Day Four
"There's gotta be something up here, something they're not showing me." I was saying mostly to myself as 'Lissa and I dug into old boxes in the attic. Almost everything in here was summer stuff that used to be put up in the windows and things, broken ornaments and non working lights- why any one would keep them is beyond me- and a few old kids toys of ours. Damn it. "What is it that we're looking for exactly, pictures of you younger?" Neilissa asked me, while moving a box over.
"Just-...I don't know anything." I moved another box over and shook my head grwoling in the frustrating mess forming before me. "Grrr. We gotta hurry before Mom and everyone gets home okay?"
"Aaahh!!" 'Lissa screamed and I turned around looking in her direction.
"What? What's the matter?" I asked in concern.
"A-a spider." She squeaked. "A spider? Where?" She pointed to it and I crawled over lifting my hand to smash it when I looked down at a box underneath it in the way back.
"What's this?" I asked myself brushing the spider aside hearing 'Lissa's boot come down on top of it seconds later- Rocky would have hated that.
"What did you find?" She asked after her scare was over.
"A crack in the floor." I answered. "Can you give me a hand?" With a nod she joined my side and helped me pull the boards free from the floor and underneath we found a box marked S.S.
"Who's S.S.?" She then asked and I just shook my head and shrugged. This could be what I'm looking for, but who's S.S.?
"You're gonna get a tooth ache eating that, I thought you cut down on sweets?" Mom's voice was the first thing I heard from outside. I ran to the small window in the attic and peeked out. "Shoot. They're back, we gotta get out of here." I panicked a little, Mom would ask a million questions if she found us up here and I'm not about to get caught.
"Cover up the floor board." I asked her because she was still sitting by the discovery.
Neilissa made a nod and started to replace the boards in the floor, I waited for her as she scrambled to her feet and ran to the door and joined me running out of it. We stomped down the attic stairs and out the door, just as we hit the staircase to reach the living room the door opened and Mom and everyone walked in talking about something I couldn't make out in my state of mind.
"Oh hey honey- 'Lissa." Mom said when she turned away from her conversation with my younger brother. "Hi Mom." I rushed out, and reached for one of the bags in her arms. "I'll take that for you."
"You're being really helpful lately, thank you." Mom handed me the bags and smoothed my hair down.
"I can't help but wonder what you did that you're trying to cover up for." She said playfully enough, but I wasn't in the right mind to play back I felt guilty for what I did already and hearing that didn't help it. I just don't understand why I should feel badly though, she's the one that took me- at least I think so......I don't know right now but I have to get that box.
I glanced at Neilissa and gestured for her to go back to the attic and grab the box then bring it into her room while I distract Mom and everyone- if I could. 'Lissa got my hint and rushed upstairs to the attic while the four of us walked into the kitchen with a bag full of grocceries and another set of bags with gifts and more wrapping paper and also a few other items I couldn't read off of.
"So what did you two do while we were gone?" Rocky asked as though we were two Deer caught in a headlight making out- if only it were that simple. "Nothing. I was in my room and she was unpacking."
"The whole time?" He asked with suspicion and I shrugged him off, saying mildly. "Of course."
My brother just shook his head. I say let him believe what he wants just as long as he doesn't catch on to me I'm good- besides kissing a beautiful girl doesn't seem like the kind of thing you'd wanna deny.
As we put everything away I heard 'Lissa's door close and I smiled to myself. She's a good listener I just hope she's a good helper when it comes to our get away tonight. Tonight.......
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Why does it seem like everytime you're gonna do something wrong or get in trouble time seems to speed itself up as though it can't wait to laugh at you're outcome. Weird to think but it's true. We were all sitting around the table having dinner right now and my food was going down in bites that were hardly chewed properly and I nearly gagged twice trying to swallow, but part of my problem was the huge lump in my throat on how to get out of the house without a million questions.
Neilissa and I talked about it before dinner in her room.
.....................
"I don't understand what any of this stuff is." I said as we looked through the box marked S.S. it was all so weird to me, why would Mom and Dad be keeping some box full of stuff on my aunt Sabrina? It didn't make sense.
"Maybe you're Grandfather didn't want to hold on to them because of a move or something? I haven't the slightest idea why someone would keep this stuff." 'Lissa said to me.
I frowned down at the box that I thought would be my window and unlock this whole mystery an it turned out to be some old junk about my aunt. Great.....Well, we gotta go for dinner, I'll put this stuff back in the attic, okay?"
"Mmhmm." She answered and walked into the bathroom to wash up.
"Aunt Sabrina?" I thought to myself. Why would Mom keep things about her sister in the attic and so hidden away? It doesn't make sense. "'Lissa!?"
"Yes?" She called through the door.
"I need to ask you a favor, can you come here please?" She walked out of the bathroom drying her hands on the hand towel and raised her eye brows. "We're leaving tonight for Arizona,"
"What?!" She looked at me as though I were out of my mind.
