Chapter 3 - Tea

Conrad gently rose the china cup to his mouth, inhaled the aroma, and took a sip of tea.
Tea was Conrad’s obsession. He lived, ate, breathed, and drank tea constantly. He bathed in tea nightly. He urinated tea.
In fact, he loved tea so much that when he was sick with Supul, he needed to tea to live.
Conrad was a time-bomb, and the only deactivate for him was tea.
When sick with Supul, Conrad’s head grew mushy, his fingers and smile grew large and spindly, and his feet turned into bombs. His legs were also long and skinny.
“CAAAWWWNRADD TEATEA, GET READY FOH’ SCHOOL!” his mom, Freckles the cat, bellowed over the song ‘Poker Face’ playing in the background.
Conrad politely set down his tea, got up, turned off his Lady Gagabot, and went downstairs.
To tell the truth, Conrad had one other obsession besides tea; Lady Gaga.
He loved Lady Gaga so much that he had constructed a Gagabot, which could sing all of the real Lady Gaga’s songs.
When Conrad arrived downstairs, Freckles, a 7 foot tall cat, was preparing breakfast.
“Here,” Freckles said.
“No thank you. I was up all last night, drinking tea obsessively,” Conrad explained.
He then collapsed of exhaustion.
Freckles woke him up by beating him with her tail, and then turning on the Gagabot.
“Fine. I’ll have breakfast by myself. But you need to get ready, Conrad Teatea,” Freckles said.
Conrad went back up stairs to his room, got his Gagabot and his Emergency Tea Kit, and began to climb up the rope ladder.
“Bai, Freckles!” Conrad called.
Conrad’s house was located underground, which explains the ladder.
After getting on the roof, he began to climb up a tunnel that led to above ground.
He was on his way to the Academy.