Astronaut

由 hannahwhibley-murphy

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This novel is based on my OC from my JFK/Lee Harvey Oswald novel "Poprocks and Coke", Harvey Oswald-Kennedy... 更多

Chapter One: Astronaut
Chapter Two: Horse Fights and Birthday Lists
Chapter Three: Dallas Abandon
Chapter Four: Amnesia
Chapter Five: Of Broken Glass and Eavesdropping
Chapter Six: Sibling Squabbles and Apologies
Chapter Seven: Of Setlists, Baseball, and Tying Ties
Chapter Eight: Concert Meltdowns
Chapter Nine: Home Again
Chapter Ten: Football Games and Book Brawls
Chapter Eleven: Starting Second Grade
Chapter Twelve: Thunderbirds and Lucky Charms
Chapter Thirteen: A Lesson on NASA
Chapter Fourteen: Harvey for President
Chapter Sixteen: Heading to Hyannis
Chapter Seventeen: Seasickness
Chapter Eighteen: The Election Winner
Chapter Nineteen: Me Against the World
Chapter Twenty: Problem Child
Chapter Twenty-One: World Shut Your Mouth
Chapter Twenty-Two: Detention
Chapter Twenty-Three: I'm in a Fight with the World, but I'm Winning

Chapter Fifteen: Playtime with a Compromise and Yachting Dreams

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Pulling up at the White House, William turns the engine of the car off, gets out and waits on his passengers to exit the vehicle before he locks the car. Harvey follows behind his siblings and Clint and Kenny into the vast building on the lookout for either of their parents, their uncles or their nanny Mrs Shaw; reaching the second floor, Harvey goes straight into his room to put his shoes, bag and hat away before regrouping with his brothers and sisters out in the hallway. Rejoining his siblings, he continues to help them in their search of trying to find their dads, they head back downstairs to see if they're in the Oval Office or any of the other surrounding rooms in the West Wing. They eventually find their dads and uncles in the Blue Room. Harvey begins rambling on about all of the things that he learned at school today, leaving no breathing space for his siblings to get a word in; eventually, Caroline, John, June, Rachel and LJ get a chance to tell their parents about their day without their pesky brother interrupting them every two seconds. Harvey heads up to his room to read and listen to one of his records, getting to his bedroom door he pushes it open using the door handle and takes himself into the room, going over to his shelved records he picks up Beatles for Sale to listen to whilst he reads one of his books; taking the vinyl out of its sleeve and placing it onto the turntable, he picks up the needle, then presses play. He takes himself over to his bookshelf and peruses it before coming across his planetary book on Jupiter, he walks over to his bed, props his pillow up against the headboard, lies down on top of his quilt covers, and then starts to read about one of the great gas giants in our solar system whilst he listens to his favourite band. When he's stopped reading about Jupiter, he gets up off his bed and takes the book over to his bookshelf, when he's done that, he goes over to his record player to take off the finished record and put it back into its sleeve to be put by; heading towards his bedroom door, he opens it and takes himself out into the vast hallway on the lookout for his dads or his siblings. Reaching the ground floor, he sees Kenny with William again and walks up to the two agents to ask:

"Are my dads still in the Blue Room with my Uncle Bobby and Uncle Ted?" Kenny looks down at him to reply with:

"That's the last place I seen them, buddy," he says with disappointment, "maybe you could try the Oval Office or see if your brothers and sisters are around?" He also suggests

"Okay, I'll head to the Oval Office first. Thanks, Kenny," he leaves William and Kenny behind and begins his journey to the West Wing. Arriving at his destination, he enters the large room and finds his dads at the Resolute desk again. Seeing that his parents are occupied with the small piles of important documents that are sprawled out on the large desk, he saunters over towards one of the couches in the room that's next to his dad's rocking chair that he uses for his Addisons; Harvey plops himself down onto the upholstery and the soft thump he makes when sitting down gets the attention of both his parents who look up from what they're doing and focus their attention on the inquisitive redhead sitting in front of them. Jack is the first of the two to notice him and questions:

"What's up, Harv?"

"Nothing. It's just that there's nothing fun for me to do," he groans complainingly whilst throwing his head back and to show his boredom, he makes his body slide down into the seat, using his feet to make the motion as if he is going to fall off and end up on the carpeted floor.

"Why don't you go and play with your brothers and sisters?"

"I do that most of the time though,"

"And that's not fun for you?"

