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I Was on the phone with Maya.

"May?"

"Wassup?"

"Did you get your report card?" I asked.

"Yeah I'm tost what about you?" Maya questioned.

"I totally choked my daddy is going to go ballistic on me."

"Mr hall was way harsh." Maya responded. Maya and I met up in the hallway. "He gave me a C minus.

"He gave me a C which drags down my entire average."

"Bye." Maya waves her hand goodbye at me .

"I'll call ya, OK?" I asked.

"Yeah." Maya went to her next class, along with me.


Riley's House


Isn't my house classic? The columns date all the way back to 1972. Wasn't my Mom a betty? She died when I was just a baby. A fluke accident during a routine liposuction. I don't remember her, but I like to pretend she still watches over me.

"Hey, Ma. 98 in geometry. Pretty groovy, huh?" I was talking to the portrait of my mother. "Yuk! Uh, the maudlin music of the University station." I gagged. "Yuh, what is it about college and cry-baby music?" I asked Lucas.

"Hey, who's watching the Galleria?" Lucas asking, when I knew it was him watching it.

"So, the flannel shirt deal. Is that a nod to the crisp Seattle weather, or are you just trying to stay warm in front of the refrigerator?" I questioned. Lucas grabs my stomach to try to tickle me, it didn't work.

"Oo, wow. You're filling out there." Lucas the creep stated.

"Wow. Your face is catching up with your mouth." I commented

"I went by Dad's office." He Mumbled

"He is not your Dad. Why don't you torture a new family." I was serious. I put a carrot in my mouth.

"Hey, just because my mother marries someone else, doesn't mean he's my father." He growled

"Actually, Kato, that's exactly what it means." I noted. We both enter the lounge, we sat on the cough.

"I hope you're not thinking of staying here." I prayed.

"I sure want to." Lucas boomed.

"I'm sure you do." Riley badgered.

I've got a place in Westwood, near School.

"Shouldn't you go to school on the East Coast? I hear girls at N.Y.U. aren't at all particular." I declared.

"Hahaha, you're funny." Lucas Joked. He changed the channel to the news.

"Hey! God, you just got here and already you're playing couch Commando!" I pushed him off the cough

"Hey! In some parts of the Universe, maybe not in Contempo Casual, but in some parts, it's considered cool to know what's going on in the world." He commented.

"Thank you, Lucas. I so need lessons from you on how to be cool. Tell me that part about Kenny G again?" I asked him.

"C'mon you chuckleheads, get in here!" Daddy shouted from the dinner table. We went into the dining room.

"Lucas, are you still growing? You look taller than you did at Easter." Daddy asked

"I don't think so." Lucas replied

"Doesn't he look bigger?" Daddy asked.

"His head does." I replied back to Daddy.

"So, Josh, have you given any thought to our little discussion about Corporate Law?" Daddy questioned Lucas

"Yeah, you know, but I think I'd really like to check out Environmental Law." Lucas gave a smile.

"What for? Do you want to have a miserable, frustrating life?" Lucas's smile went down.

"Oh, Lucas will have that no matter what he does." I laugh

"At least he knows what he's doing. And he's in good college. I'd like to see you have a little bit of direction." He looked at me.

"I have direction." I grumple

"Yeah, towards the mall." Lucas laughed.

"Which reminds me, where's your report card?"

"It's not ready yet." I looked at Daddy.

"What do you mean, "it's not ready yet?" Daddy was giving me the death glare.

"Well, some teachers are trying to lowball me, Daddy. And I know how you say, "Never accept a first offer", so I figure these grades are just a jumping off point to start negotiations." I stated. He looked at me like i did something good.

"Very good." I smile, that he agreed. One of our phones start to ring.

"Maya?" I asked, no one was on the line.

"Yeah?" Lucas picked up but no one was there. We look at my Daddy.

"Hello? Yeah, Jake, what? NO! Not the afternoon." Daddy picked up, his phone was the one whose rung

"You are such a brown-noser." I granted.

"Oh, and you are such a superficial spacecadet. What makes you think you can get teachers to change your grades?" He joked.

"I told you I wanted it in the morning! Doesn't he understand? In the morning." Daddy was saying to a man, we can hear him in the background.

"Only the fact that I've done it every other semester." I got up and left.

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