Chapter 12: An Explanation and a trip home!
"Well, you see I bet your dad 10.00 that you and Spinelli would kiss, and I won," Vince said, rubbing the back of his head. T.J and Spinelli started to laugh. The other's looked at them like they were nuts. Then Dr. Keno walked by, "Spinelli, T.J the police are here to speak to you about what happened." Spinelli and T.J stopped laughing.
"Do we have to see them now?" Spinelli asked. "I'm afraid so, just go down stairs to the waiting area, they're there waiting for you," Keno said, smiling a sad smile, "you will go in at separate time." "No way!" Spinelli yelled. "That's not fair!" T.J yelled. "It's the law, I'm sorry," with that said, Dr. Keno walked away.
"Come on Spin, lets just get this over with," T.J said, trying to hid how nervous he was. "See ya later everyone," Spinelli said, walking to the elevator. T.J waved and walked to Spinelli. "This is going to suck," Spinelli muttered when they were in the elevator. "I know," T.J said.
He
grabbed Spinelli's hand to comfort her. The elevator stopped and
the doors opened. They walked into the waiting room, still holding
hands. They gasped when the saw who the cops were. "Oh no,"
Spinelli aid into her free
hand.
"Not them again," T.J said looking up. They saw the cops they had tried to talk to last year. When Dr. Benedict was trying to get rid of summer vacation. "This is going to be fun," Spinelli said, her voice full of sarcasm. The cops walked up to them, "are you Theodore J. Detwiler and Ashley F. Spinelli?"
They nodded their heads. "Hey didn't we meet over summer vacation?" Frank, the chubby officer asked. They nodded their heads again. "Oh yeah hey, sorry for not believing you," Ken, the skinny officer said. "Can we just get this over with?" Spinelli asked.
She really didn't like the officers. "Right, come with me Theodore," said Frank. "You come with me Ashley," Ken said. "Just call me Spinelli," Spinelli said, trying to be nice. "Yeah, call me T.J," T.J said smiling.
The officers nodded and took each kid in different directions. "Bye Teej," Spinelli said over her shoulder. "Bye Spin," T.J said in the same manner. He lipped "be strong" over his shoulder before she disappeared from sight. About an hour later the two met up in the waiting room.
T.J could tell that Spinelli had cried so he rushed over to her. "Spin are you okay?" he asked his voice full of concern. "Fine," she said, though he could tell something was wrong. He pulled her into a hug and she just rested her forehead on his shoulder. "It's okay Spin," he said.
"Let's just go back upstairs," she said smiling. "Right, so how was the interview?" he asked as they walked over to the elevator. "Horrible, he was acting like it was my fault," she said sadly, "how was it with you?" "He was telling me how Dean could press charges and stuff," T.J said smiling. "Do you think he will?" she asked, concern showing in her voice.
"I don't care if he does, he really doesn't have anything against me," T.J said, pressing the up button on the elevator. T.J then got an idea; he was going to make Spinelli feel better. "Heya Spin?" T.J asked. "What is it?" Spinelli asked, looking into T.J's face, "Teej?" T.J's placed his forehead on hers, and then began to tickle her.
"T.J stop...please...that...tickles!" Spinelli yelled, laughing. "What?" T.J asked, continuing to tickle her. "Stop...tickling me!" she yelled as the elevator stopped. He pulled Spinelli up just as the doors opened. To their surprise, no one was in sight.
They walked out of the elevator and into the room. "No ones in here," T.J said. "Hey, I found a note," Spinelli said smiling. "What's it say?" T.J asked. Spinelli cleared her throat, "dear T.J and Spinelli, we went down to the cafeteria. If you are hungry there is 20.00 under the pillow. If not, we'll be back in about an hour. This was written at noon. PS: the doctor says you both can come home tonight. Spinelli, T.J will be saying with us, it's signed by my dad."
"Cool! So are you hungry? T.J asked. "Why are you?" Spin asked. "I asked you first," T.J said proudly. "No not really," Spinelli said smiling. "Yes I did," T.J said smiling.
"No, I was answering you're first question," Spinelli said, letting out a soft chuckle. "Oh," T.J said, his smiling still on, "what do you want to do now?" "Why don't we watch TV?" Spinelli asked. "Great idea," T.J said. "Spinelli walked over to the shelf where the TV was and opened it, she gasped at what she saw.
"Tender," T.J said smiling. Inside were movies, games and a PS2. "Look at all these games, Xenosaga, Spyro the Dragon: Enter the Dragonfly, Dragon Ball Z Budakai and Budakai 2, this is so cool," she said smiling.
