~*~Chapter 2~*~ Hiya! This is Chapter 2 and it really really sucks!! Sorry that it's so bad!!! I tried to make it a little longer!! I own no one, and this is still in Meg's POV. The next chapter is going to be in Roxanne's POV, and I'll probably have some in JJ's too so yeah!! Thanks for all the reviews people!!
"Are you staying for dinner Roxanne?" Patty asked stupidly once we were all seated around the dinner table.
Roxanne tilted her head and smiled. "Nope, I'm just going to sit here and watch while your mom forces you to eat these yummy greenbeans." She took a spoon full of greenbeans out of her plate and stuck it in front of Patty's face.
"Eww!" Patty shrieked and flailed her arms at the green beans making them go in mine, hers, Roxanne's, and Will's mashed potatoes. "Mom, look what Roxanne did to my potatoes," she said angrily.
"Mom, Patty got green beans in mine." That was Will.
I just sat there laughing a bit; I couldn't care less if green beans were in my mashed potatoes. There was always a such thing as picking them out. "Patty!" My mom scolded my younger sister.
"It wasn't me! It was Roxanne." Patty and Roxanne started bickering back and forth until finally my dad broke it.
"Girls! Stop it!" My dad yelled. I laughed once again. It just felt right, like Roxanne was part of our family. I mean my dad yells at her, my mom yells at her, Patty and her get into it. It's like she's my sister, except we don't fight as much as me and Patty.
"Sorry Mr. Pryor." Roxanne apologized formally. She didn't want to where her welcome out, not that she would. Even if my parents got really ticked at her they wouldn't tell her that she couldn't come over anymore.
"So JJ, what happened with track today?" My dad asked my older brother.
"Nothin much, just…" I couldn't hear the rest of his answer for as he was talking with a mouth full of food. He tends to do that a lot. Half the time it's for the good though, because I know my parents wouldn't approve of some of the stuff JJ does. Therefore they can't do anything to him if they can't hear what he said.
"I heard that a couple of the boys were planning on trying to start a petition to get Sam off the team," I said curtly. The only reason I brought this up was because I didn't think it was right. Sam was a good runner, one of the best, he could even beat JJ. So, he was a different skin color? Who cares? I never quite understood the whole rule about white people not being able to associate with black people. It wasn't fair at all.
"Is this true JJ?" My dad wondered out loud. JJ nodded his head a little. "Good, that kid doesn't need to be running anyway." I couldn't believe my dad just said that.
"Meg," Roxanne warned in a low voice. She knew that I was about to say something that would probably wind up getting me in trouble. I tend to do that a lot. Really though, half the time I can't help it. I never get the right to voice my opinion at school. The sisters would yell and put you in detention if you dared to defy them, that may have been why Rox was in detention a lot.
"Why doesn't he need to be running?" I asked and felt the tension between everyone and myself. Everyone else at the table didn't like the idea of Sam being on the track team, they didn't like the idea of him even going to East Catholic High School. There weren't very many colored people around our side of town. Even Roxanne was with my dad on this subject. "Dad, just because he looks different doesn't mean that he shouldn't have the same rights as us." I said this all the while I knew that nothing that I said or did would change anyone's opinions.
My dad looked as if he was going to blow his stack so I decided that I was done with dinner. "May I be excused?" My mom just nodded her head so I picked my plate up and went into the kitchen to put it in the sink. Oh well, I didn't want to eat anyway.
I went up to my room and put on my Supremes record. Listening to music always got stuff off of my mind. Well, it got everything off of my mind except a certain doey-eyed, brown haired guy. Luke. I couldn't stop thinking of him for the life of me. Or as Patty would say, "For the life of me, I can't stop thinking about him." She always had to be so difficult with her grammar. She had to make sure that she was perfect about it.
I lay there on my bed for a few minutes listening to my record before Roxanne burst through the door laughing her head off. I merely cocked an eyebrow in amusement. "What's so funny Rox?"
"Let's just say once you left the table the tension let up pretty quickly. I 'accidently' started another food fight," she said through tears of laughter. I started laughing a bit. Roxanne was always causing some kind of trouble, whether it was at home, at my house, at school, or on Bandstand she would always cause some kind of trouble. "Then I accidently ruined dinner."
"How'd ya manage that?" I wondered with a laugh. It was pretty hard to ruin dinner at our house. I mean what with Patty and Will always arguing and someone always complaning about their food being too cold or too hot.
Roxanne bit her lip, contemplating whether or not she wanted to tell me. I could tell that's what she was doing. She always bites her lip when she doesn't want to tell me something. "I flung a green bean at JJ." I shrugged.
"How did that ruin dinner?" I wasn't quite sure how that ruined dinner because JJ wouldn't get all mad. He's not usually a hot head unless he's in a bad mood, or someone says something to him about his ex-girlfried, Beth.
"He decked me pretty fast." I laughed harder now. JJ must have been in a really good mood. I'd never seen him 'deck' Roxanne. In our house decking someone was basically tackling them to the ground and then tickling them until they started crying or had to go to the bathroom. "That made your dad pretty mad so we all kinda left." Roxanne smiled but I could tell she was hiding something. She does this thing with her eyes when she's not telling the whole story. Her eyes kinda crinkle at the corner.
"What aren't you telling me Rox?" She opened her mouth to say something but then closed it.
"Nothing. So when are you seeing Luke again?"
"Don't change the subject! You're hiding something from me."
A/N~ What do you think? Good? Bad? What? Review please!!! I promise the next chapter will be better!! The next chapter is going to be in Roxanne's POV and its going to start off from when Meg left the dinner table that way we get to know Rox's reaction when JJ 'decks' her!! Lol!! Anywho tell me what you think!! Thanks!