On My Knees

Chapter 2: Hookups

The whole house was noisy, I could hear the echo of my brother's favourite rock band 'linkin park' playing from upstairs, the loud theme song of glee, as Finn and Rachael sang 'don't stop believing' together from the parlour. Not to forget my little sister's noisy highschool musical from the other part of the house. It was like a competitiin for who could drown the other out. On a normal day I would yell and scream, but these past few days had been hectic, life was moving to fast.

     I walked into the kitchen and noticed how disorganized everything was, I pushed that thought aside and walked over to the fridge and swung it open. I grabbed the orange juice and a glass, and poured the content from the carton into the glass. I stared at the yellowish substance that resembled a waterfall flowing into a dam, my head churning at the thought of the day. It had been a week since I resumed at Hearst High, and just today my middle school crush, Ian had said 'hi'. I had known Ian at a different school where I had done my middle school, and let's just say, I was just a kid that had this childish attraction. Most people called me a stalker, but I say I was merely an observer, watching him, noting his every move, asset, insecurity, expression...his feigned innocence before teachers and girls contradicted his bad boy nature among the guys. He was all I wanted, but like I said, it was nothing but just a crush, maybe that was why I felt nothing he walked over to me today, periodically turning back to his friends who smiled back, giving him the thumbs up...obviously they wanted to mess with me. That was middle school, I am different now...and that was what they failed to note. I felt bad for him, he expected an excited girl that would jump at his feet like the brainless girls in this school, unfortunately he got the biggest disappointment of his life.

     "Ring, ring......ring, ring" the home line interrupted my thoughts and I placed the carton of juice on the table as I went to pick up the phone.

     "Hello..."

     "Hey princess, how are you doing?"

     The deep, yet masculine familiar voice echoed from the phon, I smiled involuntarily. Thank God I could talk to one reasonable human today "Hi daddy, I am fine..sooo how is Italy?"

     "It is all good, heard you are settling into your new school, what about your sibblings? and your mom?"

     "Fine, fine...everyone is fine, when are you coming over? We all miss you, actually I miss you, don't know about the others" I started sounding like a spoilt brat.

     "Penny who are you talking to?" my younger sister, Sue sauntered into the kitchen, eyeing me curiously. She wore a jean shorts and a pink blouse, her blonde hair was tied up in a ruffled bun, and a few stray danced about her face, she is light skinned, obviously lighter than I am...and was my second greatest competition at home. The first being my step sister, who was currently at college in china.

     "Its dad, he says hi.." I rolled my eyes menacingly

     "Hey, let me talked to him, he owes me a kimono, he promised to buy one...and a really cute trench coat" she rushed towards me furiously, as I scurried off, trying to avoid her.

      "Buzz off Sue, we are trying to have a father-daughter coversation... and you are ruining the moment, plus, he is at Italy and not China, so you can forget the kimono..." I kept running around the house, I could hear my dad laughing on the other end of the call. I loved it when I made my dad smile, he was the only one that gets me, well most of the time.

     Just when I thought I had escaped her, my other sibblings, Greg and, Sophie blocked the entrance to my room, I turned around and Sue was behind me blocking the hallway, she had this mischievious grin on her face, I was trapped. " Hey, Penny what is going on? I hope you are not getting into fights with your sibblings..." my dad's voice sounded distant over the phone, I made a move towards the hall but did not get that far.