A car pulled up in the parking lot, blocking my view of dad.
"Chad?" Mom called from the supermarket.
I couldn't see dad again and I ran into the supermarket.
Mom was smiling at a Staff and picking a trolley.
"Mom," I say breathing hard."I just saw dad!"
She stares at me, her eyes shot up. "What?"
"Dad, he's here." I say, a little bit excited.
Mom presses her lips together. "Well, whatever he's doing here, I hope it doesn't involve us."
She turns and heads into the frozen food section.
I make my way past a man with his little daughter.
"Look mom,"
"Chad, please. I don't want to see your father ever again. I don't want to have anything to do with him again." She pulls off three packs of frozen sausages off the rack.
She dropped them into the trolley but stared at them for a moment, as if she was contemplating something.
She then removed two and put them back on the rack.
"Oh come on!" I protest. "How can we use just one pack of sausages?"
Mom continued to push the trolley. "We don't have a lot of money, remember?"
"Yeah," I say.
I ran into some of our neighbors. Some waved to me and I waved back.
"So. . . mom, have you thought about Dad ever since you divorced him?"
"Chad, I'd had enough of you always talking about your father," mom said sounding irritated. "Your father and I are never ever getting back together ever!"
I nod slowly.
She sighs and tosses a bunch of asparagus into the trolley. "I'm sorry for lashing out on you Chad."
"It's just that I'm already married to Derek. And he's now your father."
I didn't say anything but quickly wiped away a tear that threatened to embarrass me in front of my mom.
She sighs again and continues throwing stuff into the trolley.
My life would never be what it used to be four years ago, I thought mournfully.
When we got to the frozen food section to buy some meat, I ran into a familiar face.
By now you're all guessing that it's Jason.
Well it's not him.
And some of you are thinking that it's Frederick or his goons.
No.
Madison stood a few feet from me smiling at her mom.
I froze.
Madison Pines, the girl of my dreams was standing less than ten feet away from me.
I used two seconds to gape at her beauty.
Her shoulder length black hair shined like a star and she wore a red shirt with a bum short.
Her white teeth flashed when she opened her mouth to say something.
She then looked at me. "Chad?! Chad!" She cried.
"Chad?" Mom's voice snapped me out of my foolish hallucination.
Turns out it was actually mom who was shouting my name, not Madison.
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The Devil's Order ||ON HOLD||
Horror"It's funny how life can go off the rails in two weeks." Chad Unger just wants the suffering to end. The Bullies. His ostracization. His life with his step family. That's where The Devil's Order comes in, a strange cult group defined by their demon...
