Hi everyone! We have had snow this week and it has been like our second winter break so this fiction, which I have much inspiration for, is getting updated quite speedily. I am sorry if I am not this fast all of the time. So here is chapter three, family issues.
The next day was Saturday and I was just heading out the door to meet the guys at the tree house.
I assumed that my parents were snoring peacefully in their beds seeing as, when we lived in Maine they had a precise schedule for how they spent their Saturdays.
First they would wake up around 11:00. Then they would lounge while reading the paper and drinking their coffee.
The rest of the day would be spent on Moms garden and Dads home brewing beer.
However apparently now that we had moved to Castle Rock things were about to change.
I had one foot out the door when I heard a cough behind me. I turned around sheepishly.
" Blaire, where are you going?" my mother asked.
My mom was a middle-aged woman who was usually the perfect housewife however when she got mad you didn't want to be home.
" Oh me? I'm just going to hang out with some new friends from school." I said hoping she would just let me go.
" Sit down for a minute, tell us about these new friends." My father said.
So I took a seat bracing myself for the worst. My parents didn't really like me hanging out with boys so as you can see this might not have turned out so well.
" Okay but promise to hear me out and not to say a word until I am done." I made the deal.
Both my parents nodded suspiciously so I began trying to get it out as fast as possible.
" Well there's Chris Chambers who is in my grade along with the other guys, he has a few siblings and lives on Bridge Courte."
" Then there is Gordie LaChance whose older brother died in a car accident two summers ago and he lives two houses down."
" Teddy Duchamp lives with his mom on Silver Edge and his dad was in the army and stormed the beach at Normandy."
" Lastly Vern Tessio lives with his parents and an older brother. He lives on Rolling Stones Avenue." I finished my fingers crossed behind my back.
You see, the night before I had learned much about each boy.
I told my parents that Chris had siblings, I left out that one was part of a gang who harassed us, the other older brother was in jail for a crime so awful that the guys had chose not to tell me, not to mention that his dad is an abusive alcoholic.
I told them about Gordie mostly all I knew except I didn't tell them that his parents completely ignored him.
I told mom and dad that Teddy lived with his mom and that his dad was a war veteran. I didn't tell them that the war had made his dad go crazy. I didn't tell them that Mr. Duchamp almost burned Teddy's ear off which resulted in him ending up in Togus.
I didn't tell my parents that Vern was insanely dumb and that his older brother was in the same gang as Chris's older brother.
Unfortunately after only a few days in town rumors had reached my parents.
" Gordon seems like a good boy, however, we've heard that the Chambers boy is bad news. Vern seems mostly harmless however Theodore seems a bit "on the edge" if you know what we mean" my father explained.
" Why not any girl friends?" my mother asked.
"All the girls here are preps." I told her.
" You can hang out with these boys but be careful Blaire, I don't want you getting hurt."
" I'll be fine," I said as I walked out the door.
Gordie POV
"So we've got a new member of the gang." I tried hopefully but I got no response from either parent.
" She's new in town." I brought it up again trying to catch their interest by telling them that we were hanging out with a girl.
I gave up. Setting my dishes in the sink I walked out the door abandoned.
