Chapter 6! I'm exhausted and you all better love me for actually updating tonight. No many how times I remind myself throughout the day, I always forget until after I get home from jazz band at 8:30. I don't have much else to say to you right now, I probably will at the bottom, though.
Chapter 6
MAX POV
When Ella, Ari, whom we had picked up from school, and I got out of my Prius, finally at home, I paged Anne on our sound system we had built into the whole house so we could find each other easier and not have to yell and told her we were home and that I was going to be in my room if she needed anything. Ari went into the kitchen to get a snack. I went down to get started on my homework and Ella followed me.
"Ella, what do you want? I'm going to start on homework. I don't really want the step monsters to find me when they get home."
"I just wanted to know more about Fang, and what Iggy said to him about me this morning." She said the last part a bit sheepishly.
"Oh, Ella. First of all Fang's pretty cool. He's in most of my classes. And he just said who you were, no big deal." Her face fell a little. "Okay, fine, he said that no, Fang could not date you and that I was extremely protective of you, plus a little more." I started smirking at the end, knowing she'd want to know what, but I wouldn't tell her.
"Tell me! Please! I'll do anything! And you seem very accepting of Fang, which is new. Is something going on between you two?" She started wiggling her eyebrows at me.
"No, oh, gosh, no. I just met him today! And you know I don't date." I was kind of thankful for the subject change, but not really since now she thought I was going to date Fang. No way! Well, maybe, someday. But no! Ew, boys!
"Well, just the way he asked for Iggy's number and then we all ended up exchanging numbers... Seems to me, he just wanted yours but didn't want to straight up ask for it."
What? "What? Why wouldn't he just ask me? And why would he even want just my number?"
"I think he likes you Max, and I think you like him too, and we are spending the night at his house Friday night. Which reminds me, we need to talk to Anne about that."
"Oh, gosh, that does not sound exciting. Asking her to spend the night at a boy's house? And..." I turned my head away from her, I was probably blushing. "Do you really think he likes me?"
"Max likes a boy, Max likes a boy." She chanted while running around the basement. The whole basement was my room. My dad had enough beds for all of us when he died, but most of the rest of my stuff, except clothes, was given to Lissa or Brigid after he died. That's when Anne had made me move down here. Now, I had my bed, a dresser that used to be my mom's, that Anne had tried to throw out, but I had Iggy pick it up and bring back over to put in my room when she wasn't looking, and some other things I had bought or found on the street, waiting to be thrown out. I had a couch that Iggy and I found on the street, some shelves Ella, Ari, and I had made one day, a table I bought really cheaply from Goodwill, a TV Ella got me for one of my birthdays, without Anne knowing, of course, and a guitar and keyboard Iggy had gotten me for birthdays. See, he only gets me a present every other or every three years, but it's always a present that is more expensive and I always love it so much.
Iggy is the only one at school, except for my family, who knows what my home is actually like. Sure, when I used to get rides home or get dropped off by the bus everyone thought my house was so cool and I was so lucky, but they didn't know that I had to clean the whole house and that I only lived in the basement, except for when I had to cook meals, which let me tell you, isn't really pretty. I'm not a very good cook, so most of the time I bribe Ella to do it, or sometimes I can get Anne's beauty consultant to do it if she's leaving at the right time. Anne is horrible to me, and everyone in this house knows it. Even Ari. But, I love little Ari with all my heart and I will always protect him. Since he's actually Anne's child, I don't have to worry about abuse or anything, but I do have to worry about getting him and Ella fed, getting them clothes, and getting them to bed and to school on time. Ari can ride the bus to school for free, but Anne refused to pay for it to bring him home, so I have to pick him up.
Once Ella left, I got to work on my homework. After a little while, Ari came down and sat on my bed and watched me work. When I finished the Pre-calc assignment I looked up at him. "Do you need something, babe?"
"Well, I was kind of getting hungry and was wondering if you would make mac n cheese for supper."
"Sure I will, bud." I lifted him off my bed and carried him up the stairs. "You're getting kind of big for this." I smiled at him and he smiled back. When we got to the top of the stairs he ran into the kitchen and climbed up on one of the stools. I looked around in the cupboards. There was no boxes of mac and cheese to be found. "Ughhhh. Anne, why can you not stock the cupboards every once in a while?" I groaned. Then I turned to Ari. "Do you want to go to the store with me? We need cereal, too."
"Yeah!" He did a little dance after he got off the stool, and I paged Anne again.
"Anne, Ari and I are going to the store. We don't hardly have any food. Do you want anything in particular?"
"No, Max. But could you just grab Chinese take out on your way back? It'll be faster than making dinner."
Ari yelled. "I want mac n cheese! No Chinese!"
"Ari, shush, she'll hear you! I'll have Ella make you mac n cheese when we get home, okay? I have to work." Yes, that is how I pay my way through everything. I have a job. It's at the local music store, FlyingBeats. I'm saving up for an electric guitar and the job gives me a discount for instruments and music, so it's a pretty good deal. I also get paid quite a bit, since I've been working there for three years.
Ari and I got into the car and drove off to the store. I let him pick out three boxes of cereal, he chose Lucky Charms, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, and Cheerios. Then I got five boxes of mac n cheese, a box set of Ramen, and some bags of frozen stuff that I could just heat up for dinner. I also grabbed a few frozen pizzas on the way out. Then we went to get the Chinese. When we left the Chinese place, I looked at my clock. It was already 5:30, I had to work at 6:15. Looks like I won't be getting a chance to eat tonight.
I went in and paged the whole house that dinner was ready. When I pulled up, I had seen the twin bugs (yellow and red) in the driveway, so I knew the twins were home. I had Ari set the table and then I put everything out. When Ella got down, I told her that if Ari didn't eat the Chinese, she could make him mac n cheese when the step monsters went away. She said that she would and I ran down to my room to change into my work clothes. Then I ran out the door and was off to work.
So that one just kind of talked more about Max and her family, next one will probably introduce one of the more important OCs, but I don't plan on using them as important main characters or anything. I love Ari! He's so adorable, except for when he is an eraser, of course. Drama will come soon! Just hang in there and don't forget to review! See you next week, amigos!