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A Cinderella Story
Chapter 4
By
Dark Angel
Days went by, and by the end of my legal week at dads, I was dreading asking my mother to stay for another three weeks.
"Go on," David whispered into my ear as my mom knocked on the front door.
"Ok," I sighed, and went to open the door.
"Cindi! How are you?" Mom cried wrapping her arms over me, obviously she heard about my nose.
"I'm fine mom," I growled peeling her off of me. I looked behind me and saw David, Eric, and Tai, and I knew what I had to.
"Mom, I want to stay here for another three weeks." I said bluntly.
She looked at me weird, then smiled, "Why?" she asked as if I were stupid.
"Because, I'm going to the Winners Ball, and I wish to stay here with my friends," I motioned to the three, "so that we can go together." She stared blankly then said...
"I suppose. What ever makes you happy dear."
"Really? Thanks mom!" I gave her a quick hug, and then turned to run at the guys. Unfortunately I didn't count on Dad being right behind me.
BAM!
"Uh, Sorry dad." I said smiling weakly from on top of him as he glared. I climbed off of him, and then proceeded to run to the guys.
"YAY!" I said jumping into all three of them, making all of us topple over the back of the couch. Afterwards, Eric and I laughed our heads off watching Tai chase David around for sitting on his head.
Mom left real quickly after dad started to talk to her. I guessed they squabbled about something and both their feelings got hurt. Snicker
Duo decided to order pizza for dinner.
"Yum!" David exclaimed as it arrived. "I love Pizza House!"
"Wow, I haven't had pizza for ever," I realized.
"You're kidding!" David exclaimed, eyes bulging.
"No I'm not." We grabbed an entire box of pizza and took it out to the living room.
As we were sitting down, Kahea, Ruth, and Josh came marching in with a box of their own.
"Get out of here Cindi, we're going to watch TV here." Josh said rudely.
"No, we were here first!" I fought back, and then Kahea interjected with a tart laugh.
"He never said anything about them leaving. Only you." Kahea barked
"Well your going to have to MAKE me leave. Cause I'm not budging!" I yelled. I firmly placed my butt on the couch and glared at the family I hated so much.
"Don't make me teach you another lesson Cindi. You made me break a nail." Ruth warned.
"Try me."
"Uh, Cindi? Maybe we should go." Eric mumbled into my ear.
"NO!"
"COME HERE GIRL!" My muscle built stepbrother bellowed, as he bent over the coffee table, grabbed me by the collar, picked me up and thrust me into to the wall. My head hit the wall hard as I slid to the ground.
"CINDI!" I heard the three guys yell. My head was ringing, and my eyes were rolling in my head. Someone touched my shoulder, then I heard a lot of cussing, yelling, made out my fathers voice, Ruth's voice, but I couldn't make out any words. Then suddenly...
"Watch out for that vase!!" someone screamed, and then something hard, and glass fell on my head.
.............. (Please stand by for further news from Cindi)............
Groan my eyelids seemed really heavy today. I put a hand to my head trying to stop the throbbing; which seemed to hurt for no reason I could think of. I peeked open my eyes, and saw Eric sitting at my computer desk doing something.
He didn't turn his head but apparently he saw me, "Oh good you're awake." And just at that moment Tai came it with a wet rag.
"How are you feeling?" he asked sitting next to me on the bed and placing it on my forehead.
"My head is throbbing." I rubbed my temples, and felt the bandages wrapped around my head. "What happened?"
"Josh threw you into the living room wall." Eric said.
"Yeah, then Ruth's Ming vase fell on your head." Tai finished.
"Oh yeah." I said as those events came floating back to me.
"You were only out for about an hour." Tai noted, as he got up and looked over Eric's shoulder reading what was on the screen.
"What happened though? I remember lots of cussing and yelling before the vase."
"Well- uh," Eric hesitated and turned to looked at me. I saw that on the other side of his face he had a black eye. "David and I tackled Josh." This actually came as no shock to me.
"And where's David?"
"With his dad, your dad took Josh, and they're fixing their broken noses."
"Then what happened?" I tried to sit up but when I did I felt real dizzy so I just lay back down.
"Well, Ruth suddenly turned faces and started yelling at Josh; but I saw her wink at him so he won't be in any trouble. Heero was outraged. He's the one who carried you up here. And then afterwards he yelled at Josh for doing that, and then he yelled at David and me for tackling Josh." Eric explained
"Oh man. God I hate Josh. I hate Ruth! I hate this whole goddamn family!!" I burst gripping the comforter. I need to do something. I abruptly sat up, swung my legs over my bed, stood and started going for my door.
"Cindi, what are you doing?" Eric asked. I didn't have time to answer because before I could get to the door I felt dizzy again and my knees buckled. One of the two stopped me from hitting the ground, and then sat me back down on my bed. It was Tai.
"What are you doing? You have a concussion. You'll get dizzy fast."
"Thank you Captain Obvious." I sighed
"Where did you want to go?" Eric asked
"I want to go shopping." I stated. They gave me confused looks
"Shopping?"
"Yeah... shopping. I am a girl. Besides I need a new dress for the ball."
"Right. Well ok. Take these; get some sleep and tomorrow we'll go. It's a little to late right now." Tai said handing me some Excedrin (headache relief)
"What time is it?" they both looked at their wrists
"10:23pm" Eric answered.
"No, it's a quarter after." Tai corrected.
"I think not my friend."
"I think so buddy"
Just then David stepped in the room, with a bandage on his nose.
"-I" he said kind of muffled so I think he meant 'hi'
"Hi," I said back.
"–Ood you awake" he said again from his bandaged nose.
They stayed for about another hour, when Dad came in and told us to go to bed. After they left, he came in and talked to me a while. I asked him if the guys and me could go to the mall.
"Sure. Why don't you ask Kahea to go with you?"
"NO!"
"Ok, ok," he said backing off, "I'll drive you four to the mall tomorrow, and pick you up when ever you call. Deal?"
"Deal."
"Cindi, are you feeling better?"
"Yeah, Tai gave me some Excedrin and it feels a lot better." Suddenly he looked at me concerned.
"Are you happy?"
"Happy about what?"
"This life."
"You mean after you and Mom divorced?" He nodded. I looked him ready to tell him everything I ever felt about the divorce, but I saw this looked of urgency in his eyes that I've never seen before. I knew he loved Ruth. I never could figure out why... but he did. And apparently she loved him enough to deal with his temper (though I think hers is worse.) I couldn't do it.
"Of course I'm happy." I lied through my teeth, and smiled. "Some things are a bit out of line. Like what happened tonight but... I'm ok."
"Oh, good. I'm glad you're ok with it. Well you should be getting to bed. You have a big day of shopping ahead of you."
"Thanks dad. Goodnight"
"Night." Then he got up and left my room, softly closing the door behind him. I didn't even bother changing my clothes. I just laid down on my bed and drifted off to sleep.
Read chapter 5....
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