He woke up next morning quite early. Still in the hole. He wondered for a while weather he should call out for help or to wait for someone to find him. He decided to wait. A little over an hour later, he heard the family in the kitchen eating breakfast.
“Is Urial still upstairs sleeping?” he heard dad ask.
“What else?” Mark replied, without the faintest hint of what he'd done. After breakfast, dad stepped into the bathroom where Urial was waiting. He still pretended to be fast asleep. To his surprise, his dad didn't react, but just went over to the toilet and used it. Oh, right. He hadn't seen him yet. Probably busy reading the newspaper or something. He made a show of bearably waking up from the noise and exclaimed,
“What the hell!” That had been a mistake. The toilet was right next to him, where the urinal was to be installed. His dad jumped at the sudden sound and his piss missed the bowl and hit Urial right in the face.
“Jesus! What the hell are you doing there!”
“Oh, god! Gross! That's what I want to know. I just woke up like this now.” He spat. Dad looked perplexed and then annoyed. He pulled up his pants and opened the door.
“Boys! What did you do to your brother?” They were both outside, listening in and stifling their laughter. Now they burst out laughing.
“Oh my god! You even got him in the face.” Mark wheezed, leaning against the door to keep from crumbling with humor.
“Someone please just wipe my face clean first,” Urial demanded, but was ignored. Fresh urine dripped from his hair.
“You did this? How? When?” their dad demanded, not seeing the humor in it.
“Oh, come on. It was just a prank. Bitter irony. He had it coming, the way he's been acting lately. We did it last night while he was out cold from the sleeping pills. He was completely dead to the world. Wouldn't wake up. It was too perfect to pass up.” Dad looked confused for a moment.
“But, I didn't give him any sleeping pills.”
“Sure you did. Last night, remember.”
“I had meant to give him an aspirin to just shut him up, but accidentally handed him my caffeine pills instead. The ones I've been using for the long drive.” There was a long silence. Urial felt his blood freeze. They all turned to look at him, on the floor. Urial blushed furiously and wanted to lower his head and hide, but he couldn't.
“W... well... I knew they were going to get into trouble over it,” he stammered, trying for an excuse.
“Not if you connected to it, they're not,” his dad said.
“I... well... Just let me out of this, god damn it!” Dad bent down and inspected the floor.
“I must say, you've done an excellent job on this floor, boys. It'd be a shame to rip it up.”
“Then too bad,” Urial said, rowelling his eyes. Again, he was ignored.
“And we've but used up all the floor tiles,” his dad continued. He shook his head, pondering.
“You fucking dick-heads! Get me out of this already!” This time, his dad did look him in the eyes.
“Until you learn your manners, you can stay like that. It's a fitting punishment for you after how you've behaved. Maybe you'll actually learn a lesson this time.” Then he left. Mark and Ashley were beaming. They couldn't believe their luck. This was great.
“Hey! You can't just leave me like this. I've been like this all night long. Let me out already!” Mark bent down and stroked the dry part of Urial's hair like he was stroking a cute pet. Drops of pee still beaded Urial's face.
“You were awake through all that? And you still let us do all those things to you?” Urial blushed even harder and couldn't bring himself to give an answer. “What? You liked that we were touching you and all that? You're so perverted. You gay or something?” Neither of them knew that indeed, he was. He was still deep in the closet.
“Ah, no...” Urial stammered.
“Oh my god, he is!” Ashley gasped in delight. They bough laughed.
“Alright. Stick around. We'll see you later.” And they to left Urial alone in the floor.
“Wipe my face at least!” Urial shouted after them. Or had meant to shout. It came out weak and broken.