Hey! Here's the second chapter! R and R plz! Oh, btw, Dejichan4444 is my
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Chapter Two

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Ronnie and Abie walked in to the house around five. "We won!" Abie yelled.
Ronnie took the DVD out of the movie camera and slipped in into the DVD
player. Everyone gathered around the TV and watched Abie's team beat Carl's
team.

Elena and Bailey joked about how Ben was so angry when his team didn't get a
home run. Bailey had d Ben for who knows how long. It was funny how all
of them going to the same school made us know all of the same people.

For the first time, it was as if the four s got along, and joked, just
like their mothers. When we were finished Bridget came and picked up Abie
and her sister Jenna at five. Then Tibby called and asked if Bailey could
stay for the night, she was working late. And then Lena came and picked up
Elena and her little sister Anita.

It was dinner. Ronnie's father was home and all of them were gathered around
the table. Chris, Ronnie's father, was telling Carmen about how he had
recently had to do some extra work on the bug that was going around eating
up people skin and was curable. Ronnie could tell that Bailey was
uncomfortable, she kept scratching her face. Yet this was a normal
conversation in that house, mostly having to do with Chris' work as a
doctor.

Before bed Carmen decided that Bailey would sleep on the trundle bed in
Ronnie's bedroom. As the s were getting ready to go to sleep Bailey
said, "How do you live with so many people?" She asked suddenly.

"Easy, whenever I get fed up, I got to my room and make a small recording on
how I feel. I like having my own room. Mom is nice because I'm the oldest. I
have to help out a lot though." Ronnie said. She jumped on her bed and
opened her book, A Filmmakers Guide to Film.

"At least your parents can afford a big house, Mom can barely afford our
townhouse, just because her documentaries cost so much. And I just wish that
I knew who my dad is. I feel like I know one half of my heritage, what is
the other?" Bailey said, "Mom never talks about him at all, all I know is
that he heard 'I'm pregnant' and left. And they never ever got married.
Otherwise there is a part of Mom's life I'm clueless about."

"I knowing that the Hispanic part of me is after me. You can see 'the
Carmen' in me and I it." Ronnie said.

"At least you know," Bailey mumbled, "At least you know."