"I'm sorry daddy." That was the best I could do I when I looked at my
father from where I was sitting on the examining table at the clinic in
Atlanta. "You little tramp." Is all he had managed to scramble from his
mouth before storming out and leaving me there alone, scared and
knocked up?
That's how I wound up here in my Uncle Bills car on the way to my new home in Alexandria Virginia with him and my little Cousin Sheryl.
"Thank you Uncle Bill for letting me stay with you." I said quietly almost to where he couldn't hear me. "Don't worry about it sweet heart you made a mistake, people make mistakes it's nothing new. You have to excuse your father no matter how doubtful it seems he loves you Maurey." Right my dad who told me I was a tramp then sent me to live with Uncle Bill who I only see once a year at Christmas and lives three states away from everybody who meant anything to me and to top it all off I was pregnant and the dad was still in Atlanta and had no idea. Yeah he loved me alright he loved me enough to tear my whole world apart within two days "I know that Uncle Bill." I said finally snapping out of my trance
He pulled up in front of the house it was a simple country house with an "office" out back and a big fenced in field. I saw a group of boys who looked to be about a year older then me standing on the front porch of the house with Sheryl standing in front fussing at one of them for having big feet. "Looks like you picked out a good bunch of babysitters." I said sarcastically looking over at him. "Sheryl ought to be the one babysitting them those are the Titan's." "The football team...you left your daughter with the football team. You do know your house is probably a mess and the fridge is probably empty right?" I said getting out of the car and grabbing my bag from the back seat. "It wouldn't be a first." He said smiling and taking my bag.
This was defiantly worrying me, what had Uncle Bill told them? Did they know why I was here and if they did where they going to think that I was just some easy tramp like my father did. Why did this have to be happening I am only sixteen a junior in high school who was a cheerleader and runner up for homecoming queen and now I'm stuck in Alexandria where they are just now passing immigration laws and I would have to travel to games and such with my uncle and these people didn't seem the type to be very excepting of new things.
"Maurey did you hear me?" I snapped back into reality and looked at Uncle Bill and sheepishly shook my head. "Meet the team that's: Alan, Gerry, Julius, Petey, Sunshine, Louie, Rev, and Blue boys meet my niece Maurey." I shook each of their hands they all gave me bright smiles and I started to become worried what Uncle Bill had told them. I looked up at him giving him in expression asking 'What did you tell them' "They all know why you moved here Maurey and none of them are going to say anything they're your family now." He said I looked up at all of them who were nodding in agreement with him. "Excuse me I think I'm going to be sick." She said weaving through the crowd and entering into the house. "Well I think that went better then expected." Said Petey trying to raise the cloud of tension.
That's how I wound up here in my Uncle Bills car on the way to my new home in Alexandria Virginia with him and my little Cousin Sheryl.
"Thank you Uncle Bill for letting me stay with you." I said quietly almost to where he couldn't hear me. "Don't worry about it sweet heart you made a mistake, people make mistakes it's nothing new. You have to excuse your father no matter how doubtful it seems he loves you Maurey." Right my dad who told me I was a tramp then sent me to live with Uncle Bill who I only see once a year at Christmas and lives three states away from everybody who meant anything to me and to top it all off I was pregnant and the dad was still in Atlanta and had no idea. Yeah he loved me alright he loved me enough to tear my whole world apart within two days "I know that Uncle Bill." I said finally snapping out of my trance
He pulled up in front of the house it was a simple country house with an "office" out back and a big fenced in field. I saw a group of boys who looked to be about a year older then me standing on the front porch of the house with Sheryl standing in front fussing at one of them for having big feet. "Looks like you picked out a good bunch of babysitters." I said sarcastically looking over at him. "Sheryl ought to be the one babysitting them those are the Titan's." "The football team...you left your daughter with the football team. You do know your house is probably a mess and the fridge is probably empty right?" I said getting out of the car and grabbing my bag from the back seat. "It wouldn't be a first." He said smiling and taking my bag.
This was defiantly worrying me, what had Uncle Bill told them? Did they know why I was here and if they did where they going to think that I was just some easy tramp like my father did. Why did this have to be happening I am only sixteen a junior in high school who was a cheerleader and runner up for homecoming queen and now I'm stuck in Alexandria where they are just now passing immigration laws and I would have to travel to games and such with my uncle and these people didn't seem the type to be very excepting of new things.
"Maurey did you hear me?" I snapped back into reality and looked at Uncle Bill and sheepishly shook my head. "Meet the team that's: Alan, Gerry, Julius, Petey, Sunshine, Louie, Rev, and Blue boys meet my niece Maurey." I shook each of their hands they all gave me bright smiles and I started to become worried what Uncle Bill had told them. I looked up at him giving him in expression asking 'What did you tell them' "They all know why you moved here Maurey and none of them are going to say anything they're your family now." He said I looked up at all of them who were nodding in agreement with him. "Excuse me I think I'm going to be sick." She said weaving through the crowd and entering into the house. "Well I think that went better then expected." Said Petey trying to raise the cloud of tension.