"Favvawu...!!"
Not now, bruh..."
"Favvawuu!!"
"I said, not now! I'm busy!"
"Wadda Favvawu do?"
Flavius turned around. He was in his bedroom inside his palace, relaxing on his bed. Toddling towards him was a fat, golden-haired toddler, just over a year old.
"Favvawu cuddul!"
Flavius sighed, "Alright, alright, c'mere..."
Toddling towards him, the fat, golden-haired toddler scrambled onto the bed, crawling across the mattress and then snuggling up against Flavius, resting his head on his chest. He started sucking his thumb. The tot's body shimmered golden as Flavius stroked him.
"Shhhh..." he said.
"Wudda Favvawus do?"
"I'm just sortin' stuff out for a friend..." said Flavius. Laying flat on the bed next to him was a golden-framed mirror that shimmered in the sunlight coming in through the windows. He stared at the mirror. Instead of showing the young god's reflection, however, the mirror showed a school. Flavius was interacting with the mirror like some sort of computer-game, tapping and sweeping his finger across the screen to affect various actions. He watched as students bustled here and there, rushing to classes. He paused when he spotted Eric and his little brother and waved at them, even though they couldn't see him.
"Who dat?"
"He's a friend", said Flavius briefly. He tapped the mirror again and entered the school's locker-room. Excellent...
"Alright class! Hurry up!" he heard a man's voice call out. He watched all the kids rushing to get ready. One of them was a tanned youth with short brown hair.
Target acquired!
Flavius watched as the boys rushed off to play sport, leaving the locker-room empty. A minute later, he heard splashing sounds...Great! They were doing swimming! Even more perfect!
He waited for a minute, and then unlocked Jake's locker. He removed his day-clothes and with a wave of his hand, vapourised them into dust...then he played the waiting game.
When Jake returned with his classmates from the pool, as Flavius suspected, the boy wrapped his towel around his waist before opening his locker. He kicked off his boardshorts and then pulled his locker door open.
"Hey!" Jake shouted, "Where's my fucking clothes!?"
Flavius laughed! He watched Jake stare around, to make sure that he had the right locker!
"WHERE'S MY SHIT!?"
"What's up dude?" said another boy.
"MY...my fucking clothes are gone!"
"Oh...uh..."
"WHO TOOK MY SHIT!?"
Jake started opening empty lockers at random, trying to find his clothes! Flavius took this opportunity to vapourise the pair of boardshorts lying on the floor...
"HEY!!" he shouted, when he spun around, "WHO'S TAKING ALL MY FUCKING SHIT, YO!?"
"Mr. Howlson! Enough of that!" said a man's voice. "If you're going to swear and make up stories, you'll go to the principal's office!"
"But sir someone..."
"Nobody took your clothes, Jake! All the lockers were shut and locked! Nobody came in here!"
"What's going on!?" came another voice.
"Mr. Edwards, someone stole all my clothes!"
"Barry?"
"I was in the office upstairs. I didn't see nobody comin' in or out!" said Mr. Daniels. "Sorry Larry. Jake, are you sure they were here?"
"OF COURSE I'M SURE!!"
"Perhaps you should go to the principal's office and call your parents".
Jake STORMED off with the towel still around him, just as the bell rang for lunch.
"PERFECT!!" said Flavius, smirking. He waited a minute...soon the corridors were full of students. If Jake wasn't making enough of a scene already with his shouting, swearing and...wearing a towel around his waist...he was about to make a scene for the ages...
"Oh whoops! Did I do that!?"
Jake reached up to run a hand through his hair when suddenly the towel around him dropped off and landed on the floor, exposing himself to the entire corridor packed with students! Some kids screamed! Others howled with laughter!
"What's goin' on!?" said Eric, who was fighting his way through the throngs of people.
"Hehehehe...dude, check it out!"
Eric's friend Ryan was doubled-over with laughter! He staggered back a bit so that Eric could see...
"Oh My God!" he said, laughing while Jake HOWLED with tears at being surrounded by literally hundreds of school-kids all staring at him!
"Mr. Howlson! Cover your shame!" said Mr. Perkins the vice-principal.
Eric laughed!
"Eric what's happening!?" said Timothy.
"Uh...nothing, Timmy", said Eric, deciding that perhaps his brother shouldn't see this, "C'mon, let's go get lunch, huh?" he said. "Yo, Ryan you comin'!?"
"Are you kiddin'!? I wouldn't miss this for the world!...Aww Mrs. P's takin' him to her office..."
"You've got some explaining to do, young man!"
"I didn't...I don't know how...it wasn't me! I swear! I..."
Students laughed and pointed, stared and ogled as Jake was hurried away, using a pair of notebooks to cover himself up. Ryan was still laughing!
"Dude that was fantastic!" he said. Eric smirked. He paused...turned around and stared up at the ceiling.
"Thank you, god..." he said, with a huge grin on his face.
Flavius smirked, "You're welcome, bruh...Oh yeah I forgot..."
Flavius tapped the mirror and something small and hard materialised in thin air and fell out of the sky, hitting Eric on the head!
"OW!...Oh!" he said, when his smartphone landed in his open palms.
"Eric!?"
"Coming! Sorry! I dropped my phone!" he said. He lingered at the doors to the cafeteria for a minute.
"Thanks Flavius!" he whispered, and rushed inside to join his friend.
"Well, that's the end of that chapter..." said Flavius, tapping the mirror again. He turned back to the toddler crawling around on his bed.
"C'mere Tiberius! You wanna play?"
"Pway!! Pway!!"
"Awww! C'mere! Who's the CUTEST little brother huh? WHO'S THE CUTEST LITTLE BROTHER!? Yes you are! C'mere honeygoo! Muah!"
"Heeeeehehehehehe!! Wasbewwy!! Wasbewwy!!"
Flavius rolled his baby brother onto his back and started blowing raspberries on his belly. The glowing, golden toddler squealed and kicked excitedly.