The Mystery Continues...(VW2)

Chapter 9: Maybe it's my lucky month

"Dad, and guess what happened at school today? We were shipping Alan and Sam again! They were totally pissed off!" I kept on rambling to dad during dinner time. Though I like to hear my mom's gossips, I don't really tell her mine because she won't listen and respond to it properly. She does have a lot of work, more than dad does, so it's understandable, though I wish she listened at least when she was free.

Dad, on the other side, wasn't the exact person to call a big 'listener' either, but he responds when he's in a good mood. Otherwise, he just keeps nodding and listening. Currently, he was nodding as he kept chewing his mouth stuffed with a big piece of apple. Toffy stared at him like he was a ghost, while mom facepalmed at what I just told. To them, this was just silly high school stuff, but to us who actually were experiencing it, it was literal heaven with a lot of craziness and drama.

"So the teachers don't notice those couples in your class?" Dad asked in between, making me groan internally. Always the teachers, like why? Can't they ask about something nice? These parents take everything I say too seriously and they talk as if they're concerned and really serious, but it just makes me cringe inside, because I don't think hitting someone on the shoulder gently, or shipping people, or calling our friends nicknames, are stuff to worry about, are they?

"Dad," I said, rolling my eyes, "Alan and Sam aren't a couple. Me and Robby are just trying to make them one"

Probably because Robby wants us to be one too.

"And it's not like there aren't other couples around." I was referring to Britney and Augustine, the most popular couple in our class. After them came Amon and Susan, their other friends or better, minions. They were all toxic couples, yes, but we enjoyed their drama. It was like a Wattpad teen fiction book sometimes, though it was way more toxic and filled with either pseudo feminism or toxic masculinity. I'm not up for both, which is why I chose the right people as friends and decided to just watch the drama instead of getting into it. Britney and Augustine were at the edge of breaking up due to some jealousy and cheating, I guess, and Susan and Amon were too shy to talk to each other though they were chirping around when they weren't a couple.

Dad nodded again, pretending to be serious but then making a funny face at Toffy. He wagged in return, as if the both of them were mocking me together. Wow, very mature. I never expected this from you, Toffy.
Dad, well, I've lost hope in him whatsoever.

A while later, it was bedtime (not exactly) and we went to my parents' bedroom. I was sleeping there today since today was Friday, and I got to sleep with my parents or grandparents on the weekends and other holidays. I did have a separate bed in their rooms, a softer and newer one.

My bedroom was at the far corner of the first floor, and it was small compared to the large and spacious bedrooms the adults had to themselves. My bed was also smaller, but quite enough for a very skinny person like me. Well, I had hyper-thyroid, and so I remained skinny and short whatever I tried. As part of this, I was also kind of hyperactive when I got too excited about something or even randomly sometimes.

"I'm not so sleepy today," mom said while yawning and stretching. 

"Yeah, that's very evident," dad nodded, and I chuckled at that. Toffy tried to smell mom's mouth when she yawned, resulting in her pushing him away with a disgusted groan, "Ugh! Toffy, don't do that!"

Mom took out her phone, then began watching a movie on it and dad joined in, keeping his head right next to hers as they watched together. I shrugged, took out my phone and checked WhatsApp - nope, not Instagram like usual. That's a first, yeah, I know.

Dad and mom usually watch movies together while I never do, because first of all, I'm not interested in the kind of movies they watch and secondly, whenever a romance scene pops up, I've no way to escape and I get caught, trapped. Avoiding such situations is the best choice. Plus, the movies nowadays are all filled with the inappropriate stuff and I'm just not interested anymore. I like serious, Wattpad books, and real books better than movies nowadays, and I don't know if it's part of my teenage phase or my maturing up. Either way, I'm liking this better.