don't blame me [eli "hawk" moskowitz]

THREE. MOTHER MARJORIE

CHAPTER THREE: MOTHER MARJORIE
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     WAKING up to her phone ringing, startled Molly as she sat up on Eli's couch. The three teens had all fallen asleep on Eli's couch, all of them piled on top of each other. The girl untangled herself from her two friends as she grabbed her phone off of the ground where it had fallen at some point during the night. She answered it without looking at the caller ID, pressing the phone to her ear.

"Hello?" The girl's tired voice carried through the phone.

"Molly, it's Grandpa Sid. I just bailed your father out of jail again. I'll be stopping by soon to have a talk with him and I expect to see you there," the man spoke loudly, the girl having to hold her phone a few inches away from her ear.

"I'll be there, Grandpa," Molly assured him as she wiped the sleep from her eyes. "Thanks for bailing him out. Again. I really appreciate it."

"This is the last time I'm doing this. I'll see you soon, Molly."

"See you soon, Grandpa," the girl set down her phone once the call was dropped. "Eli, wake up."

She shook her best friend awake, smiling at his confused expression as he sat up. He asked Molly what was going on and she explained the situation to him, beginning with her father getting arrested for fighting Kyler and his friends to the phone call she just had with the man's stepfather. The boy lightly scolded her for not telling either him or Demetri sooner about Johnny's latest arrest but still got up to help her clean up and get ready to leave.