Authors Note- So this is the final sequel to my story "Losing Something!" It is like the stories epilogue, it includes Journal entries from all of the Carters...More like a day in the life of each of the Characters! Read and Review tell me what you think, and if you want you can tell me which Kid you think I should write about next. Here's Alexis Point of View...Oh and a big shout out to my buddy who helps me with all the comments...Abby Lockhart 2! check out her stories they rock!
Summary- Ten years later what has happened to the Carter family... Read on and you will find out.
Alexis:
Being a girl in a boys world can be tough sometimes, and today is one of those sometimes. I have four brothers, all of whom are older then me. They think they have to protect me, I don't know why I don't need protection from anyone or thing. It all started when a boy pushed me because I would not go on a date with him. Boys are so stupid. Then I took my locker door and smashed it into his face. Hard. My brothers, well the two that attend my junior high with me, Mason and Zachary saw what happened with him pushing me, me hurting him and then him trying to punch me that they attacked him, well at least tried before Mr. Vender my teacher came out into the hall. I am now sitting in the principals office, with Garrett the boy who pushed me sitting next to me. Garrett looks grumpy and pissed off, as am I! Our parents have been called in, his are in there now mine...well mom and dad work a lot so they may never make it here which is probably best. I told the principal what happened he just sighed looked over at Garrett who denied it all, well of course he would why would he admit to that? The principal then sent us out here and told us that he would be calling our parents in. I have never had my parents called into school, so I am very nervous as you can imagine.
I fiddle with the worn out material on the chair, looking around nervously my gaze meets Garrett's, he stares at me then turns his head rolling his eyes. I do the same. I hear noises coming from the hall and I can tell its my parents the way they are bickering. They always bicker when they are worried. I am surprised that both of them managed to come, usually one of them is working. They walk into the office and immediately go to the secretary, who tells them quietly that Mr. Collins the principal will see them momentarily. They nod and look over to see my sitting in the chair. I smile innocently. Mom looks upset, I get up to go see them when Mr. Collins walks out of his office with Garrett's parents in tow. I immediately sit back down, as Garrett straightens out.
Mr. Collins clears his throat then starts speaking in his boorish, monotone voice. "Hello, I assume you are Alexis parents." He says extending his hand to my father.
"Yes, sorry we are late, but we were both called into a trauma case at work." My father explains. Mr. Collins does not seem to take this as a good excuse.
"Well sometimes our children must come before work matters don't you agree?" My dad looks pissed off and taken aback by this comment. I guess what I forgot to mention is that I go to a prestigious private school, so my principal is actually my head master. I just refer to him as my principal because my brother Logan, my favourite brother, goes to public school and he has a principal so I have gotten use to the term. My dad clears his throat and tugs at his tie, as my mother puts her hand on his arm to tell him to let it go.
"Well, I guess I will have to fill you in on why you are here. Or all seven of us could go into my office and your daughter could explain to you why you are here." He says rudely. Mr. Collins does not like my family, Logan and he had a bad past. Now he hates me too, but lucky for me I have managed to avoid speaking to him, well before now. I know Mr. Collins expects I am just going to cave into Garrett's side of the story saying I lied. But I am not going to, because I did not lie. Garrett is loved by Mr. Collins he is a 'good boy.' Yeah right! I take a seat in-between my mom and dad. I start to fiddle with the newer felt on these chairs but my mother whacks my hand away.
"Well Alexis, would you like to start?" He prompts me. I sit up straight and look at my parents and then Mr. Collins avoiding Garrett and his parents at all costs.
"I um- well I was at my locker getting my books for history, when Garrett came up behind me and asked me if I would like to be his girlfriend. I said no, as I always do-"
"As you always do?" Mr. Collins interrupted.
"Yeah-" I start then correct my self as Mr. Collins clears his throat. "Yes, he always asks me out and I have told him on numerous occasions that I don't like him or want to be his girlfriend. I told my brothers Mason and Zac that he was bothering me and they told me that if he ever did it again they would deal with him. I didn't want them to get involved and get in trouble. So when he was bothering me today I firmly said no and please stop bothering me. He grabbed my arm and I tried to shrug him off me but his friends surrounded me and made fun of me calling me a prude-"
"What friends?" Mr. Collins interrupts again.