"the sooner we get there the better.....I need you to cover for me, you know back me on my story that I tell Mom and Dad so they don't get suspicious."
Neilissa seemed as though she were thinking it over heavily then she replied. "Alright."
"Thank you..." I replied and added. "You're really-...This means a lot to me 'Lissa thank you."
"You're welcomed to it, you deserve to know the truth if it's out there, right. So lets get out there and put on a show." She walked pas me and after slipping the box under her bed I walked out after her.
Now we're sitting here in an uncomfortable conversation about the past year at school and college, and what we've been doing while I'm trying not to throw up what I'm putting down. "Mom, can I talk to you?" I asked and she looked at me.
"Sure, what about?" I swallowed hard and felt my heart racing in my chest pounding louder and louder until it was all I could hear. "Colt?" Mom looked worried and the room started to spin a little. "Are you all right son?"
"I-....." Suddenly 'Lissa broke me off saying. "I wanted to ask you if I could borrow Jeffrey for a little bit," I looked at her in shock and she went on. "I'm going to go see my family for a day or two and I kind of need someone to go with me to be my second eyes on the road, I'm terrible with maps." Mom just raised her eye brows and looked at me and I nodded wildly. Rocky was giving me a shifty eye but, Mom seemed taken by it.
"All right, sure just be back in time for Christmas." She answered.
"Wouldn't miss it, and they don't live that far away." 'Lissa replied. "Thank you."
"When are you gonna be leaving?" Dad asked and Neilissa shrugged making the whole thing seem spontanious.
"Well, if I go tonight I should be back by thursday."
Mom and Dad seemed believed to it enough and they agreed to let us go. "Iiii'd better get packed up it might be a short trip but, you always need clean clothing." I leaped up from the table and ran into the living room.
"He's acting weird." I heard Tum Tum saying.
"Sweety don't talk about your brother and eat your peas."
"Gross." He whined in defense, I walked out of ear shot of the kitchen and looked back into it mouthing to 'Lissa to finish up and come on.
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"I can't believe you took so long." I complained on our ways out to the car.
"And what was I supposed to do? Getting up any sooner would have seemed suspicious, but we're going now okay?" She was right and arguing wouldn't have done anything I needed her to be on my side not mad at me.
"Look I'm-..." she held a hand up to me climbing in and said save it as she went fully into the car.
"Don't say you're sorry, be more patient next time Arizona isn't going anywhere."
I hate that kind of logic I heard it all my life practically. "All right, all right. Please lets just go." she held her hands up in apology and started the car. Arizona here we come.
"There's gotta be something up here, something they're not showing me." I was saying mostly to myself as 'Lissa and I dug into old boxes in the attic. Almost everything in here was summer stuff that used to be put up in the windows and things, broken ornaments and non working lights- why any one would keep them is beyond me- and a few old kids toys of ours. Damn it. "What is it that we're looking for exactly, pictures of you younger?" Neilissa asked me, while moving a box over.
"Just-...I don't know anything." I moved another box over and shook my head grwoling in the frustrating mess forming before me. "Grrr. We gotta hurry before Mom and everyone gets home okay?"
"Aaahh!!" 'Lissa screamed and I turned around looking in her direction.
"What? What's the matter?" I asked in concern.
"A-a spider." She squeaked. "A spider? Where?" She pointed to it and I crawled over lifting my hand to smash it when I looked down at a box underneath it in the way back.
"What's this?" I asked myself brushing the spider aside hearing 'Lissa's boot come down on top of it seconds later- Rocky would have hated that.
"What did you find?" She asked after her scare was over.
"A crack in the floor." I answered. "Can you give me a hand?" With a nod she joined my side and helped me pull the boards free from the floor and underneath we found a box marked S.S.
"Who's S.S.?" She then asked and I just shook my head and shrugged. This could be what I'm looking for, but who's S.S.?
"You're gonna get a tooth ache eating that, I thought you cut down on sweets?" Mom's voice was the first thing I heard from outside. I ran to the small window in the attic and peeked out. "Shoot. They're back, we gotta get out of here." I panicked a little, Mom would ask a million questions if she found us up here and I'm not about to get caught.
"Cover up the floor board." I asked her because she was still sitting by the discovery.
Neilissa made a nod and started to replace the boards in the floor, I waited for her as she scrambled to her feet and ran to the door and joined me running out of it. We stomped down the attic stairs and out the door, just as we hit the staircase to reach the living room the door opened and Mom and everyone walked in talking about something I couldn't make out in my state of mind.
"Oh hey honey- 'Lissa." Mom said when she turned away from her conversation with my younger brother. "Hi Mom." I rushed out, and reached for one of the bags in her arms. "I'll take that for you."
"You're being really helpful lately, thank you." Mom handed me the bags and smoothed my hair down.
"I can't help but wonder what you did that you're trying to cover up for." She said playfully enough, but I wasn't in the right mind to play back I felt guilty for what I did already and hearing that didn't help it. I just don't understand why I should feel badly though, she's the one that took me- at least I think so......I don't know right now but I have to get that box.
