Chapter Three
Surprise
"So, you're telling me Paris fell flat on her face in front of the whole entire student body." I laughed.
"Oh yeah, didn't she Tina?" Tristin asked.
"How am I supposed to remember? Just because I was there doesn't mean I remember. I was in kindergarten!"
"Well she did. And her skirt flew up so for the rest of the year every time we'd see her we'd go. 'I see London, I see Paris, France. I see Paris's underpants.' And she's just stand there as everyone sang."
"You guys were so harsh when you were in second grade!" I said. "I would have loved to be there though."
"She's really self-conscious now."
"Doesn't seem like it."
"Too bad it is."
"Stupid freak."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, that's harsh. We're talking evil, mean, unlike Rory stuff."
"How would you know what's Rory like? As far as I know, you've really only talked to Mary." I smirked.
"He calls you Mary?" Christina asked.
"Yeah, it look him along time to learn my name." I shook my head.
"Are you sure you're a Dugrey, Tristin?"
"Yeah I am, besides that is the Tristin at school. And I quit calling you Mary after the whole getting hit by the deer thing." Tristin explained talking a sip from his coke.
"Anything else happen to anyone that I'd like to know about besides Paris?"
"Not really, no one else did something that we teased them for."
"What about the time where yo-" Christina started but was stopped by a clatter. We turned to Crystal. Her plate had fallen on the ground. Crystal began to cry.
"It's okay Crystal. You're not in trouble." Tristin said soothingly and got up with Crystal in his arms and walked outside.
Luke came over and began cleaning up the half-eaten hamburger off the floor.
"Sorry, Luke." I apologized.
"Don't worry about it." Luke got up and walked away.
"She dropped her plate once when we were having dinner at Tristin's house. My mom was yelling at her and my aunt told her it was okay because they were having the floors waxed again the next day but my mom kept yelling. She cried and Mom took her into the kitchen and we could still hear Mom yelling then all of a sudden Crystal cried even louder so Tristin and I think that my mom hit her. We're really careful of what we say when she drops things." Christina explained.
"Oh." I said watching Tristin walk back and forth in front of Luke's stroking Crystal's hair. "You guys are like night and day, huh? You and Christina."
"Yeah, when I was little I wasn't really shy and quiet. I was very energetic and I would run around the house...well in my room."
"But Tristin said she wasn't shy around people she knows."
"She isn't. It's really hard to explain. "
"Oh, okay." I drank the last of my coffee and got up. "Come on, let's go I know how to cheer up your sister." Christina followed me to the counter. "Luke!"
"It's on the house."
"Really?"
"Really."
"Thanks." I turned to Christina. "I told you he was a softy."
Christina grinned.
"I heard that. I count to three and you have to pay."
"Come on." I grabbed Christina's arm and hurried out the door. "Crystal, I got a surprise for you. Come on." I smiled at the little girl.
"Really?" Crystal's blue eyes glittered in the sunlight.
"Really."
"Where are we going?"
"It's a surprise." I grinned. "I think you're going to like it."