Chapter 8
I saw Dr. Richards the next morning. I see him every Tuesday for my eating disorder and for being kidnapped. I was no longer worried about leaving my house or going to school and being left alone knowing there is no way Mrs. Kink would go after me. I also see another therapist on Wednesdays and my school counselor on Fridays. I talked about Allie’s cold reaction towards my weight loss and asking him why would someone be jealous of me.
“I don’t think she was jealous of you, lot of people just don’t understand eating disorders and think it’s a fad diet,” he said.
“What?” I asked.
“It’s a taboo illness.”
“What’s taboo?” I asked.
The word was making me think of Tae Bo.
“It means it’s not something people accept or talk about and it’s not socially appropriate in society. It’s something people are embarrassed about and ashamed about.”
“I don’t feel ashamed,” I said.
“Really? So you share everything about yourself, no secrets?”
“I do have secrets,” I said.
“So you do have taboo things about yourself. Why don’t you share those secrets?”
“Why?”
“I am asking you how come you do not tell anyone about it?”
“I don’t know, I just don’t know what they would think.”
“Okay, that is what taboo is.”
After our session ended, Mom took me to school and it was an hour drive. Mom pulled up in front of the school and let me out. I got out and she waited a couple seconds and then drove off. I went up to the door and pulled it but it wouldn’t open. I tried the other door and it was locked too. I noticed a sign on the window saying.
“Due to a lock down, all the doors to this building have been locked and no one may enter the building. Sorry for the inconvenience. Any students coming in late must return home.”
I started to feel panic. I was outside alone and I couldn’t get inside and Mom was gone. I went to the window and started knocking on it but no one would come. I tried to pound on it hard with my fist. No one came so I decided to peep in the other windows to get their attention. I started to look in each window and I saw Mr. Brooks class so I started knocking on the window. Mr. Brooks came and opened it.
“Give me your bag,” he said.
I put it through the window and he helped me climb through. I was skinny enough to fit.
The other kids in the room were all looking at me.
“Why did she get to come in through the window?” said Ronnie. “I thought no more students can come in?”
He was sitting at a table doing his school work with a few other kids.
“Why are all the doors locked?” I asked.
“We are doing a lockdown, so you have to stay in this class until the lock down ends,” Mr. Brooks said.
“Why?” I asked.
“We just are, we don’t know what is going on.”
“But what if I have to use the bathroom?” I asked.
“Oh boy, let me call your mother to have her come get you, this is not a good day for you to be in school because no one is allowed to leave their classroom.”
“What if someone has to go pee or poo?” I asked.
“They would have to hold it.”
Mr. Brooks asked for my number and he dialed it and called my house.
“Hi, this is Mr. Brooks calling from school about your daughter….Natalie. Oh her sister, yeah this school is having a lock down so no one can leave their classroom so I think it’s best she returns home and maybe tomorrow things will be back to normal. Will you let her know? Thank you.”
Mr. Brooks hung up. “That was your Aunt on the phone and she said she would let your mother know when she returns.”
It must have been her day off from work.
“Can I go home too?” Ronnie asked.
“You will when school ends,” he said.
“How come she gets to?”
“Don’t worry about her.”
I played on the computer while I waited. I did the puzzles on Math Workshop and then I was online looking up eating disorders again. I posted about my parents always being with me now when I eat so I couldn’t hide my food or feed it to the dogs or dump it in the trash and how I am so scared of ruining my mouth and teeth from throwing up.
Then I pooped in my diaper again. This was not the good time when I had no way of changing it.
I could tell it smelled because kids started to hold their noses and one of the other teachers opened the window. Me throwing up must not be making the pills be affective.
“Someone sure farted really bad,” said Jeremy.
My diaper felt all mushy now. I could feel it spread all over.
I was anxious for Mom to get here.
Kids kept making comments about the smell and asking why it wasn’t going away.
“Enough of the comments,” said Mrs. Locke, the other teacher.
“How is my mom going to know to come here to get me?” I asked. “She can’t even go in the building.”
“We will keep an eye out for her car,” said Mr. Brooks.
I kept looking out the window at the parking lot for Mom’s car. I didn’t see anyone pull in or anyone leaving.
