Chapter 1 | Dan

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Where are they... I think to myself sitting in the living room with books surrounding me, "Ughhhhhhh, why do I have so much homework already? It's only October!!"

"Can you be quiet over there Dan?" My brother yells from the kitchen, "I'm doing important research over here."

"Like what, how to make your little brother miserable?" Not like he doesn't do that already...

"Oh shush it already, just let me work in peace, okay?"

"Why don't you just go work in the basement?" As I say that, loud clanking noises come from downstairs.

"Mom and Dad, that's why..."

"What are they doing down there anyways?"

"With them, its probably something to do with ghosts. Can you just let me work already?"

"Fine." and we both shut up. 

I pull out my phone: hey wayne, are you and aja almost here? i need help on this homework and mac is being annoying again.

Almost, just got a bit lost again.

lost? for crying out loud my house has a ginormous silver dome on it, you can see it from school.

Oh shush, here we are walking up right now.

And as I read it, the door swings open.

"Hey bud." Wayne says as he walks inside, Aja following close behind.

"Hey Dan."

"There you two are... Do either of you understand this homework?"

I look up and both Aja's and my eyes look right at Wayne.

"What?! Just because the school labels me the 'techno geek' doesn't mean I know everything!"

"Would you three be quiet in there?!" Mac pipes up from the kitchen again, "Ugh, forget it, I'll just be up in my room if you need me" Which is his code for 'you bug me, you die.'

"Well then..." I say.

"Back to the homework... Seriously Wayne, do you understand this at all?" Aja says, poking him in the arm.

"Quit that!'

"Would you two quit picking on each other so we can get this homework done, I kinda wanna take a nap right now."

"You doing okay bud?" Wayne says putting his hand on my shoulder.

"Yeah... I think. Just kinda worn out, head's been working overtime lately." I sigh. 

"Sorry... So what part are you stuck on?"

"Umm..." I pause for a second, "All of it. Remember, I'm the C student in the family of geniuses." I chuckle.

"Hey, it's fine. See, A squared plus B squared equals C squared..."

It's nice to have friends that help me out with this stuff. Between my parents always "inventing" and Mac always doing "research" I really don't have anyone to help me out. I feel invisible in my own house...

CRASH! CLANG! OOFH!

"What was that?!" Aja asks, looking a tad startled.

"I... I don't know..."

"I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU THREE TO BE QUIET!" Mac yells from the top of the staircase, looking seriously perturbed. 

"IT WASN'T US!" I yell back at him.

"I'm watching you..." Scowling at us, he goes back to his room.

Not even seconds later my parents run up from the basement, "It's done! It's done!" My dad exclaims.

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