Hope you like this one I'll try to finish Chapter 4 by monday It will get
better I promise.
Now And Then 2: Before And After
Chapter 3 - Roberta and Scott
Roberta was riding her bike to her house, she had planned to go out with Chrissy, Teeny and Sam to watch a movie from Teeny's roof since it gave a perfect view to the screen, they sometimes watched the movies from there to make up the story, after all Roberta didn't wanna stay much at home listening to her brothers and watching their endless fist fights, and besides homework was her least favorite thing to do. Roberta hadn't forgotten what happened that summer of 1970, in Samantha's grandmother's attic where she found the article about her mother's car crash and realize that her father had lied to her, it was later that she understood why her father had told her another story, her father didn't want her to know the truth because it was to painful to remember, and he didn't want her to have the image of her mother dying so terribly and painfuly, but still she always kept the picture of her mother with her, she never left her house without it and the copy of the article, she had learned that life moves in strange ways beyond her comprehension but it didn't mean that her perspective of life had changed, everything was like Teeny once said "It's normal for things to be shity".
After changing her clothes and freshening up she left her house and when she was about to get on her bike, Scott Wormer appeared infront of her, Scott Wormer was one of the four Wormer brothers who had always been the enemies of her and the girls, everybody felt sorry for their mom, but not the girls, they were often pestered by these boys and the most memorable payback was when Roberta, Sam, Teeny and Chrissy found them in a lake swimming butt naked, and they took their clothes and underwear and forced the Wormers to run around the highway picking up their trousers. Scott one night came around when Roberta was shooting some hoops and then they kissed, since then she had been secretly interested in him, of cours he did want to be more than friends with Roberta but her difficulty to express that kind of feelings seamed more like not wanting to accept them, and basically because she was embarrased about it for the Wormers where their enemies for so long and she just happened to be in love with the oldest one of them, she always denied it but part of her was tired of doing it. Scott Walked towards her, and stopped three feet away from her.
- "Hi" - Scott said and Roberta stepped away from her bike.
- "What are you doing here?" - Roberta asked faking to be cold to him.
- "I wanted to see you" - Scott replied smiling at her.
- "And what do you want to see me for?" - Roberta asked looking down.
- "Well I think it's obvious, I like you Roberta" - Scott said.
Upon hearing this Roberta went slightly red and looked up at him.
- "B-but, if this is about the kiss forget it Scott it was a long time ago" - Roberta replied.
- "No it's not about the kiss, I do like you for real, and I know you like me" - Scott said.
- "What makes you think I like you?" - Roberta asked faking disgust.
- "Come on, If you don't like me, how come you're blushing?" - Scott replied.
Roberta to this point didn't know what to say, she had Scott staring at her face, smiling at her looking great, much better than that summer when they kissed, she was trying to fight it again, she took a deep breath and tried to be cool.
- "I have to go, I'm gonna be late, so get out of my way" - Roberta finally said.
- "You haven't answered my question" - Scott said.
- "I don't like you Wormer, so get out of my way wimp" - Roberta said as she got on her bike and then she rode away, Scott only smiled and walked away.
Later that day Samantha, Teeny, Chrissy and Roberta were sitting on the roof of Teeny's house, they were joking and laughing at the movie and Teeny's made up dialogs between the stars of the movies, then they went to the tree house and sat there, Samantha told them everything that happened at the coffee shop and that she now had a boyfriend, she was happy, and her friends were happy for her, they knew that it was a good thing for Samantha and besides Raphael seemed a good guy; on the other hand Roberta was a little bit uncomfortable, she kept thinking about what she said to Scott, she knew it wasn't right, she felt like she should have told him the truth, but what was done, was done and there was no turning back.....or maybe there was she thought about telling Scott the truth at school tomorrow but she knew that to do this she had to tell her friends first.
- "Scott came by my house today" - Roberta said.
- "And what did he want?" - Chrissy asked.
- "He said he liked me" - Roberta answered.
- "And what did you say to him?" - Teeny asked and Roberta looked down.
- "I blew him off" - Roberta answered.
- "Roberta, truth or dare?" - Samantha said out of the blue.
- "Truth" - Roberta said.
- "Do you like Scott Wormer?" - Samantha asked and Roberta turned red.
- "What kind of question is that?!" - Roberta demanded.
- "Come on Roberta, say it, we won't tell" - Chrissy said.
- "I.... it's just that... alright yeah I do" - Roberta said.
- "Then why did you blow him off?" - Samantha asked.
- "Come on Samantha, it's Scott Wormer, he is the enemy, he always was" - Chrissy said.
