Chapter 10: Family Dinner
The day slowly faded into night, and Amy and Bruce had spent it together. Amy was deciding what to do for dinner, when it suddenly hit her.
"We could just stay in," Bruce was saying, and Amy shook her head.
"It's Thursday," she informed him. He gave her a questioning look. "That's the night my entire family always gets together at my house for dinner."
"That's not a problem," Bruce insisted. "We'll just go out tomorrow night."
"Wait," Amy said, stopping him from walking away. "Why don't you come over?"
Bruce got a strange look on his face. "I wouldn't want to intrude."
"Come on, Bruce, you're practically a member of the family already," Amy scoffed. He raised an eyebrow at her, and she rephrased her statement. "I mean, because of how close we are and everything." He gave her another look, and she gave up. "You know what I mean. Come on, I want you to come. It'll be fun."
"Knowing your family, it'll be something," Bruce laughed.
"Does that mean you'll come?" Amy asked excitedly.
"Yes, it's means I'll come," Bruce sighed.
Amy squealed and kissed him. "You won't regret this. It will be our way of enforcing our couple status."
Bruce smiled and shook his head as Amy hurried him to his car so they could head to her house.
Once they arrived, Amy seemed nervous.
"What is it?" Bruce asked her.
"I just want you to know that whatever they say, it doesn't matter," she informed him. "I don't go to my family to see who I should date."
He looked at her curiously. "Should I be worried that your family won't approve?"
"No," Amy insisted. "I'm just saying, with my family, you should be prepared for anything."
"Amy, relax," Bruce told her. "Your family knows me. What the worst that could happen?"
…LATER…
The dinner was going well at first, but was currently in a state of complete chaos. Lauren had gotten a call from Victor, and when Amy wouldn't let her talk to him during dinner, she yelled something about Amy being able to have her boyfriend there and ran to her room. Then Peter and Kyle had gotten into a shouting match over something, and Gillian made the mistake of arguing with Maxine over how to make mashed potatoes, and that started a food fight.
The only people non-affected were Bruce and Amy, who sat amidst the flying potatoes and hurled insults, wondering what the hell was going on.
Finally, Amy turned to Bruce and whispered something to him, to which he nodded in reply. They stood up unnoticed and walked out to the porch.
Amy turned to Bruce once they were out there, her arms crossed. "I'm sorry about that. They usually aren't that…" She trailed off, searching for a word.
"Opinionated?" Bruce supplied, his mouth rising into a smile.
"Yeah, opinionated," Amy agreed, now visibly shivering.
Bruce finally noticed and pointed at her. "Are you cold?"
"Nah, it's nothing. I've survived worse," Amy joked, still shaking.
"Come here," he said, holding his arms open. She fell into his arms and snuggled against him as he held her tight. They continued to stand that way as potatoes and insults continued to be flung inside.
THE END!
