Kings And Queens Of Dysfunctionality

Chapter 12

By: Danny Dodger

Sage Swan

By the time I got home I felt like I had just swam an ocean. My head was buzzing and my body was aching. Being the smart thing I am I decided to walk home last night to “clear my thoughts”. I feel like an idiot right now. My brother ran down the stairs, “Sage you’re in trouble!” I laughed a little and continued onto my room mumbling something like, “Shut the fuck up Ethan”. I lay down and breathed into the fresh sheets, mom was worried about me last night. She cleaned my room. I could hear Ethan and his big mouth clear on my side of the house, “Yeah that’s right mom she just got home!” I glared at the sheets as I picked my self.

My mom rushed in, “Where the hell where you last night!” I wiped my face of sleep, “I had a bit of a fight with Gainy, and we’re ok now”. She glared hard, but I knew she was just worried sick over me. I stood up, “mom please just trust me, I didn’t do anything bad I promise”. She gave a heavy sigh, “Sage, please just don’t do that again, or at least call. Your only fifth teen years old, there’s so much bad out there”. I smiled a little as Ethan’s jaw dropped in my door way, for an older brother he was really immature, “Are you kidding, she doesn’t come home all last night and she doesn’t even get grounded!” My mom turned to him, “Ethan mind your own and get ready for dinner”. I gave her a smile when she turned back, “Thanks mom, can I get some sleep now”. She nodded, “Yeah, but we’re talking about this later”. I nodded and flopped back on the sheets, soaking in every last ounce of sunshine I could as I fell asleep.

Gainy Knight

I woke up with sand half was up my ass and pelican poking at my feet. I kicked at it and if flew off, but none of that matter ‘cause I was in his arms. I looked up at Josh, “I should probably get home, I think. I don’t really know”. He gave me a light kiss on the fore head; “I think you should go clear things with your parents”. I nodded and stood up, trying to shake out as much sand as I possibly could from my pants. Josh took my hand as we walked back to the car, the sun was setting and we’d spend the entire day just lying on the beach under a palm tree.

The drive back was pretty quiet except for the light drum of his fingers on the steering wheel. The radio was on low and I hummed a little to the tune. He looked over and smiled a little as we pulled into my driveway. There was a cop car along the curb. I looked over at him, “You might want to get out of here”. He shook his head, “No we’re in this together”.

I walked through the door with Josh’s hand in mine. I herd the scrap of chairs in the kitchen and the pump of footsteps rushing toward us. My mom hurled her self on me, “please don’t do that again!” She was sobbing and holding onto me like no other. I was expecting something a little different to happen. Turned out the cop car belongs to my dad’s brother who had done a search last night. Everyone pretty much ignored Josh who had taken a few steps out of the way of my mother stamped. My dad looked like he had been crying to. My mom pulled away and kept her hands on my shoulders, “Baby I promise we’ll start listening, don’t you ever run away again”. I swear pigs must have learned to fly. I looked at my mother like she had lost it all. I blinked a couple times, “Aren’t you going to yell at me”. She shook her head, “I’m too happy that your back”. Josh put his hand on my back, “looks like you’ve got things handled here, I’m going to get home”. My dad put his strong hand on his shoulder, “You and me are going to have a talk later”. Josh’s big eyes got bigger and he just nodded. I could tell my dad was squeezing to put his point across. I couldn’t help but stand shocked having no clue what to do with my self.

Becca Heart

I popped my gum as I sat up in bed. The sun was blasting through my sheet-covered windows. Jay shifted around next to me and the flattened spikes of his hair tickled my stomach. I leaned against the headboard and just thought. I needed thinking time; the last week had been pure chaos, one thing right after the next. Of course in this house whenever you settle down to think, mom comes barging in with food. She opened the door with a smile plastered on her face, and then she saw Jay. No, don’t get all this confused, she knew he was here. She tip toed in and placed the tray of food on my desk. I smiled as she snuck forward then attacked his stomach with raspberries. He sprung to life and flopped around like a fish. I laughed and squirmed with they both turned on me.

My mom was the cool mom, the one all the parents loved, and all the kids wanted as a mom. Jay climbed out of the bed as my mom pounced on me tickling my sides. His red plaid pants slipping with out his belt. My mom even cocked her head to the side to get a look. We stared as he bent over and picked up his cloths from the floor. I bopped my mom on the head, “No looking”. She giggled and Jay turned around shocked. She blushed, “You guys are no fun”, and then she rushed out the room grabbing Jay’s dirty cloths on the way.

