Just Another Story- Miami Addition

Chapter 2- Dinner

Mia gave me the phone and ran off to go clean up. I just don't want her to look all beat up and crying when we go over there. I asked Atlas whats going on at her house, she told me that she's making dinner and waiting for Logan to get off the bus. I tell her that I'm gonna go get ready, and that Mia and I will be over in a couple minutes. I hang up and go over to my mirror, I look at myself for a good minute. I still have the scar on my face from when I "fell" down the stairs, all of us know that he pushed me on purpose but he just said that I had fallen. He's such an ass, and that's why mom left him. She didn't want to deal with his shit anymore. But honestly, I don't blame her, the least she coulda done was take us with her. I'm wearing a bulky sweatshirt with tight ripped jeans. Mia comes into the room with an empty backpack. She starts putting some clothes in it, because she knows that we'll probably spend the night there. I do the same thing and grab some clothes, then I help her out of the window. Our window has a ladder attached to it, it's suppose to be a fire escape but I consider it our dad escape. We use it whenever he's being a dick, so we use it a lot.

We are outside now. Atlas' house is only a couple houses down so we don't have to walk very far. We start walking towards the sidewalk as the bus comes by, Mia see's Logan sitting at the back of the bus, then smiles and waves at him. I've always thought that she has a crush on him, I tease her about it all the time. "Aww Mia, look at you being all nice and sweet to your boyfriend." I say with a teasing tone to my voice. She glares at me and tries to hit me with her bag. "He's not my boyfriend!" She yells as she swings her backpack through the air. "Mia, you know that you like him. Why don't you just ask him out already?" Her face gets bright red as I say that. "I...Don't...Like...Him!" "Whatever you say Mia."

We are almost there, it's been silent for a couple minutes. Mia is trying to stay quite so I don't tease her anymore. Honestly, it's working. We come up to Atlas' house and see Logan on his skateboard. He notices us and waves while telling us to come in. Logan opens the door and yells "Atlas, Miami and Mia are here!" Then he closes the door and gets back on his skateboard. I hear Atlas yell that she's in the kitchen while Mia runs up the stairs to her room. I've always loved their house, me and Mia have our own rooms here. Her uncle is kinda rich and he bought the house for them, he doesn't even live here with them. He's really nice, honestly I've thought a couple times what it would be like if he adopted us. Our dad would never let him though. I put my bag in my room then head down to talk to Atlas. "Hey Atlas, what's up?" I say while walking down the stairs and into the kitchen. "I'm just finishing up with dinner." I want to tell her about what my dad did to Mia today but I feel like I should wait until everyone goes to bed. I look at the clock and it's almost 3:30. I have to be at work by 4:30 so it looks like I got to eat then leave. I was originally working at the diner for a couple hours on the weekends but with dad acting so mean lately I want to get out of there soon so I've been taking on extra nightshifts every night this week. I don't want us to suffer in that house any longer. I've saved up almost enough to rent a two bedroom house. I've been working for almost three years to save up for this, and I'm so close to getting it.

A few minutes pass of Mia and I play wrestling in her room, then we hear Atlas yell for us to come down and get some food. We go down and see that she made lasagna and set it on the table. Mia runs over and grabs a plate along with a giant slice of lasagna. "Only take what you can et Mia." I say trying to get her to leave some for everyone else. I get my slice and sit down at the table where Atlas is already sitting. I start eating my food when I realize that its already 4:00. I quickly slurp up the rest of my lasagna while putting my dishes in the sink. "Where are you going?" Mia whines as I make my way upstairs to get my work uniform on. "I'm going to work Mia, you want to move out of dads house don't you?" She follows me up the stairs. "Well ya, of course I want to move." "Then I have to go to work Mia. We can't just pull the money for a house out of thin air. I'll see you when I get back." After I say that I walk into my room and close the door behind me. I grab my shirt and some black jeans out of my bag. I have to wear this and stand at a cash register all day, and I clean tables when there isn't any people in line. It makes good money so I'm ok with it.