Astronaut

Chapter Twelve: Thunderbirds and Lucky Charms

Saying goodbye to Miss Jones, Julia, Iain, and James, he follows behind Clint and Kenny as the three of them exit the school the same way that they came in. Finding the idling car in the car park with Agent Greer behind the wheel, Harvey opens the driver's side back door and slides across to the passenger side followed by Clint beside him again and Kenny in the front seat; starting up the car and driving off, Agent Greer looks in the rearview mirror at the boy looking out the car window and asks:

"How was your first day of second grade, Harv?"

"It was good,"

"What did you get up to?"

"I wrote about my hobbies, then did some math questions before lunch. After lunch, I did some literacy and wrote words to describe my classmates,"

"That's great! Did you make any new friends?"

"Yeah, I did!"

"What are their names?"

"Julia, Iain, and James,"

"Oh, that's nice!"

"Yeah!" He turns his head to the left to face Clint and asks:

"Where are we going?"

"Home," Clint replies rather bluntly

"Yeah, I know but which one am I going to? The White House or the one in Georgetown?"

"The one in Georgetown,"

"Why?"

"Because that's where your dads and your brothers and sisters are,"

"Oh, okay." He goes back to staring out the window until the car pulls up at one of the many houses that he lives in with his family, saying goodbye to Agent Greer and thanking him for the ride, Harvey gets out of the car followed by Clint and Kenny and makes his way towards the front door. Getting there, he puts his right hand on the handle to open it, when it's opened he steps into the porch, turns around to face the two men in front of him and asks them:

"So, I guess I'll be seeing you two tomorrow?"

"Yeah, you will. Bye, Harvey, see you tomorrow!" Kenny answers as he walks to the car again, Clint waves to Harvey as the redhead shouts over:

"Bye!" Watching them until they leave, he makes his way into the hallway, takes his bag off of his shoulders and his cap off of his head and places them on the bottom of the stairs to be taken up to his room later on. He ruffles his hair, making his slight fringe more prominent, then turns himself to the left to enter the living room where his dads and siblings are. Entering the room, he first notices his five siblings sitting on the floor close together, with Caroline, Rachel and John sitting behind June and LJ and their eyes fixated on the TV that is playing what looks like Dr Who, but he can't be sure; he looks over at one of the couches in the room and it's two occupants, his dad with his glasses on reading one of his James Bond novels and his daddy resting his head on his dad's left shoulder. He walks towards the occupied couch and sits beside his parents. Lee is the first to notice him and turns his head slightly left and sees Harvey sitting beside himself and Jack, eyes glued to the TV like his five siblings who are huddled on the floor.

"How was your first day of second grade?" He asks as Harvey turns his head to the right, taking his eyes off of the screen that is showing the opening scene of an episode of Thunderbirds.

"It was good, I enjoyed it. I got to do math, literacy, write about my hobbies and I also made some new friends,"

"Really? That's great!" Harvey takes notice as his dad lifts his head from the book that he's reading and turns to him to ask: