Chapter 5: The Parental Units
Momma Oranik told Ell that is just how some people act, and sometimes you need to keep away from those types of people, but Ell liked her new found friends, and enjoyed their company. Whenever Sirius and Ell found time to hang out they were almost always accompanied by one or more of Sirius' friends. The ones who tagged along most were Sly, Peg, and Drat, although Drat was not always welcome, because sometimes he did not know how to act mature. Also he did not sense when people needed their space like Sly and Peg did. Sly and Peg understood when Sirius or Ell said no, they just wanted to spend alone time together, but obviously it did not really sink into Drats' head, because he always wanted to tag along.
There was a short pause in the time when Sirius and Ell were able to see each other, and Ell wanted to be able to meet Sirius' parents, the next time she saw him. Well her opportunity arose when he had a sporting event at his school. He was a wrestler, and they had a meet. Since Ell really did not have any plans, Ell asked Poppa Oranik to drive her to Sirius' school. Sirius' also asked his parents if it would be cool if Ell came over. Since both parties were agreed, Ell made the arrangements to be at the meet.
Originally, Ell was going to have her father drive her over to Sirius' house, but things changed. After the meet, Ell was waiting for Sirius to come out of the boys' locker room, while her father was looking at the schools trophies. Also he noticed two people, a man in an argyle sweater, and a woman with blonde hair. He told Ell that those were probably Sirius' parents. She looked them over and said, "I don't think those are his parents…" When Sirius came out she went up to greet him, and asked if that couple was his parents. When he replied, yes, she nearly had a panic attack. She was extremely nervous to meet his parents. She had never ever felt this way about meeting anyone, why were these people so different? Sirius introduced his parents to Ell, and to Poppa. "Why didn't you tell us they were coming, we would have had them sit with us," Mrs. Buckhold inquired. "Well to be completely honest, I wasn't sure if they were coming here or going to meet us at our house." Poppa Oranik asked if it would be fine to leave Ell, and if they would not mind giving her a ride home. It was not a problem, and they departed ways, Poppa leaving Ell in the care of Mr. and Mrs. Buckhold.
They arrived at Sirius' house, and Mrs. Buckhold started asking Ell questions about herself, her school, and just gathering background information. Ell was really nervous, and Mrs. Buckhold picked up on this in a way, but appeared to shake off what she was thinking and was going to say. In a way, Ell could sense that Mrs. Buckhold did not really like her, although she gave no indication of being a negative person, or even a bad influence. Maybe Ell was too worried about impressing Mrs. Buckhold to be herself; maybe she was worried about what Mrs. Buckhold was thinking about her to be herself, whatever it was, Ell was not her normal, perky, talkative self. Sirius ran downstairs to turn on the heater for the basement, and then ran up to take a shower. Mrs. Buckhold cooked some hot dogs for Sirius and Ell, and when Sirius was taking too long his mother yelled up the stairs for him to hurry up. Ell commented that when she yells, Mrs. Buckhold is exactly like her own mother. "You sound exactly like my mother, when I take too long, my mom always yells at me to hurry up." "Well he does have company, and it's rude to keep your company waiting, plus his food will get cold." When Sirius came back down, his mother said that his father and her were going off to the store, and told them to stay in the basement and watch movies or play video games.
Ell and Sirius played a few games, then popped in a movie called, "Solitude" in which Sirius ended up falling asleep in the chair he was sitting in. When Mr. and Mrs. Buckhold returned, Mrs. Buckhold cooked up a pot of chili, and Ell woke up Sirius. Ell offered her assistance to Mrs. Buckhold, but Mrs. Buckhold kindly declined. Sirius went to the refrigerator and retrieved a drink for Ell, and another for himself. Mrs. Buckhold talked to Ell for a while just getting to know her a bit. When Ell and Sirius were done with their chili, they went back downstairs and played some more video games. During one of the Sword fights, Drat called Sirius and told him to come over. Ell and Sirius met up with Drat and Sly at the end of Sirius' driveway. Ell had given Drat and Sly the breakdown of how she totally annihilated Sirius in the sword fight. When Sirius began to disagree, she tackled him into the grass, and they had a wresting match of their own. Ell totally won, and from that moment on, Sly knew Ell was not someone he would want to anger, but for some reason that flew over Drats head as well.
They all chilled at Drats house until about 9:30 at night, when Mrs. Buckhold called and said that Ell needed to go home, they had something going on the next day. Mrs. Buckhold drove Ell home, and Sirius tagged along. Sirius fell asleep in the back seat, along with Ell. Both had a pretty hard day, Sirius more than Ell. Ell thanked Mrs. Buckhold for the ride, and said goodnight to Sirius.
As the school year continued to come to a close, Ell and Sirius were able to spend more time with each other, but also began heading back to Grape Lake for work. Before they knew it, Prom was upon them. At Ells' school, Sirius was unable to attend so, Jean-Sean Contour offered to go with Ell when he found out she did not have a date. Slowly she obliged, as everyone would assume they were dating again. At Sirius' prom, Ell and Sirius went together, for probably one of the most memorable nights of their life. At prom, they danced crazily together, hung out with Sly and his date, Carla. They had a great time, and headed to Sirius' house to prepare for the school sponsored after prom. Mrs. Buckhold was there, and Ell was a bit nervous for Mrs. Buckhold to see her prom dress. Mrs. Buckhold turned on all the lights in the house, made Ell walk around and took a gander at her prom dress, then she made Ell and Sirius stand next to each other so she could take pictures.
Since Mr. and Mrs. Buckhold were sponsors of the After-Prom, they had to leave, and left Ell and Sirius alone. Ell changed in a spare bedroom, Sirius changed in his own. Mrs. Buckhold left them with one rule, No hanky-panky… Well Ell and Sirius were bored, so they chilled up in his room, looking at anime, going on myspace and the like. As time went by, they became even more bored, and so they lay down next to each other and tried to take a nap. As they were teenagers, their hormones did not take long to begin kicking in. It would not be much longer that they could contain themselves, and break the only rule given to them. Slowly they deteriorated their wills and morals slowly down grading. Ell wanted to play a little game, but settled for dancing like a stripper, and that is just what she did. Things in the room began heating up, and the layers of clothing were removed, ironically to the song "Hot In Here". They wrestled, pushed each other down, and just were acting like total animals. The time flew by, both off into their own worlds, some place no one could break them from. It was the two of them together, no one else. No one else was invited, no one else would be allowed in. The time quickly flew by, and Sirius receives a call from his mother asking if they were on their way to the school yet or not. A bit angry that they were disturbed from their euphoria, Ell and Sirius obliged, re-got ready, and headed toward the school. After-Prom was full of games, gambling for "foreign money", karaoke, basically a dream world of fun. Ell and Sirius sang a song together Karaoke, Sirius sang one by himself, and Ell sang another by herself. The together one really sucked, and Mrs. Buckhold told them never to sing together in public ever again. Ell was a beast on the fighting game. A person stood on a pedestal, had a heavy padded, double-sided, baton, and the object was to knock the other person down twice. Ell dominated Sirius, came at Sly and won once, and Drat was too afraid to even come within ten feet of Ell.