08/26/2026
Ok I have finished chapter 12
( I have looked into a few options for courses to improve literacy as well as learn grammar and punctuation chapter 13 I hope will be better )
Please once again if you can bare to read this and send me some constructive criticism or ideas or places to study I will take all suggestions and improve 👇 👇 👇
Chapter 12 going home
As they bumped back to the house, it was quieter, just the low hum of the engine, and they all sat, thinking of all the perspectives of what just happened. Just as McGee began to imagine the poor cow's perspective, Derrick's dad said, "get out." They scurried out of the truck, and it shot down the driveway toward the main road. As the boys walked in, they commented, "jeez, and wow." "That's was the most intense thing I've seen, man," said McGee. "Well, except when... nevermind." Derrick prodded a bit but got no answer on the unfinished sentence, and they proceeded to the kitchen. For some reason, they were starving. As Derrick opened the fridge, he gasped, "Man, my dad left his w**d in here." He quickly stole a bit, and the boys raced downstairs, threw on ICP, and smoked for a bit. Before long, they heard Derrick's dad return. They stayed quiet till they heard the TV on full blast and a beer crack, and they got back to business. Sometime passed, and the boys went up, all red-eyed and even more hungry. They started rummaging when the phone rang. The TV muted. "Hello," spat out Derrick's dad. The boys could slightly hear the other person. "Now, now, I just cracked a cold one. We will bring him home tomorrow," he mumbled and slammed the phone down. The TV flipped back on and the boys stared for what seemed like an eternity. And Derrick started chuckling, and the boys roared in laughter as his dad sat there cursing to himself. Before the boys returned downstairs, Derrick's dad belted out, "you're going home in the morning." The boys were shocked. Derrick said under his breath, "this is bu****it." And he turned around a different person, and snapped on his dad. His dad stood up and yelled, "his parents want him home, Derrick!" As they walked away, Derrick said, whatever. You always keep my friends away. The boys stormed downstairs. Derrick was very upset, and McGee did all he could to cheer him up. "Maybe there is an emergency," McGee exclaimed. Derrick scoffed. McGee pressed play on the stereo and Derrick started to smile and laid back on his bed. McGee laid on the couch and they both dosed off. Earlier in the morning, the boys woke up to Derrick's dad stomping and calling out for the boys. As they ran up the stairs, they smelt eggs and sausage in the air and ran to separate bathrooms so not to have to wait longer to eat. As they finished up their food and cleared their plates, they proceeded to get ready and run out to the truck. They piled in and hit the road. It was a beautiful drive, the sun rising from what looked like the edge of the earth. As they drove through the endless prairies back to McGee's house, they arrived mid-afternoon in their hometown, and McGee got dropped off right at home. As the truck pulled away with a backfire, McGee had a sinking feeling in his stomach. He was back home, no brother, drunk anger, mom and stepfather, probably no food. He felt sick to his stomach as he walked up to the apartment building, regretting much and wishing for more. He walked in the main door, down the stairs to the basement apartment, and walked in. What he saw, he couldn't believe. The place was a mess, empties and shoes and stuff everywhere. It looked like someone intentionally trashed the house. McGee froze, called out for his parents and got no response. As he stepped in over clothes and stuff that's normally in the kitchen, he made his way to the dining room table, picked up a half-smoked cigarette, lit it, and sat down at the table. Waiting for someone, anyone, to explain to him why he is back in this hell hole and not on a big farm with his new neat friend.