Being Different Isn't Normal
Chapter 5: Ready made brownies…or was that ready made decisions
Disclaimer: Is Drake shirtless? Then no I don't own Drake and Josh
ONE MONTH LATER.
The crisp autumn air brushed against his face as he walked through the suburban neighbourhood, he was almost home.
Home, he thought to himself happily, was where he wasted many a summer holiday day, lazing around playing guitar and watching bad t.v movies. It was depressing to have to go back again, one more week and it was back to normality-almost.
He wished he hadn't wasted his summer in hospital and seeing a Psychiatrist twice every week, he had preferred the other way- even if Josh got mad at him for throwing popcorn at the television.
He opened the door slowly, his mom should have been home from work by now, Megan wasn't home today, she herself had a new boyfriend and was apparently head over heals, Josh was at work making money for new tanning equipment and Walter was also at work.
So that left him.
And his mom.
He dropped his light sack that he had with him "Mom" he called out, looking around the sitting room "Mom" he called out again
He was about to pick up the phone and call her when the kitchen shutters opened to reveal her with a spatula full of chocolate in her hand
"Hey honey" she smiled
"Hey, how did I not smell that" he asked more to himself
"I dunno, but its good" she smiled offering him a spoon to dip in the remains
"So what's the occasion?" he asked confused
"You're party"
"What party" he asked now even more confused than ever
"Coming out, you know" she smiled walking over to the million other brownies on a tray
"Mom, it's been like a month I'm not ready to tell anybody, and second I'm not inviting all my friends over to have a coming out party"
"Look, it's just me, you Megan and Dad"
"Why do you get to decide when I'm ready to tell everybody?" Drake asked dropping the spoon back into the now empty bowl
"I just do, it's not fair on your brother or your sister or your father"
"He's not my father" Drake commented
"Honey, I'm afraid you're going to have to tell them"
"You can't tell me when I'm ready to tell everyone, both you and Megan already know so what's the point- Josh doesn't need to know every little detail in my life" he raged
"Megan doesn't know" she lied
"Then why did she tell me that she did?" he questioned
"Oh, fine so she knows, but I think Josh and d-Walter needs to know"
"Yeah no big deal" Drake fumed
"Look you're going to have to tell them, so I just gave you a little push forward that's all" she smiled placing icing on some buns
"A little push forward?" Drake got up from his seat "A little push forward? That's a bit of an understatement don't you think?"
"Well I, just um thought" her smile fading
"I was going to tell everybody on Halloween"
"Well then its only a month early" she smiled
"Mom, its not even September yet so its two months and its my decision not yours" he shouted
"Well, it's too late now, I've promised Josh and Walter we'll have a really nice dinner tonight"
"Well then we will, without any shocking revelations" Drake reasoned
"I've told them that you'll have something important to say"
"What?, I always knew that you were controlling, but I never thought that you'd be like this I mean this is the biggest deal to me and you can't even see that, all you see is a night in with my revelation and some brownies" Drake fumed walking out of the room and upstairs
His mother stood in the kitchen and sighed, could she ever do anything right these days? She thought to herself ?
She knew that he had a good point in the end, but she couldn't go back on her word now, so that meant that Drake would have to do it even if he felt like it or not, she felt bad now, she really did, but after going through all this effort for 'just a night in' wasn't going to stand, he was going to tell his family tonight, they had a right to know, even if he didn't think they deserved it.