All It Took Was One Look - S01 E05

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All It Took Was One Look - S01 E05

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 5

Aiden

After that crazy family episode Jeanine, Eric and I made plans to hang at Starbucks for a while. It was our favorite hangout spot.

It was a Sunday and I was dying to get out of this house, Nash was still hounding me about what mom was talking about on Friday. He just didn't believe me and I was starting to get annoyed. I literally had to slam the door in his face and lock it; he was knocking yelling to open the door for a whole five minutes till he finally gave up. I mean damn do I looked like a damsel in distress?! I can handle myself,

Jeez!

And this is the reason why I'm planning my escape from this loony bin I call a home. I took a quick shower, towel dried my hair; my hair was naturally straight so I didn't have to waste my time on it. I bumped into Connie on the way down stairs. I quickly grabbed her by the arms and steadied her on her feet.

"Dang Con, my bad" I said to her, I really don't think that she heard me though since she hand her iPod in. I walked past her into the kitchen where my dad was drinking coffee and reading a new book. Sitting at the table across him I took an orange off the table and began to peel it.

It was silent for a long while.

I was half done with my orange when my dad finally looked up from him book and said something.

"So what's on your agenda for today?" He asked meeting my gaze. I shrugged stuffing the rest of my orange in my mouth.

"Eric and J are coming to pick me up to go to Starbucks" I got up to throw the peels away and turn towards him leaning a hip on the counter. He nodded taking a sip of coffee.

"You should bring Connie with you. She's been bored all day" he suggested. I frowned at him like he was crazy; Connie has friends she doesn't need to hang out with mine

"She has her own friends; she doesn't need to hang with mine." I voiced my thoughts. He sighed and shook his head.

"I think her and Jennifer had a fight, she's been moping around here all weekend. So I thought you could be a good big brother and take her mind off of it. Or is that just social suicide" he said with a fake shocked face. I suppressed my smile as I shook my head at him.

"Okay, okay I'll take her." I huffed at him leaving the kitchen with slouched shoulders.

I knocked on Connie's door,

"Come in" she yelled.

Opening the door I saw her laid out on her back reading some teen magazine.

'Con and her magazines' I thought mentally shaking my head.

I looked around her room and saw all the posters and articles she had torn from them tapped to her walls. Her room was a sky blue but every inch of the walls were coved in her stupid posters and pictures of friends. Looking over to her, she was staring at me impatiently.

"Hurry up and get dressed were going out" I said before turning to leave.

"Okay" her chipper voice followed me as I left. I grabbed my phone from my room and called J.

"Hey man"

Eric's voice startled me, did I call the right person? As I was about to check he said,

"Yes you called the right number dumbass, but J's driving." He said. I rolled my eyes; smart ass.

"We're almost there!" I heard J yell through the phone.

"Yeah like she said we're almost there" he said.

Pic of Christian Bale as Aiden's dad-------->

~~Aiden~~

It was Monday, two weeks after the fight and I was amusingly watching J as she was handing out flyers for dance tryouts. She was walking up to random people and started talking as if she was making a drug sell. I could see the awkward faces of the students she talked to. Eric was chilling right next to me at the lunch table munching on a tater tot. I nudged him in the arm.

"Hey man, give me some of your tots." I asked him. He turned to me with a frown.

"What?" he asked me popping the rest of the tot in his mouth.

"Give me some of your tots!" Then his eyebrows shot up in understanding.

"No, go find your own" he said playing along.

"Come on, give me some of your tots" I pushed.

"No. I'm freaking starving. I didn't get to eat anything today!" he whined. "But seriously dude if you even think about touching my tots I'm going to strangle you" he said seriously and I laughed.

"We need to watch that movie again" I said chuckling still. He nodded as he smothered his tots in ketchup. I wrinkled my nose I didn't like ketchup and he just ruined a perfect batch of taters.

"I wouldn't even want your tots now." I muttered returning my gaze to Jeanine. She was still running around the cafe.

I got up to throw my trash away and planning to capture J to stop her from stuffing papers in some poor girls face. After putting my tray on top of the trash can I went and grabbed J's arm, dragging her with me and apologized to the traumatized girl. J struggled the whole way to the table.

"Hey!! She would have made a great addition to the team you jerk wad!!" she screamed catching everyone's attention. I sighed heavily and forcefully sat her down at the table; Eric had an eyebrow raised to me.

"What?!" I snapped. He shook his head and focused back down on his food.

"Jeanine you can't just go harassing people to join clubs" I scolded as I shook my head at her. All she did was cross her arms and pout.

"Oh were pouting now? How nice, real mature" I said, throwing a napkin at her face, she gasped mockingly.

"You're throwing napkins and I'm the immature one?" she said pointing a finger in my face before grabbing the napkin and threw it back. "And don't be throwing things in my face jackass!" she said with a straight face before we both started to laughing loudly. Eric just looked at us like we were crazies.

"You guys are hella weird" he said stuffing another tot in his mouth. Jeanine reached over the table and hit it out of his hand. It went flying to the floor with a splat, ketchup smeared all over the floor. Silently I handed her the napkin we were throwing earlier. Taking it she smugly wiped her hands, her nose in the air, Eric's mouth was hanging open and he was staring at J dumbfounded.

"How. Dare. You." He hissed narrowing his eyes her dangerously. I scooted over knowing he was going to blow.

"Guys" I said hesitantly but it was too late.

"Oh, I dare" she said challenging him with a stare. I scooted over more dragging my bag with me. Slowly I stood up undetected. I backed up far enough just in time for when the food stared flying. I dodged a disgusting ketchup drenched tater as it was heading straight towards my face, whizzing right past my head. I was still walking backwards watching their food fight expand; soon the whole café was involved. Then they noticed I was gone, they both looked in my direction with evil grins, food hanging from their hair and nasty ketchup on their face and clothes.