Chapter 11: Things Get Worse

Don takes Jesse home. When Jesse gets out of the car he slams the car door. He walks into the house and slams the front door.

"What's wrong Jesse?" Christine asked him.

"Dad, he acted like a jerk at the mall." Jesse replied.

"You were at the mall?" Christine asked him with an angry look on her face.

"I know that look. Don't give me that look." Don told her.

"You deserve this look." Christine told him.

"Dad, I can't believe you would do that. I thought you trusted me?" Jesse asked him.

"I do trust you. I don't trust that Baker girl." Don replied.

"Dad, this thing between you and Mr. Baker has to stop." Jesse told him.

"Jesse I don't want you seeing that girl ever again." Don told him.

"You can't do that!" Jesse yelled at him.

"As long as you live under my roof you'll live by my rules!" Don then yelled at him.

"Don you should think this over." Christine told him.

"I am thinking this over. I don't want my son going out with his daughter." Don told her.

"Dad, don't expect me to play this weekend because as of right now I quit the football team!" Jesse yelled at him as he went to his room and slammed the door.

Christine sighs and gives Don a dirty look.

"What is it now?" Don then asked her.

"Did you ever read the play Romeo and Juliet in high school?" Christine asked him.

"Who and who?" Don then asked him.

"It's a tragic play about two young lovers who kill themselves because their families are feuding and they can't see each other." Christine explained to him.

"What does that play have to do with any of this?" Don then asked her.

"Jesse and Lorraine are just like Romeo and Juliet. They both love each other and have to see each other in secrecy because of you and Tom." Christine explained to him.

"Jesse is just a little upset right now. He'll come around." Don told her.

"I don't think he will." Christine told him.

"Trust me he will." Don said to her as went to give her a kiss.

"Don't you dare. I'm angry with you right now." Christine told him as she pushed him away.

At the Baker house. Kate and Tom are now arguing.

"Tom I can't believe you would something like this." Kate told him.

"I was Don's fault." Tom said to her.

"Nothing would of happened if you and him weren't acting like children." Kate told him.

"What's that suppose to mean?" Tom asked her.

"It means that this whole feud you two have going, has gone on long enough." Kate told him folding here arms.

"He always starts it." Tom told her.

"And you don't do anything to end it." Kate told him.

Jake is overhearing this argument and goes to his room to call David.

"Hello?" David said as he answered his cell phone.

"It's Jake." Jake replied.

"What's up?" David then asked him.

"Nothing much. How about you Dude?" Jake asked him.

"My Dad and Mom just got into an argument because of what my Dad did at the mall." David explained.

"Mine too. I wish that my Dad and your dad would just stop fighting." Jake said to him.

"Why does your dad have to start everything?" David asked him.

"My Dad? How about your dad?" Jake then asked him.

"What about my Dad?" David asked him getting annoyed.

"Your dadtakes football too serious." Jake replied.

"So, does your dad." David replied.

"My Dad doesn't treat his players like they're going to war." Jake told him.

"My Dad doesn't act like a drill instructor!" David yelled into the phone.

"Whatever Dude. I don't even know why I bothered to call you!" Jake yelled back into the phone.

"Then why did you?" David asked him.

"Because I thought you were my friend!" Jake yelled into the phone as he hung it up.

Jake throws his cell phone on his bed. David hangs up his cell phone and and also throws it on his bed.