Chapter 3, enjoy!
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A visibly upset Julie stood in the living room of her parents' house as Tim and Billy entered the loving room from the nursery.
"Everything okay?" Tim asked.
"I think I'm going to go get that suit for you," Billy stated, dismissing himself from the awkward moment he was trapped in. Billy handed RaeLynn to Tim before leaving the house and returning a few moments later to lay Tim's suit on the back of the couch.
"No Tim, everything's not ok," Julie shouted. "I show up to enrollment only to find out Landry, my only real friend, got zoned to go to East Dillon. Then I swear everyone was looking at me different," Julie vented.
"I'm sorry Jules..." Tim apologized.
"I think even the teachers looked at me different."
"Don't worry what everyone else has to say about you, us, her, and everything we've been through over the past year. We are happy, she is happy, I like to think you are happy, and that's all that matters."
"But Tim, I can just sense that they are talking about me behind my back. Maybe I should transfer to East, then I would be with Landry and I would have all new teachers."
"You think they won't talk about you or judge you at East?" Tim asked.
"At least I would have a friend there," Julie answered.
"And you got zoned to West, so how will you be able to transfer?" Tim questioned.
"Since my dad coaches at East, I can transfer without living in the district. That's what I did we when lived in Lubbock and my dad couched in a small town outside of Lubbock," Julie explained. "I'll talk to my mom about it when she gets home." Tim didn't really know how to respond, so he didn't.
"How was my girl while I was gone?" She asked a little while later.
"She was good."
"That makes me feel a tiny bit better about leaving her next week."
"She slept almost the whole time, until Billy knocked on the door and woke her up," Tim reported.
"What was Billy doing anyways?" Julie curiously asked, having calmed down fro her outburst of frustration.
"He brought my suit for the wedding by," Tim explained.
"Oh! I forgot the wedding was this weekend."
"Yeah, me too," Tim laughed. "And I still have to write my speech."
"You better get on that Best Man," Julie teased. "I will take over parenting duties while you fulfill your brotherly duties," She added as she took her daughter in her arms.
"Mommy missed you today," She told RaeLynn as she took a seat on the couch. "Let's turn off Daddy's football and watch something good."
"Now don't be teaching my daughter to dislike football!" Tim jokingly exclaimed.
"It was a Browns rerun, they suck," Julie stated. "Daddy likes the Cowboys," She informed her daughter for what was probably the hundredth time. Tim happily smiled, proud that his girl had picked up on some of the rambling he, and her dad, did about football.
Julie changed the TV to a channel playing Friends reruns. Before long she was asleep on the couch with RaeLynn, who was also asleep, resting on her chest.
Tim, who was struggling at writing his speech, noticed his sleeping daughter and girlfriend and turned the TV down so they could sleep in peaceful quiet. After turning down the sound on the TV, Tim returned to his speech writing. He had absolutely no idea what to write. He sat twirling the pen with his fingers and staring at the blank paper for quite a while.
The front door creaked open, breaking Tim from his trance.
"It's quiet in here," Tami commented.
"Jules and Rae are asleep," Tim reported.
"Oh," Tami replied, changing her voice to a whisper. "What are you doing?"
"Attempting to write my Best Man speech for Billy's wedding."
"Looks like it's going well," Tami teased at his blank paper.
"Yeah, it's still in progress," Tim replied.
"Why don't you take your mind off of it-"
"Gladly," Tim interrupted her.
"I'll hold down the fort here, you go treat yourself," Tami finished.
"How?"
"Go hang out with some friends or something, be a kid Tim, because you are sorta still one."
"All my friends have already moved back to, or to college," Tim stated, a hint of sadness in his voice. "Wait, is coach still at practice?"
"Yes."
"Well, I'm going to watch a football practice them," Tim announced, slipping on his boots and heading out the door.
The door shutting, though Tim tried to do it quietly, woke Julie up from her quick nap.
"Tim?" Julie asked with a yawn.
"He went to watch your dad's practice," Tami told her.
"Oh. Let me put her in her crib and then there is something I want to talk to you about," Julie stated as she carefully stood up with RaeLynn in her arms.
"Can I transfer to East Dillon?" She blurted out after putting RaeLynn in her crib.
"What? Why?"
"Landry is going to East and all the rest of my friends graduated."
"But Julie, West is so much better of a school."
"Then why have you been talking East up like it's an equivalent to West? You tell everyone that gets pissy about being zoned to East that it is just as good as West Dillon." Tami stood speechless. It was true, she had been assuring everyone that East would be a quality school, but truth be known, she didn't want to send her own daughter to East Dillon.
"What about Lois? She is going to West, I saw her on the enrollment list."
"Lois and I haven't been friends since I got pregnant. And everyone at West, even the teachers, gave me dirty looks."
"I'm sorry Jules..."
"So please, let me go to East."
"Julie's, the quality of the teachers at East is not very good. You have so many more learning opportunities at West," Tami argued.
"You keep telling everyone East is just as good as west, and it will make East look better if you let me go."
"Ok fine, I will fill out the transfer slip next tomorrow," Tami caved.
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"What are you doin Tim?" Eric asked when Tim walked on the rugged East Dillon football field.
"Came to watch practice," Tim simply replied.
"Came a little late, if they can get this play right I will let them go."
"You don't have an assistant?" Tim asked after noticing that Eric was the only coach on the field.
"Nope, not in the budget," Eric answered.
"Oh," Tim responded as he watched the rest of practice.
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