The little town of King

Chapter 2

I avoided that fence for a week, and Sarah wouldn't stop botherin me 'bout what I saw. I just ignored her most of the time. Then Daddy noticed that I wasn't going out, and he said that if I stayed in that I would have to do chores. "Take this to your mamma." Daddy said as he handed me some food. "Yes sir, but mamma never answers me anymore. It's like she don't even know I'm there." Mamma's  baby died last summer and she ain't never been the same since. Daddy says it's cause she's sick, but she's been sick for an awful long time.
"I know baby, but just give her some time okay?" My daddy said with concern. He tells me that every time I ask 'bout her.
"Yes sir." I walked down the hall and knocked on my mamas door. "Mamma  I'm comin' in, okay?" I knew I wouldn't get a response but I asked anyway. Mamma's  room was small, and had the ugliest yellow wallpaper. Her bed was large and took up most of the room, and she sat right in the middle of it starin' out the window. She was a lot thinner now and her hair was turnin' grey, but was still the prettiest lady I've ever seen. Her hair was stick straight and as red as autumn leaves, her face was  round and had a small button noise, with bright blue eyes. Sarah and Cason both had her hair, me on the other hand was a copy of my father. Brown curly hair and green eyes, and Sarah was a spitting image of mamma, Sarah has always been the prettier one. Cason, well he was just a mix of both.
"Mamma I've gotten lunch for you." Mamma looked over at me, but she really didn't, just through me. Like I ain't there. I placed the plate in front of her, mamma could eat on her own but not while you were in the room. Before I left I looked out the window. She had the second best view of the new neighbors. Mine bein' the first on the second floor, but I really didn't see anything but the fence.
"Okay mamma I'm leavin' now. I love you." Again, I didn't get an answer. I walked out of her room and down the hall and into the kitchen, where I saw Cason leanin' up against the counter lookin' out the kitchen window
"Ah, Ruby! Come on out! It's borin' with out you. Plus I haven't seen them out yet so it's fine." Cason said almost beggin'. Sarah must be getting annoying
"I don't know, I might if..."
"I'll do anything. Just come on out!"
"You'll do my dishes for a week."
"Done." Cason said with relief
I followed him out back, where Sarah said they were playin' who could throw the baseball the farthest. Cason always won.
"You ain't fair Cason! You're older and taller! It just ain't fair!" I said as I stomped my foot on the ground.
"It's plenty fair, just called strategy."
"It ain't fair that Sarah's on your team too!"
"You're just a brat Ruby." Sarah said as Cason picked up the ball.
"Fine, you can just stand closer to the fence." Said Cason, tossing the ball to me
"I will. And I'll go further than both of y'all!" If I weren't so angry, I'd probably not go anywhere near that fence, but pushed by my frustration, I threw the ball. It slipped out of my hand and straight on to the neighbors roof.
"Ruby!" Sarah drugged my name out till it reached a mile
"I'm sorry." I said I really didn't feel sorry. I was losin' anyway
" I bet if we ask em' they'd get it off the roof for us." Cason suggests
I was totally against it, but Sarah thought it was a great idea, so we went with it. I was voted to ask cause I was the one who got the ball up, so I should be the one to ask to get it down. I didn't fully agree with this, but I was out-voted.
I walked up to the front door, and looked back at my siblings for a chance that they'd take my place. They just motioned me on, so I knocked on the door. "One minute!" I heard a lady yell. She had a weird sound to her voice. The door opened and a middle aged woman answer the door. Her hair was tied up, and she looked very kind, unlike Mrs. Rocket who just looked like as if she would kill you in a stare.
" Oh, hello! Do you need something?" She bent down and smiled at me.
"Ummm, Ma'am I threw my ball up on yall's roof. Would you please get it down for me?" I tried to sound the nicest I could
"Oh, yes! Let me get my husband. I believe he has a ladder somewhere."
The woman turned around and yelled "Tyler! Could you come over here for a minute!" A second later, a clean cut man with a collard shirt came up
"What do you need?" The man said as he slowly looked down at me
"She threw her ball on the roof. Could you get it down, sweetie?" The woman said to her husband Tyler. The way she said roof sounded weird, but I bit my tongue.
"Yeah no problem." Tyler walked out the front door, towards the back, and came back with ladder.
"Where did you throw it up at?" Tyler said while looking at the roof
"Right up there, sir." I said, pointing to where the ball had landed. He saw it as well and climbed up and got it. He tossed it to me.
"Thank you, sir."
"You know my son loves baseball. He actually broke his arm playing."
"I hope he gets better, sir." I said not really wantin' to talk anymore
"I'll see if he wants to come out."
No, I didn't want this, but I've got to remember to be nice as daddy told me so.
"Amy! Get Nick and see if he will come out!"
Amy came out with the boy I saw through the fence. He still looked angry, and he stared right at me.
"Say hello, Nick." His mother told him
"Hi"
Was all he said as he walked down the steps of his porch.