The Moon and Her Sun

Eight: Family Dinner

"Just because I have to eat through a tube doesnt mean that you cant sit with us at the dinner table." My mom tells me.

I never understood why I had to do so. I mean I always ate before the rest of them did. Why did everyone else had to eat while I watched them.

I mean just looking at my little brother, Andrew, eat and not wiping his mouth makes me cringe. Also, my dad when he opens his mouth to chew is not a pretty picture. However, when it comes to my mom she is a good example of table manners.

"But I have a lot of homework I have to do." I told her making it as exaggerative as possible.

"I said no." My mom says with some attitude.

I then sound like a whiny 16-year-old "But mom I have to memorize my lines for A.p lit"

"Honey." My mom calls for my dad. "Can you come in here to talk to your daughter?"

My dad walks in with a plate of food for my mom and him. He sets both plates on the table and looks up on me. "Come on Luna. Sit down and eat with us. You're always in your room and never with us. Come on just for ten minutes and then you can go."

"Ughhh," I said aloud. My mom gets angry real quick when I said that.

"Continue with that shit cabrona or I'm a take your phone away." She says as me with eyes as cold as ice.

"Sorry mom," I say actually meaning it.

I never liked making my mom and dad angry, especially my mom. I mean, after all, they both when my dad can be going to all of my appointments with me. My mom even stayed up so she could feed me in the middle of the night since she wouldn't let me do it.

I sometimes forget on how much my mom and dad does for me. There are some times where I even forget that I'm dying and I just act like a normal spoiled kid.

I pull up a chair sitting right across from my mom. Andrew sitting on her right side and my dad sitting across from him.

Everyone sets their phones on the table, including me. My mom and dad made that a rule for all of us so we can interact with one another and not interact with our phones.

But my mom tends to brake that rule because she is so busy keeping everyone up to date with how I am doing and getting the occasional call from the doctor's office.

Everyone starts eating their food, while I just sit and watch. That is until my phone is the only one that lights up from the table. I quickly grab it before anyone can see.

I see that it is from Ciro and quickly read the text.

Ciro ☀️@ 8:25 p.m.: Hey Beautiful ❤

I smile at the fact that he called me beautiful. Also that he sent me a heart emoji.

Me @ 8: 25 p.m.: Hey

Ciro ☀ @ 8:26 p.m.: What are you doing?

Me @ 8:26 p.m.: Eating. How about you?

My mom coughs and I look up. Remembering about our little rule. "Sorry mom." I say.

"Who are you texting?" She asks me.

"My boyfriend." I said smiling without thinking what I just said.

I hear my dad choking on his food. Crap what did I do. "Oooh, you in some deep shit now." I hear my brother Andrew say.

"Language." My mom says. Haha little fucker you got into trouble too.

"What do you mean your boyfriend texted you?" My dad questioned what I had just said.

"I mean I have a boyfriend dad." I explain to him. "You guys both know who he is." I make eye contact with my mom first and then my dad. Then look back with my mom.

"What's his name?" My nosy brother asks.

"Yeah, Luna." My mom jumps in. "What's his name?"

"Ciro. You guys meet him before. I make eye contact with both of my parents. Mom trust me it won't affect any of my school work."

"Okay cause if it does- "My dad says before I cut him off.

"It won't, dad, trust me." I say he nods his head and my mom gives me the okay.

I sit at the table until everyone is finished eating. To help out my mom and dad I wash the dishes and put them away.

Everyone is downstairs watching tv, while I have some homework I need to do. Even though I don't have any I decide to go memorize my lines.

***

After twenty minutes of memorizing my lines, I finally got half of the scene down. I forgot that Ciro had texted, so to make it up to him I call him.

I jump on my bed and lay down. I have the phone ring in my ear, regretting the fact that I'm calling him in the first place.

When he picks up the phone I dot regret calling him anymore. "Hello." He says.

"Hi." I say back to him "Sorry I didn't text back it's just that my mom got mad that I was texting you. And oh yeah I told my family that you're my boyfriend now."

"Wow, thats a shock" Ciro says "I thought I'd be the first one to tell my family that we were dating."

I get up from my bed and decide to walk around my bedroom. "Yeah, I didn't want to tell them the way I did, but what are you gonna do."

"Think about you."He says. He takes a deep breathe and then says "Sorry I was asleep when you called me and I took some pills to help me sleep."

"Oh well," I pause to recover from what he just told me "I'll let you sleep, your gonna need it."

"Okay thanks, night beautiful." He answers back. He hangs up the phone before I can even say goodnight to him.

I hear a knock on the door. Come in. I say to whoever is on the other side on my door.

Once I see the door open I know that I would be having a serious conversation. "Hey, dad whats up." I say.

"We need to talk." He says. He sits down on my bed and folds his hands. I then sit next to him and make eye contact with him.

In a calm voice, I say "Yeah dad what's up."He sighs loudly and makes eye contact with me.

"I know you haven't had a normal high school teenage life." He says looking up at me. "You have gone through a lot these past few years and I just want to let you know that I want you to be happy."

"I don't mind you having a boyfriend, just make sure he won't be a distraction to your education."

"He won't be dad."I hug him not because he's letting me have a boyfriend. No, I hug him because he's letting my get to be a grown up by letting me date.

Even though he is my dad and I'm eighteen years old, doesn't mean I won't be his little girl.

He walks out of my room and wishes me goodnight. I give him a kiss on the cheek as he leaves.

Thus ending this long life changing day. I have a boyfriend I think to myself smiling at the thought.