The Life And Times Of Rachel Grape

Goodbye

    The only one of the three who was ready to go was Arianna.  She was up and at em, but here dad was wasting time, as he DEMANDED to go.  "You two snuck off without me.  It's like I am not even part of this!  I should have stayed with the  fatass.  She at least LET ME lead the household!"  He would come face to face with "the fatass".  While they were fighting, the fatass netted next to her husband.  His reddish hair was in his eyes and he was snoring lightly. She looks at him and thinks, "I cannot imagine having a life with him now. Gilbert is so, so good to me." She went back to sleep.

They went to breakfast at The Ramp. It was sort of modernized. It was early 200os. It was dated. The food was not as good to Elise. For Gilbert, it was the first time he ever set eyes on the love of his life. He was with Tucker and Bobby and there she was in a flowy skirt. She held a cute girl and a boy walked beside her. A douchebag for a man was bullshitting the realtor. That was when he fell, and he would run into that douchebag again, today.

"I am going to miss my Westin," his mother told him.
"I will miss you, too."
"That girl? Her last name is Grape?"
"Yes. Her parents own a store."
"Really? Are they religious?"
"She has a 'God is love' plaque in her room. Is that enough?"
"Yes. I suppose I am being silly but there was a woman who slept around a lot I town and she had sex with one of the Grapes and I did not like her."
"You'd love Rachel."
"I am sure."

He kissed his mother goodbye and then they drove off to see his girl.

The Cadillac was loaded and Gilbert was driving. His wife in the front seat, fighting back tears. She LOVED having her girl home. Bonnie had to stay and supervise. She wished they had the van. It was just too old and they could it afford to fix it.   Rachel was blinking back tears, but she was going to see her prince and he made all of the shitty days better. Speaking if shitty days, Arianna as at Applebbe's with her parents who had two whoppers of fights that weekend. She wanted to come home with them to have found peace,  but she missed her friends and in a weird way, her roommate.   However, she had rush and her mom DID charge a nice dress for her to make a good impression.   Lunch was tense.   It always ways.   That was why she wanted to marry and go far, far away from it.   Rachel wanted to me back to her small town. 

    "Well kiddo, this is it," her dad told her as he pulled up to the curb.  Westin texted.  He was a few minutes away and wanted to meet the family.   They said they would stay and then and there the older Acura RDX pulled up and up walked a fat blonde in a sun dress, and she looked dead at the Grapes.   "There she was, the fatass.   She looked happy though.   However, Chance did recognize Elise and said, "still with the same one."  She said, "yes.   Still with the same one, as are you."   He hugged her, because honestly she had not aged like Michelle.  Michelle, though, looked at the buxom woman and cringed.  She had a smaller gut and more kids.   Gilbert walked around to the front of the car where he saw him.   He looked at Gilbert and said, "It's been a long time and I am sorry."   Gilbert said, "You gave me the best thing to happen to  me."  He looked at the ground wistfully.   Gilbert did get the good end of the deal.  He said he would not say a word.   It was all beginning to unfold little by little.   Elise and Rachel, went upstairs passing a woman who was almost in tears.  A few minutes earlier, she told her mom, "I don't need you two here embarrassing me, so just go!"   Her mother thought, "Well it's her father's fault.   He starts the arguments."  It's not her.   She was never at blame, but neither was her dad.   They pulled away as Rachel'sparenta got to meet Westin and they took him to dinner, 

    Elise found Westin kind.  However, she's have second thoughts when she found out who his mother was.   Elise and Gilbert took them to a pizza place and then dropped him off back at school.   He was impressed with a Cadillac.   "It was the lady who I am named after.   She was Violet Rachel and I am Rachel Violet."   He thought that was cool.   When the car pulled away, he took her to the park where they sat and talked.  He then took her to his room as it was a bit chilly and for the first time, he got in her bra.  He loved how tiny they were and that she was his.  He loved her and wanted to go further, but this just was not the time.  

  They drove home as it got darker, both dreading work the next day.   They held hands and looked at each other, smiling.  

    "I am so lucky to have you, Gilbert," she told him.  
"I know and I love you so."  
"I saw my ex today.  He looked rough.  I'd die if they were roommates."

    The silence was deafening in the dorm room.   Arianna was ready to see her friends and she didn't say two worlds and left.   As soon as she left, the tears rolled.   Rachel would have really rather been with her family.