I hated lockdowns.
“How long is this going to last?” I asked.
“We don’t know, but it’s been going on since school started.”
I heard kids talking and one of them mentioned about a gun being brought here.
“A gun?” I asked.
“No no no,” said Mr. Brooks.
“Jeremy,” Mrs. Locke scolded.
“But why did he say there was a gun here?” I asked.
“There is no gun,” Mr. Brooks shouted to all the students.
I couldn’t stop thinking about what Jeremy said. I couldn’t get over it until I got all the answers.
Why did he mention a gun?
Jeremy kept insisting someone really did bring a gun to school and the adults kept scolding him and he finally shut up about it.
“There is no gun Natalie, he is just saying that because he doesn’t know either,” Mr. Brooks told me.
I kept looking out the window for Mom.
“How will my Mom know to come to this window here?” I asked.
I walked over to the closet to see if it would be big enough for me to change. There was no light in there and it was too small for me to change in there.
“Natalie, get out of there,” said Mr. Brooks.
I felt the door handle and it was locked.
“You can’t leave this room, all the doors have been locked.”
“Why? No one has ever locked any doors during a lockdown,” I said.
“This time they have.”
“This is a weird school. You should let some people still leave class for emergencies, what if someone had to take their pills? What if someone gets diarrhea?” I said.
I also wanted to say, “What if someone needs to change their diaper because they are incontinent.”
“I know, I don’t like it either,” said Mr. Brooks.
I looked out the window again. I did not see my mom’s mini van anywhere.
I decided I would shout her name when I see her so she knows to come to the window and I will climb back out.
I got back on the computer and kept on reading on the internet. I looked up adult diapers. I saw store sites that sold them. I even found a website that sold adult cloth diapers. I decided to look up incontinent but I only ended up with medical information talking about it, not about people have it. I decided to type in incontinent kids. I still ended up with medical information and personal websites I found were all about kids being in wheelchairs or having some severe developmental problem.
Why can I never find anything about normal people being incontinent. Why must it always be old people and disabled people?
I felt a stream of pee pouring in my diaper. I was hoping it wouldn’t leak. I didn’t want to change in front of all these students.
“Nakota,” Mr. Brook and Mrs. Locke shouted.
I looked and saw he was stooped over a waste basket in the back of the room.
“I really had to go or else it’s wet my pants,” he said.
Jeremy got out of his seat and went to the window. Then I noticed he was peeing outside.
“Now Jeremy is peeing out the window,” I said.
“Jeremy,” Mrs. Locke shouted again.
I noticed there was a puddle of pee under Rachael-Ann’s chair.
“Rachael-Ann had an accident,” I said.
“Natalie,” said Mr. Brooks.
“What?” I asked.
Mrs. Locke just grabbed some paper towels and started to clean up the mess.
Mr. Brooks picked up the phone and called saying “How long is this going to last, students are getting wild in here and having accidents and Natalie needs a change.”
“This whole lockdown is gay,” said Julie.
“Everyone goes retarded when the whole school shuts down,” said Nakota.
“Nakota,” Mrs. Locke scolded.
Jeremy was back in his seat.
Then finally a staff assistant arrived in the classroom.
“Who here has an emergency?” she asked.
I didn’t recognize the person.
“These two here,” Mr. Brooks pointed at me and Rachael-Ann.
“You two go with her,” said Mrs. Locke.
Me and Rachael-Ann got up and followed the person. She took us to the nurse’s room. We met with Joann.
The staff person explained to Joann that Rachael-Ann needed dry pants and I needed to change.
“I’ll do Rachael first,” said Joann. The other staff person left and Joann opened the cupboard and it had a bunch of clean clothes in there. She pulled out some pants and underwear. Some were small and some were big. Joann looked at each one and she finally found a loose pair that had a tie in the waist and she found some large pair of panties too. They looked they would be too big for me. Racheal-Ann is not a skinny person, she is a little fat.
“Try these,” she told her.
Rachael-Ann took them and she changed into them in the restroom. I had to wait for her to come out. When she came out, Joann gave her a plastic bag to put her wet pants in and the other staff walked her back to class.
