What on earth was all that noise? When my world came into better focus, I realized that I heard shouting. Mom and Dad were going at it downstairs, and it was so loud, I had no doubt that the neighbors had a front row seat on this one. I glanced at the clock. Two o’clock in the morning. They would be lucky if the cops weren’t called. I was pissed. Sure, they'd had plenty of fights over the last couple of months, but this was the second night in a row that I had been woken up because of it. Frankly, I'd had enough. I threw back the covers and grabbed my backpack off my desk. Quickly stuffing a change of clothes and a few books inside, I stopped in the washroom to brush my teeth before hauling myself downstairs. I found the two wailing banshees in the living room, pacing on each side of the room. “Hey!” I growled at them. Both sets of eyes fell on me. Silence finally filling the air.
