Unexpected

Three - Family dinner

Three - Family dinner

Violet Mae POV

Sundays are a good day to relax, and after the week I've had, I deserve it. Even though I have to eat with my entire family in the dining room for dinner, I don't mind. I'd like to catch up with them for once.

I don't spend a lot of time at home, nor did I when I was dating Jacob. However back then, it wasn't my choice to stay away. Now, I just do it because I have friends I wanna hang out with and stuff I need to study for at school.

But I'm not the only one who isn't home very often.

My older sister, Bethany, graduated last year and is currently working as an intern at the vet clinic in town while taking online college courses. Due to this, she comes home late at night and leaves early in the morning.

My mom and step father, Phil, both work as attorney's at the local law firm, so they're also gone most of the time. That's also how they met.

My father left us just a little after I was born because I wasn't a boy and he blamed Mom for it. She then changed jobs to make more money to support us, and met Phil when I was four.

They married six months after my sixth birthday and have been happy since.

They also had two kids and mom is pregnant with their third together.

There's my younger brother, Arthur, who's eight, and my younger sister, Vivian, who just turned four.

Mom hired a nanny for my younger siblings because of us never really being home. It's just easier to get along knowing they're well taken care of.

Anymore, Sundays are the only day we are all together in the same room, let alone in the same house.

When I got home from staying at Olivia's last night, Mom was in the kitchen working on dinner, while Phil was in the living room, playing with Vivian and Arthur.

As of then, Bethany hadn't come home from her late night shift last night. She had stayed at her boyfriend's last night.

I wasn't allowed to make plans today, so I work on any schoolwork for the week that I haven't completed yet, which wasn't much.

By the time I got that done, Bethany was home, and it was time to help with dinner, just like every other week. The rule was, Mom did the cooking until both Bethany and I are home, then we help with the rest of it until dinner is ready.

With the three of us working together to get the meal done, we're done in record time and have food on the table a bit before six.

As we sit down, Phil at one end of the table, Mom at the other, and us kids in between them on either side, we begin our meal with no conversation.

Up until Mom begins to speak to me. "So Violet, I heard that you have something to tell us."

"Who told you that?" I ask, swallowing my food as I look up at her. "And what?"

"Jacob's mom called me yesterday while I was at work. She just said to let you explain. She sounded mad, but she doesn't know what that little bastard did to you."

I sigh and smile at Mom. "Well, I finally broke up with him."

"Really?!" Bethany asks, perking up and seeming really excited.

I nod.

"Finally!" She exclaims, coming around the table to hug me, since she was sitting across from me. "How did your friends react?"

I shrug. "Rachel and her group of friends weren't happy about it, but Olivia and Nico were proud of me. They said I should have done it a long time ago."

"You should have," Mom says, smiling sadly at me. "But you were blinded by love. And so much more niave when you two first got together. By the end, you were just fed up with it."

I nod. Somehow she knows.

She always knows.

***

"Mom?" I ask, peering around the doorframe into her room.

She looks up and smiles at me. "What's up baby? Come here. You and I hardly ever talk. Tell me what's up."

I walk over and sit beside her, resting my head on her shoulder. "I'm having boy problems. Well. . .not really boy problems but rather, problems with a boy. One of the new kids, might I add."

"Oh? What's going on?"

"I'm not sure. I think Rachel spread a rumor around about me and he heard it. Something about me being a heartbreaker or what not, but either way, I think he thinks I'm playing hard to get, when I'm really not interested. Then he and Nico almost fought, correction, Nico almost pounded his face in."

"Do you at least know the kid's name?"

"His name is Shawn. He has two brothers named Devyn and Ashton. They're triplets who just moved here from who knows where."

"Well at least you know their names. I'd say he's just fatuated by you. You're the pretty girl with a rumor over her head at his new school. Ignore him. Or indulge in his fantasies if you're into him. Either way, it'll end one of two ways. You ignore him and he accepts defeat, or you give in to him and you two live happily ever after. It's your call kiddo."

"But what if I'm not sure?"

"Sleep on it."

"And if I'm not sure after that either?"

"Continue sleeping on it until you're positive in yourself and your decision."

"Thanks." I give her a hug and leave the room. Tomorrow is gonna be back to normal. School, Mom and Phil at work, and the little kids with their nanny.

Sounds fun.

***

I'm going to winter formal with my crush <3.