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Goodbye – Chapter Eleven

Dinner At Tiffany's

"Ugh. We're having dinner with her later." Maddie said as she glanced at Tiffany. Tiffany's been annoying her ever since Tuesday. She and Ghoul are pissed. Of course, he can't do anything since Tiffany's a girl and he has respect for girls.

"Why?" Sam asked, making a face.

"Tess invited us over." Maddie said. She turned to Ghoul. "You think I can fake sick?"

He laughed. "I've seen you try. You're no good. We're not getting away from it."

"Damn." She murmured.

"Hey, can I stay here?" someone asked from behind Maddie. She turned around to face David.

"Aren't you supposed to sit with Tiffany?"

"Yeah, well, everyone needs a break, right?" he said, sitting down beside Ghoul.

Maddie turned around to see Tiffany glaring at them.

There was going to be one heck of a dinner tonight.

-x-

"Madeleine Selena Michelle Russo, get down here!" Mitchie yelled from the bottom of the staircase.

Maddie slowly trudged down the stairs.

"Oh stop being such a baby." Mitchie said.

"I don't want to go." Maddie whined. Mitchie just raised her eyebrows. Okay, maybe my plan is wrong. Being a whiny baby is not the way to get out of this.

"Fine. I'm going." Maddie said as she made her way out of the front door and into the car.

"Come on Maddie, we just have to suck it up." Ghoul whispered.

"I feel like a pushover."

-x-

"Mitchie! Shane! Nate! Jason! Ella!" a blonde woman said from the doorstep of the Tyler home.

"Tess!" Mitchie and Ella cried, running to Tess and giving her a hug. Everyone walked towards them.

"Are those your twins, Nate?" Tess asked.

"Yeah. Maddie and Ghoul." Nate answered.

"Hi! I'm Tess Tyler. You can just call me Tess. No 'aunt' thing. It sounds so weird. Aunt Tess." She said sweetly. Maddie and Ghoul smiled at her, not knowing what to say.

"So, are you guys just going to stand there? Everyone's in! Caitlyn, Peggy, Lola, Baron and Sander!"

"What is this? A reunion?" Shane asked as they made their way in.

"Pretty much."

"Hey!" people yelled as they came in.

"How are you?" Caitlyn asked Maddie and Ghoul. They met Caitlyn earlier in the week. She's Connect 3's and Mitchie's producer.

"I'm good. Maddie doesn't want to be here." Ghoul said.

"Why?" she asked.

"I'm not saying." Maddie said.

"Let me guess." She checked left and right to see if anyone was paying attention to them. They were all busy catching up. "Is it someone named Tiffany Tyler?" she murmured.

"How'd you know that?"

"I've had experience with a Tyler."

"Tess?"

"Yeah. But now we're all good."

"Tiffany thinks I'm stealing her man."

"Is this going to turn into girl talk?" Ghoul interrupted.

"Yeah." Caitlyn said.

"Okay. I'm going to go to Shane now." He said then left.

"What do you mean by 'stealing her man'?"

"There's this guy in school, David Hamilton, and she likes him. He's been spending a lot of time with us lately and Tiffany's getting pissed because she thinks I'm going to take David away from her."

"Does David like Tiffany?"

"Nope, but Tiffany is practically obsessed with him."

"Does David like you?"

Maddie shrugged. "Dunno. My friends say yes, but I don't know."

"Do you like David?"

It took Maddie a little while longer to answer that. Finally, she nodded.

"You've got to let him choose. Not Tiffany."

"Dinner time!" Tess answered.

Caitlyn winked at her.

"So, how was girl talk?" Ghoul asked.

"Fine." She answered while sitting down on a chair beside Mitchie at the dining table. Ghoul sat beside her.

"Tiffany! Dinner!" Tess called out.

A few minutes later, Tiffany was there and sitting at the only chair left, the one opposite Maddie.

No one noticed them glaring at each other during the whole dinner. Except for Caitlyn and Ghoul.

After dinner, everyone made their way to the backyard except for the three teenagers.

"I told you to stay away from David." Tiffany said.

"He was the one who went to us." Maddie said calmly.

"I don't care. Just stay away from him."

"You know what? I won't. I can make my own decisions. You don't control me or him."

"Whatever. He'll get tired of you anyway. You're nothing but a bunch of losers. Is that why your mom doesn't want you?"

"What did you just say?!" Ghoul said.

"I said, your mother doesn't want you. That's why you're here."

"Don't talk about my mother." Maddie hissed.

"Don't tell me what to do! I can talk about your mother all I want!"

"That's it. You have crossed the line. No one talks about my family. I'm sick and tired of hearing that annoying voice of yours. Shut up, or you're going to get it." Ghoul said. In French. Obviously, Tiffany didn't like the fact that she couldn't understand what he just said.

"What did you just say? You are such freaks. All of you are freaks. Your dad got someone pregnant at the age of sixteen. Your mom is a slut who got pregnant at sixteen. Both of you are mistakes."

That set them off. One mention of Alex and both of them will get mad. Fortunately, Maddie had more sense than Ghoul. She put her hand on his shoulder. "Don't do anything. Let me deal with this." He obediently fell back.

Maddie stepped up to Tiffany. "If I was a mistake, why does David like me and not you?" she hissed.

Tiffany eyes narrowed. "He likes me."

"Get over yourself. You're not that great." Maddie said before dragging Ghoul out.

"Seriously, if she doesn't stop, I don't know what I'll do. I'll forget she's a girl and…" he trailed off in French.

"No. Don't do anything. I'll handle this one. Mom taught you to respect girls and not hurt them." Maddie murmured.

"I'll forget that she's a girl if she says anything about Mom."

"No! She told you to freakin behave yourself!"

Just then, Mitchie heard them talking and realized that they were speaking in French.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing." They answered at the same time.

Eh. I hate Tiffany.

Haha. I hate her but I made her up.

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