Joann changed me next. She got the supplies ready and had on some disposable gloves.
“I hope you are eating enough,” she said.
“I am,” I said. “I had a half bowl of cereal with some milk in it.”
“I can see your hip bones clearly.”
She got finished changing me and I saw her take notes when she was done washing her hands and throwing everything away. She has been taking notes lately and she told me she has been doing that for all students she sees and wouldn’t let me see what she was writing down about me. She never took any notes on Rachael-Ann. I asked her why and she said she didn’t need to. I asked her “how come?” and she finally said “Okay, I will take notes on her, thanks for reminding me.” The staff person was waiting for me outside and she took me back to Mr. Brooks and she took one student at a time to use the toilet. I got back on the computer.
Soon Mom arrived and she was led by Mrs. Dorsell the assistant principal.
I grabbed my backpack and headed out the door with her. Mrs. Dorsell lead us to the front entrance and we left.
“Do you know what is going on here?” I asked.
“Yeah, I’ll tell you in a little bit, get in the car first,” Mom replied.
We got in the mini van and Mom started telling me on the way home.
“A former student had brought a gun to school and was threatening to shoot with it but luckily it was a fake gun but it looked real. He got arrested and was taken away.”
“Who was the student?”
“They didn’t say due to the law. It was just a former student there and he arrived in a car and walked into the building with the weapon and was saying he was going to kill everyone with it. I am sure it will be in the paper.”
“So why did they have to punish everyone else for it?” I asked.
“They take this stuff very seriously. They had to check everyone’s bags and lockers, now everyone is going to be eating in their classrooms, and they said it will be like this for a few days until they figure it out.”
I was shocked. Someone had brought a fake gun to school and now they decided to do a big shut down locking everyone in their classrooms.
I told Mom about the chaos in the resource room, Jeremy peeing out the window and Rachael-Ann peeing her pants and me not being able to change my messy diaper when I pooped. Then finally they started letting kids leave the classroom to go potty but they had to be taken there by a staff assistant.
Mom thought the whole thing was wrong to keep kids locked up and to not let them use the bathroom and having to humiliate themselves in class.
We arrived home and Mom made me a little snack and she made me sit in the living room with her while she worked. The whole room was crowded. Mom’s hideabed was still out and it had clothes on it and she had her other things stored under the bed. You could barely move around in here. I’ve noticed less people had been coming. Maybe it was because it was too hard to move around in here.
I could hear Mom’s diaper crinkling loudly whenever she moved around. I could tell it was wet because of how it sounded.
I was bored but I was not allowed to leave this room and if Mom left, I had to follow her. I was not liking this at all. I had no way of getting rid of my food. It was either throw up or just sit here all day. I finally ate my lunch and Mom let me leave. I drank a big glass of water and I threw it up in the master bathroom.
I went in Kelly’s room and got on the computer. I visited the eating disorder forum again and read responses to my post. One of them suggested I just eat and throw it all up but do not brush my teeth or I will be spreading the acid all over, instead use mouthwash to get rid of the vomit smell.
I stayed home the next day because they were still doing the lockdown and Mom told me some parents were also keeping their kids home from school and they also got complaints from other parents about them locking their kids in the class and denying them bathroom privileges. Racheal-Ann was not the only one who had wet her pants. Mom was one of the complainers about us being locked in our classrooms.
I just did the computer and watched GoldenEye and I got to play the Nintendo 64. I didn’t mind staying home from school. Mom or Grandma Del stayed with me and she made sure I ate but I would throw it up when no one was paying attention to me. I only kept some food down because I needed some calories but I was not going to let anyone make me get fat and take my body away.
Grandma Del took me to work and I led her the way. She took her ugly RV with and I sat up in the front with her. A bunch of cars passed us on the way and she got off at the first exit when we crossed the river. She dropped me off in front of the mall entrance. I grabbed my backpack and got out and went inside. Grandma Del drove off as I was walking to the doors.
I headed to the pet care place and met up with Mary.
“Good, you’re here, clock in and I need your help with something.”
I picked up my time sheet and wrote in the time I got here. I put my bag down and went over to her.
I followed her while she was telling me what she needed me to do. She picked up a tub of pet toys and told me she needed me to clean them in the sink she had in the back.
