Lewis and my mother were in her bedroom whilst she nursed his wounds.
Beard had asked me a question and he was still waiting for my answer.
'Do you want this?'.
Of course I did not. I had managed to survive sixteen years of my life without him, I had no reason to need him now. What exactly would he do for me? Nothing.
Mom on the other had needed him, I did not know why yet but she did. Maybe it was LOVE. It was the most stupid thing in the world. I did not trust Lewis. What if he was lying? What if he broke my mothers heart again? What if I had to live with him for the rest of my life? Did I need a father? The answer I gave myself to all these questions was mom. She loved him I had not seen a smile as true as the one she gave when she said yes to moving in with Lewis. If I were to agree I would be doing it for her. She deserved to be happy, she desired a type of happiness I myself could not give. I was sick to the stomach just thinking of this.
"If mom is okay with it then I am", I replied.
Beard placed a hand on my shoulder "I did not ask you that, I asked if you yourself are okay with it, cause you could agree on your mother's behalf and become belligerent you will grow to hate the both of them if you are forced into circumstances you don't wish to be put in to".
"I don't know what to say because all I want is for her to be happy".
"I understand but that is not what I am asking you".
"No", I whispered.
Diamond sighed "You are entitled to any feeling my son, but you and I both know your mother she will fall in love in that room again and she will be ready to follow him to the moon and back".
I nodded disappointed.
"If you don't want son I can talk Lucinda out of it, you can remain here".
The last part of the sentence is what got me captured.
"What if I visited them weekends but stayed here?".
Beard saw how I twisted his words and frowned "That is not what I meant Lindon but I am sure it can work, you will have to live up to your word though. You see your mother needs you close to her and if she stays without you then what difference would it make".
"I promise to live up to it".
"Laika can stay some days with you and you visit me before and after every visit okay".
I looked over at Laika and she winked at me.
"Sounds great".
"Let me go and call your mother", Beard stood up and I handed him his staff.
Laika approached me and I noticed how tight her dress was, It was tight and short and she pulled it down every time she took about five steps.
She had the body of a vase, big everything and a tiny waist.
Her braids fell all the way to the small of her back. She had fake eyelashes on today and her lips were a dark tint of red. I stared at them and my eyes travelled up and down her frame.
I turned around and shook my head, why on earth was I thinking about that now.
She sat in the chair Beard had been sitting in and her dress shrunk by a few inches.
The tips of my fingers began to tingle.
"How you handling the drama?", she asked.
I turned to face her putting my hand on the table, "I don't even know, I am trying not to think of it but it is not working".
She grinned at me "You need a distraction".
"I don't think anything can distract me to be honest".
"Just wait you'll see".
"Well okay, just don't bore me with a movie, I don't do those".
She pushed my shoulder "I will bore you with a series instead".
I rolled my eyes the same moment Beard, Mom and Lewis appeared.
Mom ran up to me and held my cheeks in both hands "Are you sure you can stay on your own".
"Yes I am sure".
She pulled me up and hugged me tightly
"Thank you".
I watched in amusement as she bounced to the door with my old school satchel in her hands Lewis by her side.
"Uncle BD where are you off to now?, no one has even eaten yet", Laika asked still seated.
"I am going with them for a day, I don't trust this fool", he used his stick to whack Lewis' behind.
"You should not", I told him.
"Laika are you going to school tomorrow?".
I turned over to Laika who was now pouting "Nah".
"Okay sure bye", Beard told us.
"He is not even gonna ask me why", Laika shook her head.
Smiling at her I asked her why.
"I don't do Latin and there's an exam tomorrow so there is honestly no point".
Couldn't work be as easy as school?.
The people who made school and work need to be banished from earth, from all worlds actually. They are probably dead but still their ashes do not deserve to be on earth, mars, jupiter or pluto or even wondering up and about in space.
"So are we sleeping here or at my house?".
"I am down for anything", I told her with the shrug of both my shoulders.
I hoped Beard was driving, What if Lewis was driving as fast as he was when he was driving here and what if he killed my mother and himself in a car accident who would be to blame? Obviously the one who let her go with him. I sure as hell would not be able to survive without her.
A push in the shoulder managed to drag me from my thoughts. My eyes met Laika's and she was frowning.
"Dude forget it she is okay, she's with uncle BD for crying out loud I am sure she is doing just fine, chill out".
"What if this is all a mistake?".
Laika forced me to sit down and passed me a spoon to eat my food.
"Then that will be some fugazi shit, let us just pray it isn't".
What's fugazi?
"Yep".
"Now time for your distractions".
I did not bother to hide my confusion "Distractions as in they are more than one?".
"They are actually four".
"Please remember I have work tomorrow".
I frowned when she pulled out ger tongue and told me she did not care.
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