Things Change

Mom picks me up from school. We talk awhile. Then, we’re both silent for the rest of the way home. I realize I’m a lot like her, you know. It’s like we’re both stuck in our worlds, thinking about our own things. Mom pulls up to the house and tell me bye. She drives off. I have no idea where she’s going. I really don’t care right now. I go to my room and sit on my bed. I think about my younger brother’s the ones who my parents gave up a long time ago. They were, I guess, a little more than my parents could handle, but truthfully I couldn’t handle them either. When, I was 13 and they were 6 and 7 they used to always get on my nerves, break stuff, the house was always tore up. It was ridiculous. This took place every sense they learned to walk and draw on stuff. One day they just got really out of hand, I mean to the point where you begin to wonder if their even kids. They started destroying anything they could get their hands on. The house looked awful. Finally, mom and dad arranged for them both to go to a boarding school camp. I can’t say I was upset to see them go, because I wasn’t. It was more like relief I felt. I got tired of my stuff being destroyed. I was happy to see them go, let them be someone else’s nightmare. I get up and take a nice long shower. Then, I spray on my favorite kind of perfume. I put on lip gloss and some skinny jeans, real skinny jeans, and a mix of brown, green and white crop top. Soon after, I fall asleep on the couch. I sleep a long while. My phone wakes me up with its loud vibrating. I look at my phone. It’s Aidan.

“Where r u?”

“I’m on my couch slp?”

“Did u forget u were supposed 2 be coming over? Ur 30 mins late, we’re waiting.”

“Srry, ya’ll go ahead and get started I’m coming”

“Hurry up.”

“Whatever.”  I get off the couch and stick my phone in my pocket. Then, I go to the bathroom and make sure everything is still in place. Then, I walk to blocks over to Aidan’s house. I go off into deep thought on my way. I realize I’m not even all that nervous either. I don’t even know what’s going to happen. OH, well, I’ll just have to see. I get up to his house I take deep breathes. I knock. Aidan answers.

“Hi.” I say as I push past him into the house. I look back and he’s still standing there.

“You just walk in my house and don’t give me a hug or at least show a little respect, or something?” He says joking. I walk over and tightly hug him.

“Now, was that so hard?” He says smiling.

“Actually, yes it was.” I say and grin.

“You mean hard to let me go, right?” He says. “You were holding on pretty tight.”

“Oh, whatever” I say.

“You know you like me.” He says.

“You have a girlfriend.” I say. “I’m not Marcie and I refuse to be cheater who sneaks around with some ones boyfriend on the low and can’t even be seen in public with him.

“Anyone ever told you, you’re something??” He says. “I was just playing with ya”

“Of course you were, so where are the others?” I ask. He points to the den. I walk to it.

 

 

 

 

Zane and Kane are sitting on the couch watching TV and Laya and Lana are sitting on the floor of the other couch. Aidan squeezes in between Zane and Kane. I sit down beside Laya.

“Hey.” She says.

“What ya’ll been doing?” I ask.

“We’re watching teen cribs.” She says as I sit down and watch teen cribs.

“Awesome.” I say. We all sit for awhile and watch TV. The boys are wrapped in tight conversation about which houses and cars were the best. I personally thought the house sitting above the water was best. Suddenly, I really wanted some cake.

“Hey, Aidan, can I use your kitchen?” I ask.

“You were going to cook for us?” He answers a question with a question.

“Yea I was.” I say.

“Well, go ahead.” He says.

“Did you order food and drinks?” I ask.

“Yea, the pizza’s supposed be here but seems like it takes longer than you to get somewhere.” He says.

“At least I came.” I say.

“You wanted to.” He says.

“Yea, but I didn’t have to.” I say. He doesn’t say anything just continues to sit on the couch. I get up and walk into the kitchen. It’s pretty. It reminds me of mine. It has pretty marbled countertops and pretty stone floors. Everything looks so new. Do they even you this kitchen? I guess they don’t. It doesn’t have any marks around the burners. I pull out cake mix, eggs, and oil. It’s the kind in the box but I really want some cake right now. I start putting the ingredients together. I walk over to the mp3 dock, plug my phone up to it and start blasting Marvin’s room by Drake really loud. I start walking around the kitchen, mixing and dancing. I’m having so much fun. I stop dancing long enough to pour the cake into a pan. I put it in the stove. I continue to dance all around the kitchen, shaking my hips, and singing. I was having such a good time I didn’t see Aidan come in.

