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Chapter 3 - Looking back

Chapter 3

Looking back

"Who's that?" Tobo asked. We where sitting on the edge of my bed and Tobo had just pointed to a picture of me on my dads shoulders, we where standing outside of the Minecon building in America, when I had gone for the first time when I was 5. I picked up the picture and held it out to Tobo "That's my dad" I said "He seems cool" he said as he looked at the photo. "It was kind of a chaotic time for them, and me if I'm honest" I said as I thought back to those glorious few days when I was five.

~~~Bristol, England, 12 years ago~~~

"I'm second guessing myself Lewis. What if it's to overwhelming, he's only 5" the voice of my Mummy seeped into my room under the crack in my door. I set my old DS aside and slipped off my bed, I was to short for it and my glasses fell off on impact with the floor "Ouch" I said and picked myself up, groping blindly for my small glasses, when I found them I replaced them on my nose and struggled slightly to open the door, but I did. I walked to the sitting room in my dinosaur Sleepers to speak my mind. "I wanna go!" I said loudly and my parents whipped around to look at me "Lancelot I didn't know you where up" Daddy said and crouched down next to me so that he was the same height "I wanna go." I repeated "I wanna go with Uncle Simon and Daddy. I wanna be like them when I get bigger" Daddy smiled at me then at Mummy "C'mon Hannah" he said "Lance wants to go, and I think it would be a good experience. I traveled when I was young and I turned out okay" "But he's only five" Mummy said pleadingly. I crossed my arms and pouted "Please Mummy" I whined "I like going places with Uncle Simon" I saw that she was at war with herself but eventually she gave in "Okay" she said and smiled "Yay!" I squealed and Daddy scooped me up "Now back to bed with you" he said and carried me to my room, al the while with me happily saying "I'm going on a plane! I'm going on a plane!" And Daddy made plane noises as he opened the door to my room.

~~~L.A., America, 12 years ago~~~

"Whee!" I squealed as Uncle Simon ran around with me on his shoulders "Simon!" I heard Daddy yelling at him "Put him down before you hurt either of you" he obliged and I was carefully placed back on the ground "Aww" I said gloomily and looked up at Uncle Simon, his face was red and smiling and was breathing heavily "I'm not that big" I said and he smiled at me "It's just hot is all Lancelot. Maybe we'll fly a bit more later, eh?" He said "Okay!" I said happily and took his outstretched hand "Let's go inside. Your daddy's already there with Duncan" he said "Okay" I said again and we walked hand in hand up to the building and through the doors. "Wow!" I said when we entered "Pretty cool isn't it" Simon said and I nodded "Your dads over there" he said and pointed to my daddy standing by another set of doors and talking to Duncan "Daddy" I said and raced over to him, Simon lagging behind a bit, daddy scooped me up and set me on his shoulders, Duncan laughed and Uncle Simon said "How come I had to stop then?" "You where gonna fall over from heat exhaustion any minute" Daddy replied, but I knew he was joking "Ha, ha" Simon said as we entered the big room "This is gonna be fun" I heard Duncan say when a small group of boys saw us and grinned before racing over. Daddy took me off his shoulders grabbed hold of my little hand, one of the boys (tall, tanned and dark haired) fished something out of his pocket and said "Do you mind?" To Daddy, Duncan and Uncle Simon, they all smiled and took the object from the boy "What does he mean Uncle Simon?" I piped up and said man looked down at me, his gaze flitted to the group of boys who suddenly looked confused as he crouched down to face me "You see Lancelot, theses nice gents want me and Duncan and Daddy to write our names on paper so they can have it" he explained "Why?" I asked and the boys look more and more confused "For a souvenir" he said "Okay" I said understanding and he smiled then returned to his normal height. They all wrote on three sheets of paper, me gripping my daddy's hand the entire time "I don't mean to pry" one of the boys said "but that little boy called you Uncle Simon..." He trailed off "I'm not his biological uncle" he said "just that kind of figure to him" "Is he your son?" One of them blurted out as he looked from me to daddy. Daddy smiled and responded "Yeah" "Oh...okay" the first one said "well thanks for the signatures" and they left "That was weirder than I though it'd be" Duncan said and they all laughed before continuing on. I still didn't fully understand.

~~~Bristol, England, Present day~~~

"What about that one" Tobo asked me, snapping out of my revery I looked over the photo he had found, it was my 6th Grade class photo "That's just my grade 6 class, before I had to change schools" "Is that you?" He said, pointing to a bespectacled boy in the back, standing next to a by with electric blue hair "Yeah" I said, almost laughing "That was when I had 'Duncan Hair' as my dad used to say "It looks a bit funny" Tobo said smiling "Yeah, looking back it wasn't a good choice for me, I'll stick with short form now on"

~~~Bristol, England, 6 years ago~~~

"You can do it Lance" I muttered to myself as I walked down the halls of my new school "First day of Middle School, no problem" I encouraged myself "Hey you!" a gruff voice called. I squeezed my eyes shut, praying that it wouldn't be Him but when I turned around there he was, the tall burly figure of Vincent Vicars "Hi Vincent" I said meekly as he neared me "It's four-eyes" he said, using the lamest glasses joke in the book "I'm glad your back. I thought I'd lost my punchin' bag" he said with a lopsided smirk. He raised his fist but I spoke before he could strike "If I do the thing will you not punch me?" I said "Do wha'" he said stupidly "Yell out my name" I said quietly and a grin appeared on Vince's mouth "Yeah, do it, they'll trample you nice and flat, I'll use you as a rug when they're done, four-eyes" he said and backed off to spectate. I sighed before filling my lungs and shouting "I'm Lance Brindley and I have the balls" instantly a crowd formed around me, mainly boys but the odd girl speckled the group, continually pushing me around. I felt a hand grab my arm and yank me out of the mob "Wha!" I yelped and looked up to see a boy with electric blue hair and green eyes "Thanks" I said and ducked into the closest room, blue-hair followed me "I don't know why you got mobbed but I'd like to know" he said "My dads a YouTuber" I said "He must be some guy" Blue-hair muttered "So you know my name what's yours?" I asked him "Mac Askill" he said "Nice hair" I said and he ran a had through it "Thanks." He said "Your's is cool to." I smiled and jerked my head to flick my long bangs our of my eyes "Cheers" I said and we grinned at each other.

~~~Bristol, England, Present day~~~

"Your really lucky" Tobo said "To be able to keep memories in a physical form" "Don't you have at least one picture of your family, or you and Sparks?" I asked "I've gone one" the youth said and pulled out a old, dog-eared photo, it was ripped and showed it to me. It was Sparkles* playing a guitar it looked like he was singing "A photo journalist took the photo and came back the next day to give it to me and Tom, it went into the Newspaper" "Where's the other half?" I asked "It looks like it's been torn." It took awhile for Tobo to answer but he eventually said "It's lost, I don't know where it is" "To bad" I said. "Well night then" I said and plopped down on the camp-bed that had been placed on the floor "Sleep well" Tobo said and graciously lied down on my bed.

For those who don't know Sleepers is another word for a Onesie.

This one is a bit confusing with the timeskips but hopefully you'll get the gist.

I hope you like this chapter :)

-Jo