Jack Northcott rolled over in his bed and looked at his clock.ugh,It was 6:23am,he had just been awoken again from an extra loud grumble of thunder paired up with a bright bolt of lightning and pouring rain. He listened intently to gather who else was awake at this early hour, he saw his pet snake ziggy who he usually called zig sleepily curled up in a spiral at the end of his bed.then jack heard exactly what he was hoping not to hear this morning. He heard dad's frustrated phone voice carrying itself through the house,as dad argued and negotiated over business.jack's dad michael worked in “your food” giant food company. He was an average man in literally everything height,weight,business,knowledge,economy….and sometimes this thought really pestered Jack because he felt like his dad was overly normal and not special or unique in any type of way.sometimes it made him feel even worse than he already felt these days.jack northcott was a slim rosy cheeked boy of 10 years old with thick jet black wavy hair and gray eyes which he was always made fun of in school for.tragically a year in a half ago jacks mom josephine had passed away with her child while giving birth.so now jack was left to live with his dad and recently bought pet snake in colorado,Jack got out of bed glumly and started getting dressed while thinking about his boring normal day ahead of him when he heard light tap on his door, come in he grumbled, jack's dad stepped into his room with an excited look on his face and sat down next to zig.yes? I have some SUPER exciting news!Jack sat up straighter in his bed wondering if it was something worth getting his hopes up about,well..? Jack prompted, he hated it when dad made him wait so long it was as if dad liked seeing him all anxious!were going on a trip!who's we? Jack asked with a spark of hope in his voice,Me you zig and our luggage of course! Jack immediately leaped out of bed while pumping his fist in the air. When,where,why, Jack asked while taking his neatly folded clothes that he had prepared the night before from his bedside table and hurriedly putting them on. Wow,wow,wow calm down,when you're dressed and your teeth are brushed you can go down to breakfast and i'll explain everything there! and with that dad stood up while winking at jack and walked out of the room gently closing the door behind him.the second jack heard dads faint footsteps touching the first floor jack jumped to his conscience and started doing a very rushed morning routine.once jack had finished doing his entire morning routine he ran down the stairs and rushed into the kitchen only avoiding slamming into the kitchen table by mere inches!so…? Jack said “casually” as he sat down on his chair in front of his plate of cheese & mushroom scrambled eggs with orange juice and toast,his favorite breakfast.Oh,yes his father said as he snapped back into the present.i'll just get straight to the point,you know how i've been arguing a lot on the phone lately,jack put his fork down and gulped down some orange juice all while nodding his head who could forget such thing!”well” dad continued almost every time i was on the phone i was talking to the same guy from L.A., roman. he's a really nice guy and he has his points the same way I do.He works in foodink and I work in your food.Both of our companies decided to merge and we were both chosen as the representatives of our companies. thing is...jack was overflowing with curiosity and just couldn't take it anymore so he interrupted dad,dad are you trying to say that we're flying to L.A. and i'm gonna be all bored when you meet with this guy jack asked.he felt like a deflating balloon,why did he let his hopes up?suddenly jack jumped at the sound of his dad voice,yes you guessed most of that right but what you guessed wrong was that you'll be bored at our meeting,cause you won't!and how is that jack asked already bored just from the conversation of boredom,because there's gonna be zayn kelt,a boy your age whom you could play with inside of the house while we have our meeting.this is literally so awesome jack said his mind was buzzing with thoughts ideas and questions and he didn't know what to think first!”umm dad can you please give me some more details like where we’ll be staying and for how long….you know those type of stuff”.well i'll just answer all of your questions in order,we’ll be staying in vrbo kinda a vacation house rental,we’ll be staying there for about 2 weeks and were leaving in 2 days on thursday morning.everything else you’ll find out as we go but for now we gotta hop into the car now if we wanna make it to school on time.and with that they abandoned their breakfast at the table and were off to school. 

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