Chapter 2
I know, it's been a very long time since I updated, and that was for two reasons, one being the cold that hit me a few days after I posted the last chapter, and the other reason was that I had a lack of inspiration.
I'm sorry.
Marty put his foot on the back of his skateboard and then got off it quickly, the motion making the skateboard jump a bit, Marty quickly grabbed it and started walking to the house. He remembered that he needed his dad's car to take Jennifer out the next day.
So he looked to his right, only to be disappointed. His dad's car was completely totalled at the front, no doubt the engines are bust now. And without an engine, a car won't work.
"I can't believe you loaned me a car, without telling me it had a blindspot! I could've been killed!" Marty heard a voice scold, he immediately recognised it to be Biff Tannen, his father's supervisor at work, and he thought he heard once that Biff was also George's old bully back in school.
"Now now Biff, now, I never noticed any blindspot before when I was driving it." George attempted to calm Biff down his voice quiet, like he was, and still is a wimp. He then looked at Marty and greeted "Hi, son."
"But, are you blind McFly? It's there. How else do you explain that wreck out there?" Biff asked, getting angrier
George decided to change the subject instead of answering, asking "Now, Biff, um… can I assume that your insurance is going to pay for the damage?"
Biff burst out right then, shouting "My insurance! It's your car! Your insurance is gonna pay for this!" He then lowered his tone and continued "And I wanna know, who's gonna pay for this?" He pulled his shirt toward George slightly, then let go that garment before recalling "I spilled beer all over it when that car smashed into me. Who's gonna pay for my cleaning bill?"
"Uh…" George didn't know what to say, but then was interrupted
"And where's my reports?" Biff asked
"Uh… well… I haven't finished those up yet. But I figured, since it wasn't due till…" George stopped talking, and started laughing in nervousness
Biff started knocking George's head as one would do to a door, asking "Hello? Hello? Anybody home? Think McFly! Think!" He then exclaimed, then he continued with "I gotta have time to get them retyped! Do you realise what would happen, if I handed in my reports in your handwriting?" He said 'my' and 'your' with emphasis, he answered his own question, "I'll get fired, you wouldn't want that to happen, would you?" Then he pushed his face closer to Georges and almost hissed "Would you?"
"O…of course not Biff! Now I wouldn't want that to happen. Now, uh, I'll finish up those reports by tonight and I'll run 'em over to you first thing tomorrow… alright?" He became very nervous now
But he calmed down considerably after Biff replied with "Hey, not too early I sleep in on Saturdays." Then he looked down and jumped back a bit as if realising something "Oh, McFly, your shoe's untied", the former school-wimp looked down to see if they actually were, but then Biff smacked his chin. Biff chuckled, as George started laughing again, as if getting a joke, "Don't be so gullible McFly" Biff sighed in a tone of mock-disappointment.
Biff took a can of light beer from the fridge, then left, telling Marty to say hi to his mom, for Biff.
"I know what you're gonna say son, and you're right" He nodded "You're right. But Biff just happens to be my supervisor, and… I'm afraid I'm not very good at confrontations." George sighed, as Marty and George both started walking to the dining room.
"The car dad, I mean… he wrecked it, totalled it. I need that car tomorrow dad…" He then sighed and asked "I mean, do you know how important this was, do you have any clue?"
"I know, and all I can say is, I'm sorry" George tried to apologise.
The two sat at the table with their family. There was Marty's mother, Lorraine, who was still in the kitchen, and his two siblings his elder brother Dave, and his elder sister Linda.
"Believe me, Marty, you're better off nothing to worry about all the aggravation and headaches of playing at the dance." George advised
"He's absolutely right, Marty. The last thing you need is headaches" Dave agreed. Marty resisted the urge to roll his eyes, it was as if he was the only normal person in this family.
Lorraine, a plump woman who probably looked older than she was came in with a cake, looking solemn. "Kids, we're gonna have to eat this cake by ourselves, Uncle Joey didn't make parole again, I think it would be nice, if you all dropped him a line." She advised this time.
"Uncle Jailbird Joey?" Marty asked, a chuckle in his tone
"He's your brother mom." Dave sighed
"Yeah, I think it's a major embarrassment having an uncle in prison" Linda replied, using that half-sarcastic tone most teenage girls used.
"We all make mistakes in life, children." Lorraine sighed, as she sat down on her chair and started eating her food, along with everyone else.
It was a few moments, before Dave slightly lifted his fist and bought it down on the table, standing up with wide eyes.
"God dammit, I'm late!" He exclaimed. Late for work, which would be unusual had he been working for someone else instead of McDonalds, where he worked.
"David, watch your mouth!" Lorraine scolded, then she requested "You come here and kiss your mother before you go, come here"
"C'mon mom, make it fast, I'll miss my bus." He groaned, and then turned to his father, "Hey, see you tonight Pop." He kissed his father's head, only to find it oily, he then teased "Woo, time to change that oil."
George then laughed as he repeated Dave's words, Marty nodded his head, Linda glanced up and looked at Marty, remembering that she had to tell the guy something.
"Hey Marty, I'm not your answering service. While you were outside, pouting about the car, Jennifer Parker called you twice." Linda told Marty, who glanced up at the mention of his girlfriend who he was supposed to pick up at the night
"I don't like her" Lorraine sourly said, as she continued "Any girl who calls a boy is just asking for trouble!"
