Selena Rose, Daughter of the Moon

Chapter 13

Selena wipes the counter for the fifth time this morning. "Momma, I think the counter is clean now."

"I know baby. Momma's just nervous. I have only seen my mom the one time in the cafe and now I am having her at my house. I want her to like me."

"Momma's always like their kids Momma. And you are the best. She will like you."

"I hope so baby. We were split up a long time ago."

The doorbell chimes.

"There she is, how do I look?"

"Like the best."

"What would I do without you sweetling?" She hugs Kya before going to answer the door and invite her mom into her home for the first time.

Selena opens the door for her mother with a big smile and finds Gabriel instead. Smile gone and eyes narrowed she demands, "What are you doing here? How did you get my address? Why do you have flowers?"

"I brought the flowers for you and I thought I would drop by to see you both. Try to make up for some lost time." He smiles and takes a step forward.

Selena thrusts a hand out toward him palm out, "Hold it right there. I did not invite you in and I am not going to today. Most people call before they show up at someone's home. So they know whether or not they will be welcomed. This is not a good time for me or Kya, we are expecting other company. I have to ask you to leave and please, don't come here unless you are invited."

Gabriel's face has been growing redder as she speaks. He growls at her, "Who are you expecting? Should I just wait here and see them for myself?"

Selena's nostrils flare as she lifted her chin, "Excuse you? Who the fuck do you think you are? You and I are not together. You have no claim on me and if you regret that, you have no one but yourself to blame. You are not the boss of me and you do not pay ANY of my bills, not that it would make a damn difference if you did." Gabriel has begun to pale, realizing the size of his mistake, "And another thing, you do not ever show up at my home without an invitation. INVITATION. If I personally have not invited you to visit my home you need not show up here. Now, if you want there to ever be a chance that you get invited to be here to visit Kya, you need to carry yourself away from here. You don't have to go home but you can't stay here."

Very pale now Gabriel's shoulders slump as he says in a nasally tone, "I'm sorry. I just thought it would be nice to see you both without Dwayne around. Why is he always there? Have you two got something going on?"

Her eyes flash lightening, "Whatever is or isn't between Dwayne and I is none of your business. Leave now or else."

"Fine," he puckers his lips in a childish pout, "I just wanted to spend time with you both." Gabriel turns and stomps to his car, finally getting in and leaving.

Selena looks at her phone, mom isn't actually due to arrive for another half hour, thank goodness. Now I need to burn some lavender through the place to dissipate all this garbage.

Selena turns around to find Kya standing behind her, "Oh baby, I didn't hear you come in here." She looks back at the closed door, "You heard all of that, didn't you?"

"Yea, how did he find out where we live Momma? I don't want him here. He isn't very nice and he says mean things about Dwayne."