It was a laundry sink and she showed me where the soap is to clean the toys. I pulled my sleeves up and filled the tub with warm water and put soap in it. I started to wash each toy. Then I left to ask her where she wanted the clean toys. She got a towel and set it on the counter next to me and told me to put them there.
I washed each toy and I felt my diaper getting warmer. I had to fight the urge touching my head because of the itch I kept feeling.
After I was done, I let the water out and washed my hands. I finally scratched my head and went to Mary.
“I finished the toys,” I said.
“Wonderful, I need you to walk these dogs here, take them outside and walk them around the mall, that is what their owners requested and I told them I had an assistant now who can do it.”
She gave me the leashes and the dogs and we attached each one to each leash. I had to walk five small dogs. Mary gave me some plastic bags telling me this is to put the poop in.
I put my coat on again and took them out of the mall. I walked them and the leashes kept getting tangled up and the dogs walked all over. They did not stay in a straight line. One of them even pooped on the ground. I had to pick it up and it was very soft. It broke when I touched it and I pulled the bag off my hand turning it inside out and I had to carry it. I kept walking and when I did one trip around the building. I went back inside there the entrance is where I came out of. I went back to the pet care. I threw the bag away and all the dogs had already peed in the bark dust where Kmart is. Mary gave me more dogs to walk but she made me untangle the leashes first.
I got them untangled and this time I had to walk two big dogs. One of them was a German Shepherd and the other one was a mixed Lab dog. I knew this was not a pure bred black Lab just by how she looked.
I walked them outside again around the mall. This went on until it was time for my break.
I got the last three remaining dogs off the leash and put them away and I got my money I still had left over from Monday and headed to the food court. I got pasta this time and this time I asked the person to not put a lot on my plate since I don’t eat much and I don’t really want to waste it. I also told her I only wanted pasta. She did my special request and charged me three bucks for it. She also threw in a drink for me and I picked diet. She gave me some change back and I remembered to thank her and I sat down at a table again and ate. I was so glad no one was here to tell me how much to eat.
I got finished eating and threw the plate and fork away and napkins and only kept my pop. I just walked around the mall again. I paid attention to the time by asking employees for the time. I knew I needed to wear a watch again. I had one but the battery ran out. I went back to the pet care and Mary put me back to work. She made me walk more dogs while she fed them and played with them. People came and picked their pets up and it was time for me to head home but I worked until Mom arrived again. Mom checked with Mary again to be sure I ate and she said she didn’t see me eating because she stayed here while I went to the food court.
I got my time sheet again and wrote down the time I was done working. I put it back and left with Mom.
She started to feel my stomach and said, “you are eating when you get home.”
“I ate,” I said.
“Not enough or your belly would be full but it doesn’t feel like you ate a lot. You smell like dogs again.”
Mom took me home and she picked up Dad on the way back and when we got back, I was made to eat again. I just sat here and was not going to give in and I would sleep here at the table if I have to.
Grandma Del sat with me and it got late and Aunt Bridgett said she had finally found a place to live.
I was happy for her. Now things will be back to normal.
“Where at?” Grandma Del asked.
“It’s between Longview and here, I had no choice but it was the only place they would take section 8 and it will be a three bedroom. Girls and boys will sleep in each one.”
“How good is the place?” Grandma Del asked.
“Does it matter, we are moving out again and the kids will be going to a different school.”
“Shouldn’t you wait until school is over before you move them to a new school, it’s almost the end of the year,” said Grandma Del. “Plus it will be on your way to work.”
“I don’t want them waiting for me when I get off work.”
“Your sister can still watch them and have them here and you can pick them up and bring them home.”
“Fine, they can stay in their school but after the school year ends, I am transferring them to a new school closer to my house.”
“C’mon Natalie, eat so we can all go to bed,” said Grandma Del.
I Just sat here refusing to eat.
Everyone eventually gave up on getting me to eat so I went upstairs and took my shower and this time, no one was in the bathroom with me. I got changed into a fresh diaper and went in my room with a towel wrapped around me and I got my pajamas on and brushed my hair.
