Trollhunters - first meetings - (various x reader)

Chapter 16.2

The empty pot filled up with water, taking rests of the porridge that still clung to the inside with it.

You watched it until it overflowed before turning off the tab. Maybe you should let it soak for a while. Not like you were in the mood to do dishes right now anyway.

With a small sigh, you turned around and left the kitchen, going back to your nest on the couch. Although it's been three full days since Thomas visited you, you hadn't really moved from your spot all that much.

Only for bare necessities or picking up the worksheets from school by your TV.

The schoolwork you did wasn't much of a distraction. You kept thinking back to Kanjigar's words and his expressions when he said those words.

It was like a small personal horror movie, repeating over and over in your head. Each time lowering you further down into a dark pit.

Plopping down onto the couch and staring at the halfdone homework, you decided to keep going with it. At least for a little. Once you were done with it you could...

What could you do exactly?

Watch TV until you eventually passed out? Stare at a wall until morning?

Having to suppress another long sigh, you picked up your pen and continued to solve some stupidly complex math equations. Obviously by using your phone as a calculator.

You barely functioned on a survival level at the moment, no way you were able to function on a 'Ben has three green apples, he gives Susy two, how old is René?' level of mental capacity.

During this so called distraction, you were extremely tempted to just text Thomas and ask him for the solutions several times. But decided against it.

Not much of a distraction then. And you had already leaned on the teen too much for your liking.

About an hour passed until you had finally wrestled through the last sheet and were done with all of them. Pushing the papers into a messy stack away from you, you leaned back into the couch, shrugging off the blanket to stare at the ceiling.

It was so quiet.

Strange.

Usually quiet didn't mean anything good in this household but lately, it started to have more of a calm mood to it. Probably because it's been days since your father was here.

You weren't really sure if that was even legal; that is, to leave a minor alone for such a long time. But not like you needed him to get by anyway.

In fact, him being gone had made things so much easier.

Well, not like that mattered now. After all, you had lost the reason why you wanted it to be easy to stay up late without worry.

Reaching up to massage your temples, you closed your eyes for a second.

Why was it that, no matter what you were thinking about, it always led back to him?

When you opened your eyes again, a decision had formed in your mind.

No adult around and no school tomorrow meant you could do whatever you wanted.