Adventure Land // N.H. AU

Chapter 2

"Magnolia!" I hear my mother yell my name from my bedroom upstairs. I put down the book that I have been reading off and on for a while now. I take my time as I walk down the just polished wooden stairs and end up walking into the kitchen finding my mother cooking some food.

Her hair is tied up into a large mess on the top of her head and she is frantically rushing around from counter to counter trying not to burn all the food she is cooking for the dinner party my father and her are throwing tonight. She finally sees me standing in the arch way and stops in her tracks. She puts  her hands on her hips and points to the counter for me to come over. 

I pull out a chair and sit down at the counter where she told me to go as she continues to cook the mess of food she has created. She stays quite as I play with some left over floor left on the counter and make a little picture of a flower in it. 

"What time did you get home last night?" I look up and brush the flour flower off and lay my head on my hands. 

"Around threeish" I tell her the truth since she most likely already knows the answer. 

"What were you doing?" Is the next questions she has for me... They are always the same; Where were you, who were you with, when did you come home, how was it, was I safe?

"Just hanging out with a few friends from work" Her lips go into a thin line as she listens. She goes to one of cabinets and pulls out a cup and fills it up with cold water to cool off from the breeze that is coming in from the open window. 

"Have you seen your brother?" I am not sure to tell the truth now or not... Either way she will get upset with me for whatever I will say.

"Yeah before I went to hangout with work friends... He was over at Niall's house just hanging out, nothing to exciting" I tell the truth sort of, trying not to worry her at all.

"Well it is already 2 in the afternoon and i have called him plenty of times, would you please go pick him up since he didn't take his car last night or whenever he was home last?"

"Of course mom" I get up from the counter and walk back up to my to grab my bag and phone.

I open my closet door and grab a shoe box that is stuffed in the very back of everything. I pull open the top and dig through old pictures and memories and grab a small bag of weed to give to Niall when I see him to refill his loss last night since he knew I took it.

I stuff the shoe box back into the small cramped closet and shut the door to it. I slip on my sperry's and go back downstairs to see my mother trying to make smoke disappear before she sets off the fire alarms like she did earlier this morning with her cooking.

"I'm going to go get Maxwell! Love you mom" I shout to her as I walk into the garage and start up my brothers new truck that he treats better then anyone else and pull it out of the driveway and down the road.

I flip through the stations and pick some random station that is playing Ed Sheeran and watch the traffic. I don't mind picking up Maxwell from somewhere since he as for me plenty of times, but it would much easier if he would have major parties at a closer home and not one that is clear across town.

Luckily traffic is light for this time of day and I end up at Niall's in about fifteen minutes. I park Max's truck out front and step out of the monster and walk up to the door. I can't choose to ring the bell or just walk in since his parents are just on vacation. I finally just open the door up and walk inside since they must have left it unlocked last night.

I go up the stairs and knock on Niall's door. There of course is no answer so I turn the nob and see Niall passed out on his bed half naked while holding a bottle of bourbon in his grasp. I go up to him and shake him lightly trying to wake him up, but he still lays passed out. I grab the bourbon out of him hands and set it on his night stand while I shake him again.