Thank you all so much for your loyalty!! Spring break is almost over, so I thought I'd crank this out =D Read, review, respect, recreate, reinvent, relish, all that jazz. I don't own any shit I shouldn't own either. Just Bee Tee Dubs. *slaps self for saying that*
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The curtains nearly drawn shut, the only real light in the suite came from the one hanging above the kitchen table. Cody, Kelsey, and Zack had all left, and it was just the family now, eating dinner together. There wasn't much conversation at the table. There never was. You could hear the silverware clacking against the ceramic plates, and sometimes someone coughing, but the table was pretty much silent. Jordan often tried to break the silence every night, bringing up how his day went in hopes that others tagged along. They hardly ever did.
"So the game was a bust today." Jordan declared, hoping to lift some heads. The heads mostly kept chewing. "10-2. Not much of a game." He said. Nobody responded. It would have been more awkward if it didn't happen every night. "What about your day, Ky? You and Cody went to the mall, right?" He tried to force the conversation on Kyler. He gave in more than anyone else, usually.
"Yeah," Kyler said, gulping down a mound of seasoned turkey. "Some goth retards were poking fun at us because Cody licked my ice-cream cone."
"THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!!!" Colton interjected, receiving a slap upside the head from his half-brother.
"Shut the fuck up, seriously." Kyler scoffed.
"KYLER!" His mom piped up. Shit, that was stupid. Kyler thought. "Language, please!!" She went back to her applesauce side-dish. He had escaped her tentacles of wrath for now.
"But seriously, you think people who dressed like freaks wouldn't call other people out on it." Kyler continued, forking down some more turkey. "I mean, they looked like a circus funeral and they were calling us weird. Can you spell hypocrite?"
"Why would they be making fun of you dear?" His mom asked. Jordan provided an answer for her.
"Because Cody's b-"
"Oh right…"
"Exactly."
"His mom repositioned and immediately stuffed her mouth with food, and to prevent herself from saying anymore. She took a sip of water from her glass.
"It's not like it's a bad thing, Mom. Other kids just… seem to think so." Kyler stood up for his friend.
"I just don't understand it." His mom said, gulping down her mound of food. She chased it down with a sip from her glass. It made a "ching" as it was set back on the table. "I mean, of course I understand why men are attractive, but I don't get how…" she was visibly struggling to find the right words. Finally, she gave up, and just spoke her mind "I don't get how Cody does." She took another sip from her glass. It was her most obvious nervous habit. It had been empty since the conversation began. "I mean if you got to chose who you wanted to be attracted to I just don't see why-"
"Mom, you don't get to choose." Kyler tried to explain. "It just…happens."
"How do you know? Are you gay?" Kyler groaned at his mother's question. She asked him increasingly often, and it was irritating to say the least. "You can tell me anything, sweetie, you know that. I'll always lov-"
"No Mom." Kyler interrupted his mother, his voice declarative and final. "I'm not gay." The table got quiet. His mom tried to take another sip from her empty glass of water. Colton coughed a little, all heads turning in attention. He shook his head, as to say "it was nothing, just some food caught." The table returned to silence. His mom finally got up and filled her glass with water. It had gone dry during the course of the conversation. Colton looked up and began to speak, but decided not to. The table was entirely too silent. Not even Jordan dared to speak.
"Look Mom, I didn't mean to use a tone, but you ask every week. The answer won't change." Kyler tried to look his mom in the eyes. She kept her head down at her food.
"I just care about you." She got up, and lightly tossed her dishes into the sink, her head still down. She crossed the suite to the other side, picking up her coat and keys. "I'm going for a drive." She said softly. "I should be back in half an hour." She walked out the door, her final words being "Sorry for leaving you all with the Kitchen." And with that, she was out.
Her glass remained on the table, filled to the tip.
The pressure eased as the door closed shut. The tension that had built during the course of the entire meal seemed to be relieved with a giant belch coming from Colton. He smiled wide. "It felt good to get that out." He got up and washed his dishes with water, as well as his Mother's and put them all in the dishwasher.
Kyler was left with his step-father. The two were done eating, but neither dared to get up. Kyler whispered timidly "may I also be excused?"
"Look, Ky, your Mother just has such drive in everything she does." Jordan explained. Kyler assumed he hadn't heard his message. "That's what I love about her. She has such devotion to everything that means anything to her." Kyler spoke a tad louder this time.
"Jordan, may I please be excused…"
"And when it comes to her family," Jordan continued, Kyler's voice still as audible as a dropped pin. "she feels so proud about all of you. She really does. I think she just wants to be a part of your guys' lives."
"Please, Jordan, may I be excused…" Kyler spoke a little louder. He still felt all the tension from before.
"I guess as you guys get older, she's afraid you both will grow farther apart."
"Jordan, please, may I go…"
"And, you know, she doesn't want to see you on COPS in five years getting charged for possession or anything. I think she just-"
"Jordan may I please be excused." Kyler repeated, shouting now. His Step-Dad's look turned down in front of him and just stared, avoiding Kyler's gaze.
"KYLER!!" Colton yelled from their bedroom. "SCRUBS IS ON!!"
Silence took over the suite again. Jordan barely nodded his head.
"Yeah…" He whispered. "You can go." Kyler dashed for his room, desperate for relief.
Jordan was left at the table alone. All he had was his dishes, himself, Kyler's dishes, and his wife's glass of water filled to the top to keep him company. After a little while of sitting in thought, he got up, and began to work on the kitchen.
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OoOoOoOoOoOoOoO INTENSE!! Now, pleeeeeeease review or else I WILL hire a band of pirate ninjas to raid your house and steal your PS2. HIYAAAR!! XD Seriously, though. Review or I stop writing. It's that simple. Have a great Easter, and for (mostly) everyone else, have an easy Passover fast…or whatever we call it…YEAH JEWS