(Vincent's Pov)
The morning had come quicker than what I would have wanted. I got up and got dressed for the day, we wore black like you usually do at a funeral. I look at Brody and she nods as we head out to the kitchen and I look to see mu mom and dad as they drank some coffee and I pour myself a cup and look to them.
"You going to be, ok?" My mother asked and I nod at this.
"Yea… what about you two?" I asked.
"We'll be fine, it's ok." My dad says and I nod a bit. I make a cup of coffee for Brody and she nods taking it. We all just took the time to think to ourselves and I finished my coffee and as everyone finished theirs, I go and clean them and set them on the drying rack.
"Alright let's head on out." My dad says and I nod as we head to my dad's truck and I go take a seat in the bed and Brody takes a seat next to me and I nod to her. My dad drives us to the church and I feel the wind in my hair and I close my eyes a bit. I felt the truck stop and I open my eyes and looked around a bit to see the church and I lean my head back a bit at this.
"Hey you good?" Brody asked and I look at her and nod a bit as I got up and out of the truck bed. We headed into the church and saw the other family members along with Grandma's lawyer. We all took our seats and I look at the urn a bit before the pastor came out and began his speech on life and death and how tragic it was to lose someone we love dearly. Some people even went up and talk about how much they loved grandma but, in all honesty, I was pissed, not at grandma, but at my family. No one cared about her, they only wanted her money or something from her, and her being the kind woman she was, she would give to them.
"Would you like to talk Vincent?" The pastor asked and I look at him and then to my mother and father as they nod to me. I get up and I stand next to the urn a bit then looks to the family and I clench my hands into fists a bit. I take a breath and I look at them.
"I honestly have nothing to say other than I'm going to miss grandma, she was the one good thing in this family." I say and look to the pastor and I head back to my seat. As time went by, I was able to get my grandmothers ashes and we thanked the pastor and we went and took her ashes to my grandfathers' grave and they had a spot to place them. When done we headed back to the church where we were instructed by the lawyer to head back inside for the reading of the will.
"In this Will written by Patricia Aldon, it is stated that Vincent Aldon will get everything, where as each member of the family will receive the amount of one dollar. Vincent is allowed to give up anything he doesn't want to family since it is his property now but no one is allowed to contest this in court, though it has been stated that Karen, and her husband are not allowed to receive or ask for anything from Vincent, but their children may ask so long as it pertains to them and not the parents." The lawyer says and I was a bit confused at this.
"What the hell." Karen says and I look down.
"Calm down, it is also said that if you all can get along then you may ask Vincent for something if he truly believes that you aren't lying to him… it's stated that you cannot place blame on him for anything that happened to your grandmother, stop being transphobic, and the list basically goes on… you do get something out of it just have some rules to abide by." The lawyer states and I sit up a bit and look at him as he nods.
"This is bullshit, why does she get to choose if we get something or not?" Raymond says pissed.
"This is what she had wanted and these are the rules you all have to abide by, and seeing as you didn't use Vincent's preferred pronoun this makes things a bit harder for you." The lawyer states and I rubbed my head a bit at this. In all honesty this was going to cause me hell but Grandmother knew what she was doing. When this was all done, we left to the vehicles and I was standing by my dad's truck as I loosened my tie and looked to Brody.
"Are you ok?" She asked and I shake my head.
"No, no I am not ok, the bullshit with my family, especially my god damn uncle and aunt… fucking hell I need a god damn drink." I mutter the last part and looked to see some of my family members glaring at me. I look away and then back to Brody as she looks at me.
"I don't think that is the best idea right now." She says and I sighed at this.
"Yea sure, just… I don't know right now." I mutter then looked to my parents as they came over to us.
"We're holding a small get together at our house, just to talk about grandma and everything." My mother says and I nod.
"Sure, you do what you want." I tell her.
"Vinny-."
"Don't… only grandma could call me that." I say quietly as I get in the back of the truck and take a seat. I hear my father sigh a bit as everyone got in the car and he comes over to me and places his hand on my shoulder.
"Son… I know this is hard and… we can talk this out if you want." He says and I look at him and then nod a bit. he pats my shoulder and gets in the truck. As he drove I just looked to the bed of the truck and I take a deep breath and I look over to the side and saw the field of corn and other farmland passing us. I then look over to Brody who was doing the same and I rubbed the back of my neck and clear my throat.
