What lies Beneath

Chapter 3

Chapter 3

"Honey, Your father and I met at a high school party, he liked my short hair and laugh and I loved his vibe, so we started dating. During senior year, we did some things we should've waited to do, and we regretted doing it after we did it" she paused, when she saw my scrunch my nose up in disgust, and smiled a little. "I ended up becoming pregnant, and after a lot of thinking and crying and fighting with a lot of people, I decided to have the baby. I had the baby at the end of senior year, and he was the most beautiful baby boy. We decided to keep him with us, your father and I. after the first year of college, it'd become close to impossible to take care of the baby with all the assignments and projects. So we did this thing wherein, we give the baby away for a couple of years to a family and bring him back after the decided time period. It sounded pretty promising to us, so we started looking for a good enough family. My parents found one, they seemed like very nice people." She paused, a tear streamed down her face "It was the biggest mistake of my entire life!" she exclaimed.
I took her hand in mine, telling her it was okay, mentally.
"Our parents, both Mike's and mine, made that adoption permanent. So when we were finished with college and we tried to reach out to the couple who'd taken our baby boy away, they didn't respond to any of our calls or emails. We even checked the address they'd provided us with, thy moved." She paused again.
"A few months ago, one day, while you were at school he came to see me. I was overjoyed and just so happy and surprised with his return. Your father and I thought that something fatal might have happened to him and his temporary family. We discovered what actually happened. He turned eighteen two months ago so he decided to move in with us for college especially since he's going to the college in town, what's it called?"
"UFHA?" I asked
"Yeah that one." She said smiling
"Mom that's AMAZING! So why did you jump then?!" I asked happy yet confused.
My mom looked at me wide-eyed for a minute and then said "well, I was afraid you'd hate me for what I did and do something to yourself"
I laughed, hard, and a few minutes late cried, "I have a brother" I said through the hushed sniffs. "Yeah, honey" my mother caressed my arm.I quickly shot my head up "What's his name?!" I jumped "Jeremy" my mother smiled.
I smiling at her for a while, I have an older brother.
That's definitely going to take some time to sink in. I've always wanted an older brother, someone to watch over me and tell guys who were bothering me off. To spend time with, to go bowling with, to fight with about the silliest things. Having an elder brother is something I've been wanting ever since I was thirteen. I used to watch this show called 'Really Me' and there was this one episode wherein they emphasised the relationship between the brother and sister and honestly that episode touched my heart.
"When is he coming?" I anxiously asked my mother
"On the 15th" she said, trying to remember.
"That's the day after tomorrow!!" I exclaimed
"Oh dear god, how am I going to get things done with this leg?!" My mother complained
"Honestly mom, you could've told me first and then act after judging my reaction" I shook my head
"I'll let you in on a little secret, I actually had a little too much to drink yesterday, and I was overexcited and emotional" she said, giggling in the end
"Oh my god mom! You could've gotten yourself killed" I yelled at her
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry" she laughed.
I joined her.
This was a side of my mother I hadn't really seen before. One that puts her life out on the line for a joke. One who doesn't mind the way her daughter talks to her instead encourages her to continue, one that apparently let children from the children's ward draw on her cast. If the return of this 'older brother' could do so much to the workaholic of a mother I had into this college girl, I can't wait for more of it, well excluding the life threatening stunts, that is.
"Want to sign my cast?" my mother asked, handing me a sharpie
"I'd love to!" I laughed
Walked up to her cast and signed:
This leg belongs to a crazy woman I love to call mom!Get well soon MOM Clarissa Miller.

I read it out to her, and she laughed. I gave her a kiss on her cheek and telling her I'd be back in a few minutes I left the room. My eyes searched for Nathan. When I found him standing by the vending machine, He'd already seen me.
I ran toward him and jumped on him, throwing him back a little in turn making him drop the bag of chips he had in his hands. I wrapped my legs around his waist, and arms around his neck. And placed one hand on my back while he held me up with the other.
"Whoa!" Nathan joked, giving me another peck on my neck.
I laughed and leaned into his face and placed my lips on his, he welcomed them. We kissed, staying in that position, only breaking contact to take breaths of air when we completely ran out, until a nurse every so rudely interrupted us.
"Ahem" she said, "this is a public hospital, please learn to control yourselves" she said pulling me off of him, but he didn't let go of my hand, I smiled.
We got a lot of strange looks from people, there were also a few awing looks from some, but who cares about what people think, I'm happy.
Nathan leaned down to give me a kiss on the cheek, but I turned my face to his and once again our lips met for one last kiss. He smiled at me.