The story finally showed up in the paper the next day because Mom had given me The Columbian and showed me the article about my school. A 15 year old boy who once attended there had brought a gun to school and was threatening to shoot everyone with it. The gun was finally confiscated, and it turned out to be a pellet gun and the boy said he was going to find a girl he knew and shoot her with it and everyone else who was ever mean to him. The police were called and he was arrested and will be facing charges while there will be changes in the school to prevent anything like that from happening again or worse.
I wondered who this kid was. I couldn’t recall anyone being mean to other kids there. I put the paper down.
“What do you think?” Mom asked.
“What’s a pellet gun?”
“It’s like a BB gun.”
I noticed Timmy had never been at work at all so I figured I knew what happened. He kept saying they haven’t needed him and I wonder how much longer he was expecting us to believe it. I was done believing it.
Aunt Bridgett came home from her job and she started to work on moving out. First thing she was doing was packing her car with their personal belongings. All her kids helped and she left in her POS car.
I did eat today again but it was never good enough for the adults because they were still trying to force me to eat more food.
I just did the same as I did yesterday, just sit here and do nothing. Grandma Del thought keeping me in my wet diaper would get me to eat but I thought I would rather leak all over and smell than get fat. I sprung a bad leak and I was still made to stay seated. I ended up with a bad rash that night so I had to use lot of diaper rash cream.
I returned to school on Friday and sure enough, things were different, the things you find at airports had been installed at the front entrance and each student had to walk through and then get their bags checked. It created a long line and kids complained about being treated like criminals.
“This is like the airport,” I said.
“This sucks,” said a younger boy in front of me.
He walked through the thing and had to have his pockets and bags checked. Mrs. Peggy, Mrs. Dorsell, Joann, and few other staff people were all checking our bags.
Mine was checked too and nothing was taken out of it. Even Mrs. Robinson had to have her purse checked.
“What is the point in having those machines if they are just going to be looking through our stuff??” I asked.
“It’s just a policy and to be very safe to be sure there are no weapons in this school,” she said.
“Do you know who this kid was who brought the gun to school?” I asked.
“I think we both knew who this kid was and he was still very upset about the whole thing that happened back in February. But it’s not your fault and he will be getting help hopefully.”
I was shocked about Jason could do something like this. I was also shocked that I had the ability to make people do bad stuff and hurt them so bad they turn into bad people. I think I had discovered a secret power I have. But then I started to feel I was responsible for all of this. The security, the x-ray machines, the lockdowns, the accidents. I just knew everyone could blame me now. I made Jason into a different person and caused all this.
The day went on as normal and no one had blamed me so far for the change in the school. I talked to my school counselor again during our session and he also told me none of this was my fault.
How could this not be my fault? If I hadn’t done what I did back in February, he wouldn’t have driven a car here and threaten everyone with a pellet gun.
The session ended and I went to choir. We practiced songs for our music festival.
When school ended, I went home in the van. Snack was waiting for me on the table again and I was not allowed to leave the table until I ate all of it. I didn’t want to be stuck at the table again and I didn’t want to throw up my food again, I had a tantrum instead. I screamed and tossed my food on the floor and the plate broke in half.
“I guess we are using plastic plates from now on,” said Grandma Del.
She cleaned up the mess and made me another snack and put it on one of Mathew’s clean plate. He has his own dishes he uses only because he is always dropping things and Mom and Dad don’t want to go through so many dishes a year. He also knocks his cup over too so they are also plastic.
I kept crying because I didn’t want to eat.
Mom came in the kitchen and Grandma Del said, “This will be the only way we can get her to eat. She is not to leave this table until she eats and no one is to not leave her alone after she eats. That’s the only way we can guarantee she is keeping her food down.”
“Why doesn’t everyone else have a snack after school?” I asked.
“Because you are the one starving yourself,” said Grandma Del.
Aunt Bridgett came home and she started packing again.
“How can it take her this long to bring everything to her new home if she didn’t bring much stuff here?” I asked.
“She’s gotta work you know,” said Grandma.
I was hoping Grandma Del would go home now after Aunt Bridgett is finished moving out.
Grandma Del made dinner for everyone and I did eat my dinner but not my snack. There was a lot of food on my plate and I only ate half and I was full.
