We start to head down the highway with music playing in the background as we are driving. Amelia turns the volume of the music down a little "Who do you think your Dad was talking to? Or why did your brother randomly bust through the front door and then run like a scared dog when we said that your dad was on the phone with somebody?" "I don't know, maybe Alex did something bad at school like get into a fight and he thought that Dad got a call from the school" "Do you think he was?" "Was what?" "Talking to Alex's college" "I don't know but Dad sure looked nervous when he opened the door and saw us on the other side" "Yeah, I noticed that too he looked scared like we weren't supposed to know that he and somebody got in a yelling match with each other" "Well by the sounds of him yelling he was pissed off at the person so I don't know if it would be Alex's collage or not maybe it was a colleague of his?"
"Yeah". We pull into the parking lot at the mall, get out, and enter through one of the side stores called Imaginative Ink. It's one of Amelia's favorite stores because you pay a small fee and you get to paint and do all kinds of neat crafts. We normally go into this store first then we head to Trendy Threads, and Chic Boutique for some clothes shopping then to Shoe Shack to browse but end up buying three new pairs of shoes. Then we end the mall visit at foodie heaven which is oddly enough the food court and then we head back home with all of our shopping bags. "Dang it," Amelia says out of nowhere "What?" "We forgot to get Halloween costumes" "Oh, well why do we just not give out candy this year and just stay in my room and watch scary movies and no not the comedy ones I'm talking about full blow bloody, horror movies," I say smiling a little I glance over to Amelia she has a disgusted look on her face.
"No" "No, not dressing up and giving candy to random kids at my front door, or No, to watching horror movies?" I turn down right along a side road "I mean No, to both if we aren't going to dress up then at least let's leave candy out, and you know I hate horror movies especially those" "Okay, fine we will not watch bloody horror movies but we are watching horror movies non the less," I say now turning though my neighborhood "Okay" Amelia says looking through the window as we pull up the driveway. "Wait" Amelia grabs my arm stopping me from turning the car off "What?" "We forgot to grab a bag of candy remember your Dad asked us too" "UHhh do we have to I mean didn't he already get some bags of candy?" "We ate them all last night" "Oh yeah, all right put your seatbelt back on '' we back out of the driveway and head to the store. We're walking down the candy aisle looking for these bags of candy but it's Halloween day there are none "Where are all the bags" "What did you expect it Halloween day of course there will be none left" "Yeah well we can't go back to your house until we get at least one bag of candy" "and why is that" Amelia turns and heads to the next aisle with me close behind Amelia "Because your father asked us to get one and plus you heard how mad he was earlier we don't want to make him more upset" Amelia says turning to me and staring at me until she pushes me away and runs toward the end of the aisle.
"What the hell was that" I yell, Amelia turns and runs back to me with something in her hand, she shows me the massive bag of candy she found hidden on the top shelf "I had to grab it before someone else got it" Amelia says putting the bag in the cart "You didn't need to push me" "Sorry but I wasn't going to lose this bag" "So a bag of candy is more important to you than me" "Stop being so dramatic" I roll my eyes and scoff at her but she leaves me in the dust, you she's small but really fast.
Were in the checkout line when we saw the girl who egged my house, we quickly paid and went to confront her when she got a call and she started crying to the point she went to the floor "What the hell she isn't supposed to be crying yet I mean we haven't even done anything yet" "I don't know but what should we do?" "What do you mean what should we do, I ain't doing anything" I turn and head to the automatic doors.
Amelia runs after me "Well I mean shouldn't we do something, she is on the floor" "Well what can we do properly only make it worse we'll just confront her another day now come on I want to go back home and take a nap" I drag Amelia to the car and we get in and leave to head back home. When we get back home we see that my Dad's car is gone. "Did your Dad have work today?" Amelia grabs the bag of candy and some of the shopping bags, and I grab the rest "No, not that I know of" "Maybe there was an emergency and he had to go in for a bit" "Yeah maybe" We get inside the house and set our bags down on the living room floor and Amelia jumps on the couch and lays down.
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Dad's Obsession
Lãng mạnI love her so much but not in that way, of course, I love her as a friend because she always tries to give me hope to keep me happy and not let the negativity get to me especially when my parents got divorced she was there for me and not just me she...