I glanced at Neilissa and gestured for her to go back to the attic and grab the box then bring it into her room while I distract Mom and everyone- if I could. 'Lissa got my hint and rushed upstairs to the attic while the four of us walked into the kitchen with a bag full of grocceries and another set of bags with gifts and more wrapping paper and also a few other items I couldn't read off of.
"So what did you two do while we were gone?" Rocky asked as though we were two Deer caught in a headlight making out- if only it were that simple. "Nothing. I was in my room and she was unpacking."
"The whole time?" He asked with suspicion and I shrugged him off, saying mildly. "Of course."
My brother just shook his head. I say let him believe what he wants just as long as he doesn't catch on to me I'm good- besides kissing a beautiful girl doesn't seem like the kind of thing you'd wanna deny.
As we put everything away I heard 'Lissa's door close and I smiled to myself. She's a good listener I just hope she's a good helper when it comes to our get away tonight. Tonight.......
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Why does it seem like everytime you're gonna do something wrong or get in trouble time seems to speed itself up as though it can't wait to laugh at you're outcome. Weird to think but it's true. We were all sitting around the table having dinner right now and my food was going down in bites that were hardly chewed properly and I nearly gagged twice trying to swallow, but part of my problem was the huge lump in my throat on how to get out of the house without a million questions.
Neilissa and I talked about it before dinner in her room.
.....................
"I don't understand what any of this stuff is." I said as we looked through the box marked S.S. it was all so weird to me, why would Mom and Dad be keeping some box full of stuff on my aunt Sabrina? It didn't make sense.
"Maybe you're Grandfather didn't want to hold on to them because of a move or something? I haven't the slightest idea why someone would keep this stuff." 'Lissa said to me.
I frowned down at the box that I thought would be my window and unlock this whole mystery an it turned out to be some old junk about my aunt. Great.....Well, we gotta go for dinner, I'll put this stuff back in the attic, okay?"
"Mmhmm." She answered and walked into the bathroom to wash up.
"Aunt Sabrina?" I thought to myself. Why would Mom keep things about her sister in the attic and so hidden away? It doesn't make sense. "'Lissa!?"
"Yes?" She called through the door.
"I need to ask you a favor, can you come here please?" She walked out of the bathroom drying her hands on the hand towel and raised her eye brows. "We're leaving tonight for Arizona,"
"What?!" She looked at me as though I were out of my mind.
"the sooner we get there the better.....I need you to cover for me, you know back me on my story that I tell Mom and Dad so they don't get suspicious."
Neilissa seemed as though she were thinking it over heavily then she replied. "Alright."
"Thank you..." I replied and added. "You're really-...This means a lot to me 'Lissa thank you."
"You're welcomed to it, you deserve to know the truth if it's out there, right. So lets get out there and put on a show." She walked pas me and after slipping the box under her bed I walked out after her.
Now we're sitting here in an uncomfortable conversation about the past year at school and college, and what we've been doing while I'm trying not to throw up what I'm putting down. "Mom, can I talk to you?" I asked and she looked at me.
"Sure, what about?" I swallowed hard and felt my heart racing in my chest pounding louder and louder until it was all I could hear. "Colt?" Mom looked worried and the room started to spin a little. "Are you all right son?"
"I-....." Suddenly 'Lissa broke me off saying. "I wanted to ask you if I could borrow Jeffrey for a little bit," I looked at her in shock and she went on. "I'm going to go see my family for a day or two and I kind of need someone to go with me to be my second eyes on the road, I'm terrible with maps." Mom just raised her eye brows and looked at me and I nodded wildly. Rocky was giving me a shifty eye but, Mom seemed taken by it.
"All right, sure just be back in time for Christmas." She answered.
"Wouldn't miss it, and they don't live that far away." 'Lissa replied. "Thank you."
"When are you gonna be leaving?" Dad asked and Neilissa shrugged making the whole thing seem spontanious.
"Well, if I go tonight I should be back by thursday."
Mom and Dad seemed believed to it enough and they agreed to let us go. "Iiii'd better get packed up it might be a short trip but, you always need clean clothing." I leaped up from the table and ran into the living room.
"He's acting weird." I heard Tum Tum saying.
"Sweety don't talk about your brother and eat your peas."
"Gross." He whined in defense, I walked out of ear shot of the kitchen and looked back into it mouthing to 'Lissa to finish up and come on.
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"I can't believe you took so long." I complained on our ways out to the car.
"And what was I supposed to do? Getting up any sooner would have seemed suspicious, but we're going now okay?" She was right and arguing wouldn't have done anything I needed her to be on my side not mad at me.
"Look I'm-..." she held a hand up to me climbing in and said save it as she went fully into the car.
"Don't say you're sorry, be more patient next time Arizona isn't going anywhere."
I hate that kind of logic I heard it all my life practically. "All right, all right. Please lets just go." she held her hands up in apology and started the car. Arizona here we come.