Awkward. (3)

"Get up, Danny. Get up." Ria kicked her brother's bed as he rolled over onto his side to ignore her.
"Get up, Jerry's fixing to be here." He yawned and then stretched his arms out so that the veins bulged out a bit and his neck grew tight.
"Okay, I heard you more than once, believe me. Your voice is annoying as hell." She grinned and then kicked him again as she walked out of his room, but before she left she managed to yank his covers off, turn the ceiling fan on high and turn his lights on.
"DAMMMIT RIA!" Danny yelled from behind his shut door as she ran down stairs and put her bag by the front door, waiting impatiently for Jerry to pull in the driveway.
*honk* *hooonk* She looked out the big bay window in the kitchen and noticed her father- the man who made more than 800 thousand a year was now driving a dusty chevy silverado with a winch in the front of it.
"What the hell? Danny-"
"I'm right here lets get this over with."
"I bet Candice his homewrecker of a wife left him and took all of his money."
"Now, now Ria let's not jump to conclusions maybe that's his other truck that belongs to his other family in Wyoming." They both laughed and headed out the door. Danny still had on the same clothes from before, but now his teeth were brushed and he looked demented, because his iPOD was in his ears but the iPOD was off, and he had a straight face as if he was going to be playing a poker game the whole time.
"Hey kids. Haven't seen you in what?-"
"Six years." Ria added as she flung her bags in the back seat of his truck as Danny sat his neatly by her bag. "Yeah, six years. So Daniel Ray, Victoria what do ya'll say lets go have some fun up in Jacoby, Texas?"
Neither of them spoke a word as they hopped in the truck- which smelled of woods and musky cologne. Danny was fixing to sit in the back until Jerry insisted on him sitting in the front. With an eye roll, a huff and a sigh Danny hopped in the front, but immediately after that he put his head on the passenger side window and closed his eyes.
For two hours nothing but silence even though Jerry tried to make some kind of communication with them. However, Ria was observing her father's new way of life. By the looks of the truck Jerry must not have got demoted she thought. Also, he wore no wedding ring so Ria presumed he goy divorced again. He still had his country accent but instead of a suit now he wore a maroon plaid shirt with wrangler jeans, and justin boots. He also looked slimmer and more assertive.
"So what's been going on, you two still in highschool, or in college or army-"
Danny looked up from his position, and added.
"I'm a senior."
"Good for you, Daniel Ray. Proud."
"Thanks, Jerry." Danny spat back watching his dad wince a little at the name. Already knowing he probably struck a chord, but not caring even if he did.

"So, Victoria." She winced at the name. No one called her Victoria anymore it was short and simple now RIA. She looked up at him anyways from the Kindle she was reading, a book about deception, called When The Warden's Gone.
"So, you get into any colleges yet? Your mom told me you had some kind of I don't know boyfriend?" It wasn't true, Hogan Lennox was not her boyfriend, he was her best friend a best friend who no longer existed in her life. Some one who chose love over her once again. Just like her father.
"Nope, but you and him would get along." She muttered as she scrolled down her page.
"Okay-" He stopped before he said anything else, he didn't want to get hurt on the ride to his house.
For what seemed like one more hour nothing but the country radio station on and awkward glances from Jerry.
"So, Jerry-" He winced at the name. "Where's that woman?"
"By that woman you mean Candice, and she's gone." He whispered kind of loudly as he exitted the freeway once again, taking a detour on account of construction.
Figures, she thought once a cheater always a cheater. Just a little taste of his own medicine.
"It was only a matter of time." She smiled and put her iPOD on. She noticed her dad look the road with a grave pained expression stained on hi face, but she didn't care to know why.
Her father, was big into getting your mind loose and not letting anything stay in, but he wasn't big on just being an Ass because you wanted to. So he left her alone, afraid of what she might say again, afraid of the reminder that Candice was gone, long gone, he hoped Up there Candice was happy but he was the only one in his truck who knew what really happened, and who knew the true facts. He was the only one, who knew the truth about everything.
"Jerry, about your house what happened to I don't know your big Lincoln and all that jazz? Why'd you tune it down?
"Just because you live well, sweetie, doesn't mean you should let everyone know that. It's dangerous at times. It can attract the wrong kind of person-"
"Oh, I see so you've learned a valuable lesson on Candice, well sooner or later I mean it was bound to happen-"
"Enough Victoria. Enough. Be mad at me all you want but keep her name out of your mouth, you have no right dammit."
"Right, I have no right. Just like she had no right to take you away so so long ago."
He said nothing the rest of the two hours to his house, and when he got there he already knew that these two weeks were just about to start.