I hated her. I barely knew her and I hated her. I hated her because she got to have a perfect life and I didn't. She got to live with George and I didn't. She wasn't scared of coming home but I was. This just shows you that their really is a fucked up God, If their even is a god...Edwin's the one who called me from my thoughts by saying "Derek would you stop staring at Cathy. She looks freaked out." Leave it to Edwin to get her name wrong. I said "First of all her names Casey and she isn't even looking over here." Thinking that ended the conversation I focused on Casey again, But Edwin kept talking. He said "Okkk well you're freaking me out. You look like you want strangle her." I realized that I probably did look like that, So I looked away from her.
Marti came running into the room to tell us that the wedding was almost starting, and that George needed us. I got up and went to the room where he was getting dressed. Lizzie was helping him with his tie. I saw out of the corner of my eye Edwin blush when he saw her. I whispered "She's your sister dude." He looked down in embarrassment and mumbled "Step sister." I just patted his shoulder then asked George what he needed. George said "Fix Edwin's tie and then make sure Nora hasn't left." He looked like he was about to puke his face had a slight green tinge, Lizzie noticed and said "Don't worry my mother loves you, She's not going to leave." He just nodded; the green tinge still didn't leave his face. I asked Lizzie to do Edwin's tie because I didn't know how to. She nodded and came over to fix his tie. Right before I left to go find Marti I winked at a blushing Edwin.
While I was walking out the door I smacked straight into the wedding planner Delia and accidently knocked her down. I could feel my face getting hot but I ignored it and just doused her with apologies. She brushed me off and said that we had Five minutes till the wedding started. George went into hysterics saying something about Nora's gonna leave or something but I walked out before I could here the rest. I went to find Marti but couldn't find her, So I knocked on the door of the room where Nora was getting dressed. Casey peeked through the door and when she saw it was me she let me in. I asked her where Marti was with a bit of an edge to my voice. She said that Delia was reminding her to do and when to throw the flowers or something. Nora yelled for her so she said "I gotta…go" So she went back in the room. I guess Nora was having hysterics to.
The wedding planner came running towards me and said that we only had 2 minutes left. She told me to remember where to walk and what to do I just nodded. The rest of the ceremony passed by slowly it was the reception that got better. Edwin even got the nerve to ask Lizzie to dance which she accepted. I of course had to ask Casey to dance because the wedding planner Delia made me. It was rather annoying having her tell me what to do, but I did it. She could dance fine but I stepped on her foot like three times but she didn't even flinch. I probably looked like an idiot because I kept muttering sorry to her.
When the song finally ended I went to sit down, but was tapped on the shoulder by someone. I turned around and it was my mother Abby. She said that it was time to go and that we were leaving. George saw us and came over and said "Abby what are you doing here I get the kids for the whole weekend!" she just smirked at him and said "Change of plans. Now the kids are coming home with me!" I stepped in feeling a VERY heated argument coming by saying "Mom its his wedding and his weekend!" She looked furious and said "Fine but you'll get it when you get home!" I could feel my body tense up but I would worry about that later.
Nora had come over to us so George told Abby to leave which she did not without making a scene by calling Nora a slut and calling Casey and Lizzie white trash loudly. Nora looked angry but Lizzie looked like she was about to cry, Casey looked unfazed but she went to go calm her mother down who looked like she was about to do something to Abby, I kinda hoped she did. I could here Casey telling her mom to not let her ruin her wedding. Nora calmed down a little and Edwin started talking to Lizzie.
I just stood their humiliated; I could feel my face burning. I whispered in Edwin's ear to ask Lizzie to dance again, which he did and which she accepted looking delighted. I went and asked Nora to dance feeling like this was how I should apologize for Abby, Hopefully she got it. She did, she smiled warmly at me. I looked at Casey who was looking at me with a thoughtful expression. When I looked at her she didn't look away from me like most girls did, she stared straight back at me. I looked away from her, Her striking blue eyes intimidated me.