He looked back at me, “Was you mom checking me out”. I laughed a little, “We both were”. He shook his head, “You got anything I can wear for the rest of the day, and she took my stuff”. I nodded and got up. He chuckled behind me, “How come I didn’t notice your care bear panties last night”. I looked back at him from my closet; I was there with nothing but my undies and a wife beater. I scratched the back of my head purposely to show more skin. He gulped in his throat, “Right I’ll shut up”. I laughed and pulled off my shirt. I looked over my shoulder, “ah, ah, ah No peeking mister”. His eyes we’re wide and he licked his lips, “Becca either get back on this bed or put something, anything on”. I just shrugged, I really didn’t care if Jay saw me naked again, he’d seen it once, why hide it now. I turned and faced him full on. His mouth opened slightly and he swallowed hard again. “Becca you’re not playing fair”.

I bent over slowly picking my shirt back up, and he watched as my nude upper body moved. His head turned to the side as I bent over, taking my sweet time, till finally he snapped. I made a little squeal as he picked me up over his shoulders then throw me on the bed. His eyes were smiling but his face was stern, trying to be serious. It was my turn to swallow hard as he unzipped himself and pulled his pant’s down. My mouth watered as I thought about all the little nasty things I could do to him, and then my mom walked in. Told you. Sigh.

Ally Filedichuk

My cell phone rang twice and I picked it up, “Hello”. I herd the deep voice of Saxon on the other line, “Can you give me a lift”. I paused, “Why should I, I know what you did”. There was a deep sigh from the other line, “Listen, I wasn’t in my right head. I get like that sometimes”. I took a deep breath, “I swear, I hate Danny with a passion, but I will not stand by while she is physically hurt. That is something I am not low enough to do”. He laughed, “So you’re the one that sent the little back up crew”. I chocked on my own words, shit what if he comes after me. I looked out the window in my room, “Listen, I’m not perfect, but I’m not that bad as to let you hurt someone”. His deep voice sighed, “I just need a ride to town, I’ll get my self some money, then get on a bus and you people will never see me again, deal?” It sounded fair enough, “Alright Saxon, but I swear if you hurt her, or any of them, I will personally make sure you never see the light of day again”. He laughed, “Yes Alley I get it, just come get me, I’m at a cemetery on the edge of town”. “Freak”, and I hung up. I bent over with my head in my hands, “What am I getting myself into?” I let a sigh roll out of my mouth, “Maybe I shouldn’t go pick him up”. I shook my head and got up pulling keys off the desk. I forced myself down the stairs and out the door. I looked back at my house, wondering if I should be getting anymore involved in this. I had no reason to help him. “I guess its cause I want to hear the rest of the story”. I sat down in my car and put the keys in the engine, “Here goes nothing”.

Jay Natlia

I sat fully dressed in one of Becca’s wife beaters that only came to about my mid torso, and sweat pants that only went to down to right below the knee. I sighed as I looked down at the rainbow-kitty socks, the came up into the sweat pants. This was embarrassing beyond belief. Becca’s mom knocked quietly on the door, “Jay are you dressed yet”. I almost cried, “yeah”. She opened the door, “could you join us for breakfast then”. I hung my head, “Yes maim”. I stood up in all my girly glory and followed her down the stairs. Becca’s mom hadn’t said a word about walking in on us. She had just closed the door and walked away. I felt like a guilty puppy that peed on her new carpet.

Becca was sitting at the table with her head hung; her body was stiff as she looked up to see me. She gave a little smile, and I gave one back. Sitting I put my hands in my lap and gave a shielded look up at Becca’s mom. She was starring straight at me. I looked back down at my eggs and beacon. Then her voice rung clear, “Jay, Becca”, there was a short pause, “How long”? I swallowed hard, “What do you mean Ms. Heart”. She gave me a stern glare, “How long have you been sleeping with Becca”. I’m pretty sure I twitched when she said it, “It was only once Ms. Heart, and it was an accident then”. Becca looked over at me and I saw tears in her eyes. I stuttered for words, “I no, I mean, I don’t regret it or anything. I love Becca, but I know it was way to early”. Becca’s mom just stared at me blankly then broke out in a smile, “Oh don’t feed me that bull shit”. I blinked at her rabidly, “Whaa, what”! She stood up and poured her self some juice and then me, “What I mean is you know it was no accident”. “No, no, no Ms. Heart it was, I don’t even remember it. Becca, and me we went to one of Ally’s parties, and, and kind of got drunk. Next thing I know I’m butt naked with Becca in a motel”. Becca chocked on her juice. Ms. Heart just shook her head, “You children these days, Becca I will say I hoped you’d have waited longer, and Jay don’t think I won’t be telling your parents”. I gapped at her with my mouth wide open, “ Ms. Heart! God please don’t tell them, they’ll mur-”. She didn’t give me the chance to finish, “I will be telling them that you and Becca are now study partners”. This time Becca spit the juice out all together.

