Five Little Sacrifices

Chapter 55

After hiding the book he closed the door to his room and went down the stairs. He saw Laxus, lying on a couch and he had just finished mopping the floor. The mop was leaning against the couch and a bucket full of water was near too. He also saw Theo who flew past the window as he was cleaning them outside. It was perfect for him, since he could clean every window no matter where they were.

"Dad? Why are you sleeping?" Felix asked stepping beside the couch.

"I'm not", Laxus murmured, but he did sound like he was just about to drift to sleep.

"You're lying", Felix said grabbing Laxus' arm, trying to pull him off the couch. Of course he couldn't do it. "If we won't clean the house fast enough, we can't go to the book store today!"

"Huh? Why would we go to a book store?" Laxus asked his eyes still closed, no at all bothered because of his son trying to get him off the couch. "There are lots of books upstairs."

"We're going to buy me my own primer so I can learn how to read!"

"You're turning more like your mama every day..."

"I want to learn how to read!"

"I rest my case", Laxus chuckled and he turned around to lie on his side.

"Dad!" Felix whined frustrated. Laxus wasn't helping at all! He had no idea when the book store would close but at this rate they would never make it! He had to do something!

Freed was humming while going through his books, assembling them and making sure none of them were broken. First he piled them up in nice piles, all in their own categories about what subjects they held inside. Then he started to put them on shelves one by one.

Suddenly he heard a loud clank from downstairs, a crash and lots of cussing. Confused because of this he was about to step to the stairs, but he already heard how someone was hurrying up.

"You damn little brat!" Laxus roared angrily and Freed was even more confused.

He looked at Felix who slammed open the door to the stairway to attic and hurried upstairs as fast as he could. Laxus appeared almost immediately right after him and Freed raised his eyebrows when seeing his head and shirt all wet.

Felix got up the stairs and instantly grabbed a hold of Freed's leg, hiding behind him.

"I just woke him up!" he defended himself.

"Laxus, watch out for the -" Freed said but it was already too late for that.

His eyes went wide when he saw Laxus stumbling over the books, crashing forwards and in an instant all the perfect piles of books were turned into a chaotic mess all around the attic. He looked how even some pages were flying around as few of the books were torn.

"Laxus Dreyar!" Freed yelled in shock because of seeing how his books were scattered all around, some even broken! This was inexcusable!

Laxus seemed to finally notice the mess he had managed to cause. Of course it wasn't his intention!

"Dad's in trouble", Felix giggled, looking up and his smirk instantly faded when noticing how those turquoise eyes were glaring at him.

"He's not the only one", Freed declared almost coldly as Laxus finally got up, trying not to scatter the books even more.

Felix yelped when he was lifted up and Freed stepped down the stairs. He opened the door to Felix's room and sat him down on his bed.

"You're staying here until the dinner", he said crossing his arms.