Little Mr Perfect

welcome home

Another few days pass and Neteyam is finally deemed fit enough to go home by Ronal. Jake picks him up and they head home, for Neteyam it's going to be the first time he sees their new home. „It's so good to have you here with us", Neytiri says as she hugs him "It's good to finally be out of
The hospital". Tuk grabs his hand "Come, Come I wanna show you your room". He lets himself be dragged by Tuk and smiles brightly as he sees his room, it looks just like it was at their old house" Wow, this is amazing". "One more thing bro", Lo'ak smiles, as he leads his older brother outside, he's glad to have him back here with them. "Woah". Neteyam looks at the targets, they sure got used already by their mom. "Dad and I made them, I know how much you und mom love archery so I thought it would make you two happy and make this here somewhat similar to home". "It's great bro", he hugs his little brother "Never do anything like this again! Next time tell us when you are hurt!", the younger sniffles "I promise baby bro".
They head back inside, that night Lo'ak sneaks into Neteyams room "Bro... you awake?" He whispers, Neteyam turns on the small lamp on his nightstand "What is it?". „I can't sleep...". The older moves over in his bed to make space for Lo'ak to fit and Lo'ak lays down next to his brother "Come on tell me what is it that keeps that small brain of yours so occupied". "It's dumb..."," Hey you can tell me". Lo'ak takes a deep breath" You know, I've been thinking... now that you are back do you think dad will keep up his high expectations... he was chilled but I don't know"." I guess you know how he is. Just go with it, come on let's not think about that, why don't you tell me some more about your new friends"." Well I wouldn't count Ao'nung as my friend, he's an ass. He picks on Kiri and me a lot, Tsireya who I definitely told you a lot about keeps him in line most of the times", Neteyam chuckles, yeah he heard a lot about Tsireya "Rotxo is a good friend as well but recently he's acting a bit strange, like he is a rather quiet person but now it's actually worrying quiet". "Hmm... Maybe he's just having a rough time I don't know lo'ak".The younger sighs and after talking for a bit longer they fall asleep.

It's the weekend and the teens decided to meet up at the beach." Hey guys" Tsireya greets them, Lo'ak smiles at her." Hey you must be Tsireya right? Lo'ak told me a lot about you, I'm Neteyam". Lo'ak blushes a little" Nice to finally meet you Neteyam I'm glad you are ok now, these are my older brother Ao'nung and our best friend Rotxo", Tsireya points at each boy, Ao'nung just shrugs and Rotxo waves a little with a shy smile. They start playing a few rounds of beach volleyball, Neteyam watches them, not yet fit enough to keep up with them. He quietly observes the others and notices that Rotxo is the only one who is wearing a long-sleeved shirt. Here and then he flinches just so slightly that it's easily missed if you don't pay close attention to him, every time someone raises his arm close to him. Neteyam does join in on one small round laughing with the others. They stay at the beach all day, some time in between Ao'nung and Tsireya went into the water to surf. Neteyam manages to get ahold of Rotxo "Hey are you alright?", he asks and Rotxo nods" Yes why shouldn't I be"." Just asking because you looked a bit uncomfortable". "Oh, no everything is fine, just not having a good day, happens sometimes".
Jake gets to them" Hey we all are going over to the Paoras, they invited us over to dinner". They gather their stuff and head over. Tonowari greets them with a big smile, Rotxo heads inside and over to Ronal" Hey you got some painkillers?"" Yeah why?". "Cramps...", she doesn't need more information" If you need supplies you know where to get them". He nods und takes the medicine "But else everything is going ok right?". "Yes, everything is fine". "Ok, please tell me if something is wrong". "l will". Tsireya, Kiri and Neytiri help Ronal set the table and with the food. They eat together and just talk about different things, Neteyam excuses himself and heads to the bathroom, now that he's back at home he can get back on working on being the perfect boy again to not disappoint his dad again.He ties his braids back and makes himself throw up, being perfect also means having a perfect body, never over his supposed weight and preferably under. He sits back down at the table.