“Having fun?” He asks.

“Yea, and tell me you didn’t see that.” I say.

“Oh I saw you with your butt all in the air.” He says.

“Well, I like that song.” I say slightly embarrassed.

“I see.” He says just as Lose yourself by Eminem comes on the radio. I start singing it and dancing. Then, Aidan joins in and starts dancing to. He starts dancing really silly, so just to show out I get on top of the counter and start waving my hips and twirling around with my hands in the air and Aidan soon climbs up and joins me.

“Lose yourself, in the music, the moment, you own it, you better never let it goooo you only get one shot do not miss you chance to bloooooooooow this opportunity comes once in a lifetime!!!” We sing together.

A ringing cell phone interrupts our fun. I start searching my pockets.

“It’s mine” Aidan says.

“Oh, ok, you can go answer it.” I say. “I have to get this beautiful looking cake.” He walks out. I turn toward the stove and get my cake out the oven. I sit on the sink while I clean the countertop off that Aidan and I just danced on. I get the cake off the sink and sit it on the counter. It looks so good. I walk into the den and I’m so shocked at what I see. Zane and Lana are on the floor, his hands are in her hair, and her arm is around his neck, their legs are wrapped around each other, and their talking like he doesn’t even have a girlfriend. Kane and Laya are in the same position, on the floor in front of the second couch. The only difference is they’re not talking, they’re kissing. Kissing! What?! Teen Cribs has gone off and Jersey shore is on. I love Snooki and Dena, I guess they can make you do that. I leave and go down the hall to try and remember where Aidan’s room is. I walk around awhile and then I find it. I walk in but he doesn’t seem to notice me. His back is turned and he’s in a heated conversation, with sounds like Marcie, he’s got her on speaker, and she sounds MAD. I catch the bottom half of the conversation.

“What is that in the background?”

“No, one I just invited Zane, Kane, Laya, Lana, and Jayla.”

“Jayla, why you still hanging out with her?!” “I thought I told you…”

“You don’t tell me anything.” He cuts her off.

“Look, why don’t you just drop her, I mean, she’s a loser.”

“You were considered a loser to before I let you in B.M.I”

“Why, didn’t you invite me?”

“You don’t get along with Jayla.” “Also, I surely don’t want to see you get your butt kicked again”

“Please, she didn’t beat me she just caught me off guard.” Please, I beat her to sleep, like; her head was literally somewhere else entirely.

“How does she catch you off guard if you knew you were in the middle of a fight with her?”

“Great you’re taking her side; I shouldn’t have ever got with you.” “I can’t believe I wasted a year of my life sneaking around with someone as sorry as you are.”

“Want to break up, then?” “You’ve been acting crazy lately.”

“Why you got to act like that?” “Maybe we should.”

“No, you made me act like ‘that’.” “Bye”

“No, wait don’t go.” “I’m sorry for the way I’ve been acting”

“Look, it’s been past time for us to break up.” “I’m just not feeling it anymore.” “It’s over.” Marcie starts to cry on the other end. I almost feel sorry for her. That is until she says this.

“No, we can’t break up!” She screams and cries. “I’m pregnant!” She’s breaks out into a full blown cry; like, I’m snotting all over my new tube dress cry.

Aidan blurts out “What?”

“You heard me!”

“Yea, we’re done, and you’re not pregnant and if you are it surely isn’t mine we’ve never done anything!” Before she can let out another shrill scream he hangs up. I turn around quickly making my way back to the kitchen. The cake has cooled now sense I spent a whole half an hour in Aidan’s door way. I icing with delicious looking white icing. I sit it on display. Then, I get a sprite out the fridge and sit on a bar stool with my back facing the countertop. I sit for awhile just sipping my sprite and thinking how wrong it would be to hook up with Aiden after he just broke up with Marcie. She may be a prostituting skank but I’m not and I’ll wait about 2 or 3 weeks. After an hour or so Aidan comes in. He just stands at the door and doesn’t say anything. We stare at each other in silence for several minutes.