"Peter and Martin. And then Garrett pushed me, his friends laughed. He came up close to me like he was going to kiss me, and I didn't want his nasty germ filled mouth near mine, so I took my locker door and flung it at him, that's when he screamed. My brothers have class that period near my locker they walked by and saw what happened they were about to hit him when Mr. vender walked out." I sat up straight in my chair looking at my parents, my mom looked appalled, dad looked like he was about to leap out of his seat to beat Garrett up. Mom grabbed his hand and they interlocked fingers.
"Well, that's a nice story Alexis, but that's not how Garrett tells it." My dad looked at Mr. Collins sternly.
"I hear that you and your brothers have been picking on Garrett." I roll my eyes and cross my arms, sighing loudly and noticeably. "Do you have something to say about that Ms. Carter?" I move my body closer to the edge of my chair, take another deep breath and begin.
"yeah, I do! That's a load of shit and you know it. Your letting a girl be sexually harassed because you don't like her brother well fu-"
"Alexis Abigail Zoe Wycenzki Carter, watch what you say!" My mother scolds.
"I don't know what you are trying to accuse my children of Mr. Collins but I can assure you that neither Mason, Zac or Lexie would do something like that." My mom continued.
"Well that is fine that you believe your children, but I do not so she has a week suspension and I will be informing the boys of their week detention." He said slamming the folder closed on the desk. My dad looked angry, he has a pretty good temper but right now I can see hate in his eyes.
"Mr. Collins, We are going to take this school to court and sue your ass. Let's go." He said rising from his seat. My followed his grabbing onto my arm signalling for me to follow. We got out into the hall and boy was dad steamed. "I can not believe they would accuse them of that. That bastard kid touching my daughter, I'll kill him." I don't remember my dad every being so mad. Even during fights between him and mom he was never like this.
"Come on Lexie get your stuff we are going home." My mom gently told me. I'm glad one of them had their composure somewhat in tact.
"Abby, I don't want my kids in that system any more." My dad shouted. I was now sitting in the computer room doing my homework.
"John what do you want to do take them out now?" She said a little calmer then dad, but not much.
"Yes! It is only November." He whined.
"Fine...All four of them?" She emphasised the word all and the number four. Even though Logan was out of the private school system Jeremy had stayed. "Okay, we'll sign Jeremy up to Logan's school and Lexie, Zac and Mason up to Division public school. I couldn't hear what my dad said after that, but now I could tell they were hugging. It's like their thing they fight then hug. Weird if you ask me. Dad never ends up sleeping on the couch, I'll know something is up when he does sleep on the couch. I leave the computer room much happier then I entered it.
"You know don't you?" Mom asked pulling out of my dad's embrace. I nodded happily. She pulled me into a hug my dad rubbing my back. I love my parents. They are the best!
"So The other kids are coming too?" I smile.
"Yeah." my dad says happily. They both seemed pleased with the new decision.
"So I get to go to Colby's school?" I beam.
"Oh god we're putting her in Colby's school!" My dad jokes.
"Shut up dad." I holler at him as I run up the stairs to call Colby, my best friend since well ever. I love Colby he is the best friend ever. He is Luka and Sam's son, they are my parents friends and they always joke around that Colby and I will get married. They wish.
"So? What did you guys think?" Mom asks as we drive down the street.
"It was way better then that prep shit you have us in now!" Zac responded.
"Zac, watch your mouth." Mom scolds. We just finished seeing our new school, its an elementary school that goes from grades one to eight, there are only two classes and since there are three of us two of us will have to be in the same class. Great! I hope I am in Colby's class he was so excited when he found out that I am going to be going to his school. Mom's phone goes off,
"Hello?"
"It's work!" Mason states. Probably, work always calls her in. I hate it. My parents are never home, they are always at work. My mom hangs up her phone and sure enough we take the road that leads us to the hospital.
"Oh come on mom we were suppose to have lunch." I whine. She rests her hand on my leg squeezing it then continues to drive.
