Unexpected Turns

Richard

"Where's Richard?" Jerry's mom asks him.

"Still getting dressed, mom."

"Dinner is ready and he needs to be down here now," she sighs.

"Do you want me to call him down, mom?" Jerry asks.

"Would you? Thank you sweetie," she goes back to talking with my folks as Jerry runs up the stairs.

After a couple minutes of me awkwardly waiting around for dinner to be served, Jerry comes down the stairs.

"He's on his way," Jerry informs.

"Good," my dad says, "I was starting to believe he wasn't real after all."

The parents laugh along with my dad at his joke as me and Jerry just sit there thinking that joke was very horrible.

Finally we hear rushing footsteps coming down the stairs and we all look up to see a tall guy, with dark brown hair, and glimmering blue eyes standing on the last step of the stairs. He looks at all of us and smiles with straight teeth that blinds your eyes. Jerry's smile could make you faint but his could make you die.

"This is him, our boy Richard," his dad acknowledges. 

"Hi everyone," he waves.

His eyes wonder around until he sees me, for the longest time he locked eyes with mine. Hi, he whispers. Hi, I repeat. 

I look at Jerry who was looking down at his dress shoes and frowning. I put my hand on his knee and he looked up at me with worried eyes. 

"Nothing to get worried about," I assured him and grinned. 

We all sat at the dining table eating food and talking. Their parents would talk a whole lot about Richard as he sat there eating his food as if he couldn't hear them. I had a feeling this happened a lot at the dining table. My parents would talk about me and my accomplishments as they made ohs and ah sounds every once in a while. Jerry and I would make little conversations that made him as well as me very happy and everything just felt right.

"Why were you so late?" I asked Richard, just to put him into a conversation. It felt pretty weird having him just sit there. 

he looked up at me, "are you talking to me?" 

"Yes," I replied, "are you okay? you seem as if you're in a different world or something?"

"Oh, I'm fine I was just thinking that's all. To answer your other question, I was just finishing the last chapter of a book. Then I was getting dressed," he simply explains.

"What book?"

He smiles, "It's embarrassing," he laughs, "I'd rather not say."

"Please do, I promise I won't laugh. Trust me won't you?"

"Okay," he sighs, "here it goes, I was reading a book from Dale Carnegie called-"

"Let me guess, How to Win Friends and Influence People?"

"How'd you know?" he asks surprised.

"I read a lot, and I've read that book. It's not embarrassing at all, but the tittle is pretty different. It's really a textbook that teaches you a lot about psychology."

"I'm glad you know that because for a first impression it would be horrible to think I was trying to learn to make new friends."

I laughed.

"Beautiful laugh," he complimented.

"I thought so too," Jerry says too.

"Thank you," I smile.

After Dinner we sit down again to talk for a while. I got to know the twins a little more. Richard, or Dick as he likes me to call him, is a lot more smarter and introverted. He's very kind and quiet but it's as if he doesn't let you really know him. All he told me is that he loves Laurel and Hardy, books, and wants to be a comedian. I told him he would be great with his smiling attitude and love for comedy. Jerry, as you already know, loves baseball and wants to be a national baseball player when he grows up. He likes to watch romantic movies, which he was embarrassed to tell so Richard told me instead. He is also not afraid to really speak out about his feelings unless it's to his parents.

After that we went home at around 11 PM. My mom loved Ms. Reynolds and my dad love Mr. Reynolds as well. and me, I just wanted to sleep.