Calling Dr.Smiles

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→ "I'd like some lasagna with my betrayal please, and fill it to the top."

The day was winding down and the smell of lasagna was filling up the home. Iris was on the phone with her best friend Roy. That's a whole other topic, I will get back to that. And Kurt is stashing the candy I brought him from Brooklyn.

I think he thinks I'm gonna steal it back, but it for him. So, I'm madly confused? Because why would I steal candy I gave away in the first place? Anyways, I was finishing unpacking and debating wether to be the first to be downstairs.

HE was probably here and lurking around and spreading his sex germs with my mother. Disgusting. Sick.

I gotta push these thoughts away or I wasn't going to make it to dinner with them. 

I push in the last drawer in my cabinet and looked at myself in the mirror. Ive got on sweats and my hairs a mess. And she called me beautiful, she must have lied. I can't believe her!

I dive right back into the cabinet that I pushed in before and tried to make myself seem more, adult like. I mean I wasn't, I didn't even know the next thing about taxes, but here I was. 

About ten tries of my fanciest shirts that I brought over, I settled on a dark green sweater with holes in it. Not the best, but hey this is my family who cares about how I'm dressed? Oh wait, mother does care.

So, after hearing Iris's door open and close and Kurt's door open, and not close I made my way downstairs to the table. The room was set for dinner and there were six places at the table. It was in dad's seat.

Well, it wasn't really his seat, but it's where I remember him the most. He sat and ate there, he read the paper there, and had his coffee there too. Good times. Anyways, I hope Aidan doesn't take that seat tonight. 

I wil be heated if he does so, and I will have no choice but to head butt him out off that seat. I will send him flying out the window and packing out of our lives for good. If he takes that seat, they'll have to get Nissi down here to stop me from attacking him.

I digress, that's just if he takes that seat. If.

As I look into the kitchen, I see them. Together. Just kissing. Ugh! Sexing! Ew! I pull myself back and walk around my old home. Everything is different, somehow. The living room has a new couch, and it's blue. She's got more pictures on the wall, and almost none of them have dad in it. 

What happened? When I moved out, she thought she could subtlety erase him out of her life, out of Iris and Kurt's lives? They probably forgot him already. That's crazy.

I had to leave the living room before i got even more upset, and found myself back in the dinning room. I decide to take a seat and just let everyone do what they do in this house, no one seems more out of sync than me. 

I can't even have wine, I'm only nineteen. Damn when life strikes, it strikes hard. I gotta live with Aidan sticking this tongue down my mothers' throat and I can't have wine to help ease the pain. Oh look, I'm wining for wine.

Buh-dum tsss!

Wow, Ive got to get out of my own head for a while. Well, this sucks and Ive got absolutely no one to share it with. Iris doesn't know what I know and probably won't understand how I feel. Kurt it kurt, and he won't care. And that just leaves me.

I sat in my seat, thinking back to school and what I'll be missing for two months. Maybe not, maybe whatever she called me over here for won't take that long. I really hope it doesn't take two months, I mean I know I already told my professors and Nissi but damn. What could take two months to do?

As I think of reasons for me to stay in this house of two months, everyone starts coming to the table. Where did Iris and Kurt go this whole time?

"Where were you two I was looking for you." I asked them and they looked at me with guilty faces before looking back at one another once more.

"We were in the garage, listening to Dad's tapes." Iris whispers to me and my face glows, I knew they wouldn't let his memories just vanish! Thank the heavens!

"What did you find? Something good on his playlists?" I ask again and they odd their heads in anticipation, "You know, he created one every few months right?"

Kurt was definitely on a sugar rush I could see his eyes light up and bounce all around the room. He was probably going to run off and try to find the tape, if Mom and Aidan didn't come in with plates.

Mom of course held the lasagna, and placed it right in front of me. Why Iris and Kurt went back for any other plates I guess, they wouldn't just up and leave right in time for dinner. And they came back with smaller dishes in their hands and put them on the table.

Mom sat down across from me and Iris and Kurt sat on my left and right. Aidan, thankfully sat next to my mother on the right. Not in dad's seat. Thankfully.

It was a little silent. Until- ding dong!- yeah the door. Now, who comes over at this time of day? It's not Dippy because she said she wasn't coming over until tomorrow, so who could it be- wait a minute. Could it be Rosalie? Shouldn't she be in deep Europe right now?

Mom leaves the table to get the door, making git even more awkward for me. Leaving me there with her little sex toy and the kids. Ew! Ugh! 

I anxiously wait for her to come back with whatever guest was at the door. And sure enough Rosalie rolls though the dining room. She looks even happier than ever, and not deep in Europe. 

As soon as she sees me she instantly hugs me, lifting me out of my seat a little. Then she ran to Iris and hugged her just as much. And then Kurt, who she hugged a lot more, since she always wanted a brother. When she let go of Kurt, she only said hello to Aidan. Okay, looks like someones in my corner.

"And all my kids are finally home, now sit down and stuff your face with this lasagna I made for you sister." Mom says as she flashes me a smile and cuts me a peace of lasagna. 

Wasn't it just so good to be home?