THE TERRIBLE DINNER

THE TERRIBLE DINNER

One night two families were having dinner together.

The Daria Family and the Falco Family.

The Daria family consist of two members

Daria family

Shara (Wife)

Age: 34

Drake (Husband)

Age: 31

The Falco family consists of three members

Tina (Wife, mother)

Age: 44

Dane (Husband, father)

Age: 45

Rick (Son)

Age: 25

THE NIGHT

Tina: “RICK!!!”

Rick came rushing down the stairs in a hurry

Rick: “Mom? Are you ok what’s wrong!?”

Tina: “Can you take out the trash please?”

Rick: “Really? I thought there was a problem.”

Tina: “Nope I’m fine, but the trash is the problem.”

Rick: “Ok no problem. Just please don’t yell your lungs out again please, you scared me.”

Tina smiled

Rick grabbed the trash bag and went outside and left it at the door and opened the lid of the trash bin and went back to the trash bag.

Rick tied the trash bag up to keep the trash in.

Rick: “Ok let me try this.”

Rick threw the trash bag up in the air and it landed perfectly in the trash bin and the lid slammed shut.

Rick: “YEAAAH!!! Trickshot of the century. That was about twenty meters. YES!!”

Tina: “RICK HEEELP HURRY!!!!!”

Rick rushes in and slams the door behind him shut.

Rick: “What help, where what’s going on?”

Tina: “Gotcha!”

Rick: “You better stop doing that what if it’s a real emergency and I never come over to help you, because I think you’re trying to trick me?”

Tina: “Ok, ok hahaha. So are you excited for tonight’s dinner?”

Rick: “Yea sure it’s going to be nice to have Shara and Drake here again.”

Tina: “Just know when they’re here that…”

Rick: “I know mister and misses I know (Sigh). We are all friends

why do we still have to be so “formal” about things?”

Tina: “I know, I don’t mind, but I don’t want your dad to send an apology letter again.”

Rick: “Wait he did? For what?”

Tina: “Your dad loves being formal and even he knows we are all seriously good friends, but I don’t know if he sent it or not.”

Rick: “(Sigh) Wow I can’t believe that he would do such a thing, but whatever. Besides they don’t care.”

Tina: “I know and neither do I, like I said we’re all friends. I’ll talk to him about it.”

Rick: “Thanks. Sooo… need any actual help?”

Tina: “Ha no I’m fine, it’s not too long before everything is ready so go get ready, and then once you are done you can come and help me set the table. Your dad should be home soon.”

A few hours later

Dane: “HONEY…. Oh hello, I’m home.”

Tina: “Hey love how was the whole running a plastic factory going?”

Dane: “Same as always, busy, busy, and more clients, but it’s all good. It’s bringing in a lot of money.”

Rick: “Hey dad.”

Dane: “Rick, hey, hey, hey. How’s your work going?”

Rick: “Normal as usual a freelance artist never quits. I made 50K from one of my pieces today.”

Dane: “WHAT!!”

Tina: “NO WAY!”

Rick: “Yea he took my riverside log cabin painting for 50K no jokes.”

Dane: “Umm how hard is it to be an artist?”

Rick: “HAHAHAHAHA. You could have the skills, but you would need to go through training and practice and colleges for it like I have to learn it and then just hope you hit the jackpots that I just did.”

Tina: “Wow well done. Honey (She kissed Dane) you need to go get ready for Shara and Drake coming over since Drake has a day off today they could be here early.”

Dane: “True, true, excuse me.”

Rick: “Ok so. Mom, you said that you’d need help when I’m done, do you still need me?”

Tina: “It’s going to be five more minutes, but you can go ahead and go get the chairs if you’d like.”

Rick: “Sure thing.”

Rick started to set the table after getting the chairs ready

Rick: “Ok done what’s next?”

Tina: “Relax watch some TV while we wait for Shara and Drake.”

Rick: “Cool. Oh, they’re here.”

Tina: “Oh great timing.”

Rick went to open the front door.

Rick: “Hello, Hello. Shara, Drake.”

Drake: “What up Rick.”

Shara: “Hey wow it’s been so long since we have been together.”

Rick: “Indeed it has been.”

They came in greeted Tina and sat at the table and Rick joined them.

Shara: “Tina did we come a bit too early?”

Tina: “Nope they just finished food is fresh and hot.”

Drake: “So Rick how is the painting going?”

Rick: “I sold one today for 50K.”

Shara: “(Gasp) Really?”

Drake: “Wow.”

Rick: “Yes I scored today.”

Dane came down from the stairs and greeted Drake and Shara and joined them at the table as Tina was setting down the food.

Dane: “Wow this smells good. Thanks love.”

Tina: “Turkey with seasoning, milkshake flavors that everyone likes, chocolate bars and warm cocoa in the thermos flask and I have another flask over there and ice cream is in the fridge with a crunchy bar of chocolate in there and everyone chooses their ice cream toppings from the selection in the kitchen.”

