Chapter 13: Changes Part 1

Christine and David get home. David goes right to his room.

When Kate and Jake get home, Kate tells Jake to go to the livingroom.

"You can't ground me I'm already grounded." Jake said to her.

"I'm grounding you for another week." Kate told him.

"I'm grounded for three weeks now?" Jake asked her.

"Do you want to make it a month?" Kate then asked him.

"But, Mom." Jake pleaded with her.

"No buts, Jake. Now, go upstairs." Kate told him.

"Fine but, David started it." Jake told her as he went upstairs to his room.

At Don's practice Jesse shows up in full gear.

"I thought you quit?" Don asked him.

"I can't let my team down." Jesse told him.

"That's what I like to hear." Don told him.

"I'm playing for the team not you." Jesse told him as he went to go practice with his team.

Practice runs smoothly and Don doesn't go overboard.

On the ride home from practice Jesse doesn't talk to Don the whole way home. They get home and Christine tells Don what David did.

Don goes up to David's room. Don knocks on his door.

"Come in." David told him.

Don walks into his room.

"Before you ground me I just want to tell you Jake started it." David told him.

"David, your mom told me that she grounded you for two weeks." Don said to him.

"Don't you think that's unfair?" David asked him.

"No, I think that's pretty reasonable." Don told him.

"Dad, he started it." David told him.

"I don't care. Jake is your friend." Don told him.

"He was my friend." David then told him.

"He still is your friend. You two just had a fight that was it. All friends fight." Don then told him.

"Fist fight?" David then asked him.

"Of course fist fight. If friends stopped being friends because of an argument they might as well be boyfriend and girlfriend." Don then told him.

"We got into a fist fight not an argument." David told him.

"And you guys stopped being friends because of that?" Don asked him.

"No, it started last night." David told him.

"What happened last night?" Don then asked him.

"Jake said that you were a drill instructor with your team and blamed you for starting the feud between his dad and you." David told him.

"You guys stopped talking because of me and Tom?" Don asked him.

"Yeah." David replied.

"I didn't know that this whole feud would affect you guys." Don then told him.

"Dad, I'm not trying to be disrespectful but, how in the world did you not know that this feud between you and Mr. Baker would affect our friendship with the Bakers?" David asked him.

"I don't know why." Don replied.

"Again not to be disrespectful but, you care more about beating Mr. Baker then you do your own sons." David told him.

"You're right David." Don told him.

"Say that again?" David then asked him.

"You're right. I did care more about beating Tom then my own sons but, that's going to change." Don said to him.

"I hope so Dad." David said to him.

"I'll go over there and try to talk to Tom again." Don told him.

"Dad, don't. Remember the last time you tried that?" David asked him.

"That's true. I just made things worse." Don said to him.

"I think you should go talk to Jesse now." David said to him.

"You're like your mother." Don told him.

"How?" David asked him.

"Telling me what to do." Don replied.

"I'm sorry Dad." David said to him.

"Don't be. Your mother is always right when she tells me what to do." Don then told him.

"So that means I'm right also?" David then asked him.

"If I'm going to talk to Jesse you must be right." Don told him.

"Before you go, am I still grounded?" David asked him.

"Yeah." Don told him as he left his room.