“Natalie, make sure you finish your food,” said Grandma Del.
“I am not hungry anymore.”
“Remember what the nurse said, you gotta eat more food or you will get sick.”
“I don’t want to lose any more weight,” I said.
“Look how bony your shoulders feel,” said Kelly touching my shoulders. Then she pinched my skin on my side where my rib cage is. It hurt.
“Ow,” I shouted. I grabbed her skin back and pinched it.
“Hey, what is going on here?” Grandma Del scolded.
“She pinched me,” I said.
“I was not, I was showing her she doesn’t have any body fat,” said Kelly.
Grandma Del came over and started feeling my back and then she was pinching me too.
“Ow,” I said.
“Wow, no fat, it’s all skin. And you are very bony here, you have gotten so thin you don’t have fat there anymore,” said Grandma Del poking me there.
“Ow, ow,” I said.
All my cousins, even Matthew, all wanted to feel my bones so they all got up and started touching me.
“Wow I can feel her whole back now,” said Matthew.
“Can I see what is under your shirt now?” Amber asked and she lifted it.
I pulled my shirt back down.
“Enough, everyone,” said Grandma Del.
“You’re skinny now, you don’t need to lose weight anymore,” said Amber.
“I’m done losing it, now everyone is just trying to get me fat again,” I said.
“You are too skinny,” Grandma Del. “You are not to leave this table until you clean your plate.”
My diaper was soaked again and I could feel the rash burning. It felt very uncomfortable and it hurt bad. I knew she would not let me leave the table until I cleaned my plate.
“Hey, kids, how about we all rent movies for the weekend?” Grandma Del asked.
“Really?” Matthew jumped out of his seat.
“We’re moving out this weekend,” said Timmy.
“Oh nonsense, you guys can stay a little extra days,” said Grandma Del.
I was looking at everyone in excitement when Grandma Del told me, “You can come along too if you finish your food.”
I felt sad again.
Mom brought her plate to the kitchen from her room and Aunt Bridgett was sitting in the family room and she had her plate on the coffee table. Grandma Del got her plate and Mom did the dishes.
“Anita honey, I am taking the kids to go rent movies but Natalie is staying here since she won’t clean her plate.”
“Oh mother,” said Mom.
“She’s gotta eat and if she wants to rent a movie, she has to clean her plate first, I can give her ten more minutes.”
“C’ mon Natalie, eat, so you can come with us,” said Amber.
“Yeah, in her crappy RV,” said Jesse.
“Go Natalie, eat,” Kelly rooted.
“Yeah Natalie, eat,” said Matthew.
“Eat eat eat eat,” Timmy, Jesse, Amber, Kelly and Jaymee all started chanting.
Matthew joined in.
I put another bite in my mouth and Kelly said, “Yeah Natalie, now another bite.”
I felt like I was in an eating contest and they were cheering me on to win.
I forced the food down and then I was done cleaning my plate and everyone cheered.
I felt sick now to my stomach.
I leaned back in the chair but it hurt because of my back bone.
I picked up my plate and gave it to Mom and went up to my room to change.
I threw up in the trash when I first got to my room. Then I changed my diaper and I put rash cream on. I stood on the underpad doing it so I wouldn’t get any pee on the floor.
I went back down stairs and I got my shoes on and we went out to the RV.
Grandma Del got in while the rest of us sat and Kelly and Amber were above the passenger seats.
She backed out of the driveway and headed to town. I was staring out the window when Grandma Del slammed on the breaks and we all went forward. Matthew, Jesse, and Timmy all rolled over on the bench that converts into a bed bumping into each other. Jaymee who was sitting at the table with me didn’t go forward because her back was facing the front seats and the bench at the table kept her from flying forward. Me who was also sitting at the table across from Jaymee hit the table with my chest and tummy area and it hurt so much. I held my hands over that part where it hit the table. Stuff also fell over in the RV that were on the kitchen counter.
“Whoa,” said Timmy.
“What happened?” Jesse asked.
“Oh my gosh,” said Kelly.
“There was a dog that came out of nowhere,” said Grandma Del.
“Did you hit it?” I asked.
“You bet. Is everyone okay?”