" So Neteyam, how you like it here so far?". Ronal asks" I know you had a rough start but -", a beeping sound interrupts then and she groans, Tsireya hands her the pager, she looks at it and then at Rotxo and then at the others "I'm so sorry, but I need to get to this". She says good by and heads out after mouthing the name Rotxo towards Tonowari who just nods." I thought it was Moms free day?", Ao'nung says and Tonowari sighs " Yeah but you know how it is with her work. I'm sorry about this". "Don't be we get it", Neytiri says with a smile. They head home soon after everything is cleaned up to get Tuk into bed.

Ronal groans as she gets back home in the middle of the night, Tonowari waited for her in the kitchen "What happened?"" She fell down a flight of stairs and then had a rampage about wanting to see Rotxo ... apparently the fall triggered a memory". He hugs her and then picks her up to carries her to bed "But she's ok?"." Yeah, so far she only has a broken Arm and slight concussion. I'll take him to see her in the after noon, I know he hasn't visited her in a while...". She sighs, Rotxos grandma got diagnosed with dementia a few years back and got deemed not fit enough to care for Rotxo anymore, who's been living with her, that's the reason why he got put into foster care. She gets up and heads to Ao'nungs room to check on the boys. She smiles a bit as she sees them sleeping, Rotxo cuddled up on Ao'nungs side. She lays back down next to Tonowari and falls asleep.

Neteyams mind is racing making it unable to sleep so he gets up and finishes the last assignments for school, around 5 am he falls asleep hunched over his desk. Kiri shakes her head as she wakes up Neteyam "Please tell me you didn't stay up all night because of school work. Neteyam! You haven't even started here the way we did and you already pull an all nighter, brother you still need rest you just got out of the hospital take it slow". He just nods und stretches a bit.

They head downstairs to eat breakfast. "So any plans for today?", Jake asks and Lo'ak looks up from his bowl of cereals" I have another lesson with Tsireya. "Ok and the rest?"" Mom and I will be outside", Neteyam says and is the first to finish with breakfast. Lo'ak heads out instantly to meet Tsireya at he beach.
Neteyam and Neytiri get their bows and arrows and head outside to shoot at the targets, sometimes he has to take small breaks because his side hurt." Are you looking forward tor school?"" Yeah...I guess",he shoots an arrow and hits dead center, Neytiri smiles at him" that's good". Lo'ak makes a lot of progress today with Tsireyas help. Kiri sits on the couch on the porch watching the two shoot arrow after arrow before turning to her book "Hey weren't you supposed to meet with Rotxo?", Neteyam asks his sister, she shrugs" Some family thing got in between". "Oh".

Ronal let the boys sleep till they wake up. Rotxo being the first one to wake up "Good morning". He greets her with his typical half smile. "Rotxo how do you feel about visiting your grandmother?", she asks carefully, he looks at her "That would be nice, wait is she ok?". She nods" She got a broken arm and light concussion but we made sure she's ok now". He nods a bit worried" When are we going?"." Well it's currently 11:40, I'd say we leave after lunch around 1:20 or so". He nods and wraps his arms around his midsection." Cramps?". He nods und she goes through the cupboard looking for something, she gets a hot water bottle, fills and hands it to him along with pain killers" Thank you...". "It's nothing". Ronal realises something" You slept in your Binder didn't you?", she asks with a stern voice and he just nods" Rotxo! You know better than to do that, take it off, I know you don't like it but it's not healthy". He grumbles and heads of to the bathroom after getting a sports bra from his bag, he always carries one in there when he's over here. He comes back to find Ao'nung in the kitchen, he smiles at him and then sits down on a chair and rests the water bottle against his abdomen "Oh that time again?". He just glares at his best friend, who chuckles. They help preparing Lunch and they eat together.