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When I finally got out of my English lit class I turned my phone back on, my professor had a thing about cell phones. I immediately noticed all the missed calls I had; they were all from my mother. What the hell?
I punched in her number; she answered on the first ring, "Mom?"
"Janey, thank god you called." She said breathing a sigh of relief.
"Mom what's wrong? What's with all the phone calls?"
"It's nothing, I just haven't heard from you or Sophie in a while. I get worried about you two living so far away."
I couldn't contain my eye roll, "Mom it's not like we moved to France, me and Sophie are perfectly safe."
"That's not what I heard. I heard Sean Donnelly got into a fight a couple blocks away from your place." I froze, how much did she actually know about the fight?
"Yeah… I heard about that too. Unfortunate." I said trying to play it cool.
"It is…You know what I also heard?"
"What Ma?" I asked cautiously.
"I heard that you were in that fight, and you got sent to the hospital." She yelled into the phone.
Crap, "Mom I'm fine, I'm no-"
"You know who I heard this from? Deborah at church, that god forsaken women tries to tell me that I should have never let you two moved out since ya not married. I ask her what she means by this: she goes on to tell me that you got put into a hospital by a couple of thugs. What the hell is going on? My own child can't tell me she's in the hospital, I have to hear it from that fucking women?"
"Ma, calm down. Loo-"
"No, I want you and Sophie over here for dinner tomorrow night, no excuses."
"Alright, we'll be there." Sophie is going to kill me.
"Oh and Jane?"
"Yes?" I whispered into the phone.
"Bring that new boyfriend of yours." My mother said sweetly before she hung up.
How did she even know about that? I swore my mom hired a private detective to follow me around.
The sun was setting by the time I had finally got back to my apartment. I had tried desperately to reach Sophie but I had no luck. I was hoping that she was sleeping or something.
"Soph?" I called out as I walked into the kitchen. I saw Sophie's head pop up from the couch. "Did you not get my calls?"
"Phones dead." She said simply, lying back on the couch.
"I have great news! We have to go over to Ma's tomorrow for dinner." I said throwing my school stuff down onto the table.
"Why? Just tell her something came up."
"I wish I could but Mom found out about me getting into that whole fight thing with Sean and she's royally pissed about it. She called me about a hundred times this afternoon." I explained from my bedroom.
Out of the corner of my eye I saw Sophie appear in my doorway, "How the hell did she find out?" She asked me.
"Some old lady from church told her." I told her looking threw my closet for something to wear.
"I blame you for this." Sophie said as she left my room. I sighed and finished getting ready, I had to find kevin, sooner rather than later.
I knocked on their apartment door and waited for someone to answer it. "Here for dinner?" Ms. Donnelly asked me. Before I could answer she turned and walked back into the apartment leaving the door open behind her. I stood in the hall for a moment wondering if Ms. Donnelly had some secret psychic power I didn't know about.
"Yo, Seany Dinner!" I heard Kevin yell as I walked into the apartment. I bumped into Sean as I walked into the kitchen; I noticed he had this sullen look on his face. I was just about to ask what was wrong but Kevin beat me to it.
"What are you so happy about?" he voice laced with sarcasim.
"I've been trying to call Kim all day; I can't get her to return any of my calls. I don't get it." Sean said sitting down at the table. "You know what it is. I think it's the fact that she saw me get my ass kicked."
"That or either that Mom threatened to kick her ass if she ever came around here again." Kevin said. I gave him a quick kiss on the cheek as I sat down in the chair beside him. Sean looked up at Ms. Donnelly with a look of disbelief, I didn't get why he was so shocked it was obvious the Ms. D hated Kim she never tried to hide the fact.
"You should be grateful she's out of your life. You'll have no time for girls anyway now that you're starting school again." Ms. Donnelly said as she served us dinner. "Now eat your dinner."
"Speaking of dinner, we're having it... At my parent's house... Tomorrow night Kevin." I said helping myself to some potatoes; I didn't want to see the look on that was on Kevin's face at the moment. But by Sean's snickering I could tell he wasn't too pleased about it.
"Why?…I didn't…How?...No. No way!" Was all Kevin said, I finally abandoned my attempt to act like it was going to be fine.
"Look I'm not exactly thrilled about it either but we have to go." I was starting to lose my temper, today was just a bad day.
"No. I don't have to go, they're not my parents." Kevin said. That had to be the dumbest excuse I had ever heard.
"Were dating aren't we? That means eventually you have to meet my parents and you've already met them, what's the big deal?" I said yelling at him.
"Meeting them when I was eight and meeting them now is completely different." Kevin insisted yelling back.
