✎ Write a chapter inspired by this quote: ❝I only hope we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.❞
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OPERATION: RETRIEVE THE MOUSE
Summer 2019
Charlie thought that having no parents for the weekend is a pure joy to be felt for a teenager like him. Ever since the summer before his senior year started, his parents won't stop nagging him to keep an eye on his university applications. Not that he's too lazy to think about it, but actually the forms and requirements he sent were insurmountable - varying from different universities outside the state - and it's hard to track the status especially he's not that enthusiastic about it. Soccer scholarships are rare but it's the easy way in to have a good education status in college and Charlie didn't mind that his father is the one who is planning it for him, he's happy but not overly excited about the idea.
If he is anything certain, the feeling is uneasy for him. And enjoying the last major freedom before you leap into the devastating world of college is really getting into him. It's like when the Avengers made a 5-year hiatus before fighting off Thanos. He needs to prep really hard for his Senior Year especially he is in a cast because some idiot mom just run over him and his bike while delivering the neighborhood's newspaper.
Now sitting on a couch, feasting on the shrimp pizza they ordered from Fracasso is what Charlie thinks as a glorious moment for his weekend with no parents. Little did he know that he only has 12 hours left to clean up the fiasco that he and his best friend made over the two days they stayed together - or less.
If girls gossip during sleepovers, boys literally just throw every scrap on the floor and run the T.V. for 24 hours straight. Charlie and August are clearly not an exception. Despite the promises they said to keep the house intact to Charlie's parents before leaving the town, they will be so dead if his parents saw his undies hanging on their favorite China vase.
Charlie watches August swing another attack at the zombie, grunting when August misses the shot and his character is defeated once again. "God damn it!" August throws the controller on the carpet and stands up to open another can of diet Coke. "Fucking brainless zombies," he burps.
"The tricks are in the World Wide Web, why can't you just search it." Charlie offers while August digs for another slice of pizza.
Licking his thumb, August looks at Charlie with a frowning annoyance, "Tricks are shit man, you gotta earn your victory or else you'll be a chicken for life. And those links are virus infected any way. It ain't worth my shit."
Charlie shakes his head and grins at his best friend. He then grabs his phone and searches for possible ways they can do to defeat the Zombie. Unlike August who is considered the nerd of the century and an actual asshole who is obsessed with anything related to Cosmology, Charlie would rather prefer see and understand what's written on the Internet and maximize the knowledge it provides. It's much easier than working with his lousy brain.