Finally we get here, now all I have to do is hang out in the lounge for three hours with my brothers. FUN! We all slowly follow mom who is speeding ahead into the hospital. When we get to the door we see dad. "Hey kids." He says rustling Zac's hair.
"Dad when do we get to leave?" I whine again.
"When mom and I are done." He smiles happily. Sometimes my parents disgust me they are so in love. I know it took them awhile to be at the place in their lives where everything was perfect. They got married about six years ago. The wedding was so much fun, like an all night party. They kissed a lot that night though. A child should never have to see her parents kiss. I see dad walk up to mom and place a hand on her back, she smiles at him. They are crazy.
"Hey Lexie." Colby says sitting beside me. He has short dark brown hair, but he usually wears a hat. He has the same deep brown eyes as his dad. Girls fall all over him, even at thirteen its so funny. I just think of him as my best friend. He use to tease me as a kid because of my red hair, boys can be so stupid. I am small like my mom, he is big like his dad. It is funny every boy in my family is tall but Jeremy, Jeremy is five foot six, he's so little. I smile at Colby who nudges me. We both watch my parents talk about a patient, they are happy together even when they are talking about some guy getting a bowel resection. Seriously they are nasty.
I look over a Colby, who looks upset, "What's wrong?" He shakes his head a little.
"I think my parents are going to get a divorce." he sighs. I don't believe it his parents are so happy all the time, they are just like my par-
"Come on Colby that's crazy your parents are so happy." I say not sure if I am trying to reassure him or myself.
"No its not, I mean they act all happy, but they argue a lot when they think no one is around." He explains, this is the same with my parents.
"Cole-" I start, but he gets up and leaves me. Maybe this was more of a listening situation. As selfish as this sounds I am now concerned about my parents getting a divorce.
I stare at my mom and dad, dad is handing her a chart and she is flipping through it not really listening to anything he is saying. He kisses her on the forehead as he tells her he will take us home, she doesn't really respond. I stare in disbelief my mom never acts like this towards dad usually she hugs him or says goodbye or something. I bet it was this whole school fight thing that pushed them over the top, its all my fault. Dad walks over to us, with a sudden smile on his face he ushers us out of the hospital.
"Hey guys lets go back to the house get Jeremy and Logan then go out for dinner." He suggests.
"I'm up for that." Zac pipes up.
"Me too." Mason adds.
"Not me, I just want to go home." I grumble. Dad looks over at me questioningly. I just shrug him off and pick up my pace towards his jeep. He got it a few years ago, he said he had an old one like it, he loves jeeps. What a weirdo. We also have a van and a car, my mom has her Rav 4. Logan and Jeremy are trying to get the car and the van for when they get their licenses.
I can feel dads gaze on me as I hop into the front seat. Mason and Zac pile into the back talking about some video game or sports event or something trivial like that. They have no idea that our parents are about to divorce they don't see the signs that I do. Boys are so stupid.
We pull into the driveway and I get out of the car as quickly as possible marching up to the front door, dad seems confused by my state. Mason and Zac just give me a weird look. I am surprised they even notice, they never notice anything. "Okay, well Lexie, we are going out to dinner like it or not, so go do what you have to do." My dad orders.
I walk up the stairs and bump into Logan on the way. "Where we going kid?" He says with a big smile. He thinks his smile can get him places in life. All the girls like him, he has curly blond hair that is somewhat out of control. He's tall, almost six feet and funny.
"Out to dinner." I say bitterly as I push by him.
"Why so angry?" He says chasing me up the stairs.
"Its nothing." I march into my bedroom, discarding my jacket on the floor and sifting through my closet for something more comfortable to wear.
"Its never nothing with you." He sits on my bed flipping through one of my teen magazines.
"Okay but you can't tell anyone." I say sitting beside him.
"Okay." He nods.
"Mom and dad are getting a divorce." The minute the words leave my mouth he starts laughing.
"What?"
"Colby says he thinks his parents are going to. And his parents have been acting the same way our parents do. They fight when they think we are not around, when dad kissed mom today she acted like he wasn't even there. They never spend time just the two of them." I am getting a little worked up now.
"Lexie, they never spend time together because they don't have time."
