Walk The Line With Me

Chapter 4-Dinner Disaster

Aonung POV

(Hours Before after school)

I watched as the new kid walked off to his car and drove off. I felt anger rise in my body, I had never been turned down by anybody. I walked over to my sister and by closest friend, Rotxo. They seemed to be smiling and talking about something.

"What's going on here you two? Why in such good spirits?" I asked, looking between the two. "You two seem too happy on a Monday. And I don't like it."

They looked at me and my sister started to laugh. I glared at her as we got into Rotxo's Jeep and drove home. I told her about everything that happened with that new kid and she swatted he hand at me.

"Aonung, you idiot! You really thought being a prick to impress your basketball and swim buddies was the best way to go about talking to Lo'ak's brother to get closer to him? You really expected him to say yes to going to a diner with you?" She looked at me with a disappointed scowl.

"Yes! I honestly did! It's worked before on other people! I didn't think this guy would be different," I groaned looking out the window. I was embarrassed by my sister being right, but I couldn't look past my own pride. I don't know when I learned to, but I surely didn't push past my pride when I needed to most. "He made his choice. And he made the wrong one."

My sister sighed and looked and took the aux cord to the car and started playing some Beyoncé song. Her and Rotxo started to sing along and I put in my ear buds. I wished they realized they were tone deaf.

We arrived at me and Tsireya's home and the three of us went inside. My mother and father greeted us and asked us to come into the kitchen. We glanced at each other before going to meet them.

"So, Tsireya told me that we were invited to eat over at a new friend of her's house for dinner tonight. So we are all going to eat there tonight. You too Rotxo, you were invited as well," my father stated, sitting at the table. Tsireya and Rotxo were thrilled, but I couldn't help but groan and go get ready to go.

(Back at the Sully's for dinner)

I was sitting across from the boy I had asked out earlier that day. I had to relearn his name by memorizing what his family called him. He glared at me from his seat as he put food on his plate, then his youngest sister's. I could tell he was close with his siblings, much closer than me and Tsireya at least.

"So, Neteyam," my mother had began looking at the boy, "I saw some awards in the living room on the wall with your name on them. May I ask what they are for?"

"Ahh. Those are for archery. I won those when I was on the team for my old school. I was ranked number one in the district. I applied to a more higher up team here in town. It can take me to better competitions and get really good scholarships to colleges," he said. I could tell he loved archery by the way he talked about it. He seemed incredibly passionate about it. I was able to relate to that feeling.

"That's incredible kid! Aonung here is on the school swim team and basketball team, but I don't think he has ever talked about his sports like you talk about archery," My father said, looking at me with a small smile.

"He just said he was on a school team. Let's be honest, they probably came from some small town that had like three kids on the team and he was the one able to actually hit the target!" I blurted out, staring him down.

"Just because he turned you down, doesn't mean you can be a dick to him! He works hard every day to hit bullseyes. So you can shut your mouth!" Lo'ak spat, looking at me. He was now standing and we just eyed each other. You would have thought we were going to fight.

Lo'ak POV

I stared at Aonung, anger fueling the fire raging in my blood. He had no right to say that to my brother's face. Those were fighting words and if he wanted one, he would get one. Tsireya called out to me.

"Lo'ak, please sit down. Right. Now," my father scolded, looking at me. He then looked at Aonung, "I think you need to refrain from saying such things to my kid. I don't tolerate that in my house."

I looked at Neteyam, and he was looking down at his plate of food, pushing his meal around. I put a hand on his shoulders. His body slouched and informal. I have told him to loosen up many times before, but I didn't expect him to now.

"But it's true! I mean look at them! She doesn't even look like she's theirs!" Aonung exclaimed as he pointed at Kiri. "And he's just weird, he doesn't talk to people at school. He's an anti-social freak!-"

And he was cut off by his mother who shouted, "That is enough Aonung! Go wait in the car! We are leaving!" Tsireya and Rotxo got up as well and headed outside with Aonung. Their mother and father apologized to us and especially Neteyam.

"I am truly sorry, Neteyam. He should've never said those things to him. I hope to see you again Sullies," Their father said, walking towards the door with his family.

He had an apologetic look in his face as they left. I looked at Neteyam and felt bad for how this whole event went. I knew he was going to have a bad day at school tomorrow, but I could have never predicted how bad it really was.

[I just realized I've had this in the drafts for a few months. Soooo sorry I haven't updated. I've had a crazy summer vacation. Been going to school to prep classes, film, my great grandpa died, we put my dog down. I'm posting this the day before I start my Senior year of high school. I will try to push out chapter 5 today as well. Love y'all!!!!!]