I picked my jaw up off the table, “You never stop being awesome do you”. Ms. Heart just smiled, “What can I say, I’m the coolest Mom in the world”. She gave a deep laugh and he eyes sparkled. “Becca I’ll be taking you to the doctor tomorrow so make sure that you remind me to call the school”. Becca look at her mom, “What for”? Ms. Heart looked back at her as she cleaned the plates, “For birth-control of course”. Becca blushed and looked over at me. I just shook my head, “This is weird”.

Danny Dodger

Johnny blinked down at me, “Danny, but we talked about this last night”. I smiled a little and leaned up and placed a kiss on his lips, “Johnny right now all I want is to make you happy, I want to do this, will you let me”? Johnny’s eyes looked anywhere but mine, “It doesn’t feel wrong, but I know it is”. He glanced back at me. I starred for a moment looking for the right words but all I could find were hurt ones, “Am I to dirty for you?” I looked down at his bare chest; I couldn’t stand looking at him in the eyes. “God no Danny, That has nothing to do with it”. He pulled my face up with his gentle hands, “You are innocent in my eyes”.

Johnny did something completely un-Johnny like. His hands cupped my ass and he pulled me up. His eyes we burning into mine as we switched positions and he pinned me against the table. He let one hand rest on the small of my back while the other came around to the front. His jaw was locked tight as he fingered the button on my jeans. All I could do was sit there dumbly with my arms limp around his neck as he warm hand slipped past the layers of cloths. My eyes immediately fell closed as his lips pressed hard against mine. My breath was almost caught as the smoothness of his fingers massaged against me. My mind knew what I wanted to do, but my body wasn’t responding well. With jerky motions my arms left his shoulders and slid down his chest. All I could barely think was, “Beautiful, god he’s so beautiful”

I took a deep breath and pushed his gym shorts down, “Jesus Johnny!” His hard, passionate façade melted away, “What!” I looked down, “Wow”. Finally the sweet blush of innocents brushed across his cheeks. His silly smile appeared as he dove for another kiss, not losing his chance to ravage me. My body was now excited and responding. As the battle of dominance danced in our mouths, our hands worked each other. I could feel him, he was so hard it had to hurt, at least a little. Slowly I pulled my mouth away from his lips leaving gentle kisses down his jaw to his neck. His head swung back and a moan escaped his lips, “You said you’d help, not make it worse”. I couldn’t help but smile against his skin. I pushed off from the table and spun him so that his ass was against the table, “Your turn love”.

He hopped up with little effort. His hand interlocked in my hair, holding it out of my face. His other hand was balancing him from just falling over in pleasure. He made a whining sound, like a dog whimper. I opened my eyes and looked up at him, still working him with my mouth. He looked down with pleading eyes. I went faster and he whimpered louder, “I can’t hold it anymore!” He came in my mouth, and I didn’t really mind. It was sweet from his healthy diet. His hand went lose in my hair as I swallowed it down. His eyes were in a dazed state, blurred over with ecstasy. He fell back on the table and just lay there. His breath was quick and his chest was heaving up and down.

“Johnny”, I questioned as he stayed still on the table. His head moved to the side to look at me, “mhm”. His corky smile flooded onto his lips. I smiled back while I zipped my pants. “Come on love, your mom is waiting for us to go”. He nodded and sat up, sliding of the table and pulling his pants up.

We went back into the house and Johnny went straight up stairs to change while I sat at the kitchen table with his mother. She smiled over at me as she counted out pills of all colors. I cocked my head to the side, “Mrs. Smash what are all those for”. She looked down at the pills, “well there Johnny’s medication”. I locked my jaw, it was kind of weird to remember that Johnny is a little of his rocker. My eyes cast down and I stared at the faux wood table. Her hand slipped over my shoulder, “Now, now sweetie don’t worry about it. The doctors say that there is still a chance it could all just stop one day”. I looked up and nodded at her, “Yea I know, it’s just that when I’m with him he seems so normal. I don’t even notice some of the smaller things anymore”. Her smiled widened, “You really love him don’t you”. My own smile spread across my lips, “With all my heart”.

