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Arrival

Nick was listening to music from his speakers while watching from the car's window the view from the bridge of Potidea. Passing this bridge and they were in the peninsula of Kassandria. Passing this bridge and they were officially on holidays. The time had stopped and it would start again on the 15th of August, in one month exactly from today. When they would return home.

His father, seating in the driver's seat, was still cursing the government and the bad traffic. He was a typical middle-class greek man, short, dark-skinned with a big brown moustache reaching from one edge of his face to the other. His greyish hair was still standing proud above his forehead, the exact contrary of his, tired from use, white shirt, with big yellow stinks from last night's beef. "Goddammit Kitsa I told you not to put the garlic in the front, the car stinks"

"I'm not your personal housemaid or your slave, I support this family too and however all the housework is left for me, if you didn't want the garlic in the car you could help me with packing" his mother argued back "every time you eat souvlaki in here and the car stinks from tzatziki it's fine, now that I bring some of it in the car you react like you cannot breathe. Tomorrow I have promised Miss Abraamopoulos a ground meat pie, when will I have time to go shopping today huh?" She continued mumbling until she realised that really no one cared. "Make kids they said, you're all disrespecting me each and every day, but I can see it, the time will come, when you will all be upon my grave, grieving in pain and regretting being so rude to me all those years..." she said, then kissed the little wooden picture of holy mary and the silver cross Marios places next to the wheel and looked at the sky.

His big brother George was still texting his girlfriend. He was texting from the time they had left the city. They had met two weeks ago and he reacted like they were one step below the church, he had even brought her for dinner one night. They ate pastitsio. You could tell ms Kitsa's disapproval immediately as she didn't even force her to take another portion of food. Unbelievable, she had never done this to anyone before.

Next to George was his little sister, Anna, crying for no reason. Again. "Shh, don't cry baby, what are you hungry, of course, you are, you haven't eaten for 40 minutes straight, comeooon I‌ have some pie for my baby," Kitsa said opening one of the dozen plastic tubs she had under her feet, and gave her some apple pie, "MUM‌ I DON'T WANT APPLE PIE..." Anna screamed throwing the pie all over the car "ANNA" Dad shouted out of nowhere, making even the engine freeze. "You will eat whatever mummy gives and that's it, your grandfather didn't have food to eat and you have a huge selection now EAT‌ THE f...... PIE" Anna filled her mouth with a huge piece of pie and sat silent, tears flowing from her green eyes to her gigantic cheeks, she would start crying again when that mouth was empty again.

Nick couldn't wait to go to the sea. It was the one time of the year when he didn't have all of his family next to him. They live in a two-bedroom apartment. Which means he shares a room with two others and he has no privacy at all. He could hear his brother talking dirty to his girlfriend, his sister was playing princesses, while he was trying to study every afternoon. His mother says that it will be the last year that we will be all together since Nick "will" pass in some university and he will possibly leave from our house.

Unlikely for Nick, George isn't gonna pass anywhere. He is struggling to pass the grade. Nick's mum says he is just reluctant to study, his father calls him a living failure. Nick just believes that his brother is stupid enough to believe that he could find work with an empty resume. Even if he doesn't pass anywhere Nick hopes that George will leave them, go and live that "dream life" he's telling him when he has no one to talk, with his friends Chris and Stratos. "Rent a house, and start working early, having parties, invite chicks and live the moment" he was continuously telling his parents when he was threatening that he would leave. By the way, his friends are on the camping we are going too.