Calling Dr.Smiles

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→"Breaking news, I really don't care, stick it where the sun don't shine."

After Rose told me that shocking news, I really needed a shower.

So, she went downstairs to help Iris with breakfast. Mom seemed to be not making food for anyone?? And it didn't make sense because we are still her kids even if we're fighting. How do you not feed your kids?

Anyways, straying back to topic, I am in the shower, cleaning away all that today has already brought me. Surprisingly, I don't want to run away from this. Whatever else mom is holding onto needs to come out.

I let the water rinse my body, but suddenly the bathroom door bursts open. I grab onto the shower curtain and hold it against my body and look to see who the culprit was that just made their way into the bathroom.

It was Kurt.

"Kurt jesus christ you can't just-" I shout at him but he cuts my sentence short with one of his own.

"Mom's asking for you." He simply states and then proceeds to leave the bathroom and close the door behind him.

I may have sighed. What would she talk about with me now? I know what happened to dad, what did she want to bash him some more? I won't listen to her.

I shut the water off, and dried up with the towel quickly. I put the onesie back on and walked over to mom's room slowly. I wasn't really too keen on seeing her.

Before I could open the door myself, she opened it and motioned me in. It was being called into the principal's office. You don't want to be there, you don't know what you did wrong, and you just want out.

She closed the door after I came in, and seated me on her bed.

"Anna, I'm really tired and I want all of this fighting to end." She pleaded, I could see her eyes were bloodshot and dark circles were faintly under her eyes. Her box of tissues was on her bed and some we scattered around the room. Her bed seemed like it hadn't been made in days.

"I want it to stop too, but in order to do that you need to start telling the truth." I answered her and she only looked up at me with her face full of worry and guilt. I didn't blame her for dad leaving, I blamed myself. But not once did I ever think it was her. She has nothing to feel guilty about. "mom?"

"Anna, if I told you, all of you, you wouldn't like it. You wouldn't like me afterwards." She mumbled to herself but I caught all of it. What could be so bad? I found out that Dad has a new family, someone else to love. What could get worse?

"I promise you, I'm not going to blame you. I never blamed you for him leaving." I admired to her, finally. I never really told anyone about what I thought, except for Dippy and Nissi.

"I know I'm not the reason for him leaving six years ago, that was all him. I didn't tell that bastard to run off, I didn't throw him away." She snarked, here we go. That bad talk.

"Don't call him that. Just tell me the truth." I changed the path of this conversation, and she only seemed to laugh at this.

"I am, he's a bastard. A cowardly bastard, for running off and not coming back." She remarked and I quickly shot up from the bed. I didn't want to be here if she was just going to go on and on about dad being bad and bastardly.

I had only two weeks and two days left. I wasn't going to spend it here with her repeating herself.

"Stop. I know that Sonia and Carina are dad's other family. It's obvious, Aidan got mad they were here. She looked like him too, now that I think about it. But for you to judge him for it, and bad mouth him when he was nothing but good to his kids is wrong."  I commented and she seemed shocked that I knew, but there was something else she was holding back. Her face tells me that I haven't figured it all out.

I walked to the door and laced my fingers around the knob and look back at her before completely leaving. "And if your hiding anything else from us, I suggest you tell us now. Secrets don't do well in this family."

I shut the door behind me and walk down the steps to be with Iris and Rosalie. Anywhere Mom wasn't is where I want to be. 

I joined them in the kitchen, where Iris had a pancake in her mouth and Rosalie was flipping a new one on a pan. Kurt was down here too, mixing the batter for a new batch of cakes. Iris saw me from her seat and motioned me over with her hand patting the chair next to her.

I took the seat and snatched a fresh cake from her plate. Kurt and Rosalie were singing some old Christmas song together and not paying any attention to me and Iris.

"Thanks for last night, you made me fell somewhat a little better." She claimed and she smiled at me to let me know that she was doing better.

"Good can't let my only little sister be down. You two will work it out, whatever it is." I exclaimed and she seemed to get a little sad-er. Is that even a word?

"I don't know, he kind of hates the fact that I am dating someone he doesn't like." She chided, finishing the pancake on her mouth and shrugging her shoulders. 

"Wait, I thought you were dating your best friend. The night you went out on a date, that wasn't Eli?" I asked her and she shook her head in response. So who was she dating? I always though she and Eli would finally realize their feelings for each-other and just get together. I guess not.

"It's Aaron, he's like the school's bad guy. But he's really not like that. I wouldn't hang out with a bad person like that. He's just a little jagged at the edges!" She explained to me, I agreed with her. Just because someone is a bad person doesn't make them a bad person. I mean, that doesn't make sense, but you know what I mean.

"Okay, so Eli will come around. Until then, get yourself a leather jacket so you can match with your boyfriend."