How To Be Happy Single

III

III

"Samantha Kelly Xavier come here this instant!" Mom shouts.

She must've gotten the message from school, fuck Nathan and Dander.

I go downstairs and she is sitting in the living room.

"Friday detention? Really? You know this is going to stay on your permanent record right? Say goodbye to Princeton, Yale, Oxford, Harvard, Columbia, Stanford and Brown. You are grounded until you get into one of those colleges! Do you understand me Samantha?"

"Yes Mom," I look down, I understand why she's overreacting. It's my first detention and I'm sure she doesn't know what grounding is because she's never had a reason to do it.

"That's it? You make it so damn hard to shout at you Sam," she lowers her tone. "Now come tell me what happened." She says after sipping from her coffee mug.

"It all happened during third period - dance. The teacher wasn't there and she left a note saying that we could stay in her dance studio or go to Mr. Barnes. So I decided to stay in Miss Shelley's class and then Nathan walked in-"

"Wait you two didn't have sex or anything right?"

"Of course not Mom, why would you think that?"

"I don't know sweetheart, anything can happen. That's where your dad-"

"Ew Mom, let me finish my story!" I try to shake the image of my parents doing the deed in a dance studio, "So he came in and we rehearsed our dance final piece and we kissed, keep in mind that we broke up."

"Oh that's why you were out at midnight, continue."

"After kissing him I decided to go to the gymnasium where Mr. Barnes was and sadly Nathan followed and we started arguing and that's how we got into trouble." I conclude the explanation.

"Oh that Nathan boy. If he tries anything else I swear Sam."

"Mom calm down, it's really over." I chuckle.

"Do you want some ice cream and a movie?" she offers, "A breakup after being with someone for so long can be heartbreaking."

"Thank you Mom, I can do with some ice cream but I'm going to go finish Teen Wolf upstairs. I need to do it before I meet up with Adriana again." I stand up and head for the staircase.

"Okay, I'll bring it up."

"Thanks Mom." I make my way up the stairs and to my bedroom.

What would I do without her?  I'm kind of happy that it was dad and not her who died. She understands what I'm going through and always knows what to do. I appreciate her. I love her.

I walk to my room and throw myself on my bed, I stuck up a mirror that filled my whole ceiling so I'm the first and last thing I see and in bed mirror selfies are easier to take. I grab my laptop bag and take my prize possession out of its home. I switch it on, enter my password and there it was. It's even on my desktop.

Season 6 episode 6 here we go.

"Here's a tub!" Mom says walking in with a tub of ice cream.

"You know you should start knocking but thanks Mom" I sit up.

"Sorry sweetheart, I haven't been in here in such a long time. When and how did you get the mirror up there?" she takes a seat next to me on my bed.

"It was, I think a week before Dad passed. I actually don't know how he did it, but he did it on one of those very rare weekends where he's actually home."