𝕁𝕦𝕤𝕥 𝔽𝕣𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕕𝕤// 𝔸 𝔾𝕚𝕝𝕓𝕖𝕣𝕥 𝔾𝕣𝕒𝕡𝕖 𝕊𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪

Chapter 7

After me and Gilbert both got out of work we headed for his house. It was normal for me to have dinner with Gilbert and his family since my parents work around the clock.

We were in our usual seating arrangement with Gilbert between me and Arnie, ms grape on the couch, and Ellen and Amy on either side of the table.

We were discussing Arnie's birthday party again.

"So I think if we're gonna have people come that early, we should have some appetizers" Amy suggested.

"Ooh, yeah, that'd be good. You know those little Vienna sausage things? And you put 'em in grape jelly and ketchup and make a sauce" ms grape suggested.

"Well, I was thinking..." Amy started.

"I want hot dogs, mom" Arnie whined

"You know, like those Hawaiian appetizers that they make with..." Amy started.

"I want hot dogs mom" Arnie said again.

"How about pretzels?" Ellen suggested.

"You get pineapple chunks out of the can and you wrap them with little pieces of bacon and you put a toothpick through 'em" Amy explained.

"How do you cook the bacon?" Ms grape asked.

"In the oven on a pan" Amy responded.

"But the bacon's not gonna be crisp if you bake it in the oven on a sheet" ms grape said.

"Yes it will" Amy responded letting out a sigh.

"And nobody wants greasy-" ms grape said

"I want hot dogs!" Arnie says

"No no you-you soak em'" Amy explained

"Floppy bacon" ms grape finished.

"Mama I want hot dogs!" Arnie tells her.

"We're gonna have hot dogs,honey, I promise" ms grape tells him to calm him down.

"The thing is- think of every party I've been to-" Ellen begins speaking.

"Ellen" Gilbert says.

"What?" She asked him annoyed.

"Could you not talk with your mouth full?" He told her.

"Excuse me?" She asked obviously offended.

"Your making me sick I'm gonna throw up" Gilbert tells her and I nudge him as a signal telling him to stop before they all end up getting into an argument.

Ellen scoffs "oh okay, dad" she says sarcastically.

"Ellen" ms grape says sadly.

"Sure thing, dad" she continues to say before biting into bread and chewing with her mouth open just to spite him.

"Will you two cut it out?" Asked Amy.

"Okay, dad, sure thing, dad" Arnie says laughing, repeating after Ellen.

Gilbert scoffs and points to Arnie while looking at Ellen with a annoyed expression "that's nice".

"Stop it, you guys".

"Dad's dead Ellen" Gilbert says to her.

"Gilbert!" Amy yells at him.

"Gilbert" I say to him trying to get him to stop noticing ms grape wearing a sad expression.

"I can't believe you said that" Ms grape says disappointed.

Arnie laughs "Dad'a dead!"

Ms grape looks devastated.