"I know but, they never even spend nights together, I mean when was the last time they both slept the WHOLE night together." I said emphasising the word whole.
"I don't know...They probably spend time at work, you know meet up in an empty exam room and have sex." Logan joked.
"Ew, that's gross." I said getting up to change. He left the room laughing. My parents don't have sex, yuck I mean I know I want them to be together but not like that.
I walk down the stairs, and They are all waiting for me at the door. "Dad..." Logan starts as I get my shoes on. "You and mom have sex in empty exam rooms right?" I can not believe he just said that. See if there is one thing everyone should know about my brother, is that he says what he is thinking, however mean, embarrassing or nice it is. I look at my dad and my brothers who are laughing, dad looks embarrassed and also a bit taken a back.
"Uh-" Dad tries to explain.
"No worries dad you can tell us over dinner." Logan says pushing by us all to get out the door.
"Where's dad?" I ask as I approach our table. I made a quick stop at the washroom
"Outside...On the phone, go get him I want to order." Zac instructs me. I reluctantly go outside. He is on the sidewalk talking on his phone, he didn't hear me come out and keeps talking.
"Your son just asked me if we have sex in empty exam rooms." My dad chuckles. I know its my mom. The good thing about cell phones is that they are really loud, so I can vaguely hear mom on the other end. I am a couple feet away from dad but he has his back turned to me.
"No? which one?" She asks.
"Who do you think? Logan." He sighs. "Lexie has been acting really weird too, I wonder what is up with her." He states. I can hear my mom asks him forcefully if he has asked me why I am acting weird. "No I haven't" He retorts.
"Well why not?" She pushes.
"Abby, I don't know I will ask her." I don't know why they are getting all huffy about this subject its not that big of a deal, me acting weird, they can discuss things without getting into heated discussions. Dad hangs up angrily and turns to me standing there.
"Hey..." He says softly.
"Hi." I respond quietly.
"Are you guys fighting?" I asks shyly.
"Nah, you know your mom and me" he says light heartedly.
"Yeah I do." I turn and walk into the restaurant he follows. I can feel the tears burning my eyes, the weird thing is I am very emotional, although many people in my family are not. Well dad can be at times. He certainly does not hide his emotions well he doesn't hide them a lot.
Summary- Ten years later what has happened to the Carter family... Read on and you will find out.
Alexis:
Being a girl in a boys world can be tough sometimes, and today is one of those sometimes. I have four brothers, all of whom are older then me. They think they have to protect me, I don't know why I don't need protection from anyone or thing. It all started when a boy pushed me because I would not go on a date with him. Boys are so stupid. Then I took my locker door and smashed it into his face. Hard. My brothers, well the two that attend my junior high with me, Mason and Zachary saw what happened with him pushing me, me hurting him and then him trying to punch me that they attacked him, well at least tried before Mr. Vender my teacher came out into the hall. I am now sitting in the principals office, with Garrett the boy who pushed me sitting next to me. Garrett looks grumpy and pissed off, as am I! Our parents have been called in, his are in there now mine...well mom and dad work a lot so they may never make it here which is probably best. I told the principal what happened he just sighed looked over at Garrett who denied it all, well of course he would why would he admit to that? The principal then sent us out here and told us that he would be calling our parents in. I have never had my parents called into school, so I am very nervous as you can imagine.
I fiddle with the worn out material on the chair, looking around nervously my gaze meets Garrett's, he stares at me then turns his head rolling his eyes. I do the same. I hear noises coming from the hall and I can tell its my parents the way they are bickering. They always bicker when they are worried. I am surprised that both of them managed to come, usually one of them is working. They walk into the office and immediately go to the secretary, who tells them quietly that Mr. Collins the principal will see them momentarily. They nod and look over to see my sitting in the chair. I smile innocently. Mom looks upset, I get up to go see them when Mr. Collins walks out of his office with Garrett's parents in tow. I immediately sit back down, as Garrett straightens out.
Mr. Collins clears his throat then starts speaking in his boorish, monotone voice. "Hello, I assume you are Alexis parents." He says extending his hand to my father.
