Chapter 3 Dinner and Death
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The three new odd acquaintances sat around Sam's kitchen table with a plate of food before them. Unlike the rest of the house, the kitchen's walls were painted white, the fridge and stove were black colored though, and the sink was a nice marble. After they had rummaged through the fridge the three of them agreed upon having left over spaghetti with sauce with a bean dip and nacho chips on the side. After reheating the food and setting the table, Danny watched absentmindedly as his hosts began to eat.
"Come on and try it Danny, it tastes good." encouraged Sam noticing that the boy hadn't taken one bite yet.
The teen boy twisted a large mouthful of the stringy spaghetti around his fork and popped it into his mouth. Danny's eyebrows furrowed as he slowly chewed the food.
"Don't you like it?" Sam asked, surprised at the boy's reaction to the taste.
"It's not that," he assured her. "It's just really different. What's in this stuff?"
"Oh, I guess I forgot to tell you. I don't eat meat because I'm an ultra-recyclo-vegetarian so instead of a meat sauce I used a mushroom sauce."
"Oh," Danny said, taking another fork full. "So you are like a hippy goth."
"Ha ha, funny."
"Your eating the spaghetti all wrong young man," randomly spouted out Sam's grandma. "Your suppose to suck it into your mouth like this..." The old woman then picked up the ends of a few strands of her spaghetti and stuck them in her mouth. She then commenced to slurping them up, sending some of the mushroom sauce flying in Sam's direction and landing on her face.
"Um, here." Danny mumbled as he reached over and offered Sam a napkin.
"Thanks," she mumbled back, wiping off the sauce.
The two Manson women and Danny continued eating in basic silence except for the occasional asking for someone to pass a plate, and silverware clinking together. Grandma Manson watched the handsome boy sitting beside her curiously. Danny could feel her gaze on him but tried to ignore it. He could no longer ignore her however, when she reached over and strongly gripped his upper arm.
"This boy you've found is very handsome bubeleh," complimented the grandmother. "He looks so scrawny but you can feel all the flesh he does got on under those clothes there is lean muscle. He reminds me of your grand-dad, God rest his soul, so kind and strong yet so mysterious."
Danny noticed as a small sad smile creased the old woman's face, probably a result of bitter sweet memories resurfacing about her past husband in her mind.
"Tell me young man, do you like my granddaughter Samantha?"
Danny blinked twice then blushed when he realized what she was asking him. "Not in the way your thinking ma'am. I just met her."
"What does that have to do with it?" she snapped. "David fell head over heals in love with me at first sight. I'm sure you did too!"
"With you?!" Danny asked in shock, cowering away.
"No you goof, with Sammy!"
"Grandma!" scolded Sam, her cheeks rosy from embarrassment. "Leave poor Danny alone!"
"Fine." she pouted, releasing the young man's arm.
Danny rubbed the part of his arm which the elderly lady had grabbed. Glancing at Sam he gave her a thankful/ embarrassed look. Sam returned it with an apologetic smile.
Now, fully embarrassed the two teens dared not breathe one word and ate their fill in utter silence as Sam's grandma babbled about her many romantic relationships from her younger years. Which, did not help.
"Well, I'm full." Danny finally broke the silence and stood up. "Thanks for the meal, I should be going ho..." He was interrupted by a loud rumble that traveled through the sky outside. He and Sam jumped and hurried over to the living room. Through the giant window which took up most of the outer wall, overlooking the city below they could see that the once clear sky had been covered in dark eerie thunder clouds. Fast moving droplets of water rigorously fell suddenly from the heavens onto the city below. Lightning flashed, lighting the sky for a split second, thunder roared again...and again...and again.
"You can't walk home in that!" stated Sam, gestured to the storm outside with her hands.
Danny shrugged. "I can if I have to."
"No way, you're staying here tonight." ordered Sam's grandmother. She had rode in on her scooter not long after the kids.
Danny shrugged again helplessly. "Whatever."
The old lady smiled triumphantly, taking that as a yes.
"Do you need to call your parents and tell them where you are?" asked Sam. "You can use my phone."
Danny just razed a hand gesturing her to stop speaking and shook his head no with a seemingly amused grin on his face.
"No. My parents are...away out of town with my sister Jazz at some...convention." he lied off the top of his head.
"Oh, OK then." Sam said, curiously. "Well, you can sleep in the room that you changed in earlier. That is the guest bedroom anyway."
"OK, thank you."
The woman sitting on the motorized scooter yawned, stretching her arms dramatically over her head. "Well I'm going to go hit the hay kids. You should do the same." she yawned. "Babelah, you sure the young man should sleep in that room? What about yours?"
