Chapter 9: Here We Go Again
Don goes over to the Bakers house and rings the doorbell. Mike answers the door.
"Hi Mr. Calenti." Mike said to him.
"Hey Mike. How are you?" Don said to him.
"I'm fine. How are you doing?" Mike asked him.
"I'm doing good. Is your dad around?" Don asked him.
"I'll go get him." Mike told him as he went off to get Tom.
Tom walks to the door.
"What's up Don?" Tom asked him.
"I wanted to see if you would put the feud between us aside for the moment and let your kids hangout with my kids." Don said to him.
"You came over here to make me look bad in front of my kids?" Tom asked him.
"No. I just want our kids to be friends even though we aren't." Don told him.
"I want our kids to be friends." Tom said to him.
"Then why won't you let them hangout with my kids?" Don asked him.
"Your kids might try to get my kids to tell them my game plan." Tom said to him.
"My kids don't care about the game this weekend. They just want to be friends with your kids." Don told him.
"What about Jesse? I saw the way him and Lorraine acted around each other the other night." Tom said to him.
"Jesse has nothing to do with this." Don told him.
"He'll use Lorraine as a way to get to my game plan." Tom said to him.
"My son wouldn't do that. He doesn't care about your game plan. All he cares about is seeing your daughter." Don told him.
"Then after this weekend he dumps her?" Tom asked him.
"Tom you're paranoid. I don't even know why I even tried to talk to you?" Don asked him.
"Why did you then?" Tom asked him.
"I thought that you wouldn't act like this and come to your senses." Don told him.
"Maybe it's you who should come to his senses." Tom told him.
"I'm not the one punishing my kids because we have a football game this weekend." Don replied.
"Are you saying that you're a better parent then me?" Tom then asked him.
"As of right now I am the better parent." Don told him as he walked away.
Tom slams the front door in frustration.
Don walks back into his house.
"What happened?" Christine asked him.
"Tom wouldn't change his mind." Don told her.
"I'm sure Kate will talk some sense into him." Christine told him.
"He did me a favor by not letting his kids hangout with ours." Don said to her.
"How did he do you a favor by doing that?" Christine asked him.
"I was going to do the same thing. Now, I don't have to. He did it for me and now he looks like a bad dad and I don't." Don told her.
"You two need to put this feud behind you before something bad happens." Christine told him.
"What could happen?" Don asked her.
"The kids could turn against you and hate you forever." Christine explained.
"I think Tom's kids all ready hate him." Don then told her.
"And ours would of hated you if you told them they couldn't hangout with the Baker kids." Christine told him.
"They wouldn't of hated me. They would of understood what I told them. They listen to me unlike Tom's kids." Don told her.
"You don't even know your own kids anymore." Christine told him.
"I know my kids." Don replied.
"Then where is Jesse going tonight?" Christine asked him.
"Nowhere he's staying here tonight." Don told her.
"He's going to the mall to hangout with friends from school." Christine told him.
"Okay you got me on that one. I'll drive him there." Don said to her.
"He wants me to drive him." Christine then told him.
"Why doesn't he want me to drive him?" Don asked her.
"He won't tell him." Christine replied.
"That's strange he always told us everything." Don said to her.
"Ready to go Mom?" Jesse asked her as he came downstairs.
"Sure Jesse." Christine said as her and Jesse walked out the door.
Christine drives Jesse to the mall. Jesse goes into the mall and meets Lorraine for their date.