"Yes, sorry we are late, but we were both called into a trauma case at work." My father explains. Mr. Collins does not seem to take this as a good excuse.
"Well sometimes our children must come before work matters don't you agree?" My dad looks pissed off and taken aback by this comment. I guess what I forgot to mention is that I go to a prestigious private school, so my principal is actually my head master. I just refer to him as my principal because my brother Logan, my favourite brother, goes to public school and he has a principal so I have gotten use to the term. My dad clears his throat and tugs at his tie, as my mother puts her hand on his arm to tell him to let it go.
"Well, I guess I will have to fill you in on why you are here. Or all seven of us could go into my office and your daughter could explain to you why you are here." He says rudely. Mr. Collins does not like my family, Logan and he had a bad past. Now he hates me too, but lucky for me I have managed to avoid speaking to him, well before now. I know Mr. Collins expects I am just going to cave into Garrett's side of the story saying I lied. But I am not going to, because I did not lie. Garrett is loved by Mr. Collins he is a 'good boy.' Yeah right! I take a seat in-between my mom and dad. I start to fiddle with the newer felt on these chairs but my mother whacks my hand away.
"Well Alexis, would you like to start?" He prompts me. I sit up straight and look at my parents and then Mr. Collins avoiding Garrett and his parents at all costs.
"I um- well I was at my locker getting my books for history, when Garrett came up behind me and asked me if I would like to be his girlfriend. I said no, as I always do-"
"As you always do?" Mr. Collins interrupted.
"Yeah-" I start then correct my self as Mr. Collins clears his throat. "Yes, he always asks me out and I have told him on numerous occasions that I don't like him or want to be his girlfriend. I told my brothers Mason and Zac that he was bothering me and they told me that if he ever did it again they would deal with him. I didn't want them to get involved and get in trouble. So when he was bothering me today I firmly said no and please stop bothering me. He grabbed my arm and I tried to shrug him off me but his friends surrounded me and made fun of me calling me a prude-"
"What friends?" Mr. Collins interrupts again.
"Peter and Martin. And then Garrett pushed me, his friends laughed. He came up close to me like he was going to kiss me, and I didn't want his nasty germ filled mouth near mine, so I took my locker door and flung it at him, that's when he screamed. My brothers have class that period near my locker they walked by and saw what happened they were about to hit him when Mr. vender walked out." I sat up straight in my chair looking at my parents, my mom looked appalled, dad looked like he was about to leap out of his seat to beat Garrett up. Mom grabbed his hand and they interlocked fingers.
"Well, that's a nice story Alexis, but that's not how Garrett tells it." My dad looked at Mr. Collins sternly.
"I hear that you and your brothers have been picking on Garrett." I roll my eyes and cross my arms, sighing loudly and noticeably. "Do you have something to say about that Ms. Carter?" I move my body closer to the edge of my chair, take another deep breath and begin.
"yeah, I do! That's a load of shit and you know it. Your letting a girl be sexually harassed because you don't like her brother well fu-"
"Alexis Abigail Zoe Wycenzki Carter, watch what you say!" My mother scolds.
"I don't know what you are trying to accuse my children of Mr. Collins but I can assure you that neither Mason, Zac or Lexie would do something like that." My mom continued.
"Well that is fine that you believe your children, but I do not so she has a week suspension and I will be informing the boys of their week detention." He said slamming the folder closed on the desk. My dad looked angry, he has a pretty good temper but right now I can see hate in his eyes.
"Mr. Collins, We are going to take this school to court and sue your ass. Let's go." He said rising from his seat. My followed his grabbing onto my arm signalling for me to follow. We got out into the hall and boy was dad steamed. "I can not believe they would accuse them of that. That bastard kid touching my daughter, I'll kill him." I don't remember my dad every being so mad. Even during fights between him and mom he was never like this.
"Come on Lexie get your stuff we are going home." My mom gently told me. I'm glad one of them had their composure somewhat in tact.
"Abby, I don't want my kids in that system any more." My dad shouted. I was now sitting in the computer room doing my homework.
"John what do you want to do take them out now?" She said a little calmer then dad, but not much.
"Yes! It is only November." He whined.
