After work was over for the day, Sarina and I went to my parents and had dinner. We had a good time before I excused us to go up and pack my stuff still in my old room. My mother had provided boxes and packing paper that she had already stuck up there for us to use. It didn't take long to pack the items I still wanted to hold onto, and placing the items to donate in others. It was all the posters that we had fun taking down. We laid out all the ones that I had received from concerts and tossed the rest. When it was time to take down the ones above my bed, I made suggestive eyes at Sarina, who merely scoffed and rolled her eyes, before standing on the bed to pull the pins out to take them down.
"My way would have been better." I sulked as she took the last one down.
"What way was that?" My father asks stepping into the room, startling us both.
"Uh...." I stall caught off guard, knowing how I would answer my dad, normally, but Sarina would probably smack me for that.
Sarina quickly answers him though, smugly and crossing her arms, "Your son thought it would be a great idea to perform fellatio on me while I took the posters down." She had one eyebrow so high while she said that looking at me, she almost looked like a cartoon character.
My jaw drops in surprise that she just admitted that to my father, but my dad just nods and chuckles, "That was a great idea. I might have to use it on his mother later." He winks at her as I scoff in disgust.
"DAD!"
They both burst into laughter at my horrified face.
"I could've lived the rest of my life without hearing that." I shake my head and "Bleh..." in disgust, picking up one of the boxes with the donations in it to take downstairs. I stop when I see that Richards door is open, my mom packing items in boxes, with red eyes but a dry face. I set the box down outside his room, and walk in behind my mother.
I wrap my arms around my mom, making her start but quickly leans back into my hug.
"I'm alright, baby. I guess I should have you helping me though. So you can see what you want to take." She pats my arm and I release her.
I look in the box she's already packed and only grab one of his travel books that was dog eared and the cover worn, knowing it was one he looked at often. I started looking at the stuff still up in the room, grabbing some things here and there. His nice watch Grandpa Jack had bought him before he died when he turned sixteen, a couple of the pictures of us as a family or just me and him growing up, and his rock collection that was meticulously labeled and dated from everywhere we had traveled.
"I think this is it, Mom. Everything else can be donated or packed away." I let her know holding up the items I had grabbed.
"Alright dear. I'll handle the rest of this then. If you and Sarina would like to go back home, we'll understand." My mom smiles warmly, but sadness still mar her features.
"Knock knock" Sarina chimes in from the doorway. "Is this box for keeping or donating?" She motions to the box I left outside the door.
"Donating. I'll take it down babe, it's a little heavy." I hand over the items in my hands, "I'm keeping these though, so can you take these for me?"
"Sure." She takes the stuff in my hand and heads downstairs leaving me to take the box downstairs. We placed the boxes by the back of my moms SUV and my car earlier, so we could load them best we could. Upon walking out though, I found my dad arguing with someone.
"I told you already, we're loading them up! This is getting to be absolutely ridiculous with you and your rules! How is them sitting next to the cars for five fucking minutes a fucking violation?!" My dad's red face tells me his blood pressure is up and I quickly walk over to help diffuse the situation.
"WHOA! Hey! Dad, calm down, your blood pressure." I step in between him and the other man who's looking just as pissed and standing with his arms crossed.
I turn to the man and offer out my hand, "Hello, I'm Doctor Huller, his son, what seems to be the problem now?"
The man scoffs at my hand and turns his nose up in the air. "Your father, " He sneers at me, instantly making me pull my hand back into a fist at my sides. "is violating the rules by leaving these boxes here for everyone to see. This is the fourth violation in a week and is now going to be fined." He sneers again, writing down some information on a clipboard.
"Excuse me, but how is this a violation when theses boxes have not been here that long? We're about to pack them up in the vehicles now. They were just waiting on me to come down with this last box." I say, motioning to the box that I had set down before getting in between them.
"DOESN'T MATTER. Rules strictly say that no boxes, bags or other materials are to be left in view in front of the house." He states writing down more information.
"Christopher Marson. What are you doing here?" Sarina comes out with another box in her hands and sets it down next to the car.
A smile spreads across the mans face, "Sarina, dear.. What are you doing here and at the Huller's of all places?" His brow furrows in confusion and revulsion in reference to us. My dad takes a step towards this bastard but I move to where I'm still in between.
Sarina smiles, "These are my in laws, Chris. Well, future in-laws. We're helping take items for donation and storage so the house can get painted. What's the problem?" She crosses her arms giving a confused but intuitive stare at him.
"I need these boxes picked up now, they're violating the rules of the HOA. They can't be in the driveway for ANY length of time."
Sarina scoffs, "Seriously Chris? You're going to try and fine my in laws for this? They're not storing them and the only reason they've been there as long as they have now is because you're causing an issue. They haven't even been here long enough for someone to be able to call and complain. Are you intentionally harassing my in laws?" Sarina takes a step towards the man, who takes a step back.
"I'm merely enforcing the rules of the HOA, I'm not harassing anyone." He says taking another step back from Sarina.
"You better not be, I'll just have to make a call and ask Maggie to make sure. I don't want ..."
"NO!" He says panicked but tries to calm himself when Sarina gives him a nasty stare. She was starting to intimidate me and she was not even saying anything to me.
"There is no need to call or say anything to Maggie. Have the boxes picked up and out of the drive way by sundown and I'll forget about the violation." He offers to Sarina.
Sarina holds her hand out for the clipboard, "Give me the violation you just wrote up, leave my in laws alone while they ready their place to be put on the market, or Maggie will be the least of your worries, Chris." Sarina says it with such venom that the man flinches and chews on his bottom lip, before yanking the paper off the clipboard and hands it over.
"FINE. I'll just leave now. Have a good evening, Sarina. Hullers." He turns on toe and walks off while Sarina turns with the paper in hand and freezes.
"What?" She asks, looking at us both as me and my father exchange surprised and impressed glances, as our jaws slowly close into smug smiles.
"That was kind of sexy." I smile, "You taking control like that and putting him in his place."
My dad buts in, "Ech hem, Thank you, Sarina. That little jerk has been giving me hell ever since he was elected to the board for the HOA a few months ago. I was ready to wring his neck. How do you know him to have that kind of pull with him?"
Sarina chuckles, "My housekeeper is his mother in law and Maggie is not a woman who's bad side you want to be on. He lives with her in her house, by the way." She smiles sadistically, "He won't say a word to you again, if he does drop my name, he'll go running like a dog with his tail between his legs."
"Sarina, if I wasn't already happily married, I think I might have just proposed to you." My dad chuckles as I roll my eyes and Sarina blushes.
"Hell, I'm the one married to your ass, and I'm ready to propose to the girl. That little man has been the bane of the last month or so. Thank you, Sarina." My mom stands in the door way, a warm smile on her face.
"Will you all stop trying to steal my girlfriend? I know she's amazing, but she's mine." I wrap my arms around her waist as she giggles, ducking her red face into my shoulder to hide it.