"I'm not staying with my family there." I tell her.
"That's fine… is there somewhere else you'd like to go?" She asked and I think.
"Like I said I would like a drink." I tell her.
"Then we can go to a bar but you can't drink a lot and I'll drive." She says and I nod.
"Alright… we can do that." I tell her and she nods.
"Even though I don't like the idea." She says and I chuckled.
"I'm sorry… maybe we can grab a few drinks and head to grandmas?" I asked.
"Are we even allowed there?" She asked.
"I can ask… hell it's basically my house now." I mutter and looked to the dirt road a bit and then back to Brody.
"If we can, but I'm not to sure." She says and I nod. We finally got back to my parent's and I hopped out the back and stretched a bit.
"I'll get the food ready." My mom says and I stand next to my father.
"Alright, I can get the old photo books and home videos ready… wouldn't that be nice?" My father asked and I look to him to see him looking back at me and I shrugged.
"I won't be here… I don't want to deal with aunt Karen and her husband right now." I tell him.
"They won't be coming." He says.
"But other judgmental people in our family will be… is… are we able to go to grandma's?" I asked.
"No, they haven't… cleaned it all up yet." He says quietly and I nod a bit then looked to my parents' home and I take a breath.
"Brody and I are headed to the bar; she doesn't want to but… I need a drink." I tell him.
"It's best to not do that, believe me son." He says and I shrugged.
"I just need a drink is all, I'll be fine dad." I tell him.
"I know what you are going through but drinking at all after all this… it's not the best thing to happen, you and I both know that." He says and I just look off to the side.
"Son." He says and I shake my head.
"Sorry, I really am." I say as I grabbed my keys and headed to the car. Brody comes over and looked to my father then sighed as she got in the car with me. We went to one of the small town bars it's not crowded or anything it's nice and quiet and I parked the car. We both head on in and show our I.D's before I ordered a few beers.
"Vincent, I… I'm sorry." Brody says and I shrugged as I took a drink.
"Nothing to be sorry about… she's gone… just like grandpa." I say and take another drink.
"But drinking doen't help." She says.
"I never said it did but… with my family judging me, just pecause Grandma put rules to her will… her god damn will… they get mad at me… they think I spend grandpa's money on drugs but I can't even touch it yet, they got mad because he gave me thar cars he worked on with me…. They're mad because my grandparents loved me, and I loved them, I never asked them for money, I never asked them for anything but to take me fishing, or if I could help make cookies and such…. I just… fuck them." I mutter and took another drink.
"I know it's hard, I know you hate most your family, I know you're depressed, they loved you and you loved them, and they're gone… but they wouldn't want you to do this, think about it." She says and I shake my head.
"I am thinking about it, and right now my mind says, drink the pain away." I tell her.
"Would you still do this if Clem was here?" She asked and I look at her then to the table a bit and I take a breath.
"I don't know." I say truthfully.
"I would say you wouldn't… you wouldn't want her to worry about you." She says and I just drink.
"Vincent." She says but I keep quiet and offered her a beer, which of course she denies. I shrugged as I just kept drinking to the point of being intoxicated. I was looking around and saw a few ladies as they giggled at me and I waved to them a bit and smiled then looked to Brody.
"Nice ladies." I mutter and lay my head on the table and smirked at her.
"Yes, but right now you need to stop drinking." She says and I sit up and wave my hand off.
"Pfft, nah I'm good." I slurred my words a bit and smiled at her.
"Vincent."
"Brody." I say back at her and she looks at me.
"You know… I always liked you." I tell her.
"Well, that's nice but-."
"I wanted to date you at one point too." I interrupt her.
"Vincent-."
"Come on, you're cute, hell you would have been better than Minnie." I say and grabbed the beer bottle.
"But you have Clem now." She says and I nod.
"Yea… she's so sweet… she's nice to me despite all my faults." I ramble a bit then took a drink of my beer.
"But she loves you." She tells me and I nod.
"Yea… I love her too, so sweet… grandma really liked her." I mutter and took another drink of my beer.
"I think we should get you home." She says as she tried to grab me but I moved back quickly which I shouldn't have done since I fell backwards and hit the floor. There was some laughter and I laughed a bit as well and looked to Brody.
"I fell." I laughed and she looked to me a bit as she tried to help me up. I tried to help her as well and I leaned on the table a bit.
