Wasteland Conqueror

Chapter 19: Preparations Underway

Date Wednesday, August 8th, 2260

Slightly more than a day later.

Now that Alice's and mine's birthdays are out of the way for another year, I can get back to working and furthering progress towards my goals again. And since I've already covered what progress I've made and what I needed to do the day before yesterday, it's about time I begin preparing the plethora of items and gear I'm going to require for my wasteland adventure. To get things started, I'll first need to have that discussion with my family today.

Planning on talking with my parents and grandparents, I got my butt up from my bed and headed for the bathroom. After quickly cleaning up, I set off in the direction of where my parents usually were in the morning, the living room.

Leaving the hallway behind, I saw them and in their usual spots, thus I greeted them as I did every morning. "Morning Dad, morning Mom."

"Morning son." Dad responded, looking up from his tablet that he was obviously reading something on.

"Good morning sweety, how'd you sleep?" Mom followed in her usual bubbly and upbeat voice.

"Pretty good, you?"

"Slept like a rock."

Following that, we went through our regular routine of chatting for a bit while they had their morning caffeine of either coffee or tea. When the two of them were finished drinking their drinks, we got up and proceeded to the kitchen, where Mom took over the kitchen as per usual. I offered to help, but she declined my offer and said she had everything under control.

Mom, not needing my help, I took a seat at the kitchen table along with Dad as she began preparing breakfast for the three of us. A time later, everything was prepared and as soon as it was all brought over, we started digging into my mom's delicious cooking.

As we were coming upon the end of the meal, I broached the subject I've been needing to. "Mom, Dad, I have something important I would like to talk to you two about."

"Oh, and what's that son?" Dad asked whilst mom looked on curiously.

"Well, it's concerning my progress as of late as well as what I would like to do in the future. But before I bring up what I want to discuss, Grandma and both Grandpa Henry and Grandpa John need to be here for this." I answered him.

"Yeah, that does sound like a pretty important topic. Hun, can you call your dad and my parents and tell them to come on over?" He communicated with me and my mother.

"Sure, honey, but your dad just retired recently and has been enjoying his free time. So I don't think he'll be over in time before we need to go to work..." Mom responded, insinuating my grandpa was busy.

"My old man has been taking advantage of his retirement by sleeping in quite a lot recently, the lucky bastard." Dad said enviously, going into his thinking mode.

...

Moments later, a devious grin made its way onto his face.

"Ohh, I know just what to do. Tell them there's an emergency regarding their grandson. That'll be sure to make them race over." My dad said joyfully after coming up with something that would ruin Grandpa Henry's extra sleep.

Mom released a sigh at my dad's antics prior to going into the other room to give my grandparents a call. After about 10 minutes, my grandparents were hurrying through the front door, coming towards us in the living room. As soon as they stepped foot into the living room, the three of them had questioning looks on their faces, not understanding what was going on, while my dad had a very pleased expression plastered on his face.