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- >Be Anon, walking home from school.
- >Most kids' parents picked them up, but you didn't mind walking.
- >It gave you time to yourself.
- >You think about how you are kind of glad school has started again.
- >The teacher this year is old. She reminds you of the school building itself,
- >weathered, crumbling, shakey, and completely useless at what it did.
- >Could be worse.
- >At least you got to see your friends again.
- >Your parents didn't let you see them much, because
- "Anon"!
- >Speak of the devil. You hadn't noticed you just crossed the last street.
- >Your mother was waiting for you by the front door.
- "Anon, where have you been"?
- "School. I was walking home".
- "Don't be a smartass with me.
- You know I expect you to be home at exactly 3:30.
- As long as you live in my house, you are going to pull your own weight".
- >Heh, like that tub of lard knows anything about pulling weight.
- "What did you say"?
- "Nothing, Mom".
- "That's right. Chores, Now"!
- >After you were done scrubbing the bathroom with a toothbrush, you look at the clock.
- >It's 9:00. That means you missed supper, again.
- >You quietly sneak into the living room.
- >That bottle sitting on the coffee table meant mom was gone for the night.
- >You look through the kitchen. Mom had macaroni and cheese tonight.
- >Dad was out late again. You only ever saw him once a week.
- >The cheese was congealed and cool,
- >but the noodles stuck to the bottom of the pot still counted as food.
- >Dinner of champions.
- >You grab a spoon you had washed earlier that day and scraped the pot.
- >Well, nothing to do but go to your room.
- >Your room was comforting. You could lock the door, and that made it safe.
- >After digging around in you tattered backpack, you found it.
- >At least there was one way to ignore the situation you were in.
- >You turn the bent, discolored page.
- "In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit..."
- >Book in hand, you read on into the night
- >until drowsiness forces you to drift off to sleep
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