"I think you need to stop now." She says and I laughed.
"Nah I'm just having fun." I tell her.
"Vincent." She says and I chuckled a bit.
"Come on, have some fun with me." I tell her.
"That doesn't sound right."
"No, no I don't mean like that…. Unless." I say and smirk at her.
"No, no ok you are done, we need to get you home." She says and I chuckled as we walked out, or I stumbled a bit. we got to the car and I laugh a bit as she starts up the car.
"Oh, come on, I know you like Marlon." I say to her.
"I don't like Marlon." She says and I gasp.
"Oh no, poor rat hair." I chuckled out and leaned my head on the dashboard and then I sit up quickly.
"ARE YOU GAY?!" I yelled and she swerved the car a bit.
"Vincent what the hell?" she says a bit pissed and I look at her.
"Do you like dick, or pussy?" I asked.
"Jesus that's a bit personal." She says and I laughed.
"Come on I just want to know." I tell her.
"I don't want to talk about this." She says and I waved it off.
"Fine, fine." I mutter and leaned my head on the window.
"… I like anyone." She says and I look at her.
"So… Pan?" I asked her.
"I don't know… I like personality, not gender." She says and I nod at her.
"I respect that." I say to her.
"… Did you like me?" She asked as she drove and I saw we passed my parents street and I look at her.
"Yea, I did… I mean… if I wasn't with Minnie when I was, I would have dated you… if I wasn't with Clem then yea same." I ranted a bit and looked to her.
"That's uh… nice to know." She says and I look at her.
"Sorry… for making you… uh… I don't know the word." I tell her.
"Uncomfortable?" She asked and I nod.
"That's the fucking word." I say and smiled as I looked to the road a bit.
"You aren't, you just… don't have a filter right now." She says and I chuckle.
"Hah, filter." I mutter and I look at her then back to the road.
"Well, you don't." She says to me and I smiled.
"I honest to God…. Nah." I laughed and leaned the chair back.
"What?" Brody asked and I look to the ceiling and shrugged.
"I need to be in my room… private stuff." I chuckled as I look to Brody as I see her face turn red.
"Jesus Christ Vincent." She says and I laughed.
"I joke, I joke." I say to her.
"I just… no filter, you have no filter." She says and I laughed and I sit the chair back up and I grabbed my phone.
"What are you doing?" She asked.
"Calling Clem." I say as I tried to find her number.
"She's probably asleep right now." She says.
"Fucking damn it." I mutter and set my phone on my lap.
"Hey it's fine." She says and I nod.
"Yea, she needs to… be rested… she's in college you know." I tell Brody who nods.
"I know." She says and I think.
"I want to Marry Clem." I tell her.
"Don't you think you're going a bit to fast?" She asked.
"I don't think so… I love her, she loves me, and I just… I really like her." I tell Brody.
"I know you do, and I know we have talked on this before-."
"I know, I know but I just… we are waiting, we are, I'm waiting till she's out of college, and I just… I just love her, I really do… she's nice, and pretty, and… I don't know." I mutter and Brody turns the car around. At this point I had ended up blacking out, I don't remember anything at all and I don't have a clue at where I was other than a bed. I rolled over a bit and I opened my eyes to not see a familiar room so I sit up and look around to see it was a hotel or motel room. I rubbed my head a bit and looked around for my phone but couldn't find it and I felt my chest a bit to notice I didn't have a shirt. I looked around a bit and saw my pants were on a chair and I lift the blanket up and saw I wasn't clothed and I hurry up and grabbed my pants.
"What the fuck?" I say quietly as I looked for my shirt and I found only my undershirt so I grabbed it. I looked for my phone and I hear the door open and I turn and see.
"MINERVA?!" I yelled and she looked at me.
"Oh, hey." She says and I back up a bit and find my phone so I grabbed it.
"No, no, no, no, no." I mutter as I grabbed all my stuff.
"Woah calm down." I hear and I shoved her back.
"No, back up, back the fuck up, what are you doing here? Why am I here?" I asked as I placed my hand on my racing heart.
"I just saw you walking around the town a bit and brought you here." She says.
"Did we… did we?" I asked.
"No, god no, you threw up on your clothes and I washed them." She says as she hands me my shirt and I pulled it from her.
"Why the fuck are you being nice?" I asked as I put my shirt on.
