SkaterGirl

Chapter Seventeen

For the first time in a long time, I slept through the night. When I opened my eyes, Ms. Ames was watching the news. She looked at me and smiled. "Morning sunshine, how did you sleep?"

"Good," I sat up.

"I called in for the both of us," she said.

"Why?" I asked.

"To get a break from the school. Plus, it's your birthday! We should do something fun," she said and hugged me. "Happy birthday!"

I laughed. "Thanks."

"So what do you wanna do?" She looked at me.

I shrugged. "I have no clue."

"Well, do you wanna go out and see a movie, shop, or we could stay here, eat junk food, and watch movies here," she shrugged.

"Uh," I shrugged. "We can stay."

"Okay," she said. "What do you want for breakfast?"

"I'm not hungry," I said.

"You don't have to eat a lot. Just some. I can understand how it'd be hard," she said.

"Cereal, I guess," I gave in as I stood.

"No it's okay, I got it. Want Cheerios?" She asked.

"Sure," I said.

She made me and her a bowl and she scrolled trough the movies. "See any you like?"

"Oh, there's 50 First Dates," I said. "Have you seen it?"

"Yes, I loved it. Wanna watch it?" She asked.

I nodded and she put it on.

"Thank you," I told her.

"No problem, sunshine," she said.

I loved this movie so much. When I was done with my cereal, I put my bowl in the sink and sat back down. Ms. Ames finished her cereal and put her bowl in her sink, too. She came back and I shrugged and focused my attention on the movie.

When it ended, I shrugged again. "Now what?"

"Well, tell me some happy stories from when you were a kid," she said.

I thought about it. "One time I was five or six, and my mom was doing my hair for school and singing, so I would sing with her, and one day she recorded us and she played it for my dad, and it was sweet."

"Do you still sing?" She asked.

"Oh, no," I laughed. "I sound horrible."

"Me too. My dad told me one time I couldn't sing and I was, like, eight at the time," she laughed.

I shook my head. "That's funny."

"How'd you meet the boys?" She asked.

"I'd decided I'd had enough of my dad, one day, so I started to run away. They saw me on my board and said I should stay and show them a few tricks. Been inseparable ever since," I shrugged.

"That's good," she smiled.

I hugged her and she laughed. "You okay?"

"I'm not sure," I tried to laugh.

"It's okay," she rubbed my back.

There was a knock at the door and she went to answer it. She came back with a cake. "Delivery," she laughed.

"You didn't have to--"

"I know."

"I didn't know you could deliver cakes," I said.

"Certain places do," she said. "Now let's eat again, huh?" She laughed.

I did too and she really made this a really good birthday.