I thought I knew you

Chapter 7: Daddy issues and danger

--------------------Max's pers. -------------------

People take things in different ways, lies can hold people closer, truths can destroy others.

I woke up and changed into ripped shorts and a Bowling For Soup band T-shirt to do everyday errands. Mom was still in bed and my brothers were watching television before our mom woke up which was their trick. I got a yogurt from the fridge and lay on the sofa.

Now, before we resume the story, I have triplet brothers, looking like their father, which is why our mom hates us so much. She kicked our father out for a reason, and seeing three smaller versions of him makes her even madder. But of course, she can't just give 'em away. So she gives them as little as attention as possible, giving me to take care of them. They have dark, curly hair just like father, while I have wavy light brown hair like mom does. They get annoying 90% of the time. The oldest, Cody who's only 30 minutes earlier than the other two. The middle, Sam, probably the calmest of the three, but still is a pain in the ass. And the last young one who is always angry for some reason other than being the youngest, Tyler. He's like the  small, fierce chihuahua.

I asked them what they were watching.

"Can't you see?" said Tyler

"Christ calm down, I'm only asking. Also, I'm feeling kinda different, you guys wanna do something cool?"

They glanced at each other then back at me.

"Hormones confuse you, Max, it's okay," said Sam

"What, no I mean go out when mom's not awake yet"

"Whatever as long as we're out of this hell hole," replied Cody.

So when mom woke up around 2 hours later, we went to her room while she was still drowsy, we gave her a sleeping pill thinking it was Tylenol for her migraine. 15 minutes after she was completely wiped out, so we locked her door from the inside, closed the house and locked it, took our skateboards, and left the house.

"Where exactly are we going?" said Sam

"We're going to DQ and then the party store to go buy some things,"

"So you're basically taking us to do errands?" groaned Tyler

"Not exactly"

"We went to DQ and got the most diabetic ice creams and once we finished went to the party store. We got into the party store and the three went to see anything as I got my stuff. They came back to me bored as hell. So I knelt down and told them to grab the things that make the most mess. Tyler came back to me with paint cans and silly string. Cody came back to me with smoke and stink bombs. Sam came back to me with fake blood and confetti cannons. We bought everything we got and I said quietly, "Let's wreck shit up". We left and I blasted my music to get into the mood, so I put, "Where Did The Party Go" by Fall Out Boy on repeat. Each of us grabbed our stuff and went to Dad's house, since he was the one that caused our family fuck up. We climbed the ladder up the roof and I held sam by his waist to write on the front of the two story house with red paint. He wrote: "CHEATERS GET WHAT THEY DESERVE" and we put confetti on his trees. We put fake blood on his rich garden gnomes. Tyler threw a stink bomb inside the chimney from the roof and a smoke bomb as well. Cody drew dicks on the front lawn with a black paint can, he put an arrow to it and wrote "DAD". As for me I started breaking his windows with my skateboard. Before we heard them yelling inside the house. We then heard the smoke alarm inside the house from the smoke bomb. We soon got off the roof and hid behind the huge acorn tree they had. Dad got outside and started coughing. He as his wife and small infant boy got outside, enraged at the sight they saw. I quickly turned off my music. All of us started snickering and we seemed to have laughed too hard because they started walking towards us. And knowing the smart 'vandalizer' I am, we also bought masks in case we were to get caught. Cody had a clown mask, Tyler had on a batman mask, Sam had on huge glasses with a huge nose and mustache on. I put on a rabbit mask on. We got on our skateboards and left as quickly as we could. Dad seemed to grabbed my sleeve, but the three turned back and stopped for me to keep going.

Dad yelled, "Who the fuck are you vandalizing my house?! I ought to turn you in piece of shit teenager!" He tried to take off my mask. I quickly grabbed his arm before he could even touch me.

I stared and tilted my head confusingly to confuse him back still grabbing his arm. It seemed to have worked because before I knew it I kicked his balls as hard as I could making him fall to the ground.

"Greg! Are you okay? How dare you hurt my husband!"

I didn't want dad to recognize my voice so i whispered in her ear with my mask still on.

"How dare you steal him from us. And don't expect this to be the end of it, I want to see you suffer like we did." I then threw a smoke bomb on the floor and grabbed my skateboard and singled the three to keep going. The cheap smoke didn't stay until we left so the two of them looked at us and we turned around at the same time we all held up a LO$ER sign without left hand on our head and speeded to the streets.

-----few hours later0------

We got back to our house and luckily our mother was still asleep, not dead. We then got back to the TV, sofa and rug. "I told you it wasn't gonna be like errands," I said.

"Yeah no way errands can compare to that" Said Tyler which was the happiest he's been.

"Did you see how dangerous I was painting on the roof?!" yelled Sam.

"Dude or when Max kicked dad in the balls!" Said Cody.

"It almost made me flinch" winced Sam.

"We should this more often then," I said turning the TV on.

They all turned around to me and yelled, "Really?!" glee on their faces.

"Well, why not? As long as you all keep your masks on" I said turning to the news again. I don't take much interest in the news but it's always important to see what's going on. The three also agree if they're eating while watching, so I got all of us chocolate pudding. The anchorwoman started taking.

"And with today's top report, A mysterious figure was seen again around the close neighborhood. Suspects say that they are 5'8 around 290 pounds, and have acne scars on his face. Last seen was May 17 wearing a blue jacket and black pants and working boots, if anyone has any suspicion on who this figure might be, please contact this number."

I was instantly worried as to it could be the figure that was in our school a few weeks ago. I decided to save the number on my phone in case anything happened.