In Another Life

Chapter 49: Mia

Stupid fucking mom. She's been out of rehab one fucking day and has already nearly killed herself. My grandma is flying in from Ireland and demands that I fly in to meet her. Something about three generations of Kingsleys (I was given my mom's last name).

Fuck fuck fuck.

I hate my family, I hate my mom, I love my grandmother but I hate my mom. I don't wanna go home. This is my home, LA is my home now. I love Brooklyn just not seeing my mother.

Urghh! I thump my head on wall and sigh. Maybe if I do that enough times I'll die. I sigh again, I guess I should go back downstairs. I open my bedroom door and walk back down the stairs. CC, Vic, and Rikki all look at me as I walk to the fridge. I grab a beer and scowl and put it back. Every single time. I close the fridge door and turn around to find see the three of hem looking at me.

"Are you going to growl at me again?" CC wonders and I flip him off, Rikki laughs.

"You going to tell us what that was about?" Vic wonders and I shrug. "And so help me god if you ask me what I'll level you." She says as I sit up on the counter.

"If was just my grandma." I says and she looks at me. "And I guess they let my mom out of rehab yesterday."

"Your mom was in rehab?" CC asks and I nod.

"Yeah and she's also really good at telling people what they want to hear so they thought she was clean." I continue. "Thought being the main part of that sentence. She completely relapsed and is in the hospital more dead than alive."

"And Irish grandmother is forcing you go to Brooklyn?" Rikki asks and I put my finger on my nose.

"Ding ding ding." I mumble.

"You going to go?" Vic wonders.

"I don't want to but that crazy Irish broad will fly to LA and kick my ass." I state and Rikki and CC laugh.

"Sounds like that gene runs in your family I see." Rikki says and I throw a towel at him.

"Asshole." I wonder and Rikki kisses my temple.

"I love you." He laughs.

"Fight me." I mumble and Rikki laughs.

"We've been through this, you're not scary." Rikki tells me as Vicy and CC look over to us from your conversation.

"Have you decided on what you're doing yet, Minnie?" CC wonders.

"Nah." I admit.

"Whatever you decide Mouse, we're right behind you." Vic tells me. "Literally, you're not facing your mother without me." CC laughs.

"Remember you at the hospital after Minnie got jumped?" He says and Rikki looks at me.

"You got jumped?" He wonders and I nod.

"Yeah just after I turned eighteen." I explain.

"Remember me telling you about Vicy going off at your parents." CC wonders and I laugh.

"The nurse hated me after that." I smile.

"She hated cleaning up the Coke from across the room." Vicy smiles.

"That's not bad distance for out your nose." I laugh hard.

"I wish I was around, sounding like you had so much fun." Rikki admits and my adopted parents yawn.

"I don't know about you baby bear but I'm beat. Jet leg is killing me." CC yawns.

"Me too." Vicy says.

Vicy kisses my head sleepily and rubs my tummy then hugs Rikki.

"G'night Minnie Mouse, G'night baby Rockett, G'night drummer who knocked up Minnie Mouse." She says before walking out of the kitchen

Rikki knocks his forehead on mine and hugs my shoulders.

"I. Love. You." He kisses me after every word. "You're my life."

"I love you so much." I say and I kiss him again.

"You going to Brooklyn?" Rikki asks.

"I don't know yet." I admit.

"I think you should but I'm going with you." He says. "You gonna tell them about baby Rockett?"

"If I go." I say and he smiles. "I'll talk to them if you talk to CC about me moving in win you."

"Okay, deal. I'll talk to him in the morning. But for now, I called the doctors we can have sex while you preggers." Rikki stands to kiss my neck and I yawn. He groans. "You gonna fall asleep on me, babe?"

"Your child is making me tired." I yawn again and Rikki laughs.

"My child is going to have to watch its head." He says before picking me me up over his shoulder.

"Rikki." I laugh and he joins me.

"Mia." Rikki mocks me.

"You left the kitchen light on, dumbass." I giggle as we go into the living room and he sighs.

Rikki turns around and flicks the light off before trotting me up the stairs.