Astral High - Chapter 13
#14 of Astral High
Wait! There's another chapter coming out later today! I... I'm like a third of the way through that chapter as of now...
"W-what?"
"It's true, I smoked mari-"
"No I don't care about that, I'm confused by the fact that I have a half-brother?"
"I guess."
"You guess?! How could you be unsure about this?"
"Well, it might be a girl, or she might've gotten an abortion, or-"
"So you never saw the kid."
"Well duh, I broke up with her before she even told me she was pregnant. Felt bad, but it was a mutual break up, and both of us had already moved on into other relationships. No biggy."
"B-but-"
"But what? It makes perfect sense. Stuff happens."
"... But..."
"Teddy, really, this isn't a big deal. Don't worry about it. Anyways, I don't even know if she's still around. You know, amongst the living. I mean, car wrecks are a lot less likely when you're sober, and which she rarely was."
"But... What... So she might be dead. And you don't even care?"
"Why should I? I'm married, your mother knows and doesn't care, and she didn't want me to worry about the kid when I last spoke to her- which was a week after we broke up."
"... Right. Okay, so... So it doesn't matter?"
"Nope."
"Okay..."
"No, what you should be worried about is the fact that it's two and you guys haven't gone outside yet."
"It's two?!" [Me]
"Woah." [Seth]
"How did you not know that?" [Daniel]
"They didn't wake up until we got here, and that was probably my fault." [Ted]
"What'd you do?" [Ted's dad]
"N-nothing."
"Poked me, that's all." [Me]
"... Where and with what?" [Ben]
"Oh, like this." I reached over and jabbed him a little on his obvious buldge, and he smacked my hand away.
"What was that for!?"
"You're the one who asked."
"Jerk..."
"Dad's right, we should go outside." [Ted]
"Yeah, light off a few firecrackers." [Ted's Dad]
"Sure, but I'm starving." [Seth]
"Yeah, I mean we missed breakfast and lunch." [Me]
"That's your fault." [Daniel]
"We never had lunch, but there's chips and stuff. They just happen to be outside. We're gonna start cooking dinner at around five, so go entertain yourselves." Ted's dad wandered off, and we just kinda starred at eachother.
"So, how many fireworks do you have this time, Ted?" [Ben]
"Enough." [Ted]
"What? You never have enough!"
"Well, some boyfriends give flowers, Daniel gives explosives. Not to mention I payed a hundred bucks on my own for a massive box, and then Daniel bought two more 'cause his parents are frickin' loaded."
"What about firecrackers?" [Seth]
"Screw fire crackers, we got M80's!" [Ted]
"Right, and where do you intend to light those off?" [Ben]
"I don't know, the gravel?"
"Nuh-uh, my aunt and uncle would kill you. We can light 'em off down at the river." [Seth]
"Wait, there's a river?" [Daniel]
"Yeah, it's down the meadow. There's a path." [Seth]
"As in a path through the woods, with all the bugs?" [Ted]
"Psh, wimp." [Ben]
"Don't worry, there aren't that many bugs." [Seth]
"Okay..."
Daniel got up, still holding Ted, and they started off outside. I got off Seth and followed him down to the meadow, with Ben following close behind. We got down to the end of the meadow and followed some stupid trail for about ten minutes, but it was worth it. We came out into a massive clearing, a whole other meadow, but I noticed a break in it; the river. Me and Seth got there and I kissed him on the cheek while Daniel and Ted just looked a little mischevious.
"Don't even think about it. The ground's crawling in spiders." [Ben]
"Ew, why'd you point that out to me?" [Ted]
"I pointed it out to all of you, so you don't sit down on it. Ugh."
"Oh, good point." [Me]
"Yeah... Maybe if we had lawn chairs?" [Daniel]
"Naw, we're gonna blow up some plants. Who's got the M80s?" We all just kinda looked at Ted and his face palm was audible. "Are you kidding me? We forgot the fireworks?! Great, now we gotta go back."
"You can go back, I'm staying right here." [Ben]
"Although, we could get lawn chairs if we go back, I mean my mom brought like seven."
"Yeah, and we got ten. We can totally bring back chairs." [Daniel]
"Yeah, and maybe we could grab a bag of chips." [Me]
"Are you guys seriously planning on just setting yourselves up out here?" [Ben]
"Yeah, why not? Maybe Markus and his girlfriend could join." [Me]
"You're just saying that 'cause you think Markus is cute." [Ted]
"Yeah, he's kinda cute." [Seth]
"Ew, incest!" [Ben]
"Says the guy who had a crush on me." [Ted]
"Well, I'm adopted, so-"
"Gay relationships can do anything! It's not fucking up the gene pool, so who cares?" [Seth]
"So you're saying, gay relationships between triplets is perfectly okay?" [Daniel]
"Yeah, I'm with Seth on this one." [Me]
"Good. Just wanted to make sure I understood."
"Heh... How would they do it? I mean, there's four of us, so we can pair off, but, three?" [Ted]
"Have you ust become a perv since Christmas?" [Ben]
"Yeah, kinda."
"But he's my perv..." Daniel squeezed Ted a little, who kissed him on the nose.
"Ugh, maybe I'm not gay." [Ben]
"Well, we can always test that." [Seth]
"How about not." [Me]
"Aw, but other gays-"
"But we have each other. Come on, let's go get the stuff."