Loser Like Me

Chapter 3: Summer Fun

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"Hey, ma... Dad," Veronica laughed, leaning in over the kitchen counter of their Witcham Street home. It was Saturday, June 3rd, the first official day of summer break, and Veronica Rodgers already had cabin fever

"So yesterday I was invited by a friend to go to the quarry and " she smiles stretching out the words, watching her mother drink her tea and her father drink his cup of coffee. Roberto sighed playfully as he looked at his youngest daughter who was the joy of their aging life,

"Well, I don't see why not I mean your mother and I us-" He got cut off by his wife, Pamela before he could finish that statement,

"You can go, but, you must be home before 7:30, and take your brother with you" She sighed, as she kept looking down at her newspaper "The aids epidemic it just keeps getting worse Roberto, every day there's a case about it, and they expect me to stop queerness ", a laugh escaped her lips as she shook her head.

See Pamela Simone Rodgers was a lawyer matter a fact she moved back to Derry just to open her own practice, it didn't hurt to open one for your daughters to work in did it, While Roberto whose parents immigrated to Derry in the summer of 58 had a family restaurant and "other affairs" (as he loved to put it .) Veronica, however, waited patiently to tell them much more interesting news, but once Pamela put that coffee mug down her favorite that had The Facts Of Life written on it, it usually meant that she was leaving and taking her husbands Jager for the day and night,

"Lovino, give it back !" Rachel who was the oldest shouted, "My boyfriend from Hawkins is coming, and he'll use his nail back and kick your as-, "

"Rachel Jessica Felici Rodgers!", Pamela glared straight into her soul

"Sorry Lovi...", Rachel apologized, "I'll get you, you little crap weasel ..."

"Mama.. she called me a cra-"

"What's your damage bro...", Rachel smiled pushing Lovino out the door "Be Careful and don't fall on your face on that bike Ron!"

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"Hey, ma... Dad," Veronica laughed, leaning in over the kitchen counter of their Witcham Street home. It was Saturday, June 3rd, the first official day of summer break, and Veronica Rodgers already had cabin fever

"So yesterday I was invited by a friend to go to the quarry and " she smiles stretching out the words, watching her mother drink her tea and her father drink his cup of coffee. Roberto sighed playfully as he looked at his youngest daughter who was the joy of their aging life,

"Well, I don't see why not I mean your mother and I us-" He got cut off by his wife, Pamela before he could finish that statement,

"You can go, but, you must be home before 7:30, and take your brother with you" She sighed, as she kept looking down at her newspaper "The aids epidemic it just keeps getting worse Roberto, every day there's a case about it, and they expect me to stop queerness ", a laugh escaped her lips as she shook her head.

See Pamela Simone Rodgers was a lawyer matter a fact she moved back to Derry just to open her own practice, it didn't hurt to open one for your daughters to work in did it, While Roberto whose parents immigrated to Derry in the summer of 58 had a family restaurant and "other affairs" (as he loved to put it .) Veronica, however, waited patiently to tell them much more interesting news, but once Pamela put that coffee mug down her favorite that had The Facts Of Life written on it, it usually meant that she was leaving and taking her husbands Jager for the day and night,