Chapter Two: A Family Dinner Disaster

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An idea came to my mind and the pizza guy will have a name

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An idea came to my mind and the pizza guy will have a name.


Ryleigh arrived back home, and the officer was still at her place she was getting a bit  anxious that he wasn’t gone. "You’re still here?" The officer looked back at the oldest and before he could talk, the doorbell rang. 

Ryleigh opens the door and realized that it was a familiar face to her. "Troy, come in." She let Troy in her house, and closed the door behind him. 

"Okay, that's $122.50." Troy said to the officer. 

"Troy, he doesn’t live here." Ryleigh said.

"Oh, you just around for the holidays?" Troy asked the officer. 

"I guess you could say that." The officer said.

Uncle Frank came to the entrance and took the pizza from Troy. "Hey, pizza's here!" 

"There you go. That’s $122.50." Troy said. 

Frank cringed and said. "It’s my brother's house. He’ll take care of it."  All kids go into the kitchen. 

"Hey, listen..." The officer begins but stopped. 

Ryleigh then realized something but 
Peter went up to the door. "Hey." Peter shook the officer's hand. 
"Hi. Are you Mr. McCallister?" The officer asked. 

"Yeah." 

"The Mr. McCallister who lives here?" The officer asked.

"Yes." Peter slowly answers.

"Good, because somebody owes me $122.50, Mr. McCallister." Troy said to Ryleigh’s father. 

"Hey, Troy." Peter says to the teenage boy, who had been to their house a couple times for studying with Ryleigh for tests or exams. "How are things at home?" 

Troy went to speak up but the officer stopped him from talking. "I’d like a word with you, sir." The officer said. 

"Am I under arrest or something?" Peter asked, a bit nervous. 

"No, no, no, no. It’s Christmas time. There’s always a lot of burglaries around the holidays. So we’re just checking the neighborhood to see if everyone's taking the proper precautions; that’s all." The officer said and Ryleigh somehow didn’t believe him. 

"Oh, yeah. Well we have automatic timers for our lights, locks for our doors. That’s about as well as anybody can do these days, right? Did you get some eggnog or something like that?" Peter asks and Buzz came up behind his dad. 

"Come on, Dad. Let’s go eat." Buzz says and took his dad away.  

Kevin came running down the stairs. "Listen, are you going to be leaving...?" The officer was cut off by Kevin shouting. "Pizza! Pizza! Pizza!" Kevin had grabbed Ryleigh’s arm and pulled her away which made her wave at Troy and mouthed. "I’ll be back." 

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