I broke eye contact with Kevin and looked over at Sean and Ms. Donnelly they were both staring at us. "Kevin we'll talk about this later, I don't want to fight in front of your family."
"It's okay, we don't mind." Sean said smiling. Ms. Donnelly slapped the back of his head.
"Kevin you should go tomorrow night." Ms. Donnelly said to Kevin before going back to her meal. She looked at me and nodded once.
"Ma you don't understand."
"I understand perfectly Kevin Donnelly, you avoiding going to this dinner like some kind of coward. You're a Donnelly and if meeting some girls' parents scares you then I didn't raise you right. Now go to the dinner." After Ms. Donnelly spoke the subject dropped and the dinner table got quiet. I was pleased that Ms. Donnelly got Kevin to come to dinner with my family tomorrow, even if she did have to force him into it.
The rest of the meal was passed in an uncomfortable silence: Sean was angry about Ms. D wanting him to go back to school, Kevin was angry about having to go to my parents' dinner, I was pissed that Ms. Donnelly had referred to me as 'some girl' and I don't think Ms. Donnelly was mad about anything, she just sat there smiling at us like nothing was wrong in the world.
I flinched as Kevin slammed the apartment door shut. We hadn't spoken one word to each other on the way home. I had no idea why having dinner with my parents was such a big deal. My dad and mom loved Kevin, they always have, it made no sense for Kevin to be this angry about a simple dinner with my parents.
I shrugged off my jacket and threw it onto one of the kitchen chairs; I sat down as I watched Kevin smash his way around the kitchen looking in different cupboards and him slamming them shut when he didn't find what he wanted.
"What are you looking for?" I finally asked from across the room.
"Some damn cups." He growled turning around to face me.
I got up pushing back my chair so hard that it nearly toppled over. I walked past him and opened one of the few cupboards he didn't look in and grabbed him a cup.
"Here." I slammed the cup down on the counter copying his anger. "What is your problem?" I asked him hopping onto to counter.
He walked towards me and grabbed the cup off the kitchen counter beside me. "My problem is that you roped me into doing something I don't want to do." He spat at me.
"It's dinner with my parents. I'm not asking you to murder someone for me, I'm asking you to have dinner with my family. Stop over reacting." I yelled at him losing my patience completely.
"Do you think your parents are really going to approve of us? They never liked that I got your brothers into fights, they never liked me at all and they sure as hell aren't going to like me anymore now that I'm dating their daughter!"
"My parents might not have liked that you and my brother got into fights, but they never blamed you for that. They know that half of those fights were my brother's fault. My mom and dad love you, they always have. They won't have any problem with us dating."
It was silent for a couple of minutes, "Kev, it's just dinner. Even your mom knows you should go." I said quietly trying to reason with him.
I saw a flash of anger in his eyes, "Don't even get me started on that!" He was suddenly on a whole different level of mad.
"What?" I asked not following.
"You just had to bring up dinner with your parents in front of my mom. You knew she would force me into going!"
"No I didn't! Don't accuse me of things I didn't do! It was never my intention for your mother to get involved." I shouted at him jumping off the counter.
"Then why the hell did you bring it up in front of her?"
"Because I thought that it would avoid a fight between us."
"Clearly that didn't work." Kevin said harshly.
"No fucking shit." I said glaring at him. "You know what, if you don't want to go to dinner that badly you don't have to, you are no longer obligated to come." I walked passed him.
"I'm tired. Feel free to sleep on the couch." I called back to him as I slammed my bed room door shut.
"There aren't any pillows on the couch!" I heard Kevin shout at me through the walls.
I grabbed a pillow off my bed and opened my door open and threw it as hard as I could at him. I smiled satisfactorily when it hit the back of his head; I then once again slammed my door shut.
"There aren't any blankets either!"
"Freeze!" I shouted back.
I knew I wouldn't be able to go to sleep; I never could when I was angry. I tried to read a book, but my mind kept on drifting back to Kevin. I finally ended up pacing back and forth going over not only the event of the night, but everything that had happened in the last couple weeks.
On the down side I had gone from been perfectly healthy to spending four days in the hospital. I had gone from being single to being in a crazy relationship. I had gone from having a nearly stress free life to one full of worry in just a couple of weeks.
But on the flip side I had gone from having a boring life to having one full of excitement and happiness. I had gone from being a lonely college student to being in a relationship with a guy I had a crush on since I was nine. I had gone from being nearly friendless to reconnecting with a bunch of my childhood friends.
There were pros and cons to the last couple of weeks, but I just wasn't sure if the all the pros outweighed all the cons.