The wedding and weekend were over to quickly for my liking. I knew my mother was serious when she said I was gonna get it at home. The moment I got into Abby's car I could feel the tension in their. The first thing she said was "Why don't you love me Derek?" I knew this was one of her games, she always did this. But to avoid trouble I played along, Pretended like what she said really bothered me. I said "I do love you Ab-Mom." I knew the moment that I almost called her by her name not by mom that it was going to be a long ride. She said "ABBY? WHAT I'M NOT YOUR MOTHER ANYMORE? THAT LITTLE BITCH NORA'S YOUR MOTHER NOW?" She hit me in the face hard her wedding ring drawing blood from my lip. I could feel it dripping down my chin but I ignored it and said stiffly "No she's not my mother. You're my mother and I love you." I hated her. I hated the self righteous look on her face when she said "Of course you do how could you not. Stupid thinking that you could love that little slut Nora when you have me, Right Edwin, Marti." Edwin just nodded not even looking at her; Marti just kept looking out the window. It didn't matter if they answered,
She didn't care if they answered it only mattered what her friends thought and since they weren't here she didn't give a fuck. I wiped my lip getting blood on my sleeve; I could taste it in my mouth it tasted like copper. She looked at my sleeve that had blood on it and yelled "WHY CAN'T YOU EVER TAKE CARE OF YOUR THINGS? YOU IDIOT! GOD YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING!" I just ignored her little rant and looked out the window. I was thinking about a lot of things particularly Nora. Her warm smile it comforted me, the way a mothers smile should comfort her kid. I hated Casey and Lizzie they got to have her as their mother. I didn't I was stuck with Abby.
It took two more hours to get home, It was a long car ride having to constantly block out Abby's insults. When we got home it was around 10:00 Pm so I started getting Marti ready for bed and ignored my step-dad Dave, Marti said she wanted me to sleep with her because she was scared I told her I couldn't because I had to wake up early for school, she just sadly nodded her head. She had been asking me to sleep in her room for a couple months now and I had, But whenever I got up she'd wake up so she was always tired for school so I had to start telling her no. But even then she still always looked tired even more so then when I would sleep with her. I just shrugged it off because I went through the same thing at that age, Nightmares and shit but it still worried me.
Dave and Abby called me. They were in the kitchen and said that they needed to talk to me. So I said what. Dave looked angry like usual and said hotly "How dare you disrespect YOUR MOTHER AT THAT WEDDING!" His voice grew louder with every word. I tried to explain what happened but I knew it didn't matter he wouldn't listen anyways, so I just stopped talking." He was yelling something at me but it sounded like he was speaking a different language. I couldn't understand him, I'd learned to ignore his voice. He must've been asking me a question for a while because he looked furious that I wasn't answering. I tried to answer him but too late; He was already jumping up from across the table. I tensed my body up waiting for the attack when BAM! It happened.
He punched me right in my eye. His college ring indenting into my skin. I fell of the chair and hit the hard tile. I laid their for a moment but he screamed at me to get up. So I got up ignoring the pain and blurry vision coming from my right eye. I looked straight at him, He looked pissed off and kept screaming something at me. The only thing I heard was go to your room. I looked at Abby but like usual she didn't acknowledge this shit. I went to my bedroom and grabbed my ipod I turned it on and started listening to it. The music drowned out a lot of other things that were plaguing my mind at the moment.
I looked at the clock which said 1:00 AM I decided to get some water and a sandwich. I went downstairs to the kitchen and got my stuff and was headed back to my room when I heard crying from Marti's room, I went and opened the door to see what was wrong but what I saw killed me. Dave was in Marti's bed on top of her grunting and she was crying. I dropped the food and water breaking the glass.
He stopped immediately and turned around; I yanked him off of her throwing him half-way across the room. He got up and told me to stop but I wouldn't I was gonna kill him for even touching Marti. I tackled him to the ground and started punching him anywhere my hands could reach. I didn't realize that Abby and Edwin were in the room now. Abby was trying to pull me off of him; While Edwin was pulling a screaming Marti out of the room. Dave was able to get on top of me and start hitting me. I saw a flash of something silver pass my eye then felt searing pain in my shoulder. I felt the familiar warm liquid dripping down my arm but I ignored it.
Edwin jumped on Dave and did something to him that made him yell out and stop hitting me long enough to get him off me. I painfully pulled the knife out of my shoulder then stabbed him with it. He stopped fighting Edwin so I took my chance and punched him in his face. He toppled over on the ground and just laid their.
I heard the police sirens then I heard the foot steps of someone coming upstairs. It seemed like everything was going in slow motion, I looked around and there was blood everywhere. My whole right arm was covered in it, I felt tired and cold. I think I blacked out, But I could still here everything and feel everything. I felt someone check my pulse then yell that they needed an ambulance. I felt someone pick me up then put me on a very uncomfortable bed. Someone yelled that I'd lost a lot of blood they were all too loud. Their yelling was hurting my head, I felt like I was being sucked down to the bottom of a freezing pool.
Why was it so cold? I wanted to see Marti. I had to beg for her forgiveness, Say I was so sorry for leaving her alone. Why would she keep this from me? It was because of him! He made her keep it a secret. I hope he died. I thought of Casey and Lizzie how they probably didn't have to deal with this shit. I felt something being put over my mouth then I slowly started getting more and more tired. Then I really passed out, thinking about how different the McDonalds were from me.