- "But why does he still have to?" - Teeny asked.
- "Yeah I think that's up to you Roberta, if you like them then we can negotiate a truce" - Samantha said.
- "I don't know guys, I just don't know what to do, I mean come on it's me we're talking about here, I've never been in a situation like this" - Roberta said grabbing her hair and throwing it back.
- "Then I'll quote Teeny on this one "Go with the flow", if you feel strongly about him then tell him, we support your decision, whatever it is, right Chrissy?" - Samantha said and Chrissy turned her head and nodded.
- "Thanks you guys" - Roberta said.
As a result of that conversation Roberta spent much of the night thinking about telling or not telling Scott how she felt, after too much thinking she decided to tell him, but now the problem was finding the words to tell him, she wasn't very good at it since she had never done it, but then she remembered Samantha's words go with the flow, just let go, she said to herself. The next morning at school she noticed that Scott wasn't in Math, she asked her friends if they had seen him but none of them had seen him, she decided to go to his house after school, and she did, she went to his house on her bike and knocked on the door and Scott oppened it.
- "Hey, what are you doing here?" - Scott asked her smiling.
- "I... came to see how you were doing, you know because you cut school today" - Roberta said.
- "I'm fine, I just had to do somethings for my mom" - Scott replied.
- "Ok, well I'll see ya" - Roberta said, she felt like she couldn't do it but Scott stopped her.
- "Why are you really here? I don't think you just came to see why I didn't go to school today" - Scott said and Roberta turned to him.
- "I...just... I lied to you" - Roberta said.
Scott closed the door behind him and walked towards her.
- "About what?" - Scott asked.
- "When I... said I didn't like you, because I do" - Roberta said feeling like the weigh of the world was finally off her shoulders.
- "Are you joking with me?" - Scott asked looking surprised.
- "No, it's the truth, I didn't want to accept it, because, you know that I've never been in this kind of situation before so it's difficult for me to express..." - Roberta said and just before she could finish Scott walked to her and kissed her.
- "So, this just leaves one question" - Scott said.
- "And what is it?" - Roberta asked.
- "Would you like to me to be your boyfriend?" - Scott replied.
- "Alright" - Roberta answered and Scott smiled at her and she smiled back, and they kissed again.
- "Come on, I'll walk you home" - Scott said, and he took Roberta's bike and they walked together holding hands.
To be Continued...
Now And Then 2: Before And After
Chapter 3 - Roberta and Scott
Roberta was riding her bike to her house, she had planned to go out with Chrissy, Teeny and Sam to watch a movie from Teeny's roof since it gave a perfect view to the screen, they sometimes watched the movies from there to make up the story, after all Roberta didn't wanna stay much at home listening to her brothers and watching their endless fist fights, and besides homework was her least favorite thing to do. Roberta hadn't forgotten what happened that summer of 1970, in Samantha's grandmother's attic where she found the article about her mother's car crash and realize that her father had lied to her, it was later that she understood why her father had told her another story, her father didn't want her to know the truth because it was to painful to remember, and he didn't want her to have the image of her mother dying so terribly and painfuly, but still she always kept the picture of her mother with her, she never left her house without it and the copy of the article, she had learned that life moves in strange ways beyond her comprehension but it didn't mean that her perspective of life had changed, everything was like Teeny once said "It's normal for things to be shity".
After changing her clothes and freshening up she left her house and when she was about to get on her bike, Scott Wormer appeared infront of her, Scott Wormer was one of the four Wormer brothers who had always been the enemies of her and the girls, everybody felt sorry for their mom, but not the girls, they were often pestered by these boys and the most memorable payback was when Roberta, Sam, Teeny and Chrissy found them in a lake swimming butt naked, and they took their clothes and underwear and forced the Wormers to run around the highway picking up their trousers. Scott one night came around when Roberta was shooting some hoops and then they kissed, since then she had been secretly interested in him, of cours he did want to be more than friends with Roberta but her difficulty to express that kind of feelings seamed more like not wanting to accept them, and basically because she was embarrased about it for the Wormers where their enemies for so long and she just happened to be in love with the oldest one of them, she always denied it but part of her was tired of doing it. Scott Walked towards her, and stopped three feet away from her.
- "Hi" - Scott said and Roberta stepped away from her bike.
- "What are you doing here?" - Roberta asked faking to be cold to him.
- "I wanted to see you" - Scott replied smiling at her.
- "And what do you want to see me for?" - Roberta asked looking down.
- "Well I think it's obvious, I like you Roberta" - Scott said.
Upon hearing this Roberta went slightly red and looked up at him.