“Yeah,” I said.
I looked for the dog and asked, “where’s the dog.”
“He ran off into the bushes,” said Grandma Del.
Then she started going again.
“Hey shouldn’t you go out and check on him?” Kelly asked.
“Neah, it was just a stupid dog. I just hope it didn’t do any damage to my RV.”
“It’s not an it, he’s a dog, someone’s animal,” said Amber.
“How do you know it’s a boy, did you see his balls hanging?” Grandma Del asked.
Jaymee laughed and so did Matthew.
“Aren’t you concerned if that dog is hurt or not?” Kelly asked.
“It’s not my dog so not my concern,” she said.
“I can’t believe you,” said Kelly.
“Why? Because I am not affected by a dog getting hit when it just ran out in front of me. No one cares about a dog getting hit, it happens all the time, they’re all dumb animals.”
“Skippy isn’t dumb,” Matthew cried.
“He licks his butt.”
“He’s just cleaning it.”
“Dogs are not smart because they have the mental mind of an eighteen month old scientists say.”
“Skippy is well trained,” I said. “He never wrecks our house.”
“That is because you guys give him attention. He is always being walked, you kids are always playing with him but he leaves dog hair all over the house and it gets on the furniture even though he never jumps on them and you kids give him a bath in your bath tub like he is a human.”
“Dogs feels cold too you know,” said Matthew.
“You guys can use the hot water from your water heater, just hook the hose to it,” said Grandma Del. “Oh and he also takes off and you guys don’t seem to have a problem with it. You do realize someone could call animal control and they come take him and then you would have to bail him out of the shelter.”
We arrived at Blockbuster and Grandma Del inspected the damage.
“Just a little dent.”
I looked and I saw a little bit of dog fur.
We went in the video store and we looked around. I looked at the Nintendo 64 games and they also had Playstation 2 games and Playstaion games. They also had Dreamcast too. They had DVDs too and VHS tapes. The DVDs and VHS tapes were all together. I looked at the kids and family movies and decided on Air Bud World Pup.
I looked at the games again. I saw Matthew had a video tape in his hand and a game. Grandma Del was with and she seemed okay with him getting both so I asked if I could rent a game and a movie since he is.
“Sure,” she replied.
I jumped up and down saying, “yey.”
“Hey, calm down,” she said.
I went back to looking at the games. I decided on Perfect Dark. I hear it was like Goldeneye and it always gets compared to it so I figured I should like this game too.
I then had to wait for everyone else to get done. They had Dreamcast available for everyone to play but it was playing some game I didn’t want to play. They used to have Nintendo 64 with Super Mario 64 playing when it first came out and then they would change it to other new games.
After everyone got done, we got in line and Grandma Del paid for the games and movies and the store employee put the games and movies in the bag and put them on the counter on the other side of the machine we all walk through that catches people who try to walk out without paying for the rental. Timmy grabbed the bags and we all went back to the RV.
Grandma Del did not hit any other animals thank god and we made it home safe and sound.
I went in the den to play my game. I put in Perfect Dark but it wouldn’t let me play it because I had no expansion pak. I turned it off and told Grandma Del I needed to take my game back and trade it for another game because I don’t have the piece for my game system to play the game.
“What piece do you need?” she asked.
“Just some piece that allows you to play the game. I didn’t know it required it,” I said.
“Well, I’ll take you back to the store so you can trade it.”
“Goody,” I said.
We got back in her RV while everyone else stayed behind.
Grandma Del took me back to the video store and I went in and told one of the employees the game required an expansion pak because it won’t let me play the game so I wanted to trade it for another game. They were okay with it and told me to get another game and bring it to them. I went back to the aisle and looked at the games. I decided on Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness. I took it to the counter and they scanned it and brought it to the other side of the counter and I had to walk through the machine to get it. I left the store and went back to the RV.
When I got home, I was unable to play my Nintendo 64 because Timmy and Jesse and Matthew were all playing some game. It was weird animation and I saw worms on the screen.
I went up to Dad’s room and watched Air Bud World Pup.
After the movie ended, I got my pajamas on and I checked to see if my Nintendo 64 was available now but it was still being used. The same game was on.