Dreamers

HALLOWEEN 🎃

It had been almost three weeks since my mother's incident on the stairs, in the meantime I tried to take care of her and make her feel better, during that time I could always count on Jay's help who sometimes always went to the my house and I would take some medicine and bandages and also stay with her when I went to school, not to mention that the week of freneloween was almost here, at least that's what Amber liked to call it, which would be our halloween tradition, where every year we did the same thing, we always helped Rachel get candy from her brothers first, and then we always went to a party at some random club downtown, but I guess that wasn't exactly my biggest concern now, I was more worried about my mother,i couldn't leave her alone even if i wanted to, she still needed to recover some more, when i told jay about halloween, i told him he didn't have to stay and i didn't want to ruin his night, but he still told me that it was never uncomfortable to stay with me, even if it was to solve any problem.
– Well, at least you do, but Claire will definitely bother me – "Didn't you tell her and Rachel about your mother?" –
- I did, but I thought my mom might recover by halloween - - I didn't want to spoil our tradition -
- But I don't think I have a choice, my mother is the priority now - While I was talking to Jay, my mother did not avoid hearing everything hidden behind the wall, heard me say everything, and little did I know that she had something unexpected behind her come forward, the next day at school I told Amber and Rachel about my problem with my mother and as I had predicted, Amber had been completely devastated by the situation.
– What do you mean, this is our annual tradition –
– It turns out that my mother is still recovering, have you forgotten? –
- It's Amber maybe Nate should stay with his mom -
"Look, it's not that I don't like Mrs. Hernandez –
- But can't she take just one night alone, please?-
– The answer is no, besides I don't even have a costume anyway –
– Look, you can go without me, I really don't care –
– But I care, what is Nate without you is not the same –
- Look, I'm sorry, but they're going to have to celebrate the freneloween without me -
- Okay, but don't think I'm going to share my sweets with you -
– Look, Amber, we don't always have to do everything you want, okay – Rachel had said, and she looked angry, I had never seen her like that before, but I was sure it wasn't because of what Amber had said, after all she always did that stuff anyway and we were used to it, but I couldn't imagine the reason that could have made Rachel so angry, I just know that neither I nor Amber had seen her after lunch or after class, which made me worried, since it wasn't very common for her to act like that Anyway, until I got a message from her apologizing for what happened and nothing else, I was a little confused, but at least I knew she was fine, at least as far as I knew, as much as I didn't seem like it, I still felt that there was something wrong that she was hiding from me and Amber, even though I was worried I chose not to get too involved, after all we all always have problems, and we never hide it from each other, and if Rachel was distressed about something, I was sure she would tell us in due time. When I got back home that afternoon I found Mark sitting on the sofa in the living room, at the same time I was super confused, and I had so many questions, what was he doing there? My mother had certainly invited him, but
after the conversation we'd had on the subject of it, I thought she understood my side, and that she was going to give me some time until I was ready, and my first intention was to ask my mother what was going on, I had gone upstairs and
entered his room soon asking about our little "tenant".
- Mom, why is Mark here, I thought you said... -
– I know what I said Nate, but Mark is here for a reason –
- And which would be why I'm dying to know -
– I heard you and Jay talking about halloween – Did you hear us? –
– I heard and I didn't want to ruin your halloween so I thought of a solution –
– You can go with your friends on halloween night, while Mark takes care of me –
- Mom, I don't know if I'm comfortable with this -
"Nate, I know we've talked about this before, but give Mark a chance."
– Besides, I approved of your relationship with Jay –
– Mom is not the same – If not for you, then just try for me, please –
– Okay mom, but just because I really want to go out this halloween, I'm going to call
Amber – Had I made the right choice, leaving my mom with Mark while
I was going to have fun, it sounded kind of selfish and rude to me, but I know she wouldn't change her mind herself, so I didn't have much choice, I immediately called Amber and told her what happened, I could only hear her scream excitedly through the cell phone, when I went to call Rachel to break the news, I was still a little apprehensive about what happened earlier at school, I didn't know if it was a good idea to call her, but I ended up doing it anyway, and when I told her she, she didn't seem very happy with the idea and told me that I didn't have to do everything that Amber wanted, that's when I asked her if everything was ok, and when I said that I felt like there was something more that she didn't seem to telling me, she just tried to change the subject and hung up. It was already halfway through the week, Halloween was 2 days away, and we still didn't even have a costume, of course Amber never misses an opportunity to shop and I knew she was going to drag us to the mall after school, Rachel met us apologized for the way she had acted before, and said it had been a bad day and that she was a nervous wreck because of school and exams, anyway she soon started talking about freneloween, and said that Amber was right to be concerned about our year-round tradition, and that it wouldn't be the same without me.
"Thanks guys, and by the way would you mind if..." – If I increased our freneloween this year? –
– Will Nate count, what did you think? –
- What do you think we call the boys? –
– You know, we could go as a couple, what do you think? –
For a second I could even hear my eardrums vibrate with their screams of extreme excitement, Amber and Rachel had loved the idea, but we still had a problem to solve, we were still without costumes, but that with