Chapter 2
Violet was silent for a few seconds. Thoughts flooded into her mind like a waterfall. She couldn't take them all.
"What are you talking about?? What do you mean?? You can't be serious!! You're lying!!" she accused. Dash jumped off her lap and scrambled behind his mother, scared of his sister's wrath. Violet leapt forward and he stumbled away in time to avoid her punch.
"You little shit!!" she shrieked. Helen grabbed her pulled her away from Dash and shoved her back onto the couch. Violet glared at Dash in her fury. Ever since she had rescued Dash from Syndrome they had trusted each other but this was too much!!
"Don't you dare accuse your little brother about lying!! Do you think that he would lie about something like this??" Helen screamed. Violet scowled but stayed silent. Dash whimpered softly and held his mother's hands tightly. Violet snarled at him.
"If I ever see you with that boy again I will ground you for life!!" Helen snapped, before leaving. Dash was now alone with Violet. Violet glared at him.
"Now really, tell me how you got those," Violet snapped, motioning to his scars.
"I was telling the truth."
"Yea, right. And anyway, why didn't you just run away??" Violet scoffed. Dash frowned for a second, pondering deeply.
"I just remember being stuck to the ground. It was like my feet were glued, like I had melted into the ground 'cause I couldn't see my feet, only my legs. I think they were all Supers," he said softly. Violet rolled her eyes.
"Tony Rydinger is not a Super," she growled. Dash shrugged.
"You never know." This just made her even more furious.
"Look Dash, Tony is not a bully, not a Super and not the leader of a gang of hooligans!! He's my boyfriend, got that?? My b-o-y-f-r-I-e-n-d," she said, spelling it out slowly. He cringed at her tone of voice. Then he slowly turned green.
"I don't feel so good." He disappeared for a second and Violet heard retching and started to turn green herself. She quickly stormed off to her room before she started to feel sorry for the little twerp.
"Little brat, as if Tony would ever beat up his own girlfriend's brother. He never liked Tony anyway, always wanted the attention for himself," she said, trying to convince herself of Tony's innocence yet inside she knew that her brother wasn't lying.
Hold still Dash," she heard her mom say in the other room. She heard a loud 'ouch' and closed her door quickly. Then she turned on her music as loud as she could and started to do her homework.
"Two times two equals four. Four times four times four times four equals..." she trailed off. Wish Dash was here, she found herself thinking. Dash was a genius at math, mostly because his brain went almost six times faster than the normal human brain. Usually he would help her but today she wasn't going to lower herself to asking him for help after shouting at him. She sighed and turned of the music.
Vi, it's time for dinner!!" she heard her mom call. She leapt onto her bed.
"I'll have something later," she called back. There was a clattering of dishes. She groaned. She heard the door creak open.
"Vi??" It was Dash. She put her hands over her ears and started to sing loudly.
"Vi??"
"IT'S A DAMN COLD NIGHT!!" she cried, blocking out his soft voice.
"Vi??" She felt someone pull her hand away and she swung her hand around, hitting him. She heard him stumble back and quickly turned around.
"Oh my god Dash I am so sorry!!" she cried, hugging him. Dash mumbled something. She put him on her lap and hugged him tighter.
"Did you really think I'm lying??" Dash asked.
"Of course not. I'm sorry, I didn't mean what I said," she whispered. Dash grinned and leapt off.
"I forgive you!! Now let's go to dinner. Race you!!" he cried, and dashed away.
"Oh no you don't!!" Violet cried playfully and started to chase him around even though she could barely see him. Dash laughed and ran around her, whacking her behind the head. She blasted him with a force field.
"Hey, that's not fair!!" he cried. Jack Jack started to cry and Helen and Bob were shouting at each other for some unknown reason.
"No Force fields!!"
"You got fired??"
"Come back here you little twerp!!"
"WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!"
"It wasn't my fault!!" Everyone was screaming at the top of their voices. Dash leapt onto Violet, very angry now.
"IT DOESN'T MATTER IF IT WASN'T YOUR FAULT!!"
"THE BOSS WAS AN IDIOT ANYWAY!!"
"LET GO OF MY HAIR!!"
"WAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!"
"PUT ME DOWN!!" There was a loud thump and everyone stopped, staring as Dash stumbled back in surprise, holding his forehead in shock. Violet opened her mouth to apologize but Dash leapt forward, screaming like Tarzan and whacked her behind the head with a fan.
"DASH, LET GO OF YOUR SISTER!!"
"I SAID, LEAVE MY HAIR ALONE!!"
"BOB, DO SOMETHING!!"
"LIKE WHAT??"
"I DON'T CARE!!"
"LET GO OF MY HAIR YOU FREAKIN' SHIT!!"
"DON'T YOU EVER SAY THAT WORD AGAIN YOUNG LADY!!"
The doorbell rang. There was silence then everyone quickly got back into their place. Bob cleared his throat and went to open the door. It was the Smith's, their very grumpy neighbors.
"Yes??" Bob asked in forced politeness.
"Do you think that you could...LOWER THE FUCKING VOLUME???" Bob stumbled backwards from the blast, trying to avoid getting spit sprayed into his face. He nodded dumbly. Mr. Smith stormed away. Bob closed the door and returned to his seat, silent. Then-
"WAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" They burst into hysterical laughter, tears running down their eyes. They didn't know what was so funny yet they didn't care. Helen got up, still laughing and fed Jack Jack.
"Did you see the look on his face??" he squealed. Bob wiped a tear from his eye and nodded. Dash shoved the rest of his food into his mouth and sprinted off to bed. Violet followed after him, dragging her feet. She wasn't sure who to believe, Tony or her brother. She would ask him in the morning.