Chapter Six – Family Ties
YAY! Six! I know that it grew real fast all of a sudden. Apparently I broke a rule on fanfic and my account got frozen for a week as my punishment…
Disclaimer – Ditto on Last
Chapter Six – Family Ties
The phone rang. Duke went over and answered it.
"Hello?"
Silence.
"Oh, hi mom…. No, I'm fine. Yeah, like always. What? I can't. I have a friend over. Okay I'll keep I lookout for it. What was her name? My sis, I want to know her name. Okay, thanks," Duke hung the phone back up.
"Hey Kriss?" He said, plopping on the couch.
"Yeah?" She said, following his example of the couch-plopping.
"What was your mom's name?" He asked.
"Carman," Kriss told him, closing her eyes.
"And what's her last name?" He asked.
"Why?" Responded Kriss, eyes still closed.
"Just wondering, so?" he pressed.
"Sanchez, I think, I don't really pay much attention…" Kriss said.
"That's my mom" Duke stated.
Kriss's eyes flew open and she bolted into an upright position.
"Come again?" She said.
"That's my mom," Duke said again.
"Oh shit, you're gonna tell her aren't you?" Kriss exclaimed.
"Naaaaaah, you're my little sis now, I wouldn't do that!" Duke said.
"Good, you don't hate me, you're nice Duke!" Kriss said happily.
"Thanks," Duke stated.
"So… do you know my dad then?" Kriss asked.
"Nope, sorry. He and mom were already through when I went to visit her after living with my dad. She hardly ever talks about him either, but she did say that he was a jerk and yet she still is trying to get him back… I don't get it…" Duke explained.
"That's weird…." Kriss said, slightly crestfallen.
"We could try to figure it out though, I mean, you didn't get everything from mom," Duke said reasonably.
"True, um," She looked up at her bangs, "Those aren't moms."
"Yeah, those are probably from your dad," Duke told her.
"Um, other than that, who knows," Kriss said, lying back down on the couch.
"True," Duke said, flopping down on the other couch.
"So, now what?" She asked boredly.
Duke shrugged.
And so this continued for awhile, they just laid there, asking what to do and the other shrugging, until, the doorbell rang.
Duke got up and walked over to a speaker box, he held down a button and said, "Who is it?" the answer came, plain as day, "Your mom."
"Shit!" Kriss said, bolting upright once again, Thorn yelped.
"Is your friend still there Duke, I could come back later?" She asked.
"No, no, my friend's gone!" Duke said hurriedly into the speaker.
"Good, now unlock the door so I can come up!" She replied.
"Duke pushed a buzzer and the door downstairs unlocked.
"Hello? What the Hell am I supposed to do?" Kriss yelled at him.
Duke clamped his hand over her mouth, "You idiot, she's only downstairs!" He hissed at her.
Kriss glared back.
He let her go and she said, a bit more quietly this time, "Well, what am I supposed to do then?"
"Oh, shit. Uh…Closet!" Duke concluded.
"The closet?" Kriss exclaimed.
"You lived in a dumpster, you can be in a closet for-"Duke was cut off by, "Duke?" coming from the door.
"Closet, now!" Duke ushered her and Thorn into the closet nearby.
"Coming!" He called to the door.
The closet door closed and he went and opened the main door to let his mom in.
"Hey! I thought that you had forgotten about me!" his mom greeted.
"How could I forget about you?" he asked.
She laughed; through the door, Kriss could tell that it sounded the same as before she ran away, the last time she heard her laugh was when she was drunk the night before. How could it sound the same after four years? Hadn't she aged at all?
And this went on for awhile too! Kriss and Duke's mom doing something and Kriss wondering if she had aged at all. But then something disastrous happened! They were going to play Sequence!
"Where is it?" Kriss heard her mom ask.
"In the closet, but I'll get it, it's too high for you to reach," Duke answered.
Kriss heard him walk over to the closet and he opened the door.
"Doing okay?" He asked, reaching up for the game.
"Yeah, when's she gonna leave?" Kriss whispered.
"I don't know, I'll play really hard so she'll lose faster," Duke whispered back. Pulling down the game.
"Okay," Kriss said.
Duke closed the door and walked back out. Kriss could hear the game rattling as he went over to begin the game. After Kriss heard her mom say that she could play this game all night, she laid her head on Thorn; who was already asleep and joined him; grateful for the time.
Yeah I know, that was kinda short. I though that it would be longer but I guess I lied…. Oh well! XDDDD
Kriss
