Broken Tales, Azeezat Oluwa [the reading strategies book .txt] 📗

he asked.
We nodded in agreement. This is going to be easy.
“ Well lets go to the basement and check out your moves.”
We started heading to the basement and I realized I have never been to his basement. When we got down there, my jaw fell open. First in his basement was a big pool in the middle. Then he showed us to another room which had a lot of open space. He said this is where we’re going to be doing our flips. So First Karla showed him what she can do. She is in advanced gymnastics with me because normally at her age people can’t do what she can do.I showed him the poses that we do at our gymnastics stadium, too bad we’re not going there anymore and his jaw fell open. He clapped really loudly. He put Mabel to sleep and we each went to our rooms to watch some TV and then fell asleep there.
The next morning was a Saturday so I just took a shower brushed my teeth and took care of Mabel. Karla was still fast asleep.
I gave Mabel her food and sat down. Karla woke up earlier than I thought. This saturday was fun even though all we did was watch dora. It was good to know that I still have a little sister like Karla.
The day passed quickly, and before I knew it, I was having dinner with my sister, Mabel, and Uncle Max.
“Um..so..how was your day?” Uncle Max asked.
“ It was OK even though all we did was watch Dora,” Uncle Max was trying hard not to laugh.
The next morning everyone had to get ready for church. I found my favorite dress and high heel boots. I didn't think my hair would stay straightened, so I put it back into a ponytail. Church was good and I like the songs. When we got home it was dinner time . We ate dinner and I went to sleep. Time to face school. Again. Karla and I went to school. The bell rang for first hour and I went up to catch up with Jason. During science, the teacher said we had to choose a partner for the science project. Jason found me first.
“ So, what do you want to do?” He asked.
“ Um, I was thinking of making a volcano,”
“ That's not a bad idea,” he said with a thoughtful face.
“ So it’s settled then,”
The teacher reached us then and he asked us what we were doing and we said a volcano.
“ So do you want to come over to my house to get started or should I come to yours?” I asked.
“ How about I go to yours,” he said.
“ Sure,” I agreed.
That’s when the bell rang. I hurried off to my other classes and then lunch.
After lunch I went to all my normal classes. I am suppose to meet Jason at the front of the school so he can come over and we can work on the volcano. When we got home Jason was acting weird. He did not walk right into the house like normal people. Before he came in I had to invite him into the house . Maybe he was just being a gentleman.
We went on the computer and found the directions.
“ My uncle has clay,” I said with a surprised face as I was looking through the cabinets.
“ Nice,” Jason said.
“ Oops, oh no,” The clay had dropped to the floor. Jason bent down to the floor the same time I had. He was just so close to me. He was starting to lean in. The clay on the floor forgotten. He pressed his lips against mine. His kissing started to be more urgent. I started to move away for air. I was starting to get dizzy.
“ Sorry ‘bout that,” He said, ” Now where were we?”
“ Oh it’s okay and your lips are soft,”
“ Ugh um,” We both jumped by the clearing of the throat that Karla made which came out of nowhere. She is way too young to be seeing this.
Jason and I got to sculpting the volcano. By nine Uncle max was back with Mabel. And Jason and I were just finishing up.
“ Uncle Max this is Jason. Jason this is my uncle Max,” Jason and uncle Max shook hands. “ Jason is here because he is helping me on a science project and we’re partners,”
“ Okay,” uncle Max said.
“ We were just finishing up,” Jason said.
“ Yeah,” I said along with him.
“Yeah...mm hmm mm sure sure I so believe you guys” Uncle Max said while bumping his shoulder to Jason.
“ So I'll see you later,” I said to Jason as I was walking him to the door.
“ Yeah, sure,”
I shut the door behind him. we all had dinner together and it was a school night so I had to be in bed by eleven. The message alert on my cell phone started beeping. It was Jason.
“ Hi,” He texted.
“ Hey,”
“ Whatcha doing?” He asked .
“ Talking to you,”
“ I can’t stop thinking of our kiss,” He said.
“ Me neither,” I said in agreement.
“ So how you doing?”
“ Good. Great now that I thought of it,”
“ I wanted to ask you...,”
“ Yeah?”
“ Can I take you out to dinner Friday night?”
“ Me? Me of all people. Sure,”
“ Great!” He exclaimed.