"Oh mom, there's nothing wrong with calling a boy." Linda would have nodded her head had it not been her mom she was talking to.
"I think it's terrible. When I was your age, I never chased a boy, or called a boy, or sat in a parked car with a boy" She lied, though that was unknown to her children.
"Then how am I supposed to meet anybody?" Linda asked, not knowing any other alternative.
"Well, it will just happen. Like the way I met your father." Lorraine answered, briefly glancing at George, who was laughing his head off at the black and white TV show.
"That was so stupid. Grandpa hit him with the car" Linda complained, knowing that the story was going to come up
"It was meant to be" Lorraine choked out, then continued "Anyway, if Grandpa hadn't hit him, then none of you wouldn't been born", Marty had no idea how important that statement was going to be to him only a few days after.
"Yeah, well, I still don't understand what Dad was doing in the middle of the street." Linda replied
"What was it George, bird watching?" Lorraine sternly asked
George, who was still laughing, heard Lorraine talk. Though he didn't understand what she was saying, he knew that his wife was saying something. He turned to Lorraine.
He then asked "What Lorraine, what?", cluelessly, seeing that Lorraine didn't say anything, he went back to the show
"Anyway, Grandpa hit him with the car and brought him into the house." Lorraine's tone then took a pitying one "He seemed so helpless, like a little lost puppy, my heart just went out for him."
"Yeah Mom, we know, you've told us this story a million times. You felt so sorry for him so you decided to take him to the Fish Under the Sea Dance" Linda finished for her mom, half-sarcastic
"No, it was the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance. Our first date." She became serious once again and noted "It was the nice of that terrible thunderstorm" Everyone in the room knew what thunderstorm she was talking about, the 1955 thunderstorm that damaged the clock on the Clock Tower. She turned to George and asked "Remember George." She saw George engrossed in the TV show, so she went back to talking to her kids, she said "Your father kissed me for the very first time on that dance floor. It was then I realised I was going to spend the rest of my life with him." Lorraine finished, as the dinner ended.
Linda was the first to stand up, immediately going to her room, Marty made a short glance at her, as he finished the last spoon of his food and also stood up. George turned to his plate and noticed that he was also finished. He stood up and went to the couch so he could finish the TV show he was watching.
Lorraine sighed, life could have gone better, but that's the way things have gone. Though, what she didn't know that her life was gonna get better, despite she won't see it for herself.
Marty went to his bedroom, and remembered his conversation with Jennifer, he was supposed to pick up her from her grandma's house, and then head to Twin Pines Mall to see Doc, and possibly even Einstein, his dog.
Marty jumped on the bed, forgetting to take off his jacket even. He just went to sleep, wondering how was he supposed to escape.
Marty's consciousness and senses reactivated at the sound of ringing, the telephone in his room. He groaned, feeling a bit tired. He looked out the window, to see that the sun had not risen yet. The phone continued ringing as Marty remembered why he woke up. His hand shot out and quickly grabbed the phones speaker and microphone. He put it on the side of his face.
"Hello." Marty tiredly greeted
The voice of Doctor 'Doc' Emmett Brown asked "Marty, you didn't fall asleep, did you?"
Marty was able to shake the tiredness off his voice and quickly answered "Uh Doc, uh no. No, don't be silly." Marty's tone sounded teasing.
"Listen, this is very important. I forgot my video camera, could you stop at my place and pick it up on your way to the mall?" Doc requested
"Um… yeah, I'll be on my way with Jennifer" Marty accepted the request, only a few seconds later did he realise what he just said.
"Jennifer? What's she in with this?" Doc asked, a bit confused
"Oh yeah… Doc, I might have told her that you were gonna do an experiment, and she wanted to come." Marty clarified, a bit nervous
"Well, doesn't hurt to have another. Okay, she can come, but make sure it's only you two." Doc put down the phone he had, a click sound went on Marty's device.
He put down his phone, and then looked around. He eyed his skateboard, which was right next to his guitar. He stood up as fast as he could, which was hard due to the fact that he just woke up. He grabbed his skateboard, and lifted the window's door up, he looked down to see the edge of the roof and the ground. He could easily jump, he did not fear heights, unlike a certain boy almost 30 years in the future.
Which he did. He slid out the window with his skateboard, slid on the roof and then jumped off the edge, landing on the ground with a soft thump. He walked a few steps from the house, and then began riding his skateboard, heading for his girlfriend's house.
It took a few minutes, but he managed to get to Jenn's grandma's house by 1:15, where Jennifer was standing on the lawn with her own skateboard, even in the dark, she looked beautiful.
"Hey Marty" Jennifer softly greeted, the two met for a brief kiss.
"Hey Jenn." Marty checked his hand, and saw that he had the video camera on it. He smiled, he then looked back up and smiled "We need to get going, Doc might be worried if we don't make it"
Jennifer giggled at that comment, as she got on her own skateboard and they both rode to Twin Pines Mall.
Jennifer wondered what the experiment would be about, but what she did know is that it would most definitely be interesting. All of Doc's experiments were.
Yup, that was the chapter! There was a small reference in the chapter. About myself… yeah… Anyway, hope you enjoyed the chapter, and hopefully the next chapter is equally as good. I swear it won't take this long to get the next chapter out!