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By Friday, the rain stopped, the place was no longer flooded, and mom came home.

She hugged and kissed me. “Hey there. How was your week without any parental supervision? I hope you two didn’t break the house.’’

I almost laughed and told her that we broke more than just the house, but instead I said. ‘’Yes, for the most part it was ok until Johnathan came home.’’

‘’What? I didn’t know he came home.’’

That’s odd, why didn’t Johnathan call mom.

‘’I thought he did, I saw him on the phone and just assumed it was you.’’

Mom switched the subject. ‘’He didn’t give Aaron a hard time did he?’’

‘’No, we all stayed out of each other’s way.’’

‘’Ok, that’s good to hear.’’

Aaron came down the stairs and I could see that he was shocked to see mom.

‘’Hey,’’ mom greeted him with a bit of hesitation.

‘’Hey, how did you hold up during that freak storm?’’ Aaron asked.

Both me and mom are shocked by that, this is the first time he had ever said a sentence to mom without mixing a little insult in it.

I won