Nik walked downstairs, the ground floor of their house empty. His sister, Tesla or Tess as he preferred to call her, was upstairs... showering he thought. The idea of peeking in on her when she was in the shower momentarily entered his head, but he quickly shoved it out of there. She was his sister... he shouldn't do that.
He hopped onto the couch and flicked on the TV, channel surfing as he lay there in a wife-beater style undershirt and boxers. He was tall and lanky, around 5'11" and around 170 lbs, but almost all of it muscle. He was 18 and was the captain of the Wrestling team, and while his height could be a disadvantage in some situations while wrestling, he had trained long and hard to overcome those scenarios, and he was quite the fighter in the ring.
His blond hair was short but unkempt, having woken up not too long ago, his blue eyes gazing dully at the TV as he hoped his body would feel less lethargic soon.
His folks were out of town for the week, off on some vacation somewhere. It was only Sunday and they'd be back the Sunday of next week, so that meant a whole week without them blathering about whatever latest science stuff they were working on, or how much of a pity it was that he didn't try harder on his academics. God, they were such geeks... they even named their children Nikola and Tesla for Christ's sake... Well at least they were out of his hair for the time being.
He hopped onto the couch and flicked on the TV, channel surfing as he lay there in a wife-beater style undershirt and boxers. He was tall and lanky, around 5'11" and around 170 lbs, but almost all of it muscle. He was 18 and was the captain of the Wrestling team, and while his height could be a disadvantage in some situations while wrestling, he had trained long and hard to overcome those scenarios, and he was quite the fighter in the ring.
His blond hair was short but unkempt, having woken up not too long ago, his blue eyes gazing dully at the TV as he hoped his body would feel less lethargic soon.
His folks were out of town for the week, off on some vacation somewhere. It was only Sunday and they'd be back the Sunday of next week, so that meant a whole week without them blathering about whatever latest science stuff they were working on, or how much of a pity it was that he didn't try harder on his academics. God, they were such geeks... they even named their children Nikola and Tesla for Christ's sake... Well at least they were out of his hair for the time being.