Southern Hospitality

Chapter 12

When Savannah entered the room I was memorized by her beauty. She had long blonde hair and was wearing skinny jeans with a nice blouse and black ankle boots. I could see where Landon got his blonde hair from. They could almost be twins if he didn't have Lukes face

Landon ran to her and he looked so happy to see his mom. She kept giving me dirty looks but I tried not to take anything personal. I felt Luke squeeze my hand tighten when she walked closer to the table

"Ms. Payton its nice you could join us. We just started so you didn't miss much" Mrs. Newton greeted her as Landons mother took a seat

"Who is this Luke?" she asked looking at our hands. I was becoming uncomfortable and tried to remove my hand from Lukes but he wouldn't let it go

"Hi, I'm Evelyn a friend of Luke's" I ended up saying trying to ease the tension 

She just stared at me with the same disgusted look. "Luke why do you have this... women at our sons parent teacher conference" she semi yelled 

I just told her my name yet she referred to me as some... side piece

Luke took a deep breath before opening his mouth "Landon knows her. She's Abigail's granddaughter" 

Savannah didn't say anything else took the seat next to Mrs. Newton

"Ok... let's keep going. Ms. Payton I was asking Mr. Carson about Landons at home situation trying to figure out what caused the fight" the teacher added. The room got serious when Savanah came. I didn't know much about her cause Luke never really talked about her but from today she seems like a very... sophisticated women

"I'm not one to ask. Ask his father I'm not even allowed in the house" she laughed flipping her hair

Luke began to squeeze my hand again and I sensed he was getting anger. I placed my over hand over his to try and calm him down but Savannah kept going

"He always working and calls me a bad parent" I was shocked by the fact she said that in front of Landon and his teacher. I looked at Luke confused by what she meant we've only been hanging out for about two weeks so this was new for me

"Savannah shut your mouth" Luke yelled slamming his fist on the table. Mrs. Newton and I both jolted shocked by his action 

"You can't tell me what to do Luke. We're not together remember? I'm just telling Mrs. Newton the truth" the two of them were acting like children picking at one another. It was embarrassing to witness and the fact they had no care to do it infont of Landon hurt my heart

"Listen lets not-" I started to speak but Luke interrupted me

"You want to go there? How about we talk about the fact you get white girl wasted whenever you watch Landon and he had to call me crying because your dunk ass passed out" at that point I pulled my hand out of his disappointed he would say that

As Mrs. Newton and I sat there shocked Savannah didn't seem bothered  "Thats low for you Luke"

I had enough of this and looked over to Landon who was sitting at the carpet. He had stopped playing with the toys and was sniffling in the back. I instantly got up and ran over to him. I picked him as he silently cried in my arms and we left the room

I heard Mrs. Newton yell at Luke and Savannah but I couldn't stay in there any longer. The way they were acting was barbaric. I walked down the hall and found some chairs outside of another classroom. I sat down with Landon on my lap as he kept his arms around my neck crying 

"I'm sorry you had to see that babe" I said rubbing his back 

"Do my parents hate each other?" he asked me. I froze not knowing how to answer it hurt that he even thought that. He's only five years old...