Just at that moment Johnny came down the stairs sporting a pair of blue jeans and a black band t-shirt. “Mother I’m ready”. She nodded, “Take your manna supplement Johnny”. He swallowed them all down in two gallops of water. They both looked at me and I stood, “we can go now?” Mrs. Smash nodded, “let me go get my purse”. She tip toed over to the room across the hall and pick her purse up.

Johnny’s hand slipped into mine as we drove to the mall. His head was set forward starring at the back of the drivers side seat. I gave his hand a light squeeze. He looked over with a small smirk on his lips. I shook my head and mouthed the words “I love you”. He smiled and mouthed back “I love you more”. I giggled like a school girl then mentally slapped myself for it. Mrs. Smash looked back at us in the mirror and smiled shaking her head saying something about “teen love”.

I took the rest of the time in the car to think. Did it bug me that Johnny had to take pills to get better and that his mum called them manna supplements? It felt wrong, like it should be wrong but I could find a single reason for it to bother me as much as it did. I knew Johnny had to take them. I just never saw them before. “What’s wrong with me lately”. I shook my head “there is nothing wrong. I’m just shaken up after the incident with Saxon”. My entire body shivered at the thought of him. Johnny’s hand tightened a little to make sure I was all right. I gave him a quick nod. I looked out the window watching the pavement rush underneath me. “What are things going to be like now? Am I supposed to just move on, do I grief? What would I have grief over anyway? God my mind is so fucked up. It’s not that big a deal I’m just living with Johnny now. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph I can’t believe how quickly that happened. Who need that old bitch I called my mum would actually let me go that easily. See if I send her a Christmas card. Shit, Christmas is coming up, I need a damn job”

I was pulled out of my thoughts as I felt the heat from Johnny’s hand leave mine. I looked over to see him getting out the car. I came to my senses and got out following them into the mall. “All right Danny now I know I’m not your mother or anything but please don’t go to extreme with the clothing, please” I nodded, “Yes man, just the basics”. She sighed in relief and handed over her credit card, “I’ll be over there on that bench reading, take your time sweetie”. I nodded and waved her off as she left to go read on the bench.

I leaned on Johnny’s shoulder as we walked in silence toward a nameless store. His arm wrapped around my waist and he leaned into me as well. I smiled as we walked absent-mindedly. We finally stopped into a store full of band t-shirts and jeans. I let go of Johnny to move quicker. The sooner shopping was over the sooner I could go see how everyone was. I walked through the rows of cloths throwing every black small shirt the store had. Well not really, I only grabbed ten. One for every day of the week and three spares. Next were jeans. I pulled out four pairs I liked and pulled Johnny to the cash register. Then we were off to find something I could sleep in and a pair of shoes. We went into another store and I grabbed about pairs of black shorts and black wife beaters. That was my sleep ware. I sighed, “Johnny you haven’t said a word since we started shopping. He looked over, “Sorry milady I was just thinking”. I nodded, “Oh okay”. We walked into the shoe store and I picked out a pair of black and red converses. I was starting to see what people called me gothic. Everything I bought was black. I didn’t do it on purpose it just the color I prefer. I slipped them on to make sure they fit right and looked into the body length mirror. I about screamed. I hadn’t really looked in a mirror for a while now. My hand went to my face. I brushed my fingertips across the now scared right side of my face. My eyes began to water, “Johnny”! He came running over, “Milady?” I looked over at him, “Why did you tell me about this”. I pointed at my face. Johnny shook his head, “I didn’t see the big deal, I thought it was attractive”. I looked back at the mirror. I did look hard, and badass. I sighed, “Okay last thing I need in panties and bras”. I winked at him, “Wanna help me pick em’ out?” He blushed a little and nodded, “Why not”. He followed me into our next location. His eyes stayed focused on me as we walked through the store. I had to laugh at his reaction when I handed him a couple pairs of panties to hold while I looked through some other things. His eyes went wide and his hands shook a little. I stuck my tongue out at him, “What’s the big deal, there just panties”. He laughed nervously, “No problem milady, continue on”. I could see him swallowing his saliva as his mouth watered. I just went about my business.

Soon we where dragging Mrs. Smash to the car and heading toward home. I was tired and I wanted a bath so bad. I stuck and still smelled like booze and cigarettes. My eyes went wide, “shit what do I do about smokes, I’m out”. I looked to Mrs. Smash, “You think we could stop at a gas station”. She looked back at the red light, “Why”. I swallowed, “I need some smokes”.