Megan let Rio help, but she didn't let him do all the work. "Now what made you so eager to help?" She gave him an awkward glare.
"That's alright then…" Tobias got up from his seat and headed downstairs into the basement. He was in the need of some entertainment, but this time, he wanted to do something a bit more active….
"I like water" he said letting the water form currents on the dish he was washing so it would scrub the dirt away.
Skye found a lid for the bowl the food was in and left it on the counter before grabbing a rag and tossing it to Firiko who began to wipe the table.
(Sowwy I was gone for so long… Had some stuff I had to do….)
Megan shrugged. "Totally makes sense…" She heard Firiko and Skye doing other stuff, but she continued to focus on washing the dishes. I really need to get the dishwasher fixed….
Tobias went over to a small basket and pulled out a ball. You got me into quite some trouble today, He thought, setting it on the open floor. He began to bounce it off the wall, which was cushioned by some sort of special material.
Firiko wandered down the stairs to see what Tobias was up to. he saw him playing with a ball and a hoop. "What'cha doing?" he asked,
Skye wandered around looking for other things to do, but couldn't find anything. So he went downstairs too. and sat on the stairs and watch.
Tobias glanced back and saw Firiko, as well as Skye who was sitting on the stairs. "I'm just kicking a ball against the wall…. It's fortified, so even if I kick it as hard as I can–" He kicked it with all his might, and the ball whistled through the air and hit the wall with a loud pow. "…It won't leave a hole."
Firiko watched in curiosity, and in one move he suddenly dashed between Tobias and the ball and bounced it back at the wall, then let Tobias have it, but when it bounced off the wall again Firiko caught it and bounced it back to the wall.
Tobias smiled, soon taking the ball and balancing it keenly on his foot. "I don't know where I learned to do this, but Megan said that some things come naturally…." He bounced it a few times before pelting it at the wall.
"Knock that off down there!" Megan howled from upstairs in the kitchen.
Tobias smiled sheepishly. "Oh well…."
Firiko grinned.
"Do you have a yard outside?" Asked Skye from the stairs. "We can play that outside if you'd like."
"Well, we do, but it's fairly small…." Tobias balanced the ball on his foot again and snatched it up. "However, after what happened today, I don't know if Megan wants me to play in the yard. She tends to worry about me a lot sometimes… But others, she doesn't mind leaving me home by myself… It's strange."
"We only need a small space" said Skye. "You can keep doing what you were. Only this time I'll be your wall."
I'm unsure if he wants to be pelted by a soccer ball… Tobias shrugged. "If you want… Megan used to play with me when she had the time… Yet, she'd always say I was too rough…" He went upstairs and outside, where the sun was just below the skyline. It's such a nice afternoon….
Skye followed him out but firiko stayed inside and watched from the window.
Skye jogged to the other side of the yard. "Well? Are you gonna launch the ball or not?" He asked.
"Well, I might hit it into the street again…" Tobias glanced around, volleying the ball with his foot. "Yet… I don't think there's supposed to be a lot of traffic around…" He tapped it a few more times before mildly launching it straight at Skye. Please don't let me hurt him…
Skye lept up and kicked it back easily. "don't worry about hurting me" he said smiling.
"Well if you insist…" Tobias still didn't kick it as hard as he could, just in case, but he cranked his launching up a few noches just to keep things interesting.
Megan was finished with the dishes earlier than usual since Rio was helping her out. "Thanks for helping with washing dishes; it's not very common I get an extra pair of hands around here…." Since I really don't intend on paying for any…
Skye launched it back just as easily as before, leaping high to catch it before it went to far.
Rio nodded, "Don't worry about it" he said smiling, "It's only fair to help out."
Firiko nodded from his vantage point of the window, "Yeah I just wish I had a way to help, but thanks to these" his wings twitched, " I cant do much in closed spaces and I definitely can't go outside"
"Well, that's a shame…" Maybe there's a way to encorperate it into convincing everyone he's a robot of some sort as well… Yet the wings are too realistically feathery…. "Maybe we'll find something…" She left the window and down into the basement to do some loads of laundry for tomorrow.
Tobias finally let loose after a few more rounds, and he really dug his toe into the ball. It popped with a loud pow, and fell to the ground as a sad pile of deflated ball. He sighed. "There goes another one…."
Skye came over to the ball and frowned, "Hmmm" he said picking it up and inspecting the hole. "If that hole were a little smaller I might've been able to fix it…" he said with an awkward smirk,
Firiko and Rio watched her head down stairs, and watched some more as Skye and Tobias came in, "Hey Skye" Said Firiko unsure if this was a good time, "Do you think maybe…."
"Think what?" asked Skye
"That maybe that man we saw… Maybe he might come after us?" said Firiko hesitantly,
"I don't think so…" said Skye, "Actually it is very likely he will, after all we're almost certain he or someone he's working with brought us here, and if they did then they went to a lot of trouble to do so" he said mentally to both Firiko and Rio. "But we'll wait until Tobias is out of the way to discuss this further" he finished firmly, giving each a hard look.
Tobias watched them kind of strangely look at each other (because what else are you gonna do when you're talking telepathically). I wonder what they're thinking about….
Skye broke the connection and gave Tobias a smile, "I'm pretty sure our job at the moment is to keep you busy," he said, "So what do you wanna do now?"
"Well…." He glanced down at the ball, and then outside– it was getting quite dark, and Megan always never wanted to stay out too late in case he got "kidnapped" or hurt extremely badly. "I think we should stay inside for the rest of the day… But otherwise, I'm not too sure."
"Hmmm well that doesn't help much" said Rio thoughtfully, "Do you 2 have any Ideas?" he asked the others, Both of them shook their heads.. "Nope" they both said.
"Then maybe we can just relax and watch some television or something…" Tobias was curious on why he was suddenly in a mood for relaxing, yet he went along with it.
Firiko and Rio Immediately looked to Skye for an explanation and he shrugged, "I don't know everything guys" he said "Um… What's a Tv?" he asked turning to Tobias,
"It's a machine that turns radio wave signals into images that project on the screen here," Tobias turned the thing on, and it wasn't long until a television show was playing on the screen. "Many many people have one, and they use it a whole lot… Although Megan only uses it to watch the news…."
"Uh huh.." Skye was still confused, as were the other two, "Not sure what radio waves are…. but ok…"
"It gets more and more complicated…" Tobias grinned a little. "I would explain, but most people don't really care about what goes on with the science behind it… They just want to watch." It's too bad they dont get to have things like these… Yet, being a couch potato isn't the best thing either…
the trio followed tobias into the next room where they saw a black window jutting out from the wall, Rio crashed on the nearby couch and made himself comfortable in a corner, Firiko took a seat on the floor, his wings curling around him.
Tobias watched them get a bit settled, and he let himself relax as well. Today was a bit rough with the car crash and all, but tomorrow was about to get a bit worse for him.
Megan finished with her laundry, and headed back upstairs to see all of them in the living room watching something on TV. I'm surprised how well they all get along… "Tobias," She said to him, "Remember, you have school again tomorrow, and you need to get to bed on time… But also I have a meeting tomorrow morning, so I won't be able to walk you to school…"
"I could walk him if you'd like" said Skye, "I was wanting to explore the city a bit more on my own anyway." he said.
