"You looking forward to school starting soon?" He asked with a half-chuckle. "Is Mum here or did she stay with Hermia?" Ocean asked her father. "Stupid gits won't know what hit them."
"I don't really get why he's still so in love with her, she always seemed to treat him like dirt..." Elle sighed. "And if anyone treated Jamei how she treated his two I'd kick their sorry butt."
"Well... That doesn't sound good." Hermia said, looking from River to the book and back again. "Does that mean he'll eventually go all primal instinct or whatever?"
"Don't quit the day job just get Mickey." Casey chuckled. "Heya Elly." He smiled at his youngest granddaughter. Jacob chuckled and tried to repair the damage the ruffle did to his styled hair. "Like I wouldn't do it well."
"I think he's already managed to get everyone up the wall." Elle sighed. "He's aiming for across the ceiling now."
"That doesn't sound too good River..." Hermia said, worry fast setting in now.
"Couple of twats in Slytherin." Jacob shrugged. "They'll get what's coming to them next year though." He grinned deviously. Ocean opened her mouth to give a quick comeback. But she quickly thought better of it, considering it was her Dad she was talking to. "Haha Dad. Very funny, you should so do stand up."
"Jordan." Casey said, pointing a finger at the phone as though it was Jordan himself. "I swear to god, if you don't get your sorry act together soon you're going to run out of people to rely on for support. Because I sure as hell know me and Lyra are getting fed up of being your fall back plan." He growled loud enough for the other end of the phone line to hear before following his wife back inside. Elle folded her arms and tutted angrily. She'd be patient with him for long enough, she knew he had to be hurting and whatever but there was a fine line between being upset and self-pity.
Hermia quickly headed over to them to see for herself. "What the...?" She mumbled, not quite believing what she was seeing. "Do you have cataracts or something?" She said, trying to think of a rational and logical explanation.
"I spent the last two years being picked on for being small, so not so far. Next year however is looking good." He said, grinning slightly with the thought of revenge glimmering in his eyes. "I don't understand imprinting..."
"I'll help you..." Casey muttered. He was more then just a little unimpressed with the man at the moment. It was one thing to act like a utter ******bag when you're single, another to act like one when you have kids. And it was far beyond just plan ******baggery to act like it when your pregnant sister is looking after your kids as well as her own and when your father has just passed away. "Jordan!" Elle shouted at the phone. "You get down here right now or the next funeral you'll need to attend will be your's! Got it?!" When Elle was angry you could easily tell how she'd become queen bee at school, she was one girl who you just knew could easily beat on even the most macho boys.
"I might as well do it while I'm over here." She shrugged as she lay the blankets straight.
"Same as always." Jacob sighed. "Quiet and depressed..." "Imprinting doesn't change... That's eternal. So why are they drifting apart...?"
"This is ridiculous..." She growled under her breath as she looked around the street in the hope of seeing the drunkard. Casey wandered out of the building looking for Lyra. He'd left the kids with his mother, seeing as it would be just a little unfair to leave them with Lily. "Jordan still not here?" He asked as he wandered up behind her, slipping his hand around her waist.
"Oh, okay." Hermia nodded as she started to tidy up River's bed.
"I don't care, I'll take on whatever comes my way." He grinned smugly. "I can handle it." "It seems five minutes ago him and Hermia were all set to spend the rest of their lives together. Now it seems unlikely they'll see through the rest of the year..."
"I swear to god I'm going to beat the little sh*t within an inch of his life when he finally shows his hung over face." Elle growled as she flicked her phone shut after checking to see if there had been a reply for the fifth time in the last couple of minutes.
"He's going to go wash up a bit Mr Malfoy." Hermia replied for him.
"Yeah, what's so funny about that?" Jacob asked, scowling slightly. "I want to take down a few vampires, it's what we do after all. Protect the humans, right?" "Same here..." Ocean sighed, looking out of the window and down towards the boys on the swings. Casey looked to see what Ocean was looking at. "You know... It doesn't seem five minutes ago River was teaching Jacob how to swing on those things..." He said, a slightly melancholy tone in his voice as the long past memories came forwards.
Elle was, as usual, hanging around near Alex. She too was starting to get worried about Jordan's whereabouts. She'd text him several times in the last half hour and was yet to get any response at all.