Drake: “Wow you were busy.”

Tina: “Very busy, I was making all of this since this morning, that’s why the turkey is kind of small.”

Rick: “I was about to ask. Why it is so small.”

Tina: “It was their last one. Anyways let’s eat.”

????: “Tango 5 do you copy?”

Tango 5: “I copy Ranger is something wrong.”

Ranger: “Tango 5 this is just a family, not a terrorist group planning to blow up the city are you sure you have the location confirmed?”

Tango 5: “Yes Ranger it’s them, they’re in disguise, don’t let them deceive you.”

Tango 64: “Did you go in and confirm identities Tango 5.”

Tango 5: “What are you talking about? Look at them. Uh.. yes sir?

Ok sir, consider it done. I just got told by the boss that we must take them down now and arrest them now.”

Tango 8: “Why is the guy who never does anything in charge if he doesn’t even know if this is the family we need to take down?”

Tango 64: “Yea, whatever let’s just do this. Ranger are you ready?”

Ranger: “Copy throwing smoke.”

A window behind Tina shattered and the room started to fill with smoke.

Rick: “Everyone down now!!!”

Ranger: “Open fire.”

Windows shattered as the bullets came flying through making holes in the walls.

Ranger: “Seize fire, WHO IS USING NORMAL BULLETS!!!!!?”

Rick: “Just stay down.”

Shara: “(Coughing).”

Ranger: “GO, GO, GO!!!!!”

Rick: “Oww what’s going on?”

Ranger: “Knockout gas, now! Masks up!!”

Rick and everyone passed out.

An unknown amount of time later.

Rick: “Ugh… where. Huh, who tied me to this chair?”

Tango 5: “Well, well look whose awake. Mr. Velasquez Valpino.”

Rick: “I’m not… whoever that is.”

Ranger: “Alright interrogation ti… Tango 5 that’s not Valasques!!”

Tango 64: “Oh come on.”

Ranger: “And you used real bullets instead of shockers are kidding me.”

Tango 5: “Wait this is not him?”

Ranger: “No give me those notes… Oh, excuse me I’ll take this to the boss.”

Minutes later.

Ranger: “In here sir.”

Tango 5: “Mr. Roco Dahl… I…”

Roco: “QUITE!!! No this is not them, and you said he used real bullets?”

Ranger: “Yes sir.”

Roco: “Hmm Tango 5 you’re fired!!!”

Tango 5: “WHAT noo, no this was a mistake I messed up sir please.”

Roco: “LEAVE or I shall ask Tango 64 to escort you out of this building after you give up your badge… NOW!!!”

Tango 5: “Yes sir.”

Tango 64: “Come on Tango 5.”

Roco: “What are the rest of you waiting for? Untie them!”

Dane: “What’s the meaning of this?”

Ranger: “The meaning of this? This the word is used to identify a person or an object…”

Dane: “Not… ugh.”

Roco: “Sir's, madams I am terribly sorry for what occurred we were supposed to have a terrorist group here now, but yea, I am terribly sorry for what just took place. Ranger will go with you and will assess the damage done to your property and we will pay for it all sincere apologies. Ranger will give you all a ride home.”

Tina: “You better pay, but apology accepted as long as you pay, they ruined a good night's dinner. (Sigh) I spent all day on it.”

Roco: “I will mam do not worry. I will send you mail when the payment is done.”

Tina: “Good now you get us out of here.”

Ranger: “Ay… follow me.”

Sometime later.

Rick: “Ah finally home, well a ruined home.”

Ranger: “I’m sorry I didn’t trust him either I was just following orders.”

Drake: “It’s fine. Go assess the damage and fix their house please.”

Ranger: “Sure. I will get started right away. Unbelievable.”

Tina: “Well that was… a dinner and a half.”

Shara: “Yes it was… tell you what, come over this weekend and help me make a replica of this dinner and we can have it in peace this time. This Sunday.”

Tina: “Sure we just need a lot of things (Sigh).”

Drake: “It’s fine I will get it, but let’s just calm down from all of this action for a moment, you better go be with that Ranger guy Tina.”

Shara: “Dane’s already there.”

Rick: “I’ll go paint upstairs. Later Drake and Shara.”

Shara: “Later Rick.”

Drake: “See ya kiddo. Come let’s go home they have a lot of things to do now.”

Tina: “Sadly true.”

Dane: “….you need to pay for the lights, you need to pay for new paint for the walls you need to…”

Rick: “(Sigh) What a day, unbelievable it’s soo late as well a whole three hours of chaos, well, what shall my next paining be, oh I know…”

And so with a lovely dinner going wrong, both families are safe and one of them is going to be very busy fixing things while Rick continues to sell his painting and this story comes to a close. I hope you enjoyed it.

THE END

Thanks to Reedsy for the idea

WRITING CONTEST #249: Breaking Bread

Write a story where a meal or dinner goes horribly wrong.

 “do follow” link back to https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/.

 Luan Bosch