Brandon's Day

"How's that going? You like your new school, Maddie?"

"Mhm." she nodded. "But I miss all my old friends and teachers."

"Well you get to make new friends." she nodded. "It'll be great."

"And a lot of fun." she nodded.

"How about Brandon and Ally? Have they gone back yet?"

"No." she shook her head. "They aren't exactly chomping at the bit to get back to school and I'm kind of scared to let them go."

She nodded. "That's how I am with them, but they begged to go back and I didn't want to keep them home all the time." she said. "Some days they want to go and some days they don't."

"Ally still thinks that we're going to hit her so I can't let her go out like that." she shook her head. "It's sad that this had to happen to them."

"It is." she nodded. "But...they're all getting better little by little."

"Brandon is at least, for me. Allison, not so much." she sighed. "I'm surprised she's out playing today."

"Well it's a good thing she is." she nodded.

"Yeah." she looked over and saw people walking in. "Oh, some of Brandon's old classmates are here." she stood up to greet them.

"Oh, nice." Ellie said and greeted the people as well, introducing herself.

"I never knew Brandon had so many friends." she snorted.

"Mr. Popular." Ellie chuckled.

"...but he's not nice." Maddie said, lol.

"He is very nice, Madison." Lacy laughed a little.

"To everybody else." she grumbled.

"Aw, he's nice to you." Lacy kissed her cheek with a small laugh.

"Sure." Maddie said as she continued to drink her juice.

"Jealous." Ellie chuckled.

"You are jealous, Maddie." Lacy teased her gently.

"Psh, no."

Ellie snorted. "Whatever you say. Brandon seems to be having a ton of fun."

"This is his first birthday party, can you believe that?" she said.

"Really? No way."

"We didn't do anything for his first or second birthday. I was in the hospital for his third."

"Ah." she nodded. "Well, it's never too late."

"I'm just glad he's happy. It's been a while, y'know?" she said with a small shrug, sitting at the table.