Day Two: Sisters and Mon Cheri
Hey what up guys I am so sorry for the delay well here goes!
After dinner last night I am exhausted and i go up to my room. I strip down and pull on my pajamas before, quite literally, I fall into bed. I am drifting off to sleep and I hear my phone vibrate on my table. I groan and roll over to grab it I read the name and I see its robert. I slide it to answer and put the phone to my ear. "Hello?" I say groggily.
"Callie?" I hear a femine voice say.
"Yeah?" i state questioningly, "Who is this?"
"Hi, my name is Sophia." She says.
"How did you get my number? And why does it say Robert on my phone?" I ask her.
"Oh, I am using my dads phone, he doesn't know, is it true?" She asks me.
"Is what true?"
"Are you my sister?"
Woah, I think, did robert have anpther daughter after us with somone else? "Why would you ask me that?" I ask trying to figure it out myself.
"Well, daddy, was talking about how he ran into you and your friend at the mall today." Of course he would.
"Well then, yes, I am your sister." I state and I have to hold my phone away from my ear.
"OMG! I am so excited i have been an only child for so long and now I have a sister!" She practically screams in my ear.
"Look," I say, "I have had a long day so if I could, I would like to go to sleep now okay?" I try, basically begging her to let me off the phone.
"Oh yeah of course," She says and I sigh with relief, "But can we meet up tomorrow?"
"Well, actually my family and i are going to the beach tomorrow for my birthday." I tell her.
"Which beach?"
"The one close to my school, Anchor Beach." I explain to her.
"Okay meet you there." She says.
"Wait, no, I only..." I try to get out but its too late she already hung up. "Want to spend it with my family." I trail off. I sigh and drop back onto my back and try to go to sleep.
After about fifteen minutes I am asleep and I relax. I know this dream
"Why is your tummy like you swawoahed (swallowed) a wadermailone (watermelon)? Three year old Callie asked her mom.
"Because there is a baby in there." Colleen tries to explain to her. "Your little brother."
"Why did you eat my brudder (brother)?" She asks horrified.
"No, mon cheri, your brother is growing inside of me and when he is ready, he'll come out." Colleen explains to Callie.
"Oh, how long do you dink (think)he be ready?"
"Well he has been in there for six months so he has about three months left."
"Wow!" Callie say surprised, "What his name?"
"Right now he doesn't have one. " Colleen says and Callie's face falls. "Why don't you think of one and we'll see okay?"
"Otay! (Okay)" Callie says and runs off.
The dream shifts to a month later.
"Mommy, mommy, Mommy!" Callie yells while running through the house to the kitchen.
"Mon cheri, no running in the house!" Colleen gently scolds her when she arrives.
"Sorry, mama." Callie says shyly
"Well, what did you want to say before you ran through the house, you were clearly excited." Colleen prods with a small laugh.
"I figuerd out a name!" She states overly enthusied.
"Oh yeah, and just what did you come up with?" this otta be good Colleen thought.
"Jude!" Callie states bouncing up and down.
Wow, Collen was surprised it was actually a good name. "How did you come up with that?" Colleen asked curiously.
"Well, the teacher had us all write down our names and then one by one we went up to her and she told us each what our name meant. Mine means most beautiful. Anway (Anyway), then we got to pick a name from a list and I pick Jude because it mean a persoon (person) who really loves his family! Callie explains in one big breath.
"I love it, mon cheri!" Colleen exclaims and hugs Callie who returns the hug.
The dream fades out an I wake up. I have tears streaming down my face. I get up to go rinse my face off.
I am in the bathroom and Stef enters. "What's wrong, love bug?" She asks after seeing my puffy eyes.
I shake my head and walk over to her and bury my face in her chest. "Do you want to go back to my room?" She ask and I nod. Slowly we make our way to her room and she guides me to her bed. We sit and Lena wakes up.
I don't see her but soon I feel her arms around me and they wait until I calm down a bit to say anything. "What happened, love?" Stef asks me.
"Was it a nightmare?" Lena adds on.
I shake my head, "It was a good dream about my mom, but it reminded me about how much I miss her. And I am grateful ya'll took us to go see her but I think that just started my grieving process because I couldn't before, I had to take care of Jude and my feelings got pushed to the side without a second thought and now it's hitting me all at once because I know I can grieve here and it will be okay." It surprised me how much I opened up to them.
It also surprised Stef and Lena but they didn't let it show. "Honey..." Stef starts.
"Mon cheri." I state, "Call me mon cheri."
"Why?" Lena asks.
"My mom used to call me that and I want to hear it again." I tell them.
"What does is mean?" Stef asks me.
"Honey. It means honey." I explain.
"Okay then, mon cheri, you can grieve as much as you like and no one will blame you or make fun of you. You know this right?" Stef asks me.
I nod. "Thank you, can I sleep in here again tonight?" I ask them.
"Of course love, right inbetween us." Lena says and we arrange ourselves. Lene hugging me, and me hugging Stef. And with that I was asleep.
Mon Cheri means honey, as in calling somone honey, in french. Tell me what you think don't be shy!