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Chapter 6 - New Home

Arthur and Maki home, Earth 2032

Keys jangling inside a keyhole, and slowly a door opens to a spacious entrance area.

"Damn my legs still feel weird. Oh, what a nice place you guys have here." Jeremiah enters the room looking at all the numerous decorations scattered throughout.

"Of course it is. It was paid for with some of your settlement money, so of course it would be nice." Arthur responds as he walks behind Jeremiah into the house.

Jeremiah looks at Arthur with pain in his eyes, "How much did it cost? Please don't tell me too much!" Arthur turns his head away from Jeremiah and begins to whistle. "Just tell me Arthur!"

"It was 20 million all together." Maki tells Jeremiah as she walks in carrying grocery bags with here. "You couldn't care to help me. Arthur!"

"My bad for making sure our brother got into the house safely" He throws his arm around Jeremiah's shoulders in an attempt to deflect the blame.

"You saw me walk out of the hospital just fine alone. You could've easily helped her out, muscle man." Jeremiah takes Arthur's arm off his shoulder and begins roaming around the house.

"Now can someone tell me where the fridge is? I still haven't eaten since I woke up." Jeremiah states as he makes his way to another open in the house.

"Ah. Here it is." Jeremiah walks into a room with high ceilings and polished appliances in the room.

He quickly makes his way to what appears to be the fridge only to open the door and be meet with a freezing chill.

"Damn! Not the fridge." Jeremiah closes the door of the freezer and rubs his arms together from the sudden chill.

Maki and Arthur walk into the kitchen to see Jeremiah opening and closing many doors and drawers in his attempt to find the fridge.

"Are you going to show him or should I?" Maki questions Arthur to see who wants to help out Jeremiah with his predicament.

"You do it. He's more likely to listen to you than me." Arthur tells Maki in a casual tone.

"Ok. Hey dumb dumb, the fridge is behind those frosted doors over there." Maki points to a set of doors right next to a set of silver barstools.

Jeremiah looks at the set of doors in the short distance before closing all the doors and drawers he still had open.

"About time." Jeremiah rubs his hands together like a fly preparing to dig into its meal.

He throws open the door with enough force that he blows down a decorative towel that was nearby.

"Look at all this food." He walks into the fridge the size of a small walk-in closet. "You guys don't disappoint." He makes his way through the fridge trying to decide what to eat.

"Remember what the doctor said Jeremiah. You have to take it lightly on the food or you might actually end up dead." Maki reminds him as he continues to look through all the food.

"Yeah yeah. Take it light. Got it." He grabs some chunky peanut butter and strawberry jelly off a shelf and walks out of the fridge. "I'll just make myself a PB&J" He sets the two ingredients on the large island, and starts to look for the bread.

"So, anyone want to tell me about what happened in the past seven years, or should I look it up myself?" Jeremiah calmly ask his two siblings while his skinny arms grab a loaf of bread from the cabinet.

"Do you want to know everything that happened or just the major points?" Arthur asks him while handing him a plate to make the PB&J on.

"Just the important things for now please." Jeremiah accepts the plate from Arthur and begins to make the sandwich.

"Alright, I'll try to make this as short as possible." Arthur begins to speak on major events in the past.

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