Jude POV
"Text or call 10 minutes before, so me or mom can come pick you up" mama reminds me just as we are 3 houses away from reaching Callie's place
"Callie is probably driving me back like last time and like the time before that" I reply. Callie has done that every time I have visited her. Which was some 5 times now in the short period of time, that was from December 27th when we were reunited. Mostly she came to us after school for an hour or two, sometimes I went to her after school. We made it work, because we really just wanted hang out with one another, catch up on what we missed.
Mama pulls up to the house slowing stopping the car just by the path that leads up to it.
"Still text when you drive out. So we know. Have fun baby" mama leans over and kisses my cheek just as I unbuckle my seat belt "I will" I reply quickly eager to get out of the car to see Callie.
It was weird, their garage doors were open. It never has been open before. It was a mess inside. I was thinking either her or Amy would suddenly appear in the garage, behind some box. Maybe it was cleaning day.
Just behind us pulls up some truck, that had like cages on the back of it. It was weird looking truck. And two guys get out. The driver who had a little beer stomach pulls up his pants as the other one walks around the car up to him.
"Who are they?" I ask mom as I see her looking in the side mirror. The man who got out of the passenger seat walks towards our car. Mama lovers the side window.
"Sorry, ma'am, do you live here?" he was speaking with some sort of accent. I just couldn't place it.
"No, I don't" she reply back to the guy
"Oh, sorry then." He walks back to the driver and they walk up to the lawn in front of the house, that is when Callie runs out of the house but she doesn't run to us, she runs to them. "What is going on mom?" I ask not really understanding what is happening at all
"I don't know, baby, lets go and see" she unbuckles too and we both get out. Callie has now walked with the two guys almost up to the garage. I look back to the truck as does mom – Animal Control.
I tap on mama's arm and point to house where no Amy limped out with what looked like tore up pants. "Oh my gosh" Lena gasps seeing her and we make out way to her. She was now slowly making her way down the front steps
"Amy…what happened?" Mama asks first looking to her tore pants. It also had some blood on. I look around to see where Callie was, I no longer saw her.
"Advice to both of you, never try and catch a badger on your own!" she says and winks in pain as she put her left leg to ground
"A badger? " I exclaim excited, I have never seen one alive. In the TV or some books of course, but not a live one
"It bit you? are you vaccinated to rabies?" mama thou sounded real concerned, just like when one of has a fever or like when Jesus broke his arm.
"Scratched. I'm fine, and yes, i have been vaccinated" Amy said back but Callie was coming back with her own opinion "She is not okay! I need to take her to hospital. The stupid thing has super sharp nails! It looks really deep and ugly!" she walked straight to me, ruffled my hair and gave me a quick kiss to temple, then stood with hand over my shoulder
"It's not that bad Callie!" Amy said back trying to reassure all of us
"It is, she can't even put normal pressure on the leg , see!" she points to how Amy was standing, mostly standing on her right, leaned against the banister, left leg slightly bent barely touching the ground
"It just stings"
"mm-hmm, sure It does. Stupidity stings always" Callie snaps back and Amy shots her a glare "Don't look at me like that. Those are your words not my!" Callie said back to her after the look, then she turned to Lena
"Apparently they are supper aggressive when there is the so called mating season and when they have kids near by. We have a whole family living in the back of our garage. No idea how they got here. We somehow got the father trapped under the trash can, but this one got hurt. Thankfully our neighbor" Callie nods to house on the left "called the animal control. They got here pretty fast "
"Your leg looks pretty serious, Amy" Lena says looking down to it "How about I take you to hospital to have it checked out, while these two stay guard" mama looks to me and Callie
"No, no, I can take her myself" Callie remarked
"This was supposed to be your and Jude's day" Mama says and smiles to me "You should still have it. I will take her and then get her back. I don't want you to spend hours at hospital instead of spending time with Jude"
I looked up to Callie, I could see she was thinking about, thinking about her options "Thank you"
"Hey, you are leaving me so easily!" Amy exclaimed with a smirk on her lip. But it seemed that Callie didn't catch the joke "Mom, I….okay, I will go with you"
"Callie, I was joking. I will be fine! Lena is right, you need to spend time with Jude, not sit in a hospital with me"
Callie went to get her stuff Amy will need. She came out with a bag, when I looked to her just with my look asking – does she really need that much stuff? – Callie answered "There are pants in there. You know, for when they cut the ones she has off"
She then helped Amy get to Lena's car.
"You think I can see the badger?" I ask her as they drive away, she looked down to me "totally" she says and we walk to the garage where the two animal control guys were now getting in a small cage the one badger that they managed to trap
"How did you trap it?" I ask looking how he now aggressively tries to get out of the cage.
"I guess, you could say we poked him, aggravated him a bit but now that we think about it, it was the dumbest thing we have ever done. And when it ran at us we acted. We thought it was going to come to me, because I poked him with a broom stick, again – dumbest thing ever, don't repeat ever -but it came to mom instead. It managed to get his nails to moms lower leg before she trapped it. It was really fast. We didn't quick expected him to be this fast."
"You better stay in inside till we get the mother" the beer stomach guy says to us as we were standing just by and watching them work
"Got it" Callie says and we walk inside.
"So I guess going to Go-kart thing is off till my mom gets back. Let me think of something we could do?"
