Jayk checked his watch, keeping his eye out for a bobbing head of red hair as students raced out of the school in a dead hurry.
the crowed slowly began to thin, and still he hadnt seen her. infact he hadnt seen Jade since the little fiasco earlier, the last thing he had seen with her annoyed face as the principles door was slammed in his face.

Slowly the last of the students began to trickle out like birds left behing by their flock. one of them was Sarah, Jades little friend.
She seemed flustered, her books spilling out of her folder as she finally stopped running with a look of sheer desperation on her face.
"Shit muffin crud..." she swore very unlady like, kicking the pebbles of the school footpath angrily, dropping an art book from her arm load.

Jayk stepped foreward and took picked it up.
"You dont look too happy." he said, handing her the book.

she smiled, "Oh so you noticed?" she said, taking it from him clumsily and trying to put the book underneath all her others. "Why arent you walking home with Jaaaaade?" she asked.

He stood straight again, looking around.
"Well, i would have, but... she apears to have left already..." he said scratching the back of his head. he looked at her. "why are you still here? dont you normally catch the last bus out?"
She cocked her weight on one foot and glared at him. "Yeh, well obviously i missed it." she said with a sigh. "Guess im gunan have to walk home..."

he chuckled, clapping her on the shoulder.
"Hey, im sure Agito will walk you home, you guys live in the same street after all." hesaid, quickly making a run for it before she had a chance to retort.

"Hey! whats that supposed to mean!!" she yelled after him, but he could hardly hear her over his laughter.

~~~~~~~

"Theyre at it again..." Said Jayks mother, her blonde hair tied in a messy pony tale and sharing the same dazzling blue eyes as him, her lips a light pink but her thin eyebrows pulled into a frown tjat wrinkled her brow.
"Yeh, bloody hell, jsut divorce already!" said his youngest sister Caitlyn, picking at her peas that rolled across her dinner plate.
the whole family seemed to be listening to the arguing comming from next door. the yelling and screaming rung throughout their whole 2 and a half storied house, rattling the stationary cutlery on their plates.

Jayks mother shot them all a glance.
"Caitlyn, Ellanor, Ami, start eating!" she snapped at them, the arguing from next door obviously getting to the 37 year old woman who didnt look a day older then 25.
the 3 brown haired girls began eating, mumbling something icoherant under their breaths.
the eldest daughter johan pushed her finished plate away from her.
"Finished." said the somewhat large girl, standing up, her stomach hitting the table on her way up.

Jayk pulled her plate towards him, placing it ontop of his own and leaving the room to the kitchen where he placed the dirty dishes on the bench to be put in the dishwasher later.
his mother was behind him not long after, she seemed stressed out.
"I swear, if they dont sto-
"Yes i know, your going to call the police, right right." Jayk said, repeating the same line he had heard many times before.
"Hmph, and where are your brothers! i swear, buying them that ute was the worst thing a single mother with 7 children could have possibly done!" she said, starting her pointless ranting and raving, more to herself then to him. regard;less he stood there until she went silent, rinsing the dishes herself and shoving them into the dishwasher.

he decided to retreat for the evening, rushing up the stairs to the bedroom that faced the arguing next door that was heard crystal clear inside, but he chose to ignore it.
his computer sat buzzing on the table near the window, the curtains open and tied back with small silver chains, a few rocks sitting on the windowsill.
when he had started up the computer and logged into instant messenger he noticedthat Jade wasnt online. he looked out the window to see that her bedroom light wasnt on either. he frowned, a little concerned.

Standing up he pushed his window out, his fingers catching up a stone and raising it over his shoulder to throw at the window. a sob from next doors yard stopped him.
he leaned out the window to see no one other then Jade sitting on a stump in her backyard, her legs brought up t her chin.
he bit his lip, padding downstairs again and pushing the backdoor open, making a large wire screeching noice that screen doors make, it slamming unceremoniously behind him.
the fence was made of chicken wire and wood and only came up to about his waist, something else his mother would often complain about, something about "lack of privacy."

Jade looked up when she saw him comming.
he gave a small wave.
"Hey." he said in a low voice, only jsut heard over the shouting from inside the house.