Skip to content The Weird Scholarship – Chapter Twenty-Five
It was Saturday and I had a date later that night, but I had the afternoon free. I was one of those students who did my homework right away after school and then could spend the later evenings reading or otherwise enjoying myself. Although I hadn’t finished everything Friday night, I had plenty to keep me occupied on Saturday morning. I had just finished the last math problem in my calculus homework when Melody came bursting in through our shared bathroom.
“Nora, do you want to come with us? We are going some place awesome.”
“Slow down. Who is we again? And I can’t. I am starving.” I really was hungry and looking forward to the cafeteria fare in the dorms.
Melody looked disappointed. “But my father is here and we are going to lunch. Please come with us.”
“Sure. What kind of food do you have in mind?” I shuttered at the thought of going to McDonald’s again. Apparently Melody thought it was wonderful. I didn’t want to get sick when I couldn’t resist the urge to order one of their caustic milkshakes. “Not McDonald’s I hope.”
She was still beaming. “Better than McDonald’s. We are going to Chuck E Cheese.”
I was about going to say, “Taco Bell?” in my Sylvester Stalone tone, but then Melody was excited by it and I hadn’t had pizza in a while. And Jonah said I needed to learn about video games. So I said, “Why not?”
We went through the bathroom to her room and I met Melody’s father for the first time. He was younger than my own father. Her dad had a very distinctive mustache. The corners were twisted up on the ends in points, like reddish flames, much darker than his very light blond hair. He smiled.
“So this is my daddy, Jack Franklin,” said Melody. “And this is Nora Jones, one of my good friends. We share a bathroom.”
I waved.
“Nice to meet you, Nora. Melody said you helped her learn how to do a few things that her mother didn’t teach her.”
“Yep. I taught her how to do her own laundry,” I said.
“Good,” he said. “I don’t have a washer and dryer and could never teach her the basics.”
“No washer and dryer?” I asked.
“Well in my work, I travel a lot, so I am usually on the road.”
“Well, let’s go,” said Melody. “I still have tokens from last year.” She grabbed a purse and flung it over her shoulder.
“Do you have everything you need?” he asked.
“Of course,” she said.
We walked out to the car. His vehicle was a Jeep, but it had a tow bar on it like it was usually pulled behind an RV. My parents weren’t big on camping, but Kara’s family were big RV enthusiasts. I looked at it. “Do you go RV-ing a lot?”
He nodded and started the Jeep and we pulled out of the dorm parking lot. “I am in the RV delivery business. I just delivered an RV to a family in Boston, so I decided to see Melody since I was in town already.”
“So how often do you do this?” I asked.
“It depends on how far from the factory it needs to go, but usually about one or two a week.”
I couldn’t imagine driving all over in an RV. Kara’s family usually stayed at RV parks. “My best friend’s parents have a Fleetwood RV.”
He frowned. “They are a major competitor of ours.” He laughed. “They keep us innovating though.” He kept driving. It only took about twenty minutes to get to the pizza place. We walked in and it was like it had never changed.
“I haven’t been here since I was eight,” I said.
“Daddy takes me here at least once a year,” said Melody. “I am a ski ball expert, so you better watch out.”
“Food first, then games,” said Mr. Franklin.
I giggled. “Yes, sir. I am starved anyway.
We found a seat in the dining room without the big stage of animatronic singing animals and we sat and talked. “Melody gushed about classes and how she was becoming more independent. “Did you know Mommy hunted me down at the scholarship camp and tried to make me go home?”
“Really?” asked her father. “How did she know about everything?”
“I think she found out when I got the letter about my vaccinations. I had to go to student health and get all the vaccines I should have had over the years.” Melody continued. “Anyway, she went to the campground with a policeman and tried to get me to go home, but I told her that I was going to stay and go to college. The policeman said I could do what I wanted because I am eighteen.”
“Good for you, baby,” he said. “Your mother unfairly held you back because of your problem.”
Melody looked thoughtful, but didn’t say anything, so I was free to open my own mouth.
“That’s not a problem anymore. Student Health told her there wasn’t physically wrong with her and Melody figured out her mother just didn’t teach her and she learned to use the bathroom by herself.”
“Nora, no,” Melody said, but it was too late.
