Family

-5-

It was already 1pm and I was on my laptop in the living room with pj and Phil, we were searching for stable art related jobs nearby. "Oh! Here's one!" Phil showed me his phone and I read the description "art teacher for a local secondary school!" I laughed at the thought of me teaching, I wouldn't be able to deal with the misbehaving students "kids aren't really my forte".

After a few more hours of searching we had only managed to find 1 decent job nearby which was for an animation company called pixel circus "I'll tell them that I'm interested and see when I can go for an interview" I felt really grown up, I was finally getting my shit together.

"You know what we need to do now?" Phil and I looked over at pj with questioning looks on our faces "we need a celebratory game of Mario kart" I moved my computer off my lap and jumped up "shotgun I'm player 1!" Phil turned on the tv and wii then passed pj and I wii remotes.

"FFFUUUDGE" pj raged, Phil and I were miles ahead of him and he had just knocked into a goomba and fell off the track "haha!" I crossed the finish line first and did a Mexican wave with my arms "what! How are you so good at this game?" I chortled and smiled smugly "I'm just naturally awesome" Phil crossed the finish line as well and pj came in last "tough luck vinto" I was in stitches, Phil used my nickname for pj "see what you've done Y/N?" I kept laughing at his annoyance "I'm never gonna live this down".

We had turned off the wii and we had started to watch full-metal alchemist: brotherhood, a personal favourite of mine. "Shall we order some Chinese?" Pj suggested "yeah! I'll order" Phil stood up and retrieved his phone from the kitchen "I'll look up the menu online" I pulled out my computer and searched for the nearest place that sold Chinese food.

"Okay so, you want chicken chow mien?" Pj nodded "and you want kind prawn fried rice?" Phil nodded as well and called out to Chris "hey Chris! We're ordering Chinese! You want anything?" Chris strolled into the living room and smiled at us "can I have some sweet and sour pork?" I added the pork to our order and started to enter my credit card details "it should arrive in like 30 minutes".

Our food had finally arrived! We were all sat in the kitchen, talking and eating "when's Dan getting back? He's been gone for ages" I asked, but just as that sentence left my mouth we heard the front door open. "Dan! You're back! We saved you some-" I stood up with the plate of food I had saved for him and walked into the hall but when I saw him I realised that he was crying "Dan? What's wrong?" I put the plate down in the floor and kneeled next to him "Mia.. She broke up with me" he sobbed, I knew that girl was no good.

"Why did she brake up with you?" I rubbed his shoulder in an attempt to comfort him "she said that I was cheating on her and that she only dated me because she wanted to get famous" I couldn't help but feel responsible, if I hadn't of moved in this wouldn't of happened "I'm so sorry Dan, it's my fault" he wiped his nose and pulled his legs up to his chest and hugged them "it's not your fault Y/N, she didn't love me anyway".

Poor Dan, I picked up the food and presented it too him "spring roll?" He smiled at me and picked one up "thank you".

I just realised that there's only a handful of decent jobs that involve art, it's worrying how few there are and they don't even pay very well! Oh well, what can you do? Anyway, remember to vote, comment and add this story to your reading list! I will be uploading a new chapter soon!