Eric<br/><br/>He'd been sleeping quite a long time- so long, in fact, that it had taken his mother to actually wake him up.  It had been a simple, groggy conversation between them- one in which he'd agreed to go to a friend's house for a night.  It was just too bad that he'd made the plan without actually talking to one of his friends first to make sure it was alright.<br/><br/>In the shower and out within twenty minutes, he got dressed quick and was out the door without breakfast, not even seeing his dad or his mom afterward.  "Geez, what's with all this today?" he muttered, stopping outside the driveway as he sat perched on his bike to look back at the people that his parents worked with as they scoured the place.  He understood the need for security, but forcing them out of the house for the day seemed a bit excessive.<br/><br/>(Sorry I hadn't posted 'til now.)