"Fine...All four of them?" She emphasised the word all and the number four. Even though Logan was out of the private school system Jeremy had stayed. "Okay, we'll sign Jeremy up to Logan's school and Lexie, Zac and Mason up to Division public school. I couldn't hear what my dad said after that, but now I could tell they were hugging. It's like their thing they fight then hug. Weird if you ask me. Dad never ends up sleeping on the couch, I'll know something is up when he does sleep on the couch. I leave the computer room much happier then I entered it.
"You know don't you?" Mom asked pulling out of my dad's embrace. I nodded happily. She pulled me into a hug my dad rubbing my back. I love my parents. They are the best!
"So The other kids are coming too?" I smile.
"Yeah." my dad says happily. They both seemed pleased with the new decision.
"So I get to go to Colby's school?" I beam.
"Oh god we're putting her in Colby's school!" My dad jokes.
"Shut up dad." I holler at him as I run up the stairs to call Colby, my best friend since well ever. I love Colby he is the best friend ever. He is Luka and Sam's son, they are my parents friends and they always joke around that Colby and I will get married. They wish.
"So? What did you guys think?" Mom asks as we drive down the street.
"It was way better then that prep shit you have us in now!" Zac responded.
"Zac, watch your mouth." Mom scolds. We just finished seeing our new school, its an elementary school that goes from grades one to eight, there are only two classes and since there are three of us two of us will have to be in the same class. Great! I hope I am in Colby's class he was so excited when he found out that I am going to be going to his school. Mom's phone goes off,
"Hello?"
"It's work!" Mason states. Probably, work always calls her in. I hate it. My parents are never home, they are always at work. My mom hangs up her phone and sure enough we take the road that leads us to the hospital.
"Oh come on mom we were suppose to have lunch." I whine. She rests her hand on my leg squeezing it then continues to drive.
Finally we get here, now all I have to do is hang out in the lounge for three hours with my brothers. FUN! We all slowly follow mom who is speeding ahead into the hospital. When we get to the door we see dad. "Hey kids." He says rustling Zac's hair.
"Dad when do we get to leave?" I whine again.
"When mom and I are done." He smiles happily. Sometimes my parents disgust me they are so in love. I know it took them awhile to be at the place in their lives where everything was perfect. They got married about six years ago. The wedding was so much fun, like an all night party. They kissed a lot that night though. A child should never have to see her parents kiss. I see dad walk up to mom and place a hand on her back, she smiles at him. They are crazy.
"Hey Lexie." Colby says sitting beside me. He has short dark brown hair, but he usually wears a hat. He has the same deep brown eyes as his dad. Girls fall all over him, even at thirteen its so funny. I just think of him as my best friend. He use to tease me as a kid because of my red hair, boys can be so stupid. I am small like my mom, he is big like his dad. It is funny every boy in my family is tall but Jeremy, Jeremy is five foot six, he's so little. I smile at Colby who nudges me. We both watch my parents talk about a patient, they are happy together even when they are talking about some guy getting a bowel resection. Seriously they are nasty.
I look over a Colby, who looks upset, "What's wrong?" He shakes his head a little.
"I think my parents are going to get a divorce." he sighs. I don't believe it his parents are so happy all the time, they are just like my par-
"Come on Colby that's crazy your parents are so happy." I say not sure if I am trying to reassure him or myself.
"No its not, I mean they act all happy, but they argue a lot when they think no one is around." He explains, this is the same with my parents.
"Cole-" I start, but he gets up and leaves me. Maybe this was more of a listening situation. As selfish as this sounds I am now concerned about my parents getting a divorce.
I stare at my mom and dad, dad is handing her a chart and she is flipping through it not really listening to anything he is saying. He kisses her on the forehead as he tells her he will take us home, she doesn't really respond. I stare in disbelief my mom never acts like this towards dad usually she hugs him or says goodbye or something. I bet it was this whole school fight thing that pushed them over the top, its all my fault. Dad walks over to us, with a sudden smile on his face he ushers us out of the hospital.
"Hey guys lets go back to the house get Jeremy and Logan then go out for dinner." He suggests.
