In The Moore's Apartment Room, Elizabeth sits at the dining table completely mortified. The reason? Three of her also uncomfortable classmates – Ronnie, Alex, & Marcus – got invited to dinner here by Elizbeth's very insistent mother.
"So you're in high school right?" Nolan Moore, Elizabeth's Irish father questions.
"Uh yes, we're all the same grade," Alex says, "Or at least I think we are?"
"We are," Elizabeth sighs.
"I see, well our son Hai has been fascinated with high school," Nolan remarks.
Elizabeth's younger brother who's in middle school, Hai Vhan Moore, shrugs.
"Aw don't be shy Hai," Elizabeth's Mom, Lan Thi Pham-Moore insists.
"I'm not being shy," Hai states, "Those kids are."
Hai points at Elizabeth who has her hands on her head, Marcus who is glancing around the room, Alex who is looking down at his plate, and Ronnie who is drinking some water very slowly.
"Say this water is great, best water I've had," Ronnie blurts.
"Oh thanks but it's just tap water," Misses Moore giggles.
"Well, it's great tap water," Ronnie tries to recover.
Silence falls onto the table, trying to think of a way to lighten the mood, Misses Moore recalls something.
"Say Alex, how's your mother been doing?" Misses Moore asks, "She hasn't been showing up to the book club meetings recently."
"Oh her? She's been doing fine," Alex replies in between bites, "Still applying to new jobs."
"Oh I see, hopefully she can find a job soon."
"Uh, yeah...me too."
As silence falls on the table again, Elizabeth's younger sister manages to scoop some of the food off of Marcus' plate onto hers.
"Nhung you're not allowed to eat off someone else's plate!" Misses Moore scolds her young child.
In response, Nhung picks up her plate and slides the food back atop of Marcus's.
"Uhhh thanks," Marcus states.
As things finally begin to settle down, Elizabeth lets out a quiet sigh of relief. Dinner's almost over and with that, they can leave and pretend this all never happen-
"Hey, what's that?" Ronnie questions as he looks at the giant book sitting atop one of the counters.
No.
"Oh this," Mister Nolan Moore remarks, "It's our...."
No no no no no-
Nolan grabs a hold of the book before opening it and answering, "Our family's scrapbook!"
Elizabeth's face flushes red with embarrassment before she tries to slide out of her chair and underneath the table. However, after seeing her mother's cold gaze, she gets back into her chair.
Also embarrassed by the whole situation, Hai gets up from the table and walks away saying, "I gotta go to the bathroom!"
Nolan opens up the scrapbook and begins showing off several of the stuff inside.
He points to a coin that is taped to it and says, "This is how we decided who got to name the kid."
"He got to name our Eli while I had to name Hai & Nhung," Misses Moore adds.
"I see," Alex says as he hides a chuckle.
Giving up on escaping, Elizabeth decides to just put her head down on the table and pretend words aren't coming out of her parent's mouths.
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The Miracle Clinic
Adventure[NEW CHAPTER EVERY THURSDAY!] Do you believe in miracles? Well for two high school students named Marcus Veridan & Ronnie Everst, they certainly do as they've managed to make a club all about making miracles happen. Despite the club struggling to fi...
