MY IMORTAL FAMILY

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Casey pulls into the driveway of their house. She notices Dana’s car is not home. She gets out and walks towards the house. She unlocks the door and heads straight to her bedroom. She then changes into a her sleepwear and walks to the boy’s bedroom. She notes that both Brock and Roman are asleep. She then heads to the kitchen and removes a bottle of wine from the cupboard. She pours herself a glass and goes to the sitting room. She then hears a car pull in to the driveway. She heads to the window to check who it is. It is Dana’s car. He walks in and she says “ where are you from,” “ oh I went to see my parents, I must have lost track of the time” replies Dana. “ long day huh” asks Dana “ yeah why do you ask” replies Casey “ well because you are drinking wine, and you only do that when you are either stressed or tired” says Dana. Dana then sits next to her and says “ talk to me” “ it’s just a lot of work with this pharmaceutical company. I can’t for them to announce their breakthrough. I am tired of thinking about all the possibilities” says Casey “ possibilities of what could happen. Don’t do that, if you think too much about it you’ll stress yourself out” says Dana. He then starts to massage her shoulders and says “ you know my mother says she misses the boys, so I was thinking I could have them go over for a weekend. Maybe you and I could have some time together” says Dana “ I think that’s a great idea. We could go on a picninc or even book a day or two at a hotel, just to relax” says Casey “ so you are down” asks Dana “ yes you know being a mother and a businesswoman is exhausting. You could use the rest too” says Casey “ me” asks a surprised Dana “ yes.  You look like something has been bothering you. I just didn’t want to ask because I wanted to give you the chance to tell me” says Casey “ well it’s just work stuff babe. I am wondering which course they’ll assign for me to teach next semester, the longer they take the harder it is to teach” says Dana.

Brock wakes up in what appears to be a forrest. He looks around and he notices the forrest is engulfed in fire. He is terrified by lot of things. Why is the forest burning and why is he not at home, he doesn’t remember leaving the house. The smoke from the burning trees however make him dissy and reneder him unable to escape the burning forest. He then passes out. He wakes up once again in his bedroom with sweat on his face. He then says to himself “ it must have been a dream”. Mavis walks into the room and says “ good you are awake go bath” and Brock gets off the bed and gets into the shower. Mavis then goes through the wardrobe and removes the uniform that Brock is to wear today along with the clothes Roman will wear at school. She then goes to the kitchen. She removes a frying pan and starts making fried eggs. After she is done frying the eggs she removes the boys’ lunchboxes from the cupboard and then adds some crisps, juice and a sandwich she had made last night. she then goes to the room to wake Roman up.  Dana emerges from his bedroom still in his gown. He turns the kettle on and makes himself a cup of coffee. He then goes to sit in the sitting room and enjoys his coffee.  Brock emerges from the bedrooms and says “ morning” and Dana replies “ morning slugger”. Brock goes into the kitchen to get his breakfast. Dana turns on the TV and heads outside to warm up the car. He then heads into his room. Roman rushed out his room dressed and runs into his parents room. he dives onto their bed and says “ mama, papa” “good morning” says Casey “ hey champ” says Dana. “ go eat we’re about to leave” instructs Dana. And Roman oblidges and runs out of the room. “ he is defintily your son” says Casey “ no he is your son, I never have that energy” says Dana. This brings out a sarcastic laugh out of Casey before she asks “ between you and I who is the morning person” and before Dana can answer she says “ it’s you. Case closed” Dana puts his hands up and says “ you win. But only because I have to leave” as he gets out of the room. he finds the boys eating and he sits by the TV. The TV then shows pictures of a terrible forest fire that is now spreading to people’s farms. “ that’s sad” says Dana. Brock then looks over and is shaken by what he sees on the television screen. The forest that is shown on TV is the one he was saw in his dream. Dana turns the TV off and says “ alright boys let’s go”. On the way to Roman’s school the forest fire is covered by the news on the radio. They drop Roman off and he runs into the school. Brock and Dana ride to Brock’s school listening to the news coverage about the forest fire and how fire fighters are unable to turn the fire off. “ you know dad I don’t know if it’s weird or anything but that forest fire” says Brock “ yeah what about” asks Dana “ I kind of had a dream about it” replies Brock. “ did you” asks Dana “ yes I woke up in the middle of the forest and there was fire everywhere. It felt so real because like there was smoke and I could smell it, and I could feel the heat from the fire” says Brock “ and then you woke up” asks Dana “ yes I woke up, but my body felt tired and painfull. It still feels tired” says Brock. “ maybe you’re a pshycic” jokes Dana “ what’s that” asks Brock “ you don’t know what a psycic is. Well its someone that can predict the future. It’s not important okay, it’s just a coincidence” says Dana. They arrive at Brock’s school and Dana grabs Brock and says “ look don’t let that dream get to you” “ okay dad” replies Brock. Dana watches Brock go into school and he starts to think. He was around Brock’s age when he started showing that he was an anadite but where he grew up on their homeplanet and earth was different. Here the culture was more soft, conducive to rasing children even if he found that some humans were just weird. But then so were other species he encountered in the multi verse. He then pulled out and went back home. He arrived after twenty five minutes and he went straight into the shower. After showering he proceeded to dressed. “ heard about the forest fire” asked Casey “ yeah I did” replied Dana “ it’s sad that some people are losing their livestock and farms to this fire” says Casey “ have they managed to stop it” asks Dana “ no last I checked fire fighters were still trying to put it out” replies Casey. “Do they know what caused it” asks Dana “no” replies Casey. She then kissed him on the cheek and says “ I’m heading to work” “ bye babe. Enjoy your day” says Dana “ you enjoy yours too” says Casey as she leaves. Dana continues getting dressed.