Strength And Stability

Back To School

Kendall is above

Kendall Pov

"Girls, go to sleep, you have exams tomorrow- you need to be at your best and I don't want to you to be tired in the morning."

"Dad it's 10pm, I-" I protested. How dumb. 

He cut me off. "Five minutes, you better be in bed."

I rolled my eyes, which he ignored, leaving the living room. 

Desi and I were playing call of duty, and I had just respawned in the yellow house. 

"Go to the green house, they're in the backyard!" Desi said urgently, crouching her avatar to hide at the top of the stairs. I killed two bad guys in the kitchen before racing through the street around the bus, to enter the green house. Someone threw a grenade at me which I promptly through back. After getting a kill streak of 9, I sent a napalm strike. 

"Desi you have 6 seconds to your a** in the house I sent a napalm!" I yelled, feeling pleased with my kill streak.

"More like you have 6 second to get your a** upstairs before you go to bed laying on your stomach for swearing and disobeying." Dad said as he entered the living room, arching his eyebrows dangerously. 

"My napalm though!" I almost cried. I was so close to ending the game. 

"Your exams though." He snapped his fingers and pointed upstairs. "Now."  

I tossed the controller on the floor, not hard enough to show that I was having a tantrum but hard enough to show I was mad. 

Desi and me crossed the room furiously and stomped up the stairs. I felt a hand yank us both back at the third step up. Ohhh shitaki mushrooms, he looked mad. My anger turned to fear. 

"Both of you better fix yourselves right now. Go sit down where you were and pick up the controllers."  

I did. We both felt confused, but we grudgingly obliged, sitting down. 

"Now stand up without all the attitude, put the controller where it belongs nicely, and walk up the stairs normally or so help me I will beat your a**es. I've given you way to many warnings and should have already done it." He said, acting like we were naughty children. Ugh.

He had been letting us get off with so much though lately and it made the bad part of me happy, but it partly (weirdly enough) made me annoyed. Like why is he allowing us to act like this? So I'm going to see how much we can get away with. Just not tonight.

He took a wide stance and crossed his arms to watch us. I decided by the look on his face that my pushing him for tonight was over. We obeyed his instructions, and went up the stairs. Again, about the third step up, he said,

 "Nope." Great. What did we do wrong. I'm toast now. I cautiously looked at him. 

"You forgot something." He spread his arms for a hug. I breathed an audible sigh of relief. He chuckled, and we gave him a hug. 

"Goodnight my favorite girls." He kissed the tops of our heads and sent us off. We ran up the stairs, and once out of earshot, Desi said, 

"I for sure thought we were in for it when he said 'nope'. I was so scared." I laughed. "Literally same. Night Desiroo." 

"Night Kenneth." She joked. I crinkled my nose at her like 'ew', giving her side eye. She smirked and I went into my bedroom, brushing my teeth, washing my face and getting into PJ's. After my bed time routine, I turned out my lights. Goodnight world. I'll be sure to get in plenty of napalms tomorrow after school.