Boys will be Boys and Girls will be Pandas - Turning Red Fanfic

Chapter 7

Wandering the streets. That's all Tyler did.

The sky was getting cloudy, as rain was being stored up above. Just getting ready for the downpour which would come in the next hour or so.

Tyler didn't want to return home. He knew his mother was expecting him, but that phone call and her words really had shaken him up and hurt him on the inside.

He sighed heavily as he walked the streets of Toronto, and looked ahead into the distance, seeing his house far away, expecting him.

But he just didn't want that.

He turned around and began heading to a Mac Donalds down the road. He gulped, feeling guilty for not coming home straight away right then, but he got in the small queue of people for the takeout.

When he stood there, ordering his meal, he glanced around nervously... afraid someone would see right through him and yell.

Get home RIGHT NOW!

But luckily that fear was only in his head.

Once his big Mac meal had been cooked, he took the wrapped up burger, fries and coke on a tray and just sat by himself against the window.

As he watched the outside world, he heard the heavy rumble of thunder, then saw a lightning bolt light up the sky as it struck the high points of the city with all its power.

He slowly, still watching the outside world, took up his burger and took a bite of it, munching quietly.

In a second the clouds could be heard collapsing in on themselves and torrential rain suddenly released from the sky, pouring down heavily into the world below.

He watched as customers sitting down at the other seats, peered with shock and horror at the commanding rain, some pointing even to the erupting sky up above.

Tyler wasn't feeling as frazzled as them but did have a small pit of fear as the rain turned into a storm and the winds were blowing the trees savagely.

He took another bite of his Big Mac, then sipped the coke from a straw. His eyes never moving away from the storm that pounded outside.

He sat there, tensing a little bit when the lights flickered slightly and everyone quickly turned their eyes to the ceiling to see if they had just imagined that or not.

He suddenly heard his phone begin to ring and he picked it out of his pocket, looking at his mother's number, and he frowned sadly. He declined the call, and then did something not expected. He shut off his phone.

Was that wise... or dumb? He didn't really care. She had hurt him deeply and he just needed to be by himself.

~x~

Mei was in her bedroom, watching the lashing rain from her window. She was sitting on her bed, as worry ran through her and could hear her father's footsteps as he poked open her door, checking in on her.

"Are you okay, Mei?"

She froze in her position, still watching the rain fall and turned to her father, smiling nervously.

"It's just... Tyler's mum really went off at him... b-because," She took a sad sigh out, "...of me."

Jin's eyes opened a little more up when she said this and he simply responded with a confused face, "Oh."

"I'm scared, Dad" Mei said back, tears beginning to well at the corners of her eyes, "I'm scared she won't let him see me anymore."

Jin sat beside her, only peering ahead as a few thoughts went past his mind. He then asked in a soft comforting voice, "Do you want us to talk to her-"