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.