Falling For Ms. Popular

Witnesses

It was now Saturday. You think I would be happy, considering it was the weekend and I could goof off with Mari and the rest of my friends, but today already didn't comfortable. I am bringing my blood parents to court. Just a shit load of fun, huh? It doesn't matter now, because all I have to do is keep a brave face and deal with it so my girl doesn't get upset and neither do I...

It was about 8:45 am when I woke up. Mrs. Cross was already awake while the rest of the family was still sleeping, including Mari who was fast asleep in our bed. I hurried downstairs to help Mrs. Cross make breakfast and coffee while she went off to do some laundry. She gave me the pleasure if picking out what we would eat, so naturally I picked to cook omelettes and banana crepes. Two of my favorite dishes that are incredibly easy to make. Once I got all the ingredients out I hurried and cooked the food. Surprisingly, I finished even before Mrs. Cross got done with the laundry. Slowly, one by one everyone woke up and came downstairs for breakfast. Mari was the only one who hadn't come down yet, so I went on upstairs to check on her. As suspected, she was still asleep and sprawled out across the bed. With a smile, I knelt beside the bed and played with her long blonde hair. I quickly stood up and bent over to kiss her cheek and right after shook her lightly.

"Hey Sleeping Beauty, breakfast is ready and made by yours truly. Wanna come down and join us?" Her eyes quickly fluttered open and she beamed happily at me before taking my hand.

"Oh, so you're a romantic now? I thought you didn't like those kinds of gestures?" She said, rubbing my hand gently. I picked her off the bed without a single word and hugged her.

"I thought that I might as well change to suit your needs. Plus, this is pretty nice now that I think of it..." I said while I felt a quick heat spread across my face. I let Mari down not long after and left the room for her to get dressed and brush her hair. Soon, she came out and hurried to the bathroom to continue her complete make over. Once she was done, Mari took another look at me and sighed.

"You are not wearing that today." She said, folding her arms to disagree. I looked down at my outfit which simply consisted of a blank black T-shirt and some shorts.

"I was making breakfast. Why would I wear a nice outfit when I could spill stuff on it?" Mari grabbed my arm and pulled me back into our room to pick me a "nice" outfit to wear for the day. After a while, she finally pulled out a black raven tank top and a pair of dark blue skinny jeans. "Hey, that's a pretty good pick, Mari. Thanks!" I slipped my current shirt off right in front of her until I forgot she was still in the room with me.

"I'll... I'll be outside waiting on you..." She said, covering her face as she stepped out of the room. I continued changing into the clothes and putting on deoderant and perfume before exiting the room to be greeted by Mari who rushed downstairs right after. Finally, everyone was now all together to eat breakfast. Mari took a few bites of the omelette and a bright smile spread across her face. "These omelettes are so soft, Ava. The crepes are really great too!" She said, happily gulping down the food and coffee.

"There's no need to rush, Mari. We aren't going anywhere today." She put her fork down once she was finished and beamed at me.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you. We are going out today on a double date with Riley and Vixen. In fact, we better get going now. You come too, Nathan" Mari came over to my seat and grappled to my arm to drag me outside where there was a car already sitting there. Riley and Vixen were inside waving to us.

"You guys take so long. Or were you two having some fun upstairs?" Riley asked with a snicker. Mari looked away as a blush started spreading across her cheeks.

"No, no, no. Nothing of the sort, Riley..." Mari choked out.  All three of us got in the car and Vixen drove off to wherever. We sped down the road for about twenty minutes before stopping at a house that looked familiar.

"Wait, isn't this Lara's house?" I asked,   pointing to the house in front of us.

"No, it's the president's house... No shit it's Lara's house! You need that girl for part of your case, don't you?" Vixen asked, looking back to me with a slight frown. I sighed and stepped out of the car to go up to Lara's house.   It's been a while since I've been here... I'm sure she'll be "glad" to see me... I knocked on the door and soon after heard feet stopping down the stairs from inside.

"Can I help you—Ava?" Lara stared at me in disbelief before attempting to shut the door on me. I hurried and stuck my foot in between the door to wedge it and jerk it back open.

"Look, I need your help. Please, for the love of God, just this once, help me. I need you right now, Lara. You know what this is about." She sighed and rubbed her head.

"Before anything else, I'm sorry, Ava. I promise you I wasn't going to agree to your father's conditions, but he threatened to get his drug addicts to attack my family along with Devin's..." I frowned and took Lara's hand in mine.

"It's ok, that's exactly what I expected it to be. Now, I need your help. Call Devin and get him to meet us at the police department. We are bring my mother and father down once and for all." She nodded and did just that before getting into the back seat with Mari, Nathan, and I. We had to cram inside, so Mari came over to sit on my lap to make room for Lara who was dyeing Mari the entire time. To make matters worse, Mari turned around without a word and kissed me to make her point. Not long after, we arrived at the station once again with all the witnesses there at once. Inside, we spotted the female officer who helped us out last time. We rushed over to her and presented Devin, Nathan, and Lara to her.

"Alright, we got this from here on, Ava. We did go and question your parents, and their story didn't add up to yours at all. We obtained our search warrant today and so we just sent some officers out now to check their house out. Even if they his the evidence well, we still have five witnesses counting Mari. Now, we will need to do a polygraph for each one of you, so I'll need you five to come with me. The other two will have to wait out here..."