ch. 17 - a "friendly" reminder

CHAPTER 17
A “FRIENDLY” REMINDER


Narrator: Back inside my house as I returned to the family room…

Jay: Here ya guys go. (as I hand Uncle D-Nort and Koji their Coors Light beer cans)

Narrator: Suddenly, my phone rang. This time, it rang of the Scorpions’ “Rock You Like A Hurricane” which was telling me it was one of my guy friends calling. I quickly took it out of my pants pocket, reading “Robby Cox” in my caller ID.

Jay: (heading into my room) Hello?

Robby: Balls!

Jay: What’s up? (sitting on side of my bed)

Robby: Balls! (annoyed expression on my face) Ey guess what?

Jay: What this time?

Robby: We saw your girlfriend. (joking)

Jay: Who?

Robby: Umm… I think it’s Maja Salvador or Bia.

Jay: Wait wait… first of all, where are you at?

Bobby: (shouting through the phone) In the arcade!

Jay: Where, though?

Robby: Cerritos Town Center.

Jay: Hold up… what’s the girl’s hair color?

Robby: Umm… it’s black.

Jay: Um okay…? Any other details about the hair?

Bobby: (getting closer to Robby’s phone) It’s long.

Jay: Straight down long?

Bobby: Yeah.

Jay: How old does she look?

Bobby: (looking over at Erich who’s still with her friends at token machine) She looks 16 or 17.

Jay: (murmuring silently to myself) Erich…

Bobby: Who?!

Jay: You saw Erich!

Robby: The fuck? I don’t even know her. (laughing)

Jay: I thought you knew. I’ve told you guys about her.

Robby: Umm… but you never showed her to us.

Jay: Who’s she with?

Robby: Umm her friends…

Jay: (nodding) I see.

Bobby: So are ya gonna go over here and visit her?

Jay: Uhh… I’d love to, but I’m kinda busy right now.

Bobby: Dude, lay off with the ***[phrase omitted]*** for tonight. (as Robby laughs)

Jay: You’re dumb. I’m watching the Lakers game with my friend and uncle.

Bobby: Tsk Lakers are gonna lose.

Jay: How would you know that?

Bobby: Cuz… they just suck dick!

Jay: Haha same to you.

Bobby: Dude, Kobe’s doin’ everything for the team. That’s why he scores 40 points every single game!

Jay: All right, ya know what? I gotta go.

Robby: Yer not gonna see Erin, or…

Jay: You mean Erich? She’s with her friends, though.

Bobby: So? Just go with em’. They’re all girls anyway.

Jay: Yeah I know, but right now I can’t.

Bobby: Tsk THIIIIS guy… Go ‘head and watch the Lakers lose tonight to the Spurs.

Jay: See ya.

Robby: All right. Later.

Narrator: As soon as I hung up…

D-Nort: OHH MY GOD!!

Narrator: I went back out to the family room to find that the third quarter ended, the Lakers trailing 87 – 95 as the crowd was cheering wildly.

Jay: Ano nangyari?

Koji: Ginobili, man!

Jay: Again? Buzzer beater?

D-Nort: Odom and Walton were guarding him, and Ginobili sank the shot from half court!

Jay: (as I watch replay of last second shot by Ginobili at buzzer) Holy shit!

D-Nort: Tsss… (shakes his head in disgust)

Koji: You’re shittin’ me, right?

Narrator: I shook my head as well.