- "B-but, if this is about the kiss forget it Scott it was a long time ago" - Roberta replied.
- "No it's not about the kiss, I do like you for real, and I know you like me" - Scott said.
- "What makes you think I like you?" - Roberta asked faking disgust.
- "Come on, If you don't like me, how come you're blushing?" - Scott replied.
Roberta to this point didn't know what to say, she had Scott staring at her face, smiling at her looking great, much better than that summer when they kissed, she was trying to fight it again, she took a deep breath and tried to be cool.
- "I have to go, I'm gonna be late, so get out of my way" - Roberta finally said.
- "You haven't answered my question" - Scott said.
- "I don't like you Wormer, so get out of my way wimp" - Roberta said as she got on her bike and then she rode away, Scott only smiled and walked away.
Later that day Samantha, Teeny, Chrissy and Roberta were sitting on the roof of Teeny's house, they were joking and laughing at the movie and Teeny's made up dialogs between the stars of the movies, then they went to the tree house and sat there, Samantha told them everything that happened at the coffee shop and that she now had a boyfriend, she was happy, and her friends were happy for her, they knew that it was a good thing for Samantha and besides Raphael seemed a good guy; on the other hand Roberta was a little bit uncomfortable, she kept thinking about what she said to Scott, she knew it wasn't right, she felt like she should have told him the truth, but what was done, was done and there was no turning back.....or maybe there was she thought about telling Scott the truth at school tomorrow but she knew that to do this she had to tell her friends first.
- "Scott came by my house today" - Roberta said.
- "And what did he want?" - Chrissy asked.
- "He said he liked me" - Roberta answered.
- "And what did you say to him?" - Teeny asked and Roberta looked down.
- "I blew him off" - Roberta answered.
- "Roberta, truth or dare?" - Samantha said out of the blue.
- "Truth" - Roberta said.
- "Do you like Scott Wormer?" - Samantha asked and Roberta turned red.
- "What kind of question is that?!" - Roberta demanded.
- "Come on Roberta, say it, we won't tell" - Chrissy said.
- "I.... it's just that... alright yeah I do" - Roberta said.
- "Then why did you blow him off?" - Samantha asked.
- "Come on Samantha, it's Scott Wormer, he is the enemy, he always was" - Chrissy said.
- "But why does he still have to?" - Teeny asked.
- "Yeah I think that's up to you Roberta, if you like them then we can negotiate a truce" - Samantha said.
- "I don't know guys, I just don't know what to do, I mean come on it's me we're talking about here, I've never been in a situation like this" - Roberta said grabbing her hair and throwing it back.
- "Then I'll quote Teeny on this one "Go with the flow", if you feel strongly about him then tell him, we support your decision, whatever it is, right Chrissy?" - Samantha said and Chrissy turned her head and nodded.
- "Thanks you guys" - Roberta said.
As a result of that conversation Roberta spent much of the night thinking about telling or not telling Scott how she felt, after too much thinking she decided to tell him, but now the problem was finding the words to tell him, she wasn't very good at it since she had never done it, but then she remembered Samantha's words go with the flow, just let go, she said to herself. The next morning at school she noticed that Scott wasn't in Math, she asked her friends if they had seen him but none of them had seen him, she decided to go to his house after school, and she did, she went to his house on her bike and knocked on the door and Scott oppened it.
- "Hey, what are you doing here?" - Scott asked her smiling.
- "I... came to see how you were doing, you know because you cut school today" - Roberta said.
- "I'm fine, I just had to do somethings for my mom" - Scott replied.
- "Ok, well I'll see ya" - Roberta said, she felt like she couldn't do it but Scott stopped her.
- "Why are you really here? I don't think you just came to see why I didn't go to school today" - Scott said and Roberta turned to him.
- "I...just... I lied to you" - Roberta said.
Scott closed the door behind him and walked towards her.
- "About what?" - Scott asked.
- "When I... said I didn't like you, because I do" - Roberta said feeling like the weigh of the world was finally off her shoulders.
- "Are you joking with me?" - Scott asked looking surprised.
- "No, it's the truth, I didn't want to accept it, because, you know that I've never been in this kind of situation before so it's difficult for me to express..." - Roberta said and just before she could finish Scott walked to her and kissed her.
- "So, this just leaves one question" - Scott said.
- "And what is it?" - Roberta asked.
- "Would you like to me to be your boyfriend?" - Scott replied.
- "Alright" - Roberta answered and Scott smiled at her and she smiled back, and they kissed again.
- "Come on, I'll walk you home" - Scott said, and he took Roberta's bike and they walked together holding hands.
To be Continued...