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When I woke up I was lying in my bed. Gediminas was asleep in his own and I could hear grandpa snoring somewhere in the house. It wasn't that late. Only 9.30p.m. so I got up.
I had just had a wonderful dream. It was my mom. She was beautiful as always and smiling. She said that we should give our grandpa a chance and that we were never alone. She also said that everything else was up to us. After all, it was our choice what we wanted to do with our lives. Now I felt warm and strong again.
I walked up to the window and opened it for the first time. There was a cold and gentle breeze. I always loved the wind. Then I noticed my mobile phone flashing on the table. Of course, who else would be calling, I smiled.
"Hello." I answered quietly.
"Hey, little one. What's wrong?" He asked with concern.
"Nothing." I tried my innocent tone and miserably failed.
"Your voice tells my differently." Accusation clear in his answer.
"I just missed mom." I tried again. And this time it wasn't even a complete lie.
"Yeah, yeah, you can fool your brother with that, not me. I know you when something is wrong." There was a tiny smile in his voice.
"I just had a really long and tough day." I let out a sigh. "But now I am closer with my grandpa." I said with hopeful voice, trying to distract him. Like that was going to happen.
There was a short pause. I almost felt like I had succeeded. Almost being the core word I heard his response.
"I can't get to Felina so I can't come to you right away." He said annoyed. "Can you do it till morning? I promise I'll be at your doors even before you go to school." He was pleading.
I knew it. I just knew it was going to happen and he was going to say it. Now it was my turn to be determined. Besides, I had no wish of him seeing me like this.
"No, you won't." I was stubborn.
"You don't believe me?"
"Of course I do. But that's not the point." I took a deep breath. I was going to need my best will and persuasiveness to keep him where he was. "The point is that the last time we were together, we made a promise not to see each other soon. Remember?" I knew I couldn't stop or it would be a lost cause, so I carried on." That means no meetings till holidays."
"You didn't let me come all the time that your mom was in hospital and even during the funerals." I refused to let myself drift back to those times but his voice was rising in annoyance and that made me smile a little. I liked the feeling he gave me. The feeling of safety, importance and understanding in my heart that he would do anything and everything for me. Not that I was going to try that.
"You did call me. A lot. I spent more time talking to you than sleeping." Though I did like him calling me, it always made my day.
"Like that is enough." He murmured.
"Well if you are not enough of a man and you cannot keep your promise…" I trailed off. I had learned this from my mom. Always appeal to their manhood and never finish such sentences.
The silence wasn't short so he must have been thinking. That meant nothing good. He could be very creative when he wanted.
"Fine." He wasn't happy. At least that was clear. "I am not coming till your Christmas holiday. But I do hope you have no plans for the next Friday." That didn't sound good but I couldn't lie to him.
"Just school…"
"And your means of transportation are coming in next week."
"Yes…" this was becoming a little scary. Grandpa wasn't going to be happy when he found out what kind of free time activities we were used to. Even though mom had never actually forbidden us from them, she did ask us not to tell her about them unless we got hurt.
"Do you have any normal local friends?" he was becoming more relaxed and so was I. Humans meant no danger or extremity.
"There is one girl at school. She is nice enough, I guess."
"And how many does Gediminas have..?" he laughed lightly.
"Surprisingly none this time. See, most of the girls here are either average-looking or completely and absolutely dumb. And his mind-reading doesn't help." I laughed. My brother liked exquisite beauty and intelligence combined in one. You can imagine how often that occurred.
"Miracles do happen…"
"Yes, now in stead of sleeping with his mobile phone, he is hugging his laptop." I chuckled. I heard a strange noise in the background. "Was that your alarm clock?"
"No, that's dad's car." His irritation surprised me.
"Right." I remembered with a smile. "Somebody has to go to school."
"Right. Somebody has to go to sleep." He shot back and we both laughed.
It took us five minutes and two more calls from his father to say our goodbyes.
When I finally hung up, I felt happy, invigorated and a little sleepy. I did have two long days ahead of me till weekend but I also had a huge support.
Thank you for reading. Tell me what you liked and what you didn't. I have the main plot but I could easily put in some short scenes if you want something specific. Just let me know.
