Tyler's Thoughts
Next door, in the Turner household a similar conversation was going on.
'Stuart, who were that couple?' Stuart's wife, Tania, asked, when they were inside their new house. She had never seen her husband act so strangely.
'Oh, just some people from when I was a teenager. Samantha Nixon and Philip Hunter. However; I believe they are now Mr and Mrs Hunter.' Stuart answered bitterly.
'Would that be your old girlfriend, the one you called frigid? Or was it easy? I can't remember. I know you called her a manipulative cow at one point.' Stuart's son asked, trying to look innocent. Stuart, turned red at his son's questions.
'What? Is this true? You used to date her, and then tell your son she was a manipulative cow, but you don't tell me about her. Fine!' Tania, was furious that her husband hadn't told her about this woman, and then had the cheek to bad-mouth the poor woman.
'It wasn't like that. We were teenagers, and she was just using me to get at Phil.' Stuart tried to argue his point, but Tania was having none of it.
Meanwhile, Stuart's son, Tyler watched the argument he had just started between his father and Step-Mother. He hated, Tania. She was only 24 (17, years younger than Stuart), and this repulsed him. On top of that, ever since his mother had died she tried to replace her. Tania, had been his Mom's God-Daughter, which just made everything worse. When Tyler's mom had died, when he was just nine, Tania had started to visit Stuart to see how he was coping. Then, she had started to baby-sit Tyler. Then she would cook tea for them, to save Stuart the hassle (he was a busy taxi-driver after all). Then she started staying over some nights to 'keep Stuart company'. By the time Tyler was 11, and his Mom had been dead 2 years, she had already moved in and was engaged to Stuart. When he started senior school everyone though his new Step-Mom was his sister (She was only 19, nearly 20 at the time), which really embarrassed him. He had to admit she could be really nice to him, he just didn't like how fast her relationship with his Dad had moved, his Mom (her God-mother) hadn't been dead 2years when she married him and this really hurt Tyler.
As the arguing started to escalate he decided to step in-after all they didn't want the neighbours to complain about the noise when they had only just moved in. 'Tania, it was all in the past. Let's just forget about it, I'm sure they're not that bad. After all it was years ago and people do change.' He pointed out.
'He has a point. Anyway, you've already invited them round so I have to be civil to them anyway, whether I like them or not.' With that Tania flounced off saying something about getting changed to meet the new neighbours.
'Thanks, son. I owe you one. Now let's sort this place out. Make it slightly presentable for our visitors.' Tyler just shrugged, like it wasn't a big deal, but inside he thought 'Too right you owe me'. Tyler was dreading this visit as much as his Dad and Step-Mom were. The only good thing about this visit was he thought he had seen they had an attractive daughter about his age. Hopefully she'd be cool and they could hang out and 'stuff', he thought wishfully.
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