𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 | rodrick

ch. 11

mom bucks
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the deal susan had made with her sons seemed to be going great. only for one of them. rodrick was able to find so many ways to mess up the innocent things they were supposed to be doing. once cynthias mum, allison, found out about the system, she wanted in too. now they would be paid to hang out with eachother.

while cynthia was trying to do it the right way, rodrick was pushing her in the opposite direction. she was told to just come with him and ben to pick up their younger siblings and see why its fun. Cynthia and ben squished into one seat, firing constant insults at eachother as they did. rodrick showed no interest in their arguing as they screamed at eachother for the whole drive to the school.

as they pulled up, rodrick rolled down their window and leaned over. the music came to a stop as the children stared. blair and alex just whispered to eachother and laughed as greg looked terrified.

"get in." rodrick said firmly.

"why? what are you doing here?" greg asked.

ben and cynthia arguing turned to whispers as they tried to keep it quiet now.

"mom said she would pay me some mom bucks if i drove you home from school. cynthias mom said the same for her."

"we'd rather walk."

"get in. now!" rodrick raised his voice.

although he wasn't even talking to her, cynthia flinched from the yell. greg slid the van door open and looked at all of the junk. there were no seats for the children to sit in and they looked in confusion. alex looked at stuff even he couldnt recognize and pointed some out to blair. rodrick stepped out once he saw the kids hesitating to get in and pushed them inside. alex knew of rodricks horrible driving and left his sister to suffer as he grabbed onto cynthias arm. greg, rowley, and blairs screams were heard as the teenage boys talked of what they would do for the upcoming talent show.

as they pulled up to the heffleys house, rodrick stumbled out and balanced himself on the vehicle. the children were let out of the van and they all nearly ran to the house. ben and cynthia began their arguing once again.

the three went up to rodricks room as the two continued screaming at eachother. rodrick ignored the two and pulled out his phone to text eloise to come calm ben down. rodrick and cynthia sat on his bed and ben faced them in the chair nearby. they werent always like this to eachother but the screaming just went on forever.

rodrick got sick of it and reached up, grabbing cynthia with his hand over her mouth and pulling her down. she spoke into his hand but eventually gave up and ben relaxed. cynthia passed out in the bed and rodrick held onto her with s blank expression on his face. it was a friday afternoon and he most definitely did not have time for this.

the weekend consisted of both cynthia and rodrick trying to get mom bucks any way possible and it worked. now on a sunday morning when the heffleys and hardings were headed to church, something may happen.

allison and her husband, michael, walked inside with the hills family. cynthia and her siblings followed shortly behind with alex and blair still being twins, whispering and giggling over stupid things. cynthia looked over at where rodrick was standing and he looked back, a smile on his face as he did so. she lifted her hand slightly as a wave to him and he did the same.

"stop staring at your boyfriend, cmon." blair dragged her sister along.

they entered the church and found their seats, cynthia telling her family she wanted to go with rodrick. they let her go so she waited for the heffleys to enter. as they did, she ended up right at rodricks side. his fingers intertwined with hers while they listened to all of the church stuff. (i dont go to church idk whats happening)