Chapter 9 By Morduca
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We ended up going to a Butchers for our Turkey. Kai said that most chain store's meat was crap. My Dad, who had cooked for a living always said the same thing. Plus it wasn't as if we would have to pay for it.
I liked shopping for clothes but hated shopping for food. Of course you shopped for food at a grocery store and when to a mall usually for clothes. So while Kai was running around in the food isles like a madman getting everything from Sweet Potatoes to Yams, I was in the employee breakroom just wondering around when I found some smokes. Parliaments!
I had probably been without a cigarette for at least 20 years, but smoking made me look mature which was nice with my baby face. Even though it make me smell like burning hemp when I had too many smokes and had made me puke up my lunch one time when I snuck out back of the High School for a quick drag because I loved a smoke after I had eaten a meal. Plus, I was a social smoker. My Brother smoked cigs and weed. He was way worse then me.
Thinking to myself as I smoked, the real reason I smoked was I was hyperactive and smoking calmed me down. I hadn't smoked around Bonnie and Damon because I was pretty fried and out of it when I first came back.
But since I was pretty much myself again or as close and here were some smokes so I lit up. Kai nerved me out sometimes. Not that I would let him know that.
"Nater, where you at? If you think of running off I will break your legs."
"Up here Kai having a smoke. Kai can we go to a Mall?" Next thing I knew Kai was standing at the breakroom door with an incredulous look on his face.
"Nater you should quit that. Your Mama would cry if she found out you were smoking.
"Kai, please don't mention my Mom to me. Besides, she used to give me cigs for doing the dishes or vacuuming."
"Next thing I will find you smoking pot."
"Kai, you are such a Preppie."
"Okay, you little Stoner," Kai said in his 'aren't you cute' tone of voice. .."even though you kind of look like a Preppie, Nate, just saying.. Actually you look like a little poseur, a 13 year old smoking on the sly. Nate, if you think you are smoking in the car I will put you in the trunk."
Oh so I am the Poseur, you listen to Grunge non stop Kai, and you tell me you don't smoke! YOU are the Poseur here, Champ!" I told him as I blew smoke in his face. I look older then 13!
"Smoke get's in your eyes" I sang at him.. from that 50' song I liked. 'The Saucers or Plates or the Platters sung it?'
Kai looked like he was going to stab or slap me.
"Kai, who sang that song originally that I just sang at you." I said with a smile, hoping he would chill or his sudden dark mood with shift.
"I can't believe you are asking me that after just blowing smoke in my face. Nate, I really want to stab you or bash your face in right now. At times you remind me of my little brother Joey or my freaking sister Elise, both of whom I could not stand. If you want your Thanksgiving Turkey and to not end up in a ditch again then put out that Cigarette and come on!"
"I'm sorry Kai. Really! It's Thanksgiving, please Kai let's not fight again. I understand you are under a lot of stress." I told him teary eyed. Drama was my favorite class, I am not even kidding. Mrs Petromi said I sparkled in Antigone. As soon as he turning his back I pocked those smokes like a sneak thief. Wondering what had become of Mrs. Petromi.
"Nate if I catch you smoking! I am going to use you for target practice with my arrows. Then I will beat you with a belt." Kai said suddenly turning to face me.
I didn't reply. Just smiled my hokey smile and followed him to where he had put the shopping cart. Kai was like an older brother I didn't need or want.
Kai's house, the Parker family home was a nice two story farm house converted into a nice house or I should say a nice house at one time. Even here in the Prison world a stench of death hung about the place. The first smell I got from the place was a rotten coppery smell.
The inside had what looked like a dark green walls in the hall. The hall also had wooden stairs going up to the second floor. Blood every where...
"Mi casa es tu casa" Kai told me as he entered behind me. Almost making me jump out of my skin.
"Thanks Kai." I told him as I looked for the kitchen to set the Thanksgiving Groceries I was carrying down.
There was blood everywhere! The copper stench was very evident everywhere around me. I felt like I was bathing in it. Why had Kai brought me back here. I knew I wasn't going to be able to eat my Thanksgiving dinner. I had left my appetite at the door.
"Shit Kai! I can't stand the smell of all the blood. Why did we come back here. You seem obsessed with your family. Of all the places we could go in this world you bring me here?"
"I wanted to show you my house. I haven't been back here in a while. I forgot about all the blood. I can't smell anything." Kai now in the kitchen door way to the hall blocking it. My eyes searched and found the black door.
"Oh, okay." I said trying to defuse the tension.
"Let's get cooking then. You can tell you about yourself."
Kai turned on the stove and the oven to preheat it for the turkey. While I went over and turned on the faucet at the sink to start washing the turkey earning an approving look from Kai.
"You do now how to cook." Kai said as he began to chop vegetables for the stuffing. Suddenly he froze with the knife in his hand as if he remembered something.
"Kai, are you alright? I asked him, hoping he was getting ready to flip out on me. I really didn't want to have to take off running.
"Yeah, just remembering the good old days." Kai told me before continuing with chopping the vegetables with a distant look in his eyes as if considering something.
