"American Girl Breaking Traditions Everywhere"

Chapter six






Chrissy knocked on Lydia’s door and opened it. She crept into the room and kneeled by Lydia’s face. She poked Lydia on her arm and yet Lydia made no moves. Smiling she called out her name. Lydia opened her eyes and jumped back. “Jeeze Chrissy warn a sister when you’re going to do that.”

Chrissy smiled and responded “I warned you when I poked. Afterward I throw caution to the wind.”

Lydia shook her head and looked at her watch. If there was something Lydia couldn’t walk around with out it was her watch. She pressed the button and the watch lit up. Lydia looked at the digits and laughed. It was two in the morning.

“Your date lasted long.” Lydia said moving over on her bed and making room for Chrissy. Chrissy sat on the bed and pulled the covers over her bare feet.

“How was your date?” Lydia asked sitting next to Chrissy both with their backs on the head board.

“It was amazing Lyd! We hung out with the Yankees after the game and then randomly decided to go out for ice cream.” Lydia smiled and raised her eye brows.

“We have ice cream here you know. You didn’t have to stay out that late young lady.”

“I know but it’s no fun eating ice cream at night in our apartment.” Chrissy giggled.

Lydia reached for her dresser and grabbed her cell. “You think Jo will kill us for calling her at two?”

“I just spent part of my night with Robinson Cano OF COURSE she wouldn’t mind!” Chrissy exclaimed taking the phone from Lydia and dialing herself. Lydia gave her an unsure look as Chrissy listened to the phone ring. It rang maybe four times till Danny’s voice came on. He made some scary sounds until he finally mutter something close to hello.

“Hey can you put Jo on? Oh, more like PUT JO ON!” Chrissy said energy pumping through her system. Chrissy felt as though she could stay up for ever. Zhi and she had an amazing night and she didn’t want to go to sleep and end it. Unfortunately as time passed it was only logical to get to sleep. At the moment she was excited about everything that was happening. It seemed even Lydia was excited about it so of course so should Jo be.

Just then Jo came on the phone “What? What happened?” She said her tone seeming paranoid.

“Nothing happened Jo calm down.” Chrissy said then hitting the speaker phone.

“Well don’t scare me like that. If nothing is wrong why are you calling me this late? Do you know I have a baby in my body annoying me all day and causing me continues discomfort? Do you know how hard it is to get sleep when your stomach is bloated?!” Jolene batted off.

“Chrissy went on a date with Zhi and she met the New York Yankees.” Lydia said stopping Jolene from continuing her diatribe.

“OH MY GOODNESS!” Jolene screamed into the phone. “Give me a minute I’m already out of bed I just want something to drink with this conversation. Oh wow put me on speaker! Am I on speaker? I better be on speaker! This is crazy wow” Jolene said both Lydia and Chrissy looking at each other and laughing.

“It was great Jo. We were even on the Kiss cam!” Chrissy said touching her lips and reminiscing on the feel of his lips on hers and a whole stadium watching.

“The kiss cam?! Wow..” Lydia said.

Jolene gasped and remained quiet for a bit. Lydia and Chrissy moved closer to the phone when suddenly Jolene finally made a sound. It was the sound of her whimpering.

“Jo is everything alright?” Chrissy asked.

“Yes, everything is fine. I’m just a bit overwhelmed. This is all too amazing. My little sister just went on the most perfect date ever. The kiss cam and she met the Yankees. It’s unbelievable.” Jolene said then making the sound of her sucking in some air. “I’m good; go on about your date.”

Lydia shook her head and whispered “and she wonders why I don’t turn to her.” Chrissy smiled at her words while sounds of a stove turning on flowed through the ear piece.

“I still have ears Lydia” Jolene said sighing.

“At that moment you didn’t Jolene” Lydia said altering her voice and making it sound sweeter.

Chrissy shrugged at the two bickering and continued her story. “I went into the Yankee club house and afterwards we went to an ice cream parlor. We shared a Sunday even though it was Friday night.”

“Did you share like you each had a spoon and occasionally fed each other or shared like you both used the same spoon?” Jolene questioned.

Chrissy bit on her nails while looking at the phone and giggled. Lydia made a hand gesture that said hurry up with the answer ad Christine blurted out “Well it would have been option A but I dropped my spoon! So we shared aren’t I a dork?!” Chrissy laughed at herself and Lydia shook her head.

“Well this is all too entertaining.” Lydia said.

“I got this from Arod for papa Rosario.” Just then Chrissy pulled out a baseball that was signed. Lydia held the phone to the ball and used the light on it to read the writing.

“Jo it’s a baseball and it says “From Alex Rodriguez I am a REAL Yankee To Ralphie”” Lydia laughed and Jolene joined her. “HE should love this Chrissy” Lydia embraced Chrissy in a hug and the three girls continued their conversation.

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Zhi sighed as he rounded the corner of his parents block. It was time to have dinner with them yet again and he couldn’t take it. His parents had been nagging him for the past week and all he wanted was to disown them. At least for a day because lord knew he loved his family. Family was important to him and was just about the most concrete thing in his life.

Of course now he had C in his life and she seemed to be something he wanted to make concrete. Yesterday’s game was incredible and afterwards was even better. The night ended late and all in all he had a good time. He connected with Chrissy and that’s what mattered.

He walked up the walk way and knocked on the door. The door swung open and his sister smiled at him. Z raised his eye brows at the odd welcome but said nothing. He entered the home and his sister closed the door behind him. Zhi headed straight for the table and skipped the greetings. He sat down and just then the clock struck six. At an astonishing rate the rest of the family appeared in their seats and ready to eat.

Zhi began to eat his food and looked out at the family who’s eyes stared at him waiting. “what?” he said.

“Tell us about the girl Zhi” His younger sister Meiling said.

Zhi stared out at them wondering how in the world they knew. It never seized to amaze him how much his family new his business. Zhi chewed on his food and looked at them all. His sisters giggled and his mother seemed impatient. His father nodded his head at him and seemed to not care any further then that.

“do the words Kiss cam ring a bell?” Shan said to him.

“How would you have seen that? You don’t even like baseball!” He said.

“My friend Anna went to the game and said she saw it. When were you planning on telling us you had a girlfriend?” Meiling added.

“Why haven’t I met your girlfriend Zhi?” His mother asked her tone serious. Zhi sighed and couldn’t imagine what was running through his mother menopausal mind of hers.

“Because we just met about two three weeks ago and before I scared her away with my crazy Chinese parents I wanted to get to know her.” Zhi said.

“CRAZY CHINESE FAMILY?!?! How dare you?! You better not say one more thing like that or so help me child…” His mother said cutting her food into pieces violently.

“Sorry” he said wincing at the sight of his mother completely angry at his words.

“Zhi you will bring your girlfriend over. You will bring her over with in the next week. I want to meet the woman dating my son and making him not want to bring his crazy Chinese family around.” She said.

“Yes ma’am” he said. The next hour went by silently.