A nice change

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At first the Doctor Man had been upset with Brendon, but he believed Brendon's excuse and decided that since Mama was off hunting down Joesph Toro like he was a deer (a curly haired deer at that) he would just fetch Tyler Joesph himself and angrily glare at Brendon while he reset the man. Which was very distracting for Brendon but also encouraged him to work extra hard on Tyler, maybe going a little too far but Brendon didn't really want to think about that.

Of course Viola knew about none of this. All she knew is one day her Pa didn't come home and Mikey freaked out and refused to let her leave the house or see her friends, not even to put of missing persons fliers around town. But fortunately Shadow, Alva, and their guardians did it on Viola's behalf (Autumn wanted to help as well but she was busy helping Violette move in.) Of course they felt really bad and did their best to cheer her up when they called her and someone always had her on FaceTime when the three of them hung out with Violette. Nat had also been supporting Viola but Brendon (for reasons Viola obviously didn't know) hadn't been active on the group chat or any of his social media and had been ghosting his dms.

But even in spite for her friends' efforts, she was still scared. But she was Viola Joesph-Way. So she just smiled anyways and acted like her friends where keeping her distracted and that she believed her Dad when he said everything's going to be okay. Cuz she always just smiled anyways. As a kid everyone always praised her for being able to get over things so quickly. That was true though, but she acted like it was. And Viola's fears doubled when a boy about her age rang the door bell and Mikey answered and the kid said "Um, is this where Tyler and Mikey Joesph lives?"

"Yes, who are you?" Said Mikey, who was so good at hiding his emotions you probably wouldn't think his husband had just gone missing. Although it wasn't like they were really in love anymore, Viola thought but never said.

"I'm, um, Jason Stathem."

Mikey never broke his poker face but he paled. Actually, visibly paled. "Uh, wh-why are you here?"

"Ca-can I come in?" Jason asked awkwardly

Mikey nodded slowly and opened the door a bit to let Jason though. He walked in and awkwardly sat down on the chair near the couch where Viola (who gave him a confused smile and tried not to burst from holding in all the questions she had) was sitting. Mikey sat down on the couch as well and turned his attention to Jason.

"Um, so like, uh, my Dad's been missing for a little over two weeks now," Said Jason, his voice straining to keep from crying but before Viola or Mikey could say anything he continued with "and my Pop also didn't come home yesterday and I thought, you know? I don't know. But about a month ago, probably more then that they put an address on the fridge and said that if there's an emergency I'm supposed to go there and ask for Mikey and Tyler Joesph."

"So, wait, Patrick and Joe are also missing?" Asked Mikey, more to himself then Jason.

"Also?" Asked Jason.

"My Pa also went missing a few days ago." Said Viola sadly.

"Why did your fathers sent you to us and not your Aunt and Uncle?" Mikey asked.

"Uncle Ray?" Asked Jason, earning a nod from Mikey, "I don't know."

"Oh," Mikey said quietly. "Well I hope you'd like to meet him, cuz I can't keep you here."

"What, why not?" Asked Viola.

"Cuz, I'm the adult and I say we're going to the Toro's."

And with that the three of them left for a very awkward car ride. Although Viola tried to make small talk with Jason, but it was a little difficult seeing as she had to strain her neck looking backwards from the front passenger seat, but she learned he had lived in California his whole life, liked playing soccer and listening to Metallica, and was also 14.