Chapter Twenty-Three: I'm in a Fight with the World, but I'm Winning

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Pulling up at the Georgetown address, Jack turns the engine off and gets out of the car; Harvey follows suit as he shuts the car door behind him so his dad can lock the car before heading into the house. He opens the front door and enters into the porch before making his way into the hallway with his dad following behind him, he heads upstairs to his room to put his bag away into his cupboard; he walks back down afterward to take himself into the living room where his parents and siblings are. He walks into the room and goes over to the nearest couch where his dads are sitting with his younger brothers, his sisters are all seated on the opposite couch; he goes and sits in between his brothers. John gazes up at his elder brother and questions him:

"How did you end up fighting with the same boy again, Harv?" the redhead looks at his brother and answers with:

"I don't know. It's not like I wanted it to happen did I?! I'm glad I'm getting out of that school now and starting at the school in the White House,"

"So, does that mean we're all restarting school there?" John questions as he looks up at Jack and Lee beside him

"You'll all be starting there tomorrow," Jack answers. Harvey casts a glance at his dad and questions with confusion:

"I can start tomorrow? Isn't that too soon?"

"Yeah, you can start tomorrow, Harv. I suppose it is too soon, but we can sort that out tomorrow," Jack responds as he casts a fleeting glance in Lee's direction

"Okay, that's fine," the redhead answers with acceptance. A while later, Harvey follows his five siblings upstairs to get ready for bed, he goes into his room and goes over to his chest of drawers to take out his pyjamas. Once dressed, he takes his pile of dirty clothes and puts them at his room door to be sorted with in the morning; he then walks over to his bedside cabinet, lifts his dark blue Beatles alarm clock with a coloured picture depicting the Fab Four as their cartoon caricatures on the clockface.

He sets the time at 7

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He sets the time at 7.45 am again, puts the clock back where it was, then goes over to his bookshelf to pick a book to read before going to sleep for school in the morning; he selects one of his scientist books, a biographical novel telling the tale of one of the most prolific minds of the past century, the highly celebrated English naturalist, geologist, and biologist Charles Darwin. He takes the book over to his bed, pulls his quilt covers down and places the book on his bedsheets; he bends down to his wall sockets and flicks the switch on beside the plug socket for his lava lamp, he presses the switch on that is attached to the wire to make his lamp turn on. He makes his way over to his room door, stands on his tiptoes and reaches up with his right hand to switch his room light off; he goes back over to his bed, climbs in, and picks up his book again to start reading it. Once he starts to feel himself get tired, he shuts his book over and places it back onto his bedside cabinet, reaches over with his right hand to switch off his lamp after which he places his head on the pillow, closes his eyes and drifts off to sleep.

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