Later, the same week: The man goes to a mall with his family...

They go inside the busy and very decorated building; the man sighs as his siblings creepily laugh on their way in... "What are they planning?... Maybe I'm being paranoid, but they ALWAYS do this, ALL YEAR! It's like they're planning something disturbing all the time...". The flashing Christmas decorations and catches his attention, so he wonders in awe... "It's beautiful! I love this! I wish we had a normal house with decent wiring, then we could have more than just one string of lights up for one week a year! In my own room, I'd have lights everywhere! It would beautiful every night!", he feels a warm feeling swell up inside, until one of his brothers pushed him while shouting "Get out of the way."! He quickly turns, glaring at him: it's a store; there's so much room to walk around anyone... Then he notices the music playing over the intercom...

"Ah... " he thought as he watched his siblings started to excitedly freak out... "How did Jake Lol get on the intercom? He's cool...but he can't sing worth a sh...", he's suddenly by his dad snapping his fingers! The Teen quickly turns to see his dad glaring at him and angrily pointing at his brothers and sister: "HEY! Wake up!!! Your sister's over there!" he growled, he quickly turns to follow his siblings "Dammit, I was literally looking right at them, why does he bully me?.." he thought. His dad suddenly shouted: "Do you understand, idiot?! I can't HEAR you!". The son turns around angrily... (Not showing any emoyion on his face though...) "Yes sir..." he recites

Then he turns back around and catches up to his siblings "In that time wasted on stroking his ego, something could've happened to all 3 of them." the man angrily realized. Then he finds his siblings, all laughing and talking in a aisle, one of his brothers turned around and saw him and heckled him "Hey, there he is: (whistles) come here boy! Hahahaehehooohoohahaooohaooohahahooohooohahahahahahahahaee!". They turn back around and walk away, laughing... The Teen sighed angrily "Dammit, I hope somebody actually does trafficking them!" He turns away...

and then notices he walked into a decorations store! He wonders around and notices a few other families... "Unfair... Everybody else is happy... I know everybody goes through crap, but I'm stuck with a buncha disturbed hiveminded people! I wish I could have a real Merry Christmas, too! I hear 'Happy Holidays' and always get excited about this time of year.. But, it's always the same...". He looks up at the Christmas theme chandeliers overhead. "Nobody would believe we're suppose to be 'Godfearing' people either, we probably look normal to everybody else" the man sighs as he looks back down at the groups of people passing by... Then notices a sweet scent but he quickly turns away before he could recognize what it is...(remembering he'd get in trouble for not being within a foot of his siblings...)