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⊱ ───── {⋆Chapter 1: The Showalter Family⋆} ───── ⊰


~ Felicity's POV ~

"Felicity, do you mind walking your brother to school today?" I was standing in the kitchen getting a glass of milk when my mom approached me and asked me. "Sure I guess," I tell her, she smiles and kisses me on the cheek, I walk into my room and start to get dressed.

Once I'm ready I walk over to my brother's room and lightly knock on his door. "Billy, hurry up, I'm walking you to school, and you don't want to be late" I hollar, and he immediately opens his door, and walks into the kitchen, grabs his lunch off the counter.

I meet him by the front door, "Bye Buddy, see you after school" he says as he gives a hug to our family dog; or more like his dog, Billy loves Buddy more than anything in the world.

We silently walk to his school. Billy and I are like the average siblings, we aren't close with each other, but we get along occasionally. I'm 19 and he's 13, so it's a bit of a difference.

Ever since a little boy named Griffin Stagg went missing, mom has been scared about Billy walking alone, normally she does it, but it's different this time I guess.

"Felicity.." Billy says out of the blue, I turn to look at him. It looks like he was going to say something, but he changes his mind quickly and looks up and realises we're at his school. "We're here, so you can go to work or whatever now, bye," he says quickly before running to the front entrance. I stand for a moment and once I see his body enter through the big open doors. I smile and turn around.

I start to head back home, when a black van drives past me, it was kinda creepy, he stopped for a second, and I started to walk a bit faster, but then it started to move again, and it drove past me. 'Thank God I mumble under my breath.

Once I reach the house I go inside to see mom getting ready for work. "Good timing Felicity, I'm heading off to work, I won't be home until late, so you need to walk Billy home after school, and then help him sort out the newspaper for his delivery tomorrow" She informs me, handing me a piece of toast, before heading out the door.

I eat the toast quickly before I go take a shower and get ready for the day.

Once I'm all ready I walk out the door, locking it behind me, and I go for my usual walk to work, since we only own one vehicle and mom uses it for work, I have to walk to my work at the local grab n' go. It's not that far, around a 10-minute walk, which is nice. The cold morning air is refreshing.

By the time I get to the gas station, it's 9 am, which means I have 6 hours until I have to go pick up Billy quickly and return to work before my boss notices.

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The day goes by pretty slowly, with only a few customers, my co-worker Jessica was constantly applying lipstick, and would only talk to the customers that she thought were 'attractive' and in her eyes, that meant I had to help every customer. I didn't mind though, I like helping people, it's more entertaining than doing nothing. Jessica walked into the backroom with some random boy, and I heard noises... Unpleasant noises. I look down at the clock and it said 2:30. I should probably head to go pick up billy from school now.

"Jessica, I've got to pick up my brother from school real quick, I'll be back!" I hollar before leaving the gas station. Just as I'm leaving a black van pulls up to get gas. The van looks like the one from yesterday.

I get a creepy chill down my spine again, but I decide to just ignore it, and I make my way to Billy's school.

I barely got there on time, because I was walking to school. Right as I got there the bell rang, and a bunch of middle schoolers ran out of the doors. I saw Billy, and I waved so he would know I was there. I saw him shrug and say bye to his friends before he makes his way over to me.

"Where is mom?" He asks, sounding disappointed. "Wow, don't be so happy to me." I tease him and he groans. "She had to work late, and I have flexible hours so she told me to come to get you," I say and he just nods.

We approach the house, and he grabs the stacks of papers from the driveway. You see Billys the neighbourhood's paperboy, so he gets the papers dropped off every evening, and he has to roll them up, but on a rubber, then deliver them in the morning.

"Need help kiddo?" I ask him. He shakes his head. "Nah, you can go back to work," He says grabbing the papers and walking to the front door. He places them down, so he can unlock the door. "Ok, stay safe Bills, and I'll be home in three-ish hours," I tell him before I make my way back to work.

Jessica was sleeping on the counter when I got back, and her shirt was halfway up her back. I scoff, and when I enter she somehow wakes up. "God you took long, the ugliest man was here, he looked like a fucking clown," She said. "He drove this creepy ass van I could have sworn he was gonna kill me," She says, I just roll my eyes. "When does our shift end?" She whines. "6:30" I respond, as I grab a magazine and flip through it waiting for a customer. "UGhghghh" she moans and sits on the ground.

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Once my shift is over I head home, to see Billy sitting on the couch playing with Buddy. "You finished the papers?" I ask, and he nods. "Are you hungry?" I ask him as I walk into the kitchen. "Yeah! Can we order pizza?" He asks, I close the fridge and walk over to the phone.

Billy comes running over. "Let me order, you have a gross taste in toppings" he mumbles, I just laugh it off and let him do what he wants.

When the pizza gets here Billy grabs two plates from the kitchen and brings them into the living room, and he hands me one after I place the box on the table. We watch some movies while eating the pizza, and we place the leftovers in the fridge.

Just as I sit back down on the couch, mom opens the front door and she comes in, dads close behind her. Our dad works early in the morning and doesn't get back till late at night, so it's normal for us to not see him a lot, except for when he doesn't work on the weekends. "There's pizza in the fridge," Billy tells mom, and he goes over to hug dad.

I stand up and hug dad as well. "It's bedtime Billy, you have to be up early to deliver the papers," Mom says, and Billy nods. "Felicity, are you going to go with him?" Dad asks, I look at Billy and he shakes his head. "I deliver them at 6 am, I don't think I'll get kidnapped dad" he whines, and our parents just laugh it off.

"Plus, I can take Buddy! And I'll ride my bike" he says sounding excited, "Ok then, go get some sleep" Mom says kissing him and he heads off to his room.

"I'm gonna head to bed too, it's been a long day, night mom, night dad," I say, before heading to my room.

I change into my pyjamas real quick before plopping down onto my bed and falling asleep quickly. 

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