Dance and Drama

Chapter 5

Saturday... It was like any other day. Chasing Nicky out of my room after he wakes me up, brushing my teeth and hair, getting dressed and going downstairs to eat breakfast while listening to Nicky's imaginary stories while he eats his bowl of Frosted Cinnabombs. "And then the space pirates thought they rescued the Crystal Princess, but it was a decoy and they get ambushed by more robots and..." he goes on and on while he has a mouthful of cereal. "Nicky, you do not talk with your mouth full. That's rude." "Sorry, Mommy." He responds after swallowing his food, he then continued his Space Pirate vs Robot story. I just sat and ate my plate of scrambled eggs and French toast. Once breakfast was over, I helped Dad with washing the dishes before going to grab my jacket and phone. "Mom, Dad, I'm going to visit Frida's place!" I called out. Mom called back. "Bring your brother!" And Nicky came running to the door, putting on his hoodie. "I'm gonna see Frankiiiiiiieeeee!!" He squealed. And we were out the door. "Don't get in a fight with Phoebe this time." I said to him and he whined. "Okayy..." Frida's house was only ten blocks away from mine, but there was a shortcut that was three blocks away on the hill. I always took that shortcut whenever I wanted to visit Frida's house faster. Just go down a flight of stairs, make a left and walk straight for a couple blocks and Frida's place was right there. However, there was a detour exactly where the stairs were and they had to be reconstructed, so Nicky and I took the long way. Those ten long blocks. We finally reached the front door and Nicky rang the doorbell repeatedly. I grabbed his hand to stop him from ringing the bell again and Mrs. McGee opened the door to greet us carrying baby Honey in her arms. "Hello, Nora, Nicky. I should've known it was Nicky ringing my doorbell that many times." I said hello to her and we came inside. Nicky ran upstairs to see Frankie and Frida came downstairs with Andrea following behind her. "Nora!" Frida called out. "Hey, Girl!" Andrea greeted. We sat down on the couch to talk. For our choreography, we discussed what song to use. Andrea wanted to play a Hip Hop song from the 80s, mainly because most of today's Hip Hop is lame and makes no sense. Frida wanted to play this song she heard. I asked her what it was. "You'll see." was the reply I got. She scrolled through her phone for whatever song she was looking for and pressed play. And the music started. At first, my foot was tapping, my head was bopping, the next thing I knew when that bass hit, I got up and started to dance. Andrea took out her phone to record me dancing. However, this lasted for only thirty seconds until, Nicky and Frida's sisters stormed downstairs in a screaming match. Ugh! I stopped dancing immediately, Andrea stopped her video and Frida paused her song. We walked over to the peewee fight scene to know what's going on. "Okay, what are y'all screamin' for this time?!" Andrea scolded. Frankie looked up at her while her arms strained in separating Nicky and Phoebe. "We were playing 'Surgery Steve' and during Nicky's turn, they just started to fight over the board!" she exclaimed. Phoebe and Nicky were whining and screaming over each other while Frankie tried to break them apart. "IT'S NOT FAAAAAAIIIIIIIRRRRRR!!!! YOU CHEATED IN 'SURGERY STEVE' AND YOU KNOW IT!!! YOU'RE A CHEATER, NICKY!!" Phoebe was screaming at the top of her lungs. Nicky was screaming even louder "YOU'RE THE CHEATER, PHOEBE!!! 'SURGERY STEVE' MADE A BUZZING NOISE WHICH MEANS YOU GIVE SOMEONE ELSE A TURN!! BUT YOU WERE HOGGING THE BOARD!!" Frankie tried her hardest to break them up, but to no avail. "That's enough!! We're not gonna play 'Surgery Steve' of you're gonna keep fighting over it!! No more 'Surgery Steve!!'" That shut them up, but for a brief moment. Mrs. McGee rushed downstairs, carrying Honey in her arms. Honey was crying.  "Nicky, I clearly told you to not get into another fight with Phoebe! And what did you do?!" Nicky lowered his head. "I got in a fight, over a board game... But Phoebe started it!!" "I DID NOT!!!" She screams again. And she threw herself on the floor kicking and pounding her fists. And that's when Mrs. McGee scolded her."Phoebe Winifred McGee! I keep telling you to not behave like this when we have guests in the house! And you woke up Honey from her nap! I cannot deal with this horrid behavior, young lady. I'm afraid I won't take you to 'Cheesy Charlie's Pizzeria' next month!" Phoebe burst out crying. "Waaaaahhhh! I wanna go, Mommyyyyy.... I wanna go to Cheesy Charlieeeeeee's... I'll be gooood. I promiiiiissseee..." "Nope, you cannot control your temper, so definitely no Cheesy Charlie's next month." Phoebe cried louder, and Honey cried louder. Frida took Honey in her arms to calm her down. "I'm calling Mom and asking her to pick you up." Nicky begged me not to call her. "Nooooo!!!!" "I'm calling her!" I dialed Mom on the phone, told her about Nicky's behavior and asked her to pick him up. Now he was crying. Phoebe stood up, stuck her tongue out at him and stormed upstairs her room, slamming the door behind her. And Honey pooped in her diaper. None of us could take anymore of this stress. Mrs. McGee took the baby and turned to walk upstairs. "You girls should go outside and have some fresh air." She said. "We're gonna go visit our teacher in a few minutes anyway." Andrea said. It wasn't long before Mom's car pulled up in front of the house. I walked outside with a whining Nicky in tow and opened the car door for him to get in. He stood there hesitant. Mom looked at him with a stern face. "Nicky. Get in the car. You're in enough trouble today!" she scolded. He finally got in after shedding more tears. "Nora sweetie, I'm sorry you had to go through this. Again." "No, don't worry about it. I'm sure he will learn to behave eventually." I replied. "I AM behaving!" Nicky whined and sobbed. "NICKY!" Mom and I scolded simultaneously.