Categotry Archives: Suzie’s House
Suzie’s House 513 : Frozen
Ben and Lisa walked home from school together – home being Ben’s house. Lisa’s mom had been kind of busy the last few days, so Lisa and Tracy both ate with him. Tracy’s mom even paid for it, like it was a business deal. Board without the room. Ben mostly didn’t care. It was only for the next month anyway. How many times would it be his turn to cook? Besides, Lisa and Tracy took turns too. “So I think […]
Suzie’s House 512 : PDA
“I don’t like it,” Gene mumbled to Tracy as they sat across from each other at a long table in the lunchroom. He could see a dozen girls looking at him from different parts of the room. Normally he’d have focused on the others at their table instead, but none of them had shown up yet. “Just ignore them.” Tracy shoved her sandwich into her mouth like she couldn’t care less, but Gene knew she’d been getting looks from guys […]
Suzie’s House 511 : Fan Service
“It’s him!” One of the older girls in Justin’s band class said it in a very loud whisper while leaning toward another. Justin couldn’t remember which instruments they played, but he couldn’t mistake who they were talking about. He was the only one standing in the direction they were looking – behind the kettle drums. The best thing about playing drums for orchestra was that no one expected him to provide his own kettle drum. All he had to do […]
Suzie’s House 510 : A Singer in a Rock and Roll Band
“Guess what I heard!” Beth leaned across the aisle so Emma could hear her, though class had already started. “What?” Emma said it real quiet, even though they were at the very back of the classroom, over by the window. The teacher was busy writing something on the chalkboard, so maybe she wouldn’t notice, but it still made Emma uncomfortable.
Suzie’s House 509 : Overheard Identity
“Hey, look it this!” A girl standing next to a locker down the hall showed her smart phone to another girl. “I heard it’s a band made up of people from our school.” Though faint from distance and tinny from the phone’s speaker, Emma could tell for sure it was her band, her song, and her video being shared. Next to her, Kate giggled knowingly. “Hah! It’s already working.” Kate fished her phone out of her bag. She pulled up […]
Suzie’s House 508 : You Always Do
“Walter!” Drew panicked when he found the mobile phone abandoned on a stump next to the back side of Lake Mendota. “Where are you!!!” There was no response. Drew crashed through the underbrush around the lake, painfully aware he was on private property, but that Walter wouldn’t care. Could the old man have slipped in the mud around the shore and drowned in the lake? Could he have drowned on purpose? These were exactly the sorts of things Drew had […]
Suzie’s House 507 : Brother’s Keeper
Ben bit his lip. The video was good. Real good. He could see how it got the way it was, but it wasn’t really what he and Lisa had planned. A part of him wanted to argue. But they weren’t really co-authoring it in the first place. She just wanted to talk about it with him. So the two of them had sat around throwing around ideas. Several times. But Lisa had done it all herself. So really. He had […]
Suzie’s House 506: … Of Minds
Lisa caught herself biting her lips and made herself stop. These were her friends. They might be a little strict about how the video came out – kind of like before when Tracy wanted something more even though she wasn’t real clear just what – but they wouldn’t be nasty about it. Which only made it all the worse if they didn’t like what she had done. She sat at the dining room table in Ben’s house with her laptop […]
Suzie’s House 505 : Meeting …
Lisa already had the music video loaded up on her laptop by the time the members of the band arrived at Ben’s house. She’d rushed over even before Ben, then ended up sitting in the dining room with Miranda. “They’re late.” Miranda had her own laptop up and loaded. “Not really. I got out of class a few minutes early and came straight over. Shouldn’t you be at work?” Lisa tapped her fingernails on the table next to her laptop […]
Suzie’s House 504 : Giggling with the Girls
“Are you sure it’ll be alright?” Katy kind of smirked a little as she asked. She already had her backpack full of school books slung over one shoulder. Alisha smirked back, but Kate didn’t have the heart to play along. Instead, she focused on putting away the pens and notebooks and stuff on her desk. There was a band meeting tonight. She knew she should go, but did it really make a difference? It wasn’t like she’d speak up even […]
Suzie’s House 503 : Kicking It With the Home Boys
Posers, the lot of them. Still, Bruce knew better than anyone that he shouldn’t have forgotten all about his crew. The thing was, he put that gang together after his previous band blew up – back when he hated the world and everything in it. At the time he’d thought his life was already all over. Without music, what was he? A boy with a bad attitude. Every last man in his gang knew how to fight. They couldn’t get […]
Suzie’s House 502 : Steps
Emma fell asleep in math class. She couldn’t remember having ever fallen asleep in school before. But then, she’d never stayed up until nearly dawn learning self defense moves either. But that wasn’t really the thing. A year ago she would have been too uptight to fall asleep no matter how tired she got. Nor was it the self defense lessons, though they certainly didn’t hurt. It was the conversation she’d had with Trent, Sonoma, and Drew afterwards.
Suzie’s House 501: A Hand in the Cookie Jar
“A singer! What a wonderful choice!” Sonoma beamed her approval across the kitchen table at Emma. Trent nodded agreement. Emma knew she shouldn’t take it too personally. She had only known the old couple for a matter of hours. Still. She couldn’t help grinning under her blush. She might not need their approval – as they would be the first to say – but she sure liked it. If it hadn’t been the middle of the night in Mrs. H’s […]
Suzie’s House 500 : Rights
“When you catch yourself thinking the kind of stupid things your brother would say, tell yourself, ‘I have a right to be myself. Nothing anyone says can change that.’” He made air quotes. “You’ll probably have to tell yourself a lot of times.” Sonoma agreed. “Along with things like, “I have a right to be here.” “I have a right to be heard.” and “I have a right to be loved.” “But… What if I don’t?” Emma’s voice rose enough […]
Suzie’s House 499 : Midnight with Cookies
Sonoma. What a weird name. Emma lay on the bed in Miranda’s room and stared at the ceiling. The room smelled of shoes. Emma always thought Miranda didn’t like her. But as soon as she found out about Emma and the thing with her brother, Miranda cleared the piles of clothes and shoes off the bed in her room. The place was a kaleidoscopic mess – like one huge walk in closet turned inside out.
