Spike #Wattys2016

time to tell

I woke up this morning with a smile. It was Saturday and i was excited by today's possibilities, i was going to see Spike today. Now that i thought about it though was he going to come here or was i going to go over there? Great, now i'm freaking out, i don't want to seem needy or desperate. It'll be fine, i'll just wait for him here, i need to get up though or i was going to end up staying in bed all day.

After my shower i get dressed and go search for my mom, if i can get her on team Spike that would be great, and besides, he needs all the support he can get. I go down to the kitchen to see if my mom is hopefully there with breakfast but no luck, she's not here. Okay, i'll just go back upstairs, maybe she's in her room. I go all the way up to her room and open the door but no luck there either. Option three. "MOM, WHERE ARE YOU!" Nothing, what the hell, i go back down stairs into the living room and i just so happen to look out the window and she's outside pulling weed's out of one of the old flower beds.

I go outside and i swear my mom has lost it, she looks crazy. There's dirt on her face, her hair is sticking up and she looks too determined to have those weeds out. "Hey mom, you okay there?" She looks up, startled. "Avery, hey, yeah i'm great, these nasty weeds just have to go, they have to get out of my life." Yep, she's lost it. I think the weeds are symbolic of the mess in our life, o well. "Okay well it looks better out here." She smiles and i think i just made her feel better. "Thank's Ave, how bout lunch?" "Yeah mom, i think you really need a break now, they'll be here when you come back." Whoops , i don't think i was supposed to say that, now she looks sad. "Come on mom, there's something i wanted to ask you about anyway."

I go and sit at the table while i wait for her to bring out lunch and i think about how i'm going to bring him up. I have to be careful here and i don't want to mess this up, go forwards not backwards. If i can get her on our side then not only can he come over, he will also have the help of an adult and i think he needs that. He needs someone other than me to believe him, that way he knows i'm not blinded by the situation just because i'm attracted to him. "Here we go." I look up and she brings out some sandwiches and chips with sweet tea.

 "Oh thanks, this looks good." I eat my chips and think about how to start this conversation and keep it smooth. "So what did you want to ask me?" Here goes everything. "Well, do you know about the boy that supposedly killed his parents?" I paid attention to her face and her eyebrows slightly rose and she nodded her head. "Yeah, i heard about it. Doesn't he go to your school?" She's not freaking out so that's a good sign. "Yeah he does, um... he's actually really nice." Way to drop the bomb brain. "You're friends with him, Avery you need to be careful."

 "Mom i am careful, but he didn't do it, i know he didn't!"  

She sighs and puts down her food. "How do you know that, Avery this is crazy."

 "Exactly, it is crazy. I've talked to people and the story doesn't add up, nothing does. The murder weapon and how he acts, the whole thing, i even asked him and mom he's so nice. He has no characteristics of a murderer, he's afraid and he has been treated so badly and he's suffering." I wasn't going to tell her where he was staying, that was the only place he had and i wouldn't betray him that way, i just wouldn't do it.

"Okay so... you really don't think he did it?"

 "No mom, i don't. I See how people treat him and it's awful! I told a girl at school that he could be innocent and she shrugged and said that was his problem, no one should have the death of their family on their shoulders and a whole town treating them that way. His prints weren't on the weapon, he is scarred for life, he deserves a chance, a life, a chance to be proven innocent, something is wrong with this whole thing. He told me his dad and his uncle fought all the time and his uncle was here when his dad died and his uncle Jack just left him for dead and after the funeral his uncle was snooping around the house, this house, this was his house, the house his family was killed in!" She didn't say a word, she just sat there with her mouth hanging wide open.

 "This is the house all that happened in, oh my god!" I just nod, there was not really much else to say and i think i've got her. "Mom, i'm friends with him and he's so sweet, will you meet him and not judge, please?" She huffs out a breath and takes a sip of her drink. 

 "I guess so. Regardless i would feel better about meeting him if your going to befriend him, and if he is innocent he's going to need some serious help." 

 "Yeah he does, and the whole town will hates us along with him but mom, it's a risk i'm willing to take, i don't care about this town anyway, the people are awful." She laughs and finishes her food.

 "You like him don't you? You wouldn't do this for just anyone, you're too bratty for that."

 "Well geez, thank's mom."

 "You are welcome dear." I take the plates and go put them in the sink and go back to the table.

"I do like him, i like him a lot. He's perfect, very fragile though. I don't know if he'll come in the house. He hasn't been inside since it happened."

 "That's understandable, i promise not to "shrink" him too much."

 " Thank's mom." She winked and went back outside. "Well that went well."   I walk back up to my room sent up a silent thanks to god for my mom, she was accepting and non judgmental.  I guess that's what makes her good at being a shrink.  I turn on some music and open my windows, it was a beautiful dayand the sun was out. It wasn't too chilly either.  I sit down at my window seal and gaze outside and i notice Spike  standing behind a tree and looking back and forth between my mom and the house.  I let out a low whistle and he looks up quickly and a smile forms on his lips.  I lean out the window and point towards the front door and he nods so i dash downstairs to meet him.  My mom and i are going to help him, i know we can.

I open the door and there he is, my sweet man.  "Hey Spike i missed you."  He leans forward and has one hand on my face and puts the other in my hair, he pulls me too him and puts a sweet kiss on my mouth.  

"Hey babe, i missed you too."  Babe, babe, awe he called me babe. I couldn't help but blush and i swear he could see right through me, it wasn't fair at all.  "So i was wondering, do you, do you wanna go on a date with me Avery?"

 A date, with him, HELL YES!  "Really, you want to go on a date with me, i would love too."  

"I was thinking now?"

  "Now?"

  "Yeah lady, that cool with you?"  Laughing i reach up and kiss him again, i loved kissing him.  His lips were soft and he always tasted sweet, he smelled musky and i loved being wrapped in his arms, to me he was just perfect.