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❦ Szalinski Household, Day Fifty-One ❦

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After school, Dax did his usual thing. His time being grounded was up and he was allowed to go hang out with his friends again, so long as he let his Mom know where he was at all times. She didn’t need to know the details of what they were doing and he wasn’t exactly specific about where he was, just that he was with Jesus and Lester. 

Today, he found Jesus in a state. His friend had started in on the Bubbles ahead of him and seemed to be having a bad trip of it, sitting there with his head held in his hands. “You okay, dude?” Dax asked, coming to stand behind him and putting a hand on Jesus’s shoulders, leaning down to try and see his face.

“I’m in over my head,” Jesus complained. “Don wants me to sell way more than I’m able to.” 

“You’re selling for him now?” Dax asked, shocked that his friend would get so far into this whole with with Don Lothario. 

“It’s the only way he’d still sell to me,” Jesus told him. 

❦ Szalinski Household, Day Fifty-One ❦

“Thanks, Parker, for helping your sister deal with all of this,” Allan told his oldest daughter after the two girls had helped clean up the kitchen. Maggie went upstairs to go play while Eris took Nathaniel to get ready for bed. Parker stayed downstairs to hang out with her father and looked over at him with a proud smile on her face. 

“I don’t think she understands that he’s not sick,” Parker told him. “He’s just...different.”

Allan nodded his head. “That’s very insightful of you,” he told her, leaning back on the couch and watching her thoughtfully. “We’re all going to need to learn a little bit more about what we’re dealing with here. But we can keep you informed, maybe even bring you along to some of the doctor appointments if you want?” 

“I’d like that,” Parker smiled.