Chapter 6: Sports and Meetings

"Jess?"

"Do you guys think I should try out for soccer, field hockey, or cross country?" Nattie said, bursting into the diner, as if on cue.

"Aren't you already on the field hockey team?" asked a man sitting in the diner.

"Yes, but not the school team. The fifth grade gets be on a team with the middle school. What do you think, soccer, field hockey, or cross country?" She said turning to face her mother.

"I have to go," Rory said, bee lining it out of diner.

"Okay then. What do you think Jess?"

"How do you know her?" was the only thing Jess said.

"She's my mom, and I'm surprised she is even letting me try out, considering I'm grounded in all."

"I have to go also." Jess said, walking from behind the counter and out the door.

"Jess! You can't leave!" The door swung shut, "You are the only one working here." She looked at the rest of the people in the diner, "So soccer, field hockey, or cross country"

Babette said, "Suga, field hockey is just like a bunch a seagulls chasing after a piece of food, go with your succor and running."

"I agree," said Kirk.

Nattie told them, "I think so too, but I like the game, and I'm already tentatively on the track team in the spring."

"Then go with soccer, honey, or better yet dance class. You'd be a lovely dancer…" Miss Patty started to tell her how much of a good dancer she would be.

"Sorry Miss Patty I haven't danced since I was four years old and mom made me. I'm a sports person."

"But darling…"

"Raise your hand for field hockey," Nattie shouted, cutting Patty off. "Okay, hands for cross country… and who thinks I should do soccer?" She wrote something down on her wrist with a pen and then looked outside. Rory and Jess were standing on the other side of the street, talking. "Who thinks that there is something going on between them, that I don't know about?"

Every hand in the diner was raised.

Nattie walked outside, where Jess and Rory were talking.

"How do they know each other?" Nattie muttered to herself.

"That is your daughter?" Jess said to Rory, not aware of Nattie listening.

"Yep," said Rory. "Why does that shock you so much?"

"I sort of know her…"

I'm sorry for not updating and the shortness of this chapter. I'll most likely have another chapter during Thanksgiving, but after that none until December (I'm going on a school trip with no electronics, or computers, only heat, lights and the great outdoors the last week in November. Brrrr).

No update until 5 more reviews though.