"I'm up for that." Zac pipes up.
"Me too." Mason adds.
"Not me, I just want to go home." I grumble. Dad looks over at me questioningly. I just shrug him off and pick up my pace towards his jeep. He got it a few years ago, he said he had an old one like it, he loves jeeps. What a weirdo. We also have a van and a car, my mom has her Rav 4. Logan and Jeremy are trying to get the car and the van for when they get their licenses.
I can feel dads gaze on me as I hop into the front seat. Mason and Zac pile into the back talking about some video game or sports event or something trivial like that. They have no idea that our parents are about to divorce they don't see the signs that I do. Boys are so stupid.
We pull into the driveway and I get out of the car as quickly as possible marching up to the front door, dad seems confused by my state. Mason and Zac just give me a weird look. I am surprised they even notice, they never notice anything. "Okay, well Lexie, we are going out to dinner like it or not, so go do what you have to do." My dad orders.
I walk up the stairs and bump into Logan on the way. "Where we going kid?" He says with a big smile. He thinks his smile can get him places in life. All the girls like him, he has curly blond hair that is somewhat out of control. He's tall, almost six feet and funny.
"Out to dinner." I say bitterly as I push by him.
"Why so angry?" He says chasing me up the stairs.
"Its nothing." I march into my bedroom, discarding my jacket on the floor and sifting through my closet for something more comfortable to wear.
"Its never nothing with you." He sits on my bed flipping through one of my teen magazines.
"Okay but you can't tell anyone." I say sitting beside him.
"Okay." He nods.
"Mom and dad are getting a divorce." The minute the words leave my mouth he starts laughing.
"What?"
"Colby says he thinks his parents are going to. And his parents have been acting the same way our parents do. They fight when they think we are not around, when dad kissed mom today she acted like he wasn't even there. They never spend time just the two of them." I am getting a little worked up now.
"Lexie, they never spend time together because they don't have time."
"I know but, they never even spend nights together, I mean when was the last time they both slept the WHOLE night together." I said emphasising the word whole.
"I don't know...They probably spend time at work, you know meet up in an empty exam room and have sex." Logan joked.
"Ew, that's gross." I said getting up to change. He left the room laughing. My parents don't have sex, yuck I mean I know I want them to be together but not like that.
I walk down the stairs, and They are all waiting for me at the door. "Dad..." Logan starts as I get my shoes on. "You and mom have sex in empty exam rooms right?" I can not believe he just said that. See if there is one thing everyone should know about my brother, is that he says what he is thinking, however mean, embarrassing or nice it is. I look at my dad and my brothers who are laughing, dad looks embarrassed and also a bit taken a back.
"Uh-" Dad tries to explain.
"No worries dad you can tell us over dinner." Logan says pushing by us all to get out the door.
"Where's dad?" I ask as I approach our table. I made a quick stop at the washroom
"Outside...On the phone, go get him I want to order." Zac instructs me. I reluctantly go outside. He is on the sidewalk talking on his phone, he didn't hear me come out and keeps talking.
"Your son just asked me if we have sex in empty exam rooms." My dad chuckles. I know its my mom. The good thing about cell phones is that they are really loud, so I can vaguely hear mom on the other end. I am a couple feet away from dad but he has his back turned to me.
"No? which one?" She asks.
"Who do you think? Logan." He sighs. "Lexie has been acting really weird too, I wonder what is up with her." He states. I can hear my mom asks him forcefully if he has asked me why I am acting weird. "No I haven't" He retorts.
"Well why not?" She pushes.
"Abby, I don't know I will ask her." I don't know why they are getting all huffy about this subject its not that big of a deal, me acting weird, they can discuss things without getting into heated discussions. Dad hangs up angrily and turns to me standing there.
"Hey..." He says softly.
"Hi." I respond quietly.
"Are you guys fighting?" I asks shyly.
"Nah, you know your mom and me" he says light heartedly.
"Yeah I do." I turn and walk into the restaurant he follows. I can feel the tears burning my eyes, the weird thing is I am very emotional, although many people in my family are not. Well dad can be at times. He certainly does not hide his emotions well he doesn't hide them a lot.
