Chapter 4

"Dad! Why did you do that!" Susie yelled after she closed their front door.

"I don't like that boy! He's insane!"

"No he's not!" Susie screamed as she stomped up the stairs. She ran to her room, a tear, sliding down her cheek as she closed the door behind her.

FLASHBACK

"Ohh…nothing much. Just the fact that my dad thinks you're some psycho idiot."

Calvin turned towards her. "Really?"

She brought her legs up on the couch so she was sitting crisscross and faced Calvin. "Yeah. He judges people before he gets to know them."

Calvin raised his eyebrow. "What does your mom think?"

"She thinks that you're a great kid. And that you're nice."

Calvin paused for a moment. And then he said, "What do you think about me?" The question caught her off-guard. She didn't know what to say.

"Umm." She looked down at her hands. "I don't think you're psycho. I don't think that you're an idiot. I think you're nice, and that you're a great person."

Susie felt her face get red. She didn't look, but she could tell that his was too. Calvin seemed like he was in a trance. But then he did something she didn't expect. He kissed her.

It was a nice, sweet, soft kiss. She closed her eyes and felt her heart beat faster. He didn't shove his tongue down her down her throat and he didn't pull away after a second either.

When he did pull away, they looked directly into each other's eyes. Susie opened her mouth to say something but she was interrupted by her dad banging on the front door.

END FLASHBACK

She locked the door and walked over to the window. She picked up her iPod touch and turned it on to drown out the sound of her father's yelling. Only minutes later, her mother knocked on the door. Susie groaned, stood up, and unlocked the door.

"What?" she asked, annoyed.

"Your father has invited over Calvin and his family over for dinner Friday night," her mother said.

Susie tilted her head back and mumbled something like "What the hell is wrong with that crazy bastard."

"What happened over there?" her mother asked, closing the door.

"Nothing," Susie said.

"Susie Derkins." Her mother death glared at her. "What happened over there?"

"Nothing. When Dad got there, we were just sitting on the couch, watching tv."

"What happened before that?'

"We worked on the project?" Susie said in a uh-duh way.

"After that."

"We stood there."

"After that."

"We watched tv."

"During that."

"I'm not telling you."

Her mother sighed and left the room. Susie lied down on her bed and thought about how she would tell Calvin how she felt.