Forever and Always, In my heart

Chapter 27:

Ch. 27

When you have a pile of homework, after so long, it just gets plain old boring. It seemed like my pile wasn’t getting any smaller than when I started. I had miraculously made it through math and biology so far. Although, biology, I needed David’s help with it since I hadn’t been in class to take notes. I wasn’t good when it came to teaching myself from books, so he had to help me.

“Knock knock.” Mom said from the other side of the door before opening it and poking her head in. “Dinners ready. I made tacos.”

“Yum!” I yelled and slammed my book closed, shoving it onto my bed. I hopped off the bed and stretched as much as I could without hurting myself. “I’m starving.”

I heard David chuckle behind me. “When aren’t you hungry?”

“Eh.” I shrugged. He had a point. I was always hungry. I couldn’t argue with that. “Come on! The tacos are gonna get cold!” I said and started towards the door.

Before I even reached the doorknob, David scooped me up in his arms. “Allow me, madam.” He said in an accent. I wrapped my arms around his neck and couldn’t help but giggle.

He carried me down the stairs and the instant we hit the bottom step I could smell the seasoning from the meat. My stomach growled as if to make my point even more valid. David carried me into the kitchen and sat me down in one of the chairs and took his own beside me. “How’s the homework coming?” Mom asked, bringing over all of the taco stuff.

“Nowhere.” I groaned. “I feel like I haven’t even made a dent in it. Can’t I just skip all this homework?”

“Absolutely not. You need to do your homework so that you can go to your senior year next year. I’m not going to let you ignore everything and have to repeat. I know you wouldn’t want to do that either.” Mom said as she took her seat at the table.

“Fine.” I said. She was right. I knew I had to do it, I just didn’t want to. I hated when I was proven wrong.

Tim and Mike ate dinner in the living room while playing some video game. One where you walk around and blow things up; I don’t know. Either way, I was annoyed by it because they had the surround sound blasting through the whole house and making the house shake with every shot, or blast. If only there were a way to destroy his surround sound without him knowing it was me. I hated that crap, and never could understand why people use it outside of movie theaters.

I ate until I couldn’t fit anything else in my stomach. Which, with tacos, was always a problem; I always seemed to stuff myself too much. David helped mom put stuff away once we were finished so it took less time, and so mom didn’t have to do all the work. “Thanks for the help.” She smiled at him when they finished. I was glad they were getting along and mom still didn’t hate him like she did in the very beginning.

“No problem.” David smiled at my mom. “You ready to go get some more homework done?” He looked over at me.

I glared at him. “No, but I guess I have no choice, do I?”

“Not really.” He said and offered me a hand and I took it, getting out of my chair. We were just about to enter the living room when Tim decided to start talking.

“Oh, hey Audry!” Tim called my mom.

She rolled her eyes. “What? I’m right here, you don’t have to yell.” She had walked out behind us.

“Mom is giving us tickets to go to Cedar Point this weekend.” He said.

“Really!?” Mike butted in. “That’s awesome!” He fist pumped into the air.