Highs and Lows Of Life

The Signs Are Right There

The stars shone bright int the moonlit sky when the oldest of the four brothers gently woke by his shrill alarm that read 4 clock PM. They needed to get ready for the start of this new school tour.

He allows a yawn to escape his lips as he slammed down on his alarm which was blaring an early morning radio station. He could hear light footsteps he recognizing his dad was up getting ready for the day.

He gradually got ready they had packed up the night before they would not be home for another week. He leisurely walked to the end of the hall to brush his teeth and go to the bathroom. Seeing that the light was on lightly knocking

“ Morning whos every in here.” The faint drowsy voice of his second youngest brother could be heard.

“ All be out in second.”

He didn’t need to bother Nick had been starting to get into the teen years and he was starting to get little of the teen attuited. He didn’t need to start the day like that.

His eye scanned the wall of the hall wall as there were many family pictures lined up. One of them made him smile it was Nick and Joe they were running in the snow with snowballs in there hand. They were going to hit the person that was holding the camera and it just so happened to be him.

“Hey, I'm done.” Nick slowly slipped out of the bathroom his hair wet from a shower. He slowly slipped past Kevin a towel was wrapped around his waist. Kevin's eye lingered on his brother back as thought crossef his mind was his brother looking little thin. But he didn’t think much of it when he felt need to pee as he quickly ran into the bathroom and thought was out of his head.

Nick was the first one to make his way down for breakfast his mom was in the kitchen cooking some pancakes for them. Frankie was still fast sleep it was way too early for him to be awake.

He could hear his dad now telling his mom she didn’t need to wake up to cook, but she always smiles everytime EveryMonday morning she was there to make breakfast and say her goodbye.

“Morning he hugged his mom as he slowly sat down at the kitchen as a nice plate of pancakes was placed in front of him.

“Morning honey how was your night did you get up to go to the bathroom last night.” She had woken to the sound to one of her sons heading to the bathroom more than once. She went back to the stove to make some more food.

He quickly dug into his food he was starving this was exactly what he wanted. “ oh I went to the bathroom couple of times last night.” stuffing more food in his mouth. As he flips through the sports section of the new paper as he read some high lights from the games this weekend.

Joe quickly slipped downstairs with Kevin closed behind everyone said there the good morning before digging into the food. The newspaper was flipped back forth between everyone at the table as no words, where spoken everyone, too tired.

Nick quickly slipped away to go to the bathroom he went 4-time last night and now was on the second time in less than an hour. It didn’t help he had chugged down Orange juice. He was on his third glass and felt the feeling like he needs to go but his tongue felt dry and he didn’t want to drink more water.

The sweetness of juice felt so good when it hit his tongue and the next thing he knew he drank three glasses worths. Now his bladder was complaining to him.

“Where did Nick go?” Joe spoke up as they packed up the van 20 mines later as their band members had come into the house to help get ready.

“Oh, he needs to go to the bathroom again” everyone rolled their eyes," if this was how Nick was getting out of helping he was doing a good job no one need to go pee 20min after they just did Kevin thought to himself.

Like clockwork, Nick had come out right when everyone had just finished packing up.

“ Sorry I really had to go."He smiled at everyone but no one paid any attention as they filed into the car. Nick shrugged his shoulders as he throws his bag into the car quickly said goodbye to his mom as kisses and hug where exchanged.

They slowly rolled away as Nick sat down buckled in slow thought crossed his mind he really needed water he should have grab water.

“wait can we stop.” he spoke little in a desparate tone.

As everyone groaned as echos of “ what now.”It could be heard around the car.

Nick rolled his eye "I want to get water we didn’t even leave the driveway." He argued back as everyone sort of agreed that brings water was good on the long road trip.

Nick quickly grabs water bottles for everyone to kiss his mom for the second time before slamming the old van door as they finally headed out on the school tour. The energy changed as everyone was now excited this was might actually be the break they needed.