”
“I’ll call on Monday. This is a plan,Cameron.”
“This wasn’t my plan,it was dad’s.” It was silent for a couple minutes after that while we finished our bagels and Tyler finished his coffee. Soon we were back in the truck and I was in the back. Thor was supposed to be back here with me but he’s currently up front sitting in Tyler’s lap. Well more like trying to sit in his lap.
“So,are we going to talk about what happened now?” Tyler asked after a long time of silence. Max looked at me through the rear-view mirror.
“Do you want to explain it or do you want me to?” He asked.
“You can.”
“Okay. So last Wednesday,the day dad died,Cameron was the one who found him. He saw dad’s car was still home so he went up to his room to see if he was sleeping and…you can probably guess what happened after that. He called 911 and then he called me and I think he called Chris after because when I got home Chris,Jackson,and Cameron were all sitting outside. 911 hadn’t shown up yet and he didn’t want to be in the house.”
“I don’t blame him for not wanting to be in there. That must be why the last time Max called me he said you weren’t doing all that great.”
“Max and Chris think I should go to counseling.”
“That is actually a good idea. Maybe it would be smart to put you on medication too.”
“No. You know how I feel bout medication.”
“But it will help.” Max said. I sighed and slumped in my seat.
“Fine.”
“I wasn’t expecting you to say yes.” Tyler said.
“I wasn’t either. But I know if I don’t say yes you guys will just keep pestering me about it.”
“Well,you’re right about that. I’ll call your doctor this week to get you an appointment and see if he knows any good counselors in town.”
“Okay.” I said. After that conversation Max started telling Tyler about work and things at home. He asked me how school was before I left and I just shrugged. School was school. Same boring place. I only had a few people I talked to in school like Sam and Jace,the Greyson twins. They were pretty cool and the only people that I talk to at that school now that Chris is gone. The second I brought up Chris’s name Tyler asked me how he was and how his dad was doing. That’s pretty much how the whole ride back home was,Tyler asking how things have been,how are friends are and stuff like that. I was pretty happy that I was starting to get tired so I didn’t have to say anymore and could just sleep.
“We’ll be home in about two hours. I’ll wake you up when we get there.” Max said,looking at me through the review mirror. He must have saw my eyes closing.
“Mmk.” I said sleepily. A few minutes later I let myself fall asleep.

(I know it's short. Sorry. I assure you,longer chapters will be coming up)