The Family Matters
Chapter Two
The sounds of basketballs smacking on the ground filled Hailee�s ears as she sat down in the bleachers watching the basketball team practice. Even though basketball session wasn�t for a few more months, the players liked to practice. Their couch wasn�t even there, because he was assistant couch for the football team.
"Jon, it�s been two hours� aren�t you sweaty enough?" Hailee whined her legs bouncing up and down on the bleachers as she sat there bored out of her mind.
"Come shoot some with us." Matt one of the forwards shouted with a winked, which only caused Hailee to roll her eyes.
"Yeah Hay�s come shoot with us." Jon called out from the other side of the court.
Hailee stood up and pulled Jonathan�s letterman jacket on her. "I think I�m going to go watch Adam play some football." Hailee called out as she walked to the exit and left the guys to play.
"I must say Jon, you have one fine girl friend." Matt whistled shooting a three-pointer and making it in.
Jonathan laughed as he dribbled the ball and did a lay up. "She ain�t my girl friend." Jon laughed again throwing the ball to another player on the team.
"Why not, you are the one banging her." Matt asked as he bounced the ball standing there next to Jonathan.
"That don�t mean anything. She is the one that calls me up when she wants some. It wouldn�t work out between us if we did date. Her stepfather hates me more than anything he�d move her back out to California if he found out we was still sleeping with each other. I bet if we dated he would have a contract on my head and still move her out to California." Jon shrugged snatching the ball out of Matt�s hand and doing another lay up.
"He moved her to California? That is funny." Matt laughed as he and Jon started to play some one-on-one at the other end of the court.
"She�s always been a trouble maker." Jonathan laughed shooting from the three point line and making it in.
They played one-on-one for another half an hour before they even noticed that the rest of the team had left. Jonathan pulled off his shirt and wiped his face with it. He and Matt were putting away the balls and locking up the gym.
"Do you think I�d have a chance with her?" Matt asked getting into his bag; they were now standing in front of Jonathan�s car.
"I don�t know, why don�t you ask her. All I know is if you do start to date her, you have to be like mister perfect in front of her mom and step dad." Jonathan noted as he pulled out some money from his wallet
Matt pulled out a medicine bottle and handed it to Jonathan as he took the three hundred dollars Jonathan had in his hands. "There are ten vicaden pills, which I usually sell for fifty dollars each. There are ten ecstasy pills. There are ten ritalyn pills and then I put ten anonymous pills in there." Matt winked stuffing the money he just got into his pocket.
"Anonymous� Matt what kind of pills are they? I don�t want to be taking one and then have a heart attack five minutes later and die." Jon stated as Hailee and Tiffany came walking towards them.
"You won�t even know which pill is which, all they have is numbers on them. It was nice doing business with you." Matt smiled as he turned around and winked at Hailee. "Hey beautiful." He added to her with a smile.
"Hey Matthew, you know you are getting better at those three-pointers." Hailee smirked running her hand down his arm just before she got into Jonathan�s car and changed back into the clothes she left the house with.
Tiffany got into Adam�s car, while Jonathan got into his car. "See you tomorrow Matt." Jon called out his window as he pilled out of the parking lot and down the street.
"What did you get me?" Hailee asked grabbing the bottle that was between Jonathan�s legs and opening it up.
She began to count each pill by size and shape a smile on her face when she counted fifty when there was only supposed to be forty. She popped one of them in her mouth and closed the bottle.
"You can�t just take one of those." Jonathan snapped grabbing the bottle out of her hands. "You are gong to be home in a matter of minutes." He added
"So! It�s just going to be my mom. She�s going to ask how the first day went and she�s going to ask why I�m home so late. I tell her I was at your basketball practice and the first day went by fine. I�ll go up to my room, and they�ll leave me alone until dinner time." Hailee laughed as she started to fan here self with her hand.
"That doesn�t give you a reason to take one of those. I paid for them, with my own money not with your free money." Jonathan snapped as he brushed off her hands that were touching him.
"Take me to your place." Hailee smiled unbuckling her seat belt and moving so that she could kiss his neck. "Please." She begged running her hand down his stomach.
"No." Jonathan stated out flatly shoving her off of him while he drove. "I think you should go out with Matt, he likes you, you know." He added turning into her driveway.
"I swear you are gay, but I can�t get prove with the way you like to fuck me." Hailee snapped grabbing her bag and walking up to the front door. "I don�t care if he likes me." She added storming into the house high as a butterfly.
Of course Hailee was wrong, about it just being her mom. Everyone was over; Sarah her kids JC was home and Lance was even there. Justin was even there, but in the kitchen talking to JC.
