Joppi'* mother trudged her way towards her son’s room, knocking on the door as she shook her head and groaned. Rubbing the sleep from her eyes, “Joppi? Time to get up. I heard you broke your alarm in there - again - so wake up,” she mumbled. She waited for a response, but found none as she stood outside.
“Joppi.”
Her hand crept out of her bathrobe as she opened turned the doorknob and entered the wild territory of a teenage boy’s. The gas mask dangling over her neck was firmly planted on her face as she wafted in filtered air from the gases of expired pizza, stale socks, and dirt-ridden shirts. She hiked her way over the rubble of clothing that was in her way, her slipper coming down hard on a lumpy article of clothing.
“HISS!”
"Jeez!” she yelped as the creature slithered back towards the center of the rubble, three tails whipping out of the clothes before disappearing into the abyss. “Oh, God...” she muttered as she knocked on the bathroom door. “Joppi, get up. Breakfast is going to downstairs soon.”
A grunt was the only audible communication from inside the bathroom.
“Joppi?" she asked, knocking more persistently on the door. “Joppi, open up!”
“I’m busy,” was the teenager’s reply, grunting and panting as a thud resonated from inside. “Oh, jeez!” he cursed. “How am I going to clean that up?!”
Joppi'* father entered just then and said, "When I was his age, I-"
Before he can finish, though, Joppi'* mother cut him off and shrieked, "We all know what you did when you were his age. For God's sake, you still do it!"
The doorknob rattled rather hesitantly, and Joppi opened the door. “Sorry,” he apologized as he brushed through his hair. “Can you buy me a new one?”
“MISTER, I SWEAR-” his mother started, and then stopped. Perplexed, she stuttered, “A new one?! You can’t get a new one!”
“My DDR set is broken again,” he explained, turning towards the game pad on the bathroom floor, smoking and sparking.
“Oh,” was the small reply from his mother. “Oh.”
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