I'm NOT Playing The Pregnancy Game

Crystal, Part 7 - It Started with A Kiss

  - Christmas Day

I wake up to the sound of people laughing ,and joyful Christmas singing ,and my first thought was ,Mary had let Christmas Carols in the house. I got out of the bed put on my robe and headed out my room down the stairs. As I'm getting closer to the end of the steps I hear conversations that become clear and I realize its Mary's Parent, so I entered the living room. Before I could say anything I'm greeted with a hug from Mary's mother Celeste. "I'm so happy to meet you Crystal" ,nice to meet you Celeste. "Oh Honey you don't have to call me that ,call me MOM" she says with a wildly excited smile. ,ok ,was my awkward reaction. "And I'm Henry but like my other daughter you can call me DAD".

After hugging for over An hour and twenty eight minutes with Mary's Parents I learned that they are very loving people also very religious ,I see where Mary gets her innocence from. They protected her from the outside world of bad news, I bet you she has never even felt the need to hate anyone before. Mary's parents confirmed they were gonna be staying for a week ,I Offered my room to them but they insisted on sleeping on the couch. For some reason being with them I almost feel like I was raised by them and like they were my actual parents ,lets just say I'd prefer them over the actual reality I had while I was growing up ,but I would never feel ashamed of any of it.

11:35 PM

"CRYSTAL! what are you doing in here?, YOU KNOW YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSE TO COME IN THIS ROOM!, GET OUT GO!" I run out of the room and run down the what feels like a thousands steps and I get to the bottom of the stairs finally ,then I ran into the room on the right and my brother looks up from his bed. "What did you do now?" he says while looking at the wall in front of his bed. ,I ...I..... "You what?" ,he said now looking at me with no emotion. ,I'm in trouble.

he gets up from his bed pale and still ill he takes a rag and wipes the sweat away from his forehead. and then he starts to take his shirt off ,and I turn around. "Why are you turning around it's your fault I'm ill ,can you not look at your own work,''he says in a calm yet demanding voice. I stand still turned with my back facing him, "Please Thomas ,their gonna punish me" ,he rushed over and grabbed my arm "DON'T YOU DARE BEG ME!" ,my heart stops and fear over takes me and I couldn't form words at the moment. He slows his breathing to take deep breaths. "If I have to ask again I will Drag you out of my room by your hair" ,I looked up at him slowly. I went into the room upstairs and''before I could finish my sentence he lets go of me and tells me to wait in the room ,then he leaves.

I sat on the bed and waited ,every time I heard a footstep I would jump in fear because I thought I was going to get into trouble. 20 minutes went by and my anxiety filled my entire body ,another 20 minutes went by and my nerves are making my heart pump faster and faster and time passes and it came to being a full hour and I all heard was thumping sounds and yelling that I couldn't make out I stretched out my leg to lay on the bed and before I knew it, the door slammed open "GET OUT!" my brother said he was limping and his leg was bleeding . ,What happened are you ok? am I in trouble? "GET THE f**k OUT OF MY ROOM!" ,he falls to the ground moaning me pain.

AND THEN I WAKE UP - (from the dream)

its 3 AM and every ones still asleep I hear loud grunting coming from outside so I go downstairs towards the kitchen and look out the kitchen window. I see Jermaine chopping wood in the backyard of his house. I put my jacket on and leave the house to see why he was up so late.

He looks up to see me walking over towards him. "Hey you ,Why are you up so early?" ,he says while putting the axe down. I could ask you the same, why are you up so early. "I mean I'm just a early bird" ,come on its 3 in the morning. "yeah well I couldn't sleep" ,why? "you know what ,you are nosey" ,what can I say I like a good conversation. "Are you happy to see your parents" ,um yeah its been a while since we've seen each other so I'm glad their back. "really wow" ,what do you mean? "I mean Mary is really close to Celeste and Henry (Mary's Parents)"  ,Yeah well I'm a different breed I've always been a to myself person. "yeah well I was the total opposite when I was a kid" ,How so? "well I was a really social towards my family and friends, what I mean is we were all really close" ,wow "wow what?" ,nothing. "Nope don't buy it ,tell me come on" ,ok its just I've always seen and heard of families like that I guest me and my family are different. "different how Mary and you must have had different experiences" ,well yeah I guess so.

-2hours later

well I think I should get back before everyone wakes up and sees I'm gone. "yeah I should get started back with the wood so it wont be as cold I the house" ,Yeah see you.

I go back into the house and the house is filled with the scent of Maple syrup pancakes and I  sit down at the table ,and Celeste Mary's mom comes over to bring me a plate. "I hope your hungry because we cooked pancakes ,bacon eggs and grits , hope you enjoy" ,you bet I'm hungry especially after hearing you talking about the food. see now I know how your parents met Mary. "well lets just say it started with a Kiss"