"You were crying and said something about your grandmother." She tells me and I looked to the ground.
"Wait where is Brody?" I asked.
"Don't know." She tells me and I looked at my phone to see I had multiple miss calls and then my phone went off again and I answered.
"DEAR GOD WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?!" Brody asked freaked.
"I just… I… I'm at a motel." I tell her.
"Jesus, fuck ok… what motel are you at?" She asked and I looked to the name on the paper notebooks they have and I give her the name. I hang up as she said she was coming to get me and I rubbed my face a bit and looked to Minerva.
"We do not speak of this; we do not talk about any of this and you need to stay here I'll just exit the room." I mutter.
"Alright." She says and I nod as I paced the room a bit and rubbed my neck as well till Brody had come to the motel and I exit out and get in the car. I rubbed my head a bit and I felt a little sick.
"Your mom and dad are freaking out." She says.
"What happened?" I asked.
"I took you home and your aunt and uncle decided to just come unannounced… they started shit and you went and drank more and I took you to your room, and you laid on the bed, I went out just for a bit to get you water and medicine and you fucking left… I couldn't find you I tried calling hell I even drove around the neighborhoods but fuck." She says and I nod.
"Ok… ok… fuck." I mutter. I place my hands on my face and take a deep breath and I lean on the window a bit as she drove.
"At least you're ok." She says and I nod a bit we got to my parents' home and I grabbed my bag and put it in my car and I take a seat on the passenger side.
"Hey you, ok?" My dad asked and I nod.
"Yea I just… I just want to go home it all." I mutter and he nods.
"Ok… I get it." He says and I look at him a bit and noticed we were by ourselves.
"Dad, I think I did something really bad." I tell him and he looked to me with concern.
"What do you mean?" He asked and I make sure we were really alone and I take a breath.
"I don't know what happened I really don't and I just… I woke up in a motel with Minerva, and she said I just threw up on my clothes but I don't know what I did." I say to him.
"Did you?" He asked.
"I have no idea I just I don't know at all." I tell him.
"I uh… don't know." He says and I nod.
"It's fine, sorry I just… I couldn't tell Brody." I tell him.
"I get it, look if you did do that… and she… you know… just demand for a test to be done and so on." He says and I was freaking out a bit.
"I uh… oh god I didn't even think about that." I say quietly as I rubbed my head a bit.
"Just a precaution, I am not saying she could be just… in case." He says and I nod.
"I can't tell Clem; I can't fucking tell her if I did do that." I mutter and look to my dad.
"I would tell her that it could be a possibility." He says.
"I just… I… fuck." I mutter as I see my mom and Brody come over. I look at my dad and he nods as he backs up a bit.
"Have a safe trip ok, call us?" He asked me and I nod. Brody and I then got in the car and she started to drive us to Louis and the others. It took a good few days but it gave me some time to think. I looked online to see if Minerva posted anything but she didn't which I am glad for. Though as the time passed on it was a month after everything, the band and I were in L.A. for my final day with them, and I honestly felt a bit better after everything. I was currently driving my car home and I was listening to some music when I get a call from Clementine.
"Hey Clem what's up?" I asked as I drove.
"Nothing much, heard about the band in L.A." she says and I chuckled.
"Yea I'm heading home now from L.A., do you want me to get you something?" I asked as I got on the highway.
"No, I'm good but did you hear?" She asked and I chuckled.
"Hear about what?" I asked as I drove.
"Minerva has been blowing up on social media, she has a picture of a pregnancy test so." Clem says and I just drove.
"Maybe it's not real knowing her." I say as I try to keep calm.
"Oh no this is from the doctors themselves; it looks real but you could be right." She says and I nod a bit.
"Yea, so she's having a kid… she say who the dad is?" I asked as I drove.
"No, she's keeping that a secret, probably embarrassed or doesn't know." She says and I nod a bit at this.
"Hey I'm about to hit a massive highway, I'll all you back once I hit a back road?" I asked.
"Yea sure, you'll be home in time for my game?" She asked.
"Yea of course… love you." I tell her.
"Love you too, talk to you soon." She says and we both hang up. I sighed a bit as I called Minerva.
"Hello?" I hear.
"I heard." I tell her.
"I know… I would have expected it." She says.
"It's… it's not mine is it?" I asked as I kept driving and she stayed silent.