Mr. Franklin’s face turned bright pink. He had been pale to begin with and it was easy to tell when he was angry. “That woman lied to me and you. She stole your childhood so she could keep you under her control. I am calling your mother and letting her know how despicable she is for what she did.”
Melody looked alarmed as she looked out into the restaurant. “Quiet, our food is here.”
A waitress laid a pizza on the table and we took time to pass out some slices for us. I took a bite of my pizza and looked at Melody. “I am sorry for bringing that up.”
“Well, I am eighteen and don’t have to talk to Mommy again. I am so angry about what she did to me, but Daddy, don’t confront Mommy about this. I don’t want her to know that she doesn’t have power over me anymore. Besides, she can stop me from going to college just by telling the scholarship coordinator that I am not incontinent anymore. Then I would have to go back to her. I don’t want that to happen.”
Her father’s normal color returned to his face and Melody relaxed. “I will not call your mother,” he said. “Now we came here to have fun, not argue about your mother.
“Goody,” she said. She grabbed two slices of pizza from the pan to her plate dragging a stream of cheese across the table.
I smiled and grabbed a few pieces of my own. “I haven’t been to a pizza arcade in years,” I said. “How did you know they still had them?”
“Daddy took me to Chunk E. Cheese for every birthday. It was the one chance I got to have the kinds of fun Mommy didn’t want me to have.”
“Oh?” I asked.
“Melody’s mother didn’t want Melody to have fun if she wasn’t the center of it,” he said.
“Or do anything, apparently,” I said. “Maybe that why she kept you in diapers?”
Melody frowned, then nodded. “If my talking Barbie didn’t require a computer, I would have never been able to use a computer. Mommy couldn’t figure out how to make her talk and she left me alone with the computer for hours. I just had to change Barbie’s speech every now and then, so she thought I was only doing that.”
We quickly ate and then when we were finished, we each got a cup of tokens. “Let’s play Ski Ball,” said Melody.
I got up and followed her out into the game room. It was black lit and filled with flashing arcade machines and electronic noise.
I went over to the ski ball machines and put in my tokens. The nine balls rolled down the chute and I begin to play. By the time I finished the first game, I only had one ticket print out. I looked over to Melody and she had ten tickets. I was jealous, but she had scored much higher than me.
She smiled. “Don’t worry. We’ll pool our tickets and get something fun to share.” She popped in another token and we started a new round. We played Skee-Ball until it was time to leave.
“Well, let’s redeem our prize,” she said.
We walked to the counter and looked around. There were really awesome prizes, but we didn’t have near enough tickets for a MacBook or a LCD TV. Instead we spent our tickets on a cheap plastic Slinky.
She looked a bit disappointed, but I just shrugged. “We just had fun playing.”
“And we’ll have fun playing with the Slinky at the dorms. We didn’t have stairs at Mommy’s house.”
Melody’s father drove us back to the dorms and then I came back to see Jonah walking away. He wasn’t happy. He was clinching and unclinching his fists. He stopped and looked at me.
“Did you forget about our date? Cassie said she didn’t see you all day and Bella said she saw you leaving with some guy.”
“Sorry, I kept her our too long,” said Melody. “My father stopped by and took us both to Chuck E. Cheese for my birthday.” She held up the Slinky. “See what Nora and I won at Skee-Ball.”
“But you didn’t answer your phone or my texts or anything. I thought you didn’t want to talk to me anymore.”
I grabbed my purse and reached for my phone, but it was gone. I grabbed my keys and went inside and found my phone still on my bed. I grabbed and started scrolling through the messages. I turned to Jonah. “I left my phone. I am sorry I forgot about the date. How late am I?”
“Just half an hour,” he said.
“I hope our plans aren’t time sensitive,” I said.
He shook his head. “We can see the next showing of the movie.”
“Let me get dressed and I will be ready.” I grabbed some clothes and threw them on my bed and then pushed him out of the room and was able to get dressed. I thought about a dress, but I decided that I needed to make sure that Jonah wasn’t like Milton. For that, I needed to wear light colored pants. I dressed in a cute blouse and khaki pants that I couldn’t really wear with diapers. I then packed some more suitable clothes in an overnight bag.
I came out of the dorm with my purse and my bag. “Let’s go,” I said.
The End of The Weird Scholarship – Chapter Twenty-Five.
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