"Hailee!" Taylor and Tyler both smiled as they ran over to their older sister and tried to give her a hug.
"Double T�s." Hailee mumbled leaning down, almost falling over as she gave them each a hug.
Adrea walked into the front room the phone attached to her ear. "How was your day?" She asked putting her hand over the talking part of the phone.
"Fine we�re going up stairs." Hailee said pointing to Jonathan.
Jonathan looked up at her, and shook his head no. "I�m going to play with Memphis." He stated which only caused Hailee to get even more pissed off as it was.
"Fine." She half yelled storming up the stairs, tripping and falling almost on her face. She grunted and got back up and stormed the rest of the way into her bedroom where she slammed the door shut.
Jonathan sat down on the floor where Memphis was playing with some toys along with Amanda and America. Sarah was sitting on the couch talking to Lance about the baby while he talked about his wife.
"Why didn�t you go up stairs with Hailee?" Amanda asked as she brushed out her Barbie�s hair.
"She called me a mean name, and I didn�t want to play with her after that. She has to say sorry before I do." Jonathan half smiled as he picked up a Barbie and started to brush her hair out as well.
"Uncle Jon, what mean name did she call you?" Amanda asked as she started to make her doll walk around in circles.
"If I say it, I�ll get in trouble." Jonathan stated as Memphis crashed a toy into Amanda�s Barbie.
"Did she call you a bitch?" Amanda asked causing Lance and Sarah to look at her.
Sarah sat up a little on the couch, "Amanda, you know better than to talk like that. You are almost seven years old." Sarah said her voice low; she knew where Amanda heard that word.
"Sorry." Amanda sighed looking down
Jonathan lifted her chin with his finger, "Where did you learn that word Amanda?" He asked looking at her.
"Daddy called Mommy Sarah that the night he left." She said looking down again; Jonathan took her into a hug.
Jonathan slowly stood up and messed Amanda�s hair up. "I�m going to go see what Hailee is doing. Play nice with your brother and sister, they are younger than you." He smiled as she ran up the stairs and walked into Hailee�s bedroom.
Hailee was lying on her back her head hanging over the bed as she watched the blank TV screen. "I�m sorry for calling you gay." She finely spoke as she moved and sat up on the bed.
"I forgive you. I think you should go out with Matt though. It would be good for you to actually have a boyfriend." Jonathan stated as he sat down on the bed kicking his shoes off.
"I don�t want a boyfriend." Hailee giggled as she stood up and turned on her radio, blasting old techno music. "Dance." She smiled trying to pull him off the bed; he only pulled his hands away from her and shook his head no.
Hailee danced around the room like a fool, she didn�t feel like she was dancing like a fool. She felt great and that was all that mattered to her. She climbed on the bed and pulled Jonathan back so that he was lying on the bed. She straddled his hips and put hands on each shoulder.
"Hailee, this isn�t turning me on." He mumbled loud enough for her to hear.
"Jonathan, who are you sleeping with?" Hailee asked with a giggle as she started to move her body to the music while she was still straddling his hips, "I use to turn you on all the time." She shouted with a wide smile as she started to kiss his neck.
"I�m not in the mood." Jonathan stated as he pushed her off of him just as the door opened.
Justin peaked his head in and than walked in the rest of the way. He looked at Jonathan who was sitting on the bed and Hailee who was giggling on her back on the bed. Justin made his way to the radio and turned it off, he than turned to face them.
"How was your first day of your senior year?" Justin asked leaning against the wall that had an over sized poster of him with markings all over his face.
"Fine." Jonathan mumbled smoothing out the wrinkles in his shirt.
"What�s wrong Jon?" Justin asked pushing off the wall, he looked back and fourth between Jonathan and Hailee who was still laughing over something.
"I asked dad a while time ago, why he left your mom. He said he couldn�t remember, so I remember asking Lynn she told me everything. Are you cheating on Sarah?" Jonathan asked causing Hailee to sit up and point to Justin.
"You bad, bad boy you!" She laughed still pointing at him.
"Are you high?" Justin asked looking at a still laughing Hailee, "No I�m not cheating on her, why would you think that?" Justin demanded anger filling his eyes.
"You have three kids and another on the way, you can�t just leave her. She�s pregnant Justin; she can�t take care of them all while not having a miscarriage. You�re just like dad." Jonathan stated
Justin grabbed Jonathan by the shoulders and lifted him off the bed. "You don�t know anything Jonathan. So shut your fucking mouth." Justin hissed dropping Jonathan when he heard a little voice at the door.
"Daddy, what are you doing?" Memphis asked his blue eyes just like his fathers.