Anyone Dares Bully you, Call Uncles! novel Chapter 587

Cathy herself was oblivious to everything happening around her, waving the spoon in her hands without a care in the world as she reached out to her brother. "Spicy, I want spicy!"

Sean pushed her spoon away softly with his fork, annoyed. "You can't even eat spicy food! You can't take it."

Cathy harrumphed, chewing on her spoon.

The meal went on peacefully. Sean couldn't even remember when the last time he had a meal without getting yelled at was.

Cathy's mother's heart ached as well. It had been a long time since her son ate a meal quietly without throwing or slamming his utensils around.

After eating, the adults sat on the sofa chatting. It was just small talk, Cathy's father mentioning about how hard it had been to get a house here and that there weren't many good high schools in Spring City. Sean's results in school were neither here nor there, and could only qualify for some mid-tier high schools.

To get Sean into a better school, his parents had bit the bullet and bought a house within the top schooling district. The middle schools here weren't that great, but Cathy was just going to have to bear through that…

"We've done what we could as parents, but this kid hasn't appreciated any of it. All he does when he comes home is play video games, I've never seen him even pick up a book!" Cathy's father said.

Cathy's mother sighed. "Cathy's health isn't the best, and she gets seizures and fevers all the time but there's only so much I can do…"

She was really so, so tired. She'd spent every day filled with dread and panic of Cathy getting sick.

Cloud nodded with a sigh. "It sure isn't easy."

Cathy's mother said, "Yeah…"

Sean didn't close his room door this time, and heard everything they were saying.

His expression flashed with displeasure. Had he begged them to buy the house?

They'd made the decision on their own to buy a house here, but blamed the struggle of paying the mortgage on him.

As if he had a part to play in all of this?

So he was to blame in the end? He was the one dragging them down?

Sean flung his books onto the bed, hopping onto the floor barefoot and preparing to slam the door shut.

Only to find two little kids standing there.

Lilly blocked the door, holding it open with a hand.

She stuck her head in. "Sean, can we come in?"

Cathy asked as well, "Sean, can I come in?"

Sean scoffed, turning and going back inside without another word.

Lilly and Coco followed him inside, and Sean said, "Close the door!"

Lilly said, "I was going to, you didn't have to tell me!"

Not only did she close the door— she locked it from the inside as well.

Why was there something ominous about her doing that?

"What do you want?" Sean asked. "You're not even here to heal my sister, why are you staring at me like that?"

Lilly said, "You're the only person who can heal Cathy."

Oh. Another person was trying to trick him.

"If you're here to try to get me to be nicer to my sister or to apologize to my parents, you can get out right now."

Sean did not appreciate the gesture at all. He sat down on his study chair, propping his legs up on the table and flicked through a book lazily.

Lilly took a closer look. He was reading a physics textbook.

Sean did, indeed, work hard.

He just never wanted his parents to know the real him at all.

Why was that?

Lilly had always had a good relationship with her family, and could not understand why Sean felt that way about his parents.

Slitting open stomachs and digging eyes out… this Churchill guy was terrifying.

She was suggesting putting someone's head in poop! What was peaceful about that?

Cathy lifted her head, suddenly excited. "Put their heads in poop! Put their heads in poop!"

Pablo did not know what to say. "Put their heads in poop?" Weren't they here to catch a ghost?

Why were they on the subject of poop?

Lilly said, "But because they're your parents, you shouldn't be putting their heads in poop… Sean, Aunt Melissa lectured you because she wanted you to do better. You can just prove yourself."

Sean leaned back with his hands behind his head, his feet on the table. "Why is that their business? I'll do whatever I want."

He was an independent person, not a pawn free to be controlled by his parents.

Telling him all day and night how hard it was to buy a house in the top school district in hopes of guilt-tripping him into being grateful and doing well in school.

He had his own thoughts, and was not going to be controlled by others!

Pablo chuckled to himself. "Wow, what a rebel."

His parents were left in the dark, all because he stubbornly refused to tell them anything.

To put it exactly, he was stubborn because he felt like other people could not understand him.

On another hand, there were so many introverts who found it hard to express what they truly wanted out of embarrassment and shame, who instead turned to hiding themself behind a mask.

Lilly shook her head. "Sean, you're far too rebellious!"

Sean chuckled. "That's right, I am rebellious!"

"If the King of Hell wants me to die by noon, I'll die at midnight just because I can! That's how much of a rebel I am! What about it?"

Whoa, you really are a rebel. Lilly, a.k.a. the King of Hell thought to herself.