"We could simply make a movie marathon" I suggest "or TV show marathon. Do you have some complete series we could watch?"
"I know we have one, but that is definitely not for you?"
"Why? I am 13 I can watch gross stuff too"
"Not that gross. I think Lena would kill me if I showed you that stuff" she says as we walk to the living room
"What is it called?" i ask now curious about it
"Fringe"
"Never heard of it" I reply quickly
"Good. How about….Star wars?" she offers next
"Never seen those" i knew as much that it was a movie, not a TV show
"Really?" Callie's eyes grew bigger, she had the biggest smile ever "not even one of the parts?"
"No" I shake my head "Is it gross too?"
"No, but there are two robot dudes, one super hairy dude and other not so good character. Oh, and one green dude who can't speak proper English" she chuckles "We are defiantly watching Star Wars…all of them!" she said and went thought the DVD collection that was under the TV in the cabinet.
"How many are there?"
"6 if I remember correctly. And they are totally out of order!" she chuckles again and places on the coffee table 6 DVD. I pick the first one up, examining it
"This seems super weird"
"It totally is." Callie said as she stood up "We will need popcorn, Coca cola with ice, and I will order us a pizza!"
"Awesome! I love marathons!" I say and follow her to kitchen, she hands me a menu "pick the one you like. I hope we it get's here right when they are done catching the animals"
"How about the Tourist pizza?"
"Like I said Jude, pick whichever one you like"
"It is just weird. We are always on a fight what pizza we order. Moms are strictly – no more than 3 pizza rule. And one is always with olives and mushrooms, that one is moms, one is with extra everything for Brandon and Jesus and then me and Mariana basically need to figure out the third one. And Mariana is very picky. She has pizza mood - one time she likes pepperoni, other she doesn't, next she wants tomatoes, other time she doesn't. Frankie luckily eats everything. She usually get's half from one from Jesus and B and half a slice from moms. she is full."
"Well, I am not picky" she leans on the kitchen table, looking at the menu upside down as I was holding it 'just don't order-"she points and I glance to her "Joking, joking. I eat pretty much everything "
After some 5 minutes going over the menu that she had, I finally chose "Can we take this one? It looks good" I ask again pointing to the one I looked at first –the Tourist pizza. It was pretty simple basic pizza with extra cheese with ketchup, tomato, sweet pepper, sausage "How big we will take?"
Callie takes her phone out, as she dials she adds "The biggest there is! We need to save one or two slices for Amy too."
I just nod back "Start the popcorn" she adds quickly and nods to the popcorn she had taken out while I was picking the pizza to order. I open the package and put it in the microwave. I love the popping sound. But the trick is to not let the popcorn stay in for too long or it will burn. And I am not a fan of burnt popcorn, I am pretty sure no one is. I watch the clock and listen to the popping sound, waiting for the right moment to get it out.
After the biggest popping moment is gone I wait few more seconds before taking it out. It was perfect, it wasn't burnt, most of it was popped, it smelled awesome too. I poured it all in a big bowl and took few as I waited as Callie was confirming the order.
She hang up "It will be here is some 30 minutes. Hey, don't eat all!" she playfully swats my palm away as I was just tossing popcorn one by one in my mouth. But she then takes few for herself.
"Are we going to wait for the pizza or are we going to start watching?" I ask and sneak another one in my mouth.
"Let's just wait till the animal control is done and I hope the pizza is here by then…and then we will be able to watch it without any distractions"
"Okay" I toss another one in my mouth.
Some 20 minutes later the animal control was finally done, Callie went to pay them. I was just sitting and watching some documentary on the TV. When she got back I lifted the bowl "Popcorn is out!"
"Wonder who ate it" she again ruffles my hair then takes the bowl and walks to kitchen. Just as the popcorn starts to pop again the doorbell rang. I went to open it, the pizza was here "CALLIE THE PIZZA IS HERE!" I call to her inside, Callie hurries to doors and hands the pizza guy some dollar bills "thanks" then she runs back in the kitchen to get the popcorn. Meanwhile I set the box down on the coffee table and open the box.
Callie walks in with bowl and napkins in her hands. then walks back to kitchen and gets the coca cola. She sets it all down and then puts in the first movie
"Get ready for the best movie marathon ever!" she looked very excited herself.
"What if I hate the movie?" I ask her as she presses play and taking her first slice she leans back in the couch "Then I will make you like it! You are obligated to like this! Otherwise, I simply can't call you my brother anymore"
"The pressure is high I see" I smirk back
"Prepare to be wowed there my sweet baby brother!" she grins back and takes a big bite, then adds while chewing "Now shush…and watch it! There is no speaking during movie time!"
Amy gets back shortly before the first movie ends, she looked okay. She was earing some sweats instead of the jeans she was in before. She flopped back next to Callie on the couch and took one of the reaming pizza slices we left. "Uuu, Star wars marathon! I am loving this!" she extended her left, hurt leg, on the coffee table "You better like the movies, Jude, or you will be banned from this house"
"It is a bit confusing" I say back and lean my shoulder to Callie's as she was sitting in the middle "but I like the Chewbacca!" they both laugh "Atta boy!" Amy said back chuckling
AN: if any of you have any suggestions on what you would like to read, please, don't be shy. I would love to read your thoughts and try to incorporate them in the story. Thank you everyone for the support.