"It is but John, LJ and I end up going off and doing our own thing. The girls do the same. I wish we could all just play together as the six of us instead of two groups of us doing different things,"

"Well, that's where you get everybody together and explain to them that you're not happy with the way that things are going on between you and see if you can come to an agreement or if not, you can compromise,"

"Oh, okay. That makes sense." He gets up off of the couch and makes his way out of the room to look for his siblings, he heads back upstairs to see if any of them are in their rooms and see if they can meet in the middle about their playtime issues. The first room he comes across is Caroline and John's, he goes in expecting to see the two of them in there but instead finds the room empty, confused he makes his way out and into the three remaining rooms belonging to June, Rachel and LJ and like before he finds the rooms vacant. The only other place he can think of concerning their whereabouts is outside on the many acres of land surrounding the White House, he makes his way downstairs to the ground floor and on his way outside until he spots his brothers and sisters in the main hallway with their dads; he walks quickly towards the seven of them and asks:

"Where have you all been?" To his siblings

"We've been here the whole time you were searching for us. We were waiting on you to show up," answers Caroline looking at her brother as if he's dumb

"Why? What do you need me for?" He claps back not realising his response came out a lot cheekier than he intended

"We need you if you want to go home or you can stay here by yourself," Jack suggests to him

But we're already home? He questions in his head

"Oh, alright. I'll go back up to my room and get my records and some of my books," he leaves his parents and siblings in the hallway and makes his way back upstairs to collect the previously mentioned items. Upon returning with his backpack filled with all of his Beatles records and some science books, he rejoins his family as they head out of the building and into a Secret Service car which is being driven by Kenny. Pulling up at the family's Georgetown home, Kenny puts the car into neutral and its eight other occupants climb out and make their way to the front door; once the door is opened by one of his parents, Harvey sprints upstairs to his room to unpack his records and books to arrange them as he usually does. When he's done, he joins his family in the living room with his book on Michael Faraday clutched in his right hand, he sits in between John, June and Rachel on one of the couches in the room and his dads, Caroline and LJ occupying the other. As he's reading about one of his favourite scientists, he can feel John leaning over his shoulder and staring intently at the page he is currently reading, turning his head to face his brother and asking:

"What?" in annoyance. John looks at him puzzled but doesn't reply making Harvey continue to say:

"I can feel you breathing down my neck. What is it?" this time he gets a response:

"Nothing. I'm just interested in your book that's all," his brother replies with fascination

"Oh, sorry. You can read it if you want, I was just about to go upstairs anyways,"

"Okay, thanks, Harv." He gets up off of the couch and is just about to walk past his dads, Caroline and LJ when he hears the question:

"Where are you going, Harv?" from his dad. He looks in his direction and answers with:

"I'm just going upstairs to swap my Michael Faraday book with one of my planetary books," he turns to leave the living room and make his way out into the hallway and up the stairs to his room. Going up and into his room, he goes over to his bookshelf and puts his book on Michael Faraday on the shelf next to his book on Mercury, he peruses the rest of the shelf for a few seconds before setting his sights on his book all about the planet Saturn; grabbing the book, he comes out of his room and heads downstairs to be with his family again. Later on, that night as he's getting ready for bed and picking out an astronomy book to read, he is discussing with his brother John what is happening tomorrow.

"I can't wait to go on dad's yacht!" He exclaims with excitement

"Will this be your first time on it?"

"Duh! I've not been on it before like you have,"

"So, if we're all going on it, then it'll be June, Rachel and LJ's first time too,"

"Yeah. I don't know which one of my astronomy books to read," he continues as he stares at his bookshelf undecided

"Which ones have you read already?" Questions John trying to help his brother with his dilemma

"I've read the ones on Mercury, Mars, Pluto, Jupiter and Saturn. I have Venus, Earth, Neptune and Uranus left to read,"

"Why don't you go for your book about Earth? That seems like an easy place to start,"

"Okay, thanks," he selects his book on Earth and takes it over to his bedside cabinet beside his lava lamp; the brothers bid goodnight to each other as John makes his way out of Harvey's room to go into his own and the eldest of the two goes over to his room door to stand on his tiptoes and turn his room light off. With the soft orange glow coming from his lamp which he switched on when putting his book down, getting into bed and pulling the covers over himself he grabs the book that his brother suggested to him; he reads on about Earth until his eyes feel heavy as the onset of tiredness befalls him.

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