Dwayne Hoover- little miss sunshine

Chapter 2

          I head over to Dwayne's house to have dinner with them, Well that and to hangout with Dwayne. I walk in without knocking as Sheryl said I didn't have to and I didn't want her to get mad at me again. I walk in to see a almost empty home. I can hear Olive's music and her and her grandpa talking. I walk over to Dwayne's room where he is doing sit-ups. I stand there in his door way until he is done. He finishes and turns to me and grabs his notepad and writes, "how long have you been there?" "For about 15 sit-ups" I say as I walk over to his bed and sit down. He comes over to his calendar like thing and writes down some numbers, and smiles at me though the mirror.

I laid down on the bed as Dwayne walked over. He laid next to me and we just stayed there in silence. I looked over at him and admired his prettiness.

  "You wanna go star glazing tonight?" I asked as we did that every weekend. He smiled and nodded his head.  He moved his hand over to my cheek. Our breaths in sync, my face getting red as well as his. We lay there for who knows how long. I wish I could stay here forever. Then we hear the front door open, his hand leaves my face and so does his warm to grab the book next to the bed. I move to the end of the bed so Sheryl doesn't think anything.

You could hear Sheryl talking to a unknown voice as they go closer to the room. Her and a man walk in, I have seen that man before in her old family photos in the hall and living room.

      "Hi dear," She says to me then looks over to the man "You can sleep in here with Dwayne, don't worry me and him talked." It's funny because Dwayne hasn't talked in months. He took my hand and we talked out the room. Dwayne continue to read as I sat there on the couch reading the page that he was. By this time Richard had come home and was taking about some random guy.

         "Dwayne, honey can you go get the chicken from the car? And Frank and MJ can set the table." So that was the man's name, Frank. Dwayne kept reading and grabbed my hand. I closed my fingers over his and continued to read to page with him.

      "Dwayne I told you to get the chicken," he lets go of my hand and stands up as I do. He goes out to the car as I set the table. I sit at the table waiting for everyone else. Dwayne comes back with the chicken and goes to get Frank. He comes back and we start playing tic-tac-toe again and that's when Frank walks in.

"Frank you can sit next to MJ. Here the salad and I'll go get some sprite for everyone," she walks out of the room to go get Olive and Frank sits next to me.

"So who do you hang out with Dwayne?" Frank asked as Dwayne flipped the page to write. "I hate everyone" was written on the page but I didn't take offense to it as he really did hate everyone.
"What about your family?" Dwayne underlines everyone "you even hate MJ here?" Dwayne shakes his head no and smiles a bit at me and I smile back.

"Frank, hey!" Richard said as they went in for a awkward handshake. "Richard.." "Good to see you."
I filled the page back to tic-tac-toe as the older men sat in silence. Then Richard got up to go get Olive as Sheryl walked in.
"Want some sprite guys?" I said yes as well as Frank.

"I could help noticing Dwayne has stopped speaking," Frank said as Sheryl filled his and my cup up. "Oh, yeah, he's taken a vow of silence." "He wants to join the Air Force academy and be a test pilot, so he has taken a vow of silence until then," I say with a smile on my face and I can feel Dwayne's knee touching mine but neither of us move. Right after I finish Olive runs in and hugs Frank and I give her a fist bump. She walks over to he chair and sits down.

"What happened to your arms?" Olive asked with a gasp. "It was just a little accident, it's okay," Frank said to Olive. I hadn't even really noticed his wrist until now and now sitting next to his man I had realized what he tried to do. Richard tries to change the topic by asking about Olive's routine. As they do Edwin, her grandpa walks in. "It needs a few more days. What's that? Chicken? Every night with the chicken!" Edwin continue to yell about the chicken.
Finally Richard gets him to calm down and they start talking about a place called Sunset Manor.

"So when did you start the vow?" Frank asked
"Been nine months, Frank. He hasn't said a word," Richard response. "Not one. I think it shows tremendous discipline." "Richard," Sheryl says as he stares at him. Me and Dwayne roll our eyes knowing what's about it happen. "I think we could all learn something from Dwayne. Dwayne has a goal. He has a dream. May not be my dream, may not be yours, it's he is pursuing it with great conviction and focus. In fact, I was thinking about the nine steps-" "for crying out loud!" Edwin says as he cuts off Richard with I was thankful for.

"The nine steps and how Dwayne is utilizing seven of them in his personal quest to self-fulfillment." At this point I try and blank out so I won't have to hear the man ramble about the nine steps like he always does.

"How did it happen?" Olive takes me out of the blanked out trance. "How did what happen?" Frank responded like he was blanked out like me. "Your accident," Sheryl tries to distract Olive but it doesn't work. "It's ok, you can tell her" Frank says "alright then, um, uncle Frank didn't really have an accident," I look over at Richard to see a shocked face on him, "What happened was he... tried to kill himself," I was shocked as well as everyone else looked. "you did? Why?" Olive responded in shock.

" I don't think this is appropriate for a kid, let's just finish dinner." "Why did you want to kill yourself?" Olive asked as I wonder the same thing.

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