Dance in the Rain

D.I.T.R. - 14

I woke up to Callum running around the house, thumping through the hall and down the stairs with only underwear and a mask on, pretending to be Wolverine off the ‘Super Hero Squad’ kids TV show. I groaned when he ran into my room, yelling all sorts of stuff and bad guys and someone needs help him. A couple of minutes later, he ran out again.

I sighed and decided to get out of bed, walking into my joined bathroom to take a shower. I washed my body and hair thoroughly and got dressed into a hoodie and some black tights, tucked into my white socks. I blow dried my hair and let it go into natural blonde curls.

I heard my phone ring from the other room and went out to answer it. When I walked out, Nat had already answered it,

“Yeah, she just walked out of the bathroom,” She put her hand over the microphone on my phone and mouthed, “Hayden,” and gave me a questioning look to see if I wanted to answer it.

I froze slightly but quickly shook my head, NO! I quickly ran out of the room, almost running into Callum in the process. I picked him up and continued down the hall to his room to get him in some clothes. I put some cute little jeans and a nice blue t-shirt on and he followed me down stairs,

“I’m hung-ry,” He groaned and walked into the kitchen, climbing onto one of the stools,

“Has Sammie fed you yet?” I asked, getting out some frozen bread from the freezer to toast.

“Nope, and I’m s’arving,” He sighed and went into the pantry and came out with some Skippy cereal. He handed me the box and got me a bowl, too. I thanked him and poured him a little cereal and milk and placed the bowl in front of him on the bench, putting some sugar on top, “Mummy, where’s Na’?” Callum tried to say with his small mouth full of cereal. I stared at him for a while, wondering who he was talking to because he continued to look at the yellow flakes, “Mum?” He looked up and looked at me, like expecting an answer from me when it hit me, he was talking to me,

“I don’t know bud, she’s probably in the shower.” I replied, putting the frozen bread in the toaster and changed the setting to ‘frozen’ and pushed them down.

I suppose I’ve been the only mother role in Callum’s life. Our mum was never around and we had a nanny most of the time that Callum hated. He actually called our mum her actual name, which was Patrice and dad by his name, as well, which was John. I smiled to the fact that Callum called me mum, I’ve always loved him more than just my brother and we were really, REALLY close.

The toast popped and I jumped, my heart beating fast. Popping toast always scares the shit outta people but they can watch a million horror movies and never get scared. I got my toast out a spread some Vegemite over one and just butter on the other. Nat walked into the room then, looking fresh and smiley. She kissed Callum’s head and he didn’t acknowledge her, just kept eating his cereal off his baby blue plastic spoon. Nat smiled at me and I gave her a weird look,

“Why are you so smiley?” I asked her sceptically. She just smiled even bigger at me,

“I found out that my ex-boyfriend didn’t actually sleep with that whore and he wants to make amends, hint-hint,” She was literally bobbing up and down at the end from excitement. I screamed and Callum groaned at me. I quickly hugged Nat tightly and she started laughing over my shoulder.

“So who’s Hayden?” Nat gave me a sly look when we pulled apart. I took a big bite of my toast and frowned,

“Some stalker from Tassie who is in love with me after one day,” I replied, disgusted and continued eating my toast.

“Eh, sounds creepy but I’m sure he’ll give up on you,” She sighed and got herself some toast of her own. I finished my first piece of toast,