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mekachu04there was a boy in the backyrad….
Alistar Zayden Phaelle glanced carefully back over to where his brothers where studing at the kitchen table; certain they where sufficently distracted, the young child made his wa to the window, hiding at the edge of the glass, curtain blocking him from his family, wall from the boy outside. it wasn't just one boy - the neightbor children, eve and adam, where back there as well, seeming throughly engrossed in whatever game the three where playing.
Alistar's mother adored the two neighbor children, often having them over or having one of Alistar's older siblings at either of the twos homes to babysit. He got on with them well enough, he liekd to think them friends even, but it did sometimes seem like she was around more when they where over than she was aorund for her own children. HE never said it aloud, but his face must have shown it once, becuase Stanford, his second oldest brother, had a deicdedly mena look on his face in responce, and simply told him, if he had a problem with i, he could always leave.
Far too young to be going anywhere alone, Alistar was frightened at just the thought. it also put a slight fear in his heart that at least one of his brothers did actually want him to leave.
It would gorw to be a thought that all of his siblings agreed, as he got older. but that was later.
now... now, ther ewas a boy in the backyeard!
he played some game invovling chasing with Alistars two friemds, the three runnng aorund in a wild abandonment that Gabreil often scoffed at. hooligans, he'd call them, with an unsaid expectation that he had better never catch alistar carring on in such a manner.
To Alsisas horror, he saw their game had escalated tehm into climing on the decorative mini-tree Alistar's mother had placed outside for the day until she had a chance to repot it and bring it back in. it was a ear thing to her - one of hte most forbidde things their family own as far as even looking at incorrectly, and now the boy was hanging off one of it's brances!
Adam, who had heard Alistar;s mother;s scheall about the tree many a times, looked at it in concern - likely recognising it despite it being outside instead of in the place of honour in the sitting room. he attmepted to causion eve from clmibing it, but in the end, she climbs after the boy - reaching out to try and 'tag' him it seemed.
So focused on the scene before him alistar never noticed the curtain shift next to him; not relaising until far to late that gabriel had found him, and had come to see what had drawn his attentin away. he looked on in horror, and then gabriel was running fo the back door.
there wans't much time, but Alistiar had to try. he waved deperately from the window, adam catching sight of him in the end.
it was too late - the two in the tree caused to to tip, and it went crashing on it's side.
Alistar waved fratically to the bck door - gabriel would be there too soon - and adamgrabbed eve's hand and dragged her out of hte branches and ran for the gate ont he est side.
the strange boy looked dazed where he'd fallen, and alistar could only watch on ind read as gabrel appeared at his side, his yelling catching the attention of the whole house.
His name, Alistar would later find out, was AJ Crowley. He only found it out when his mother took the young man's father to court to sue for the cost of the tree. Alistar never spoke to his mother about what he saw, refusing to back up gabriels inistance that adam and eve had been their too.
The two where never invided over agaon. His siblisng never babysat for them again. and the next time he saw AJ - the boy's face was a molted college of bruises that he refused to discuss. he was sulking down the path otuside alsitars house, just pasisng the est gate as alistar came home from a toutoors.
they made eye contact for jsut amoment, and AJ nodded to Alistars home, "well," he drawled, accent strange, a hint of a lisp, "sat went down like a lead balloon."
Alistar Zayden Phaelle glanced carefully back over to where his brothers where studing at the kitchen table; certain they where sufficently distracted, the young child made his wa to the window, hiding at the edge of the glass, curtain blocking him from his family, wall from the boy outside. it wasn't just one boy - the neightbor children, eve and adam, where back there as well, seeming throughly engrossed in whatever game the three where playing.
Alistar's mother adored the two neighbor children, often having them over or having one of Alistar's older siblings at either of the twos homes to babysit. He got on with them well enough, he liekd to think them friends even, but it did sometimes seem like she was around more when they where over than she was aorund for her own children. HE never said it aloud, but his face must have shown it once, becuase Stanford, his second oldest brother, had a deicdedly mena look on his face in responce, and simply told him, if he had a problem with i, he could always leave.
Far too young to be going anywhere alone, Alistar was frightened at just the thought. it also put a slight fear in his heart that at least one of his brothers did actually want him to leave.
It would gorw to be a thought that all of his siblings agreed, as he got older. but that was later.
now... now, ther ewas a boy in the backyeard!
he played some game invovling chasing with Alistars two friemds, the three runnng aorund in a wild abandonment that Gabreil often scoffed at. hooligans, he'd call them, with an unsaid expectation that he had better never catch alistar carring on in such a manner.
To Alsisas horror, he saw their game had escalated tehm into climing on the decorative mini-tree Alistar's mother had placed outside for the day until she had a chance to repot it and bring it back in. it was a ear thing to her - one of hte most forbidde things their family own as far as even looking at incorrectly, and now the boy was hanging off one of it's brances!
Adam, who had heard Alistar;s mother;s scheall about the tree many a times, looked at it in concern - likely recognising it despite it being outside instead of in the place of honour in the sitting room. he attmepted to causion eve from clmibing it, but in the end, she climbs after the boy - reaching out to try and 'tag' him it seemed.
So focused on the scene before him alistar never noticed the curtain shift next to him; not relaising until far to late that gabriel had found him, and had come to see what had drawn his attentin away. he looked on in horror, and then gabriel was running fo the back door.
there wans't much time, but Alistiar had to try. he waved deperately from the window, adam catching sight of him in the end.
it was too late - the two in the tree caused to to tip, and it went crashing on it's side.
Alistar waved fratically to the bck door - gabriel would be there too soon - and adamgrabbed eve's hand and dragged her out of hte branches and ran for the gate ont he est side.
the strange boy looked dazed where he'd fallen, and alistar could only watch on ind read as gabrel appeared at his side, his yelling catching the attention of the whole house.
His name, Alistar would later find out, was AJ Crowley. He only found it out when his mother took the young man's father to court to sue for the cost of the tree. Alistar never spoke to his mother about what he saw, refusing to back up gabriels inistance that adam and eve had been their too.
The two where never invided over agaon. His siblisng never babysat for them again. and the next time he saw AJ - the boy's face was a molted college of bruises that he refused to discuss. he was sulking down the path otuside alsitars house, just pasisng the est gate as alistar came home from a toutoors.
they made eye contact for jsut amoment, and AJ nodded to Alistars home, "well," he drawled, accent strange, a hint of a lisp, "sat went down like a lead balloon."