“ Nice, see you at school,”
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Now I didn't know what to do. I’ve never been asked out before. While I was thinking of what to wear, I was thinking of something else. I felt like there is something that I left back at my old house. So I talked to Uncle Max about it and he said we would go back to the house tomorrow after school and check it out.
After school we went to the house and I went into my parents room first before that's where I believed what I am looking for will be.
“ I think this is what I'm looking for,” I said as I held up a binder with my name with. Before my parents died, I gulped at that thought, before my parents died I saw it and wondered what it was. I opened up the binder and saw a whole bunch of baby pictures of me. Inside it wrote...
‘ Dear Makaila,
Happy 18Th birthday. This book is filled with all your memories and you can fill it with more. We wish you a Happy Birthday Makaila. From mom and dad.’
I felt tears starting to dew up. My birthday is coming up. It’s on Sunday and it’s pretty nice of my mom to write this. It was hard not to keep the tears from falling. I suddenly felt arms around me. Uncle Max was comforting me and for once it was working.. When we were done we went to go pick up Mabel from the daycare. when we got home it was dinner time.
Friday came quick. I was trying to find the perfect outfit to wear to a restaurant. Well I don't even know if we’re going to a restaurant. I put on makeup and found a perfect purple dress with a purple headband and I also found purple high heels.
“I just love purple,” I said with a grin on my face.
I also curled my hair up and put it in a ponytail with a purple ribbon. When I was done the doorbell rang. I went downstairs. It must be Jason.
“ Makaila where are you going?” Karla asked as I walked down the hallway.
“ Oh I’m just going out with a friend,”
“ Whoa, you look nice,” Uncle Max said as I entered the living room.
“ Thanks, “ I said shyly.”
I opened the door and found a Mercedes parked on the driveway. I waved bye to Uncle Max and Karla.
He opened the door for me. So nice of him.
“ So where are we going?” I asked
“ I was thinking of an Italian restaurant called Restuarante Italiano ”
“ Is this your car?” I asked as he was getting the engine started.
“ No it was my brothers,” He replied.
“ Nice, It’s beautiful. What happened to him?”
“ He went to college.”
It was a twenty minute drive to Restuarante Italiano. No one spoke. It was an awkward silence like before when we were walking to lunch. We got to the restaurant and we got out of the car.
“ This is a nice and expensive restaurant,” I said as I looked at the menu.
“ Well my father is the owner of this restaurant,”
“ He is?”
“ Yeah I'm on my break right now,”
“ Oh really?” I said leaning in.
“ Jason,” someone said from behind me interrupting us.
“ Hey dad..,” Jason said embarrassed and shy at the same time.
“ Who is this girl?” Jason’s dad asked.
“ Makaila. She is um...um.... a friend from school,”
Jason’s dad held his hand out for a handshake. I stood up and shook his hand. I did not want to be rude, he seemed like a nice man.
I looked at my watch and it was half past nine. I quickly stood up.
“ Oh my god. I have to get home right away or my uncle will kill me,” I whispered to Jason.
“ Well it was nice meeting you Mr. Mirez,”
I waved to him and Jason and I went into his black Mercedes.
“ I did not expect you to meet my dad,” Jason said after he started driving.
“ Oh its cool . He seems very nice,”
“ You know I sometimes wonder how you do it,”
“ Do what?” I asked confused.
“ Act all calm when you know something is wrong,”
“ Well I have faced a lot of challenges when I was a kid and I would rather not talk about it,”
“ Ok,” He said.
He stopped in front of my house and Kissed me goodbye. It was a long kiss.
Then I opened the door and he offered to walk me in and all of a sudden as I opened the door he was out of my sight.
“ Jason?” I stared around in confusion and saw his car still parked out. ‘ Well there goes my date,’ I thought.
I walked into the very quiet house and saw Uncle Max and Karla sitting on the couch watching ‘ Criminal Minds.’
" How was your date with jason?" Karla asked as I walked into the quiet house.
" Ok," I said as I walked slowly towards my bedroom.
" Not so fast," Uncle Max said. " Spill. First where did he take you? Second was it someplace romantic? Was it someplace expensive? Third did he make a move? Did he try to kiss you?"
" Ok. Restaurante Italiano. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes and he did and remember I have