Donovan slept in his bed.
The coil of vine attached to the leaf/shell stretched across the room from the plant in the corner.

"Hello Living Solutions Corporation, William speaking?" a male secretary at a front desk of a large parlour enquired.

"Morning Bill, it's Donovan Kemette from accounts"

"Morning, all OK?" William/Bill warily asked.

"Fine, just a bit run down, can you let Rich know I'll be off today and my incomplete logs are in urgency order" he replied.

"Must be serious if you're not coming in, it's you after all" Rich claimed.

He slowly opened his eye, just before a barrage of knocks pounded on his bedroom door...
"What did I do wrong?" he quietly spoke as he winced his puffy eye.

"I made a fry up" his sister said through the door.

"Oh" he replied "sorry" he spoke into the shell/leaf which he had drawn closer to his mouth.

"She spoilt my pun too" he uttered.

"You are awake aren't you? It's nearly eight you know" she continued.

"I know, I'm taking today off" he replied.

Minka came through the door "Seriously?" she questioned.

"It was going to happen someday" he said whilst getting up.

"And I doubted that" she claimed as he passed her.

"Thanks for making breakfast, I really should have put that to the front of my mind" he claimed, leaving her in his room, confused.

"Well, I'll just wake Vee.."

"I'll tell the school she's sick" he shouted from the stairs "It's pretty much true"

Downstairs, Donovan used a corded landline phone...

"Morning Bill, it's Donovan Kemette from accounts"
...
"Fine, just a bit run down, can you let Rich know I'll be off today and my incomplete logs are in urgency order" he replied.

Minka pushed her ear to the phone at the back of her brothers hand, catching...

"it's you after all"

"Yeah it's nothing to sneeze at" he claimed with a smile as he looked to Minka, only getting a face full of hair.

"I'll let him know" the man on the other end said.

"Thank you" Donovan replied.

"No problem mate, it was going happen someday" the other claimed.

"You sure your work aren't going to give you any trouble for being off?" Minka asked from her spot at the kitchen island.

"I don't think so, it's my first day off in years and honestly, if they did, I have better things to worry about" he claimed confidently as he poked at the burnt chopped tomato before him.

"Well I'm glad to her, and if they do start, I know great solicitors" Minka said before looking down at her plate of singed cauliflower..."

Buy better food Don'" she said as she left the table "I'm just gonna do my hair then head out for a bit, maybe get a proper meal?" she finished as she left the room.

"Nothing wrong with what I buy, you're the one who burnt frozen and tinned vegetables" he replied quietly within the empty room.

Assorted animals decorated one wall before a yellow background, children of apparent various raced in front of a baby blue background decorated the next wall beside it, beside that was a light orange wall with a large yellow sun surrounding the window, the wall behind Minka waspink with grey skinned, angel winged aliens above the large bed she sat on.

'Things to do in Grand Mount' - Minka's manicured thumb input into her phones toolbar.

She impatiently tapped the screen with the talon as she slightly sneered up at the lilac ceiling littered with big white starts, or the nine planet chandelier.

"You know what" Minka spoke to herself as she leaned over the bed and faced the entirely floral carpet "they're gonna have tosee it to believe it" soon there was a flash, then another directed at the wall before her, soon the one to her left then right, then up at the ceiling.

"Aunty Minka" a voice tentatively said through the bedroom door as she knocked.

"Come in" Minka eagerly offered.

As the girl pushed the door open, Minka spoke...

"Fancy going to town?"

"I was just gonna ask if I could order out the catalogue, but yeah, definitely" pyjama clad Venus replied with growing excitement.

Minka remained focusing on typing, though managing to throw her legs over the edge of the bed to get up "We'll have a girly afternoon, after you get washed and dressed"

"I'll get ready now" Venus said as she rushed to leave the room.

Minka followed Venus out the room, but just before she left, she changed her mind; she re-entered the room to take one final picture; the alien angel.