Cat Scratched

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"Chocolate pancakes! Chocolate pancakes!"

"Yeah! Chocolate pancakes! Make! Make!"

Two kids shouted as they jumped on the mattress, causing it to shake as the water inside the bed sloshed and yet unyielding against the kid's jumping and [M/N] blinked his eyes open, pretending that he was happy he could get up and easily make them breakfast then spend the day with them and being lazy.

At last, he could not.

"Come on!" Oswin complained as he tugged at his brother's hand and [M/N] groans before moving off the water bed, rubbing his eyes and stretched. "Birthday Pancakes!" Shouted their little sister, Athena or affectionately called Attie. [M/N] watched them rush out the door and their feet pounding upstairs, and their muffle talk upstairs. He shook his head as he rubbed his eyes and got up, he moved to use the bathroom then into the shower he went to clean himself up. He uses his dark towel over his head as he dries himself thoroughly before looking at himself in the mirror.

Dark eyebags clung under his lower lid, eyes a bit red from not sleeping and stubble. He wrinkled his nose, he hated stubble. He had nightmares and a night terror last night of himself being chased in a forest again as his name was being called, not sung, behind him by an unfamiliar voice. He knew who it was but didn't want to even think about them, not at all, not today.

"[M/N]!" Attie's voice called out, "Hurry up! I want my birthday pancakes before we have to go to Schoooool!" She complains as [M/N] sighs as he rubbed his eyelids.

"I'll be up in a moment!" He called back, " I still need to get dressed." [M/N] moved to grab the shaving cream off the shelf behind the mirror and his navy shaver before closing it and saw the clock blink behind him. His eyes glanced at it as he began applying the shaving cream before blinking as he saw the time.

"YOU GUYS WOKE ME UP AT 5:00 AM?!"

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The sound of pancakes sizzling on the skillet with brown dots of chocolate chips were slowly sinking into the batter of the pancake as the two kids rushed around upstairs to get dressed for School. [M/N] listened to the radio as he flipped the pancake, watching how it turns into a shade of golden brown along with the sizzle of chocolate chips hitting the skillet as well. Bacon was being fried in the air-fryer, the coffee brewing not too far from him. [M/N] was careful with how he poured the batter on the hot skillet especially since he had his work outfit on too.

"Is it done yet?" Oswin asked, sliding in the kitchen and stopping before he could hit the counter.

"No, but set the table." [M/N] says as Oswin groans before getting their plates, the napkins laid out, the forks and butterknives laid out on the table. [M/N] flops the pancake onto a nice plate and stacks them nice and big before placing it on the table. Oswin moved to get orange juice for him and Attie, as [M/N] heard the air fryer ding.

He got another plate for the bacon with a paper towel on it for the grease residue, he uses a fork to collect them as Oswin sits down, watching his brother just as he heard the sound of her coming down. He cranes his head to see her and he snickers, as she comes around the corner.

"You look...very batman." Oswin grins as [M/N] turns and nearly drops his fork seeing Attie wearing Oswin's old Halloween costume from when he was 8 years old, a bit big on her body but she used a bright yellow skirt over it, it had elastic in it so it was like a makeshift belt for her. She also wore black flats too and the bottoms of the costume rolled up a bit for her to not trip, and she wore the mask with the hood floating behind her. 

It's certainly a look.

A call from the school looked too.

"Okay, but you know you can't wear the mask," [M/N] says as he placed the bacon on the table as Attie walked to the table and she got into the chair with ease, "I can make your hair into bat ears if you want like batman's mask?" He offers as he placed a pancake on her plate and a piece of bacon as Oswin takes two of each and [MN] takes one of each for himself.