"GRANDMA!" cried Sam her face turning bright red.
Danny blushed and shifted his weight from one foot to the other as the thought entered his mind. Without warning his curse activated, turning his pants invisible/intangible for but a moment, allowing them to fall around his ankles revealing his briefs.
"Boy I was only kidding! Get your pants on, plus I'm still here!" Scolded the elderly Manson.
Danny turned bright red, and quickly pulled his pants up. "I..I'm NOT! I didn't, I mean...STUPID PANTS!" he stammered, as he fumbled about with his pants.
"They fell on there own. I didn't do it on purpose I SWEAR!"
"Riiiight," sung Sam bewildered by it all.
"Don't worry bubeleh," reassured her grandmother. "Considering how he is acting and what kind of underwear he's wearing, I doubt that he's lying when he says it was an accident."
Sam smiled at her. "I guess you're right." Then to Danny added, "Please keep your pants on from now on though."
"I'll be going now," sighed the grandmother, as she turned her scooter around toward her own room. "Good night kids." she waved as her door closed behind her, leaving the two teens alone.
"S-sorry about that." the boy apologized again.
"It's OK." reassured Sam. "It was an accident, right?"
Danny nodded, not daring to look her in the eye.
"Want to go watch a movie?" Suggested Sam. "I'm not tired enough to go to sleep yet."
Danny nodded again and the two raven haired kids flopped down onto the soft couch. They decided to watch a comedy, and soon the two were engulfed inside the movie's funny fantasy world.
"Hey Danny," Sam asked randomly during the middle of the movie. "Why didn't you go with your family to that convention thing you mentioned earlier?"
I uh, thought it would be boring. Plus, I wanted some me time, if you get what I mean." The boy halfheartedly lied.
"I get what you mean." Sam nodded. "Sometimes family can become a bit...too much to handle."
"You have no idea." the boy sadly smiled.
"The reason I was in the park today," Sam began to confess, "was because I was pissed off at my parents for lying and at my uncle for not understanding."
"What did they lie about?" Danny asked truly interested.
"They said they were coming home, obviously they didn't." she huffed grimly. "It doesn't really matter though. They would only make my life miserable if they were here...Dress me up and parade me around like some dumb lifeless doll...I'm only a toy to them. They don't accept me for who I am, those bastards... Ugh, why did I just tell that to you?" she scolded herself, doing a face palm.
Danny frowned thoughtfully, resting his chin gently on his interlocked hands and not paying attention to the last part of Sam's rant. He was thinking of his own parents and his own situation.
"Mine wouldn't accept me for me either, if they knew my secret, who I really am." he whispered. His voice was heavy with forsaken grief and undeniable gilt. He should not have said it, but he had.
Sam paused the movie on the TV with her remote. The jokes no longer fit their moods.
"Danny, what is your secret?" Sam asked. "I can't tell your folks because I don't even know them."
Danny's eyes widened in surprise as he turned his attention to Sam. Then sat up and laughed at her.
"Sorry Sam," he smiled warmly. "But then it wouldn't be a secret anymore!"
"Come on, tell me!" she demanded.
"No way!"
"Please?"
"No Sam."
"Your the one who brought it up so tell me!"
"N.O."
"Come on I told you something about me, now tell me something about you!"
Danny sighed, "Fine. I'll tell you something." he agreed then rested one of his index fingers thoughtfully on his chin as he figured out what to say.
" My favorite color is red, and my favorite dessert is anything that has milk chocolate in it."
Sam shrugged, in true defeat. "You win, don't tell me." Suddenly a loud yawn escaped the girls delicate lips and she rubbed her eyes. "I feel sleepy," stated she, while standing up. "I think I'm going to go to bed now, it's way past midnight."
Danny looked out the window as another flash of lightning flashed, yawning in agreement.
"Good night," she mumbled to him as she slipped over to her room, shutting the door behind her.
"Night," he called back then headed off towards his own.
Danny snuggled under the light, soft covers of the bed. He had been sleeping on broken springs for so long that he had forgotten what a real bed felt like. This bed was way more comfortable than that old thing could ever be with its memory foam and down comforter. The sleepy boy found himself quickly falling into a deep, restful slumber despite the still raging storm outside.
Hope you have enjoyed this thus far. HAHA I said thus! lol. Any who... As usual I would love to here what ya'll think. Reviews feed a writer's hungry soul...
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Thanks ThePurpleSuperCow for actually answering my questions. If it's cool with you I'm going to use the name you suggested for Sam's grandma. It suits her perfectly. I don't know when exactly in the story it will pop up, but it will! Cool name btw.
