A Small World

corey

Mom Stephan is already gone! I tell my mother with an exaggerated annoyance. What ,where did he go its only 7:15 in the damn morning she scowls, hey don't shoot the messenger I just know he woke up early told me he would see me at schooland took off on his "soul eater". yuck I told yall to stop calling it that,it's a freaking skateboard. I just stare at her with my infamous blankexpression. She smacks my arm and rolls her eyes. Corey, honey you know fortwins you and Stephan are the complete opposites of each other. I let exhale along breath and blurt out, thank god for that, he is a dumbass who only thinksabout himself! That's not true Corey, hecares about a lot of things he just hides it well. He gets that from yourfather unfortunately. This time I roll my eyes at her. She quickly changes the subject,guessing she doesn't feel like diving into that deep black hole of emotion andhonest neither do I! When you and Stephan get home from school today, I needyou both to clean the house. we know, Iknow mom, you have told us all week. Ricks son is moving in with us. Rick and my mother got married twomonths ago and we still have yet to meet ricks son Byron, we don't even knowwhat he looks like. Only thing my brother and I have been told about Byron ishe is in the 12th grade and he recently started to get into some trouble,hanging out with the wrong people, so his mom could no longer handle him withall the hours she works at the hospital a few counties over. I expect you and your brother to be nice tohim and show him around school, it may be cool for yall to have a brother inthe 12th grade he could help both of you since yall are in the 11thgrade he will be better to assist you with things that I may not be able tosince the way they teach nowadays is extremely different from my day. Sheexclaims. I let out a deep laugh, youact like your 100 years old you're noteven 40 yet mom. She laughs with me; yes but damn do I feel like I'm turning 60this year instead of 39. Whatever you say mother. Do you want the other half ofmy omelet mom, I made it bigger than I intended (I actually did it on purposejust so she would eat it, since she is in the first trimester of her pregnancy she has been staying away from food)? She frowns at me but walks towards me and kisses my cheek , surehoney that will be fine as long as we make it quick, I have to be a work in anhour and you know how traffic can be around this time. I nod and place her halfof the omelet on a paper plate that I had laid out. She looks at me and smiles,so you "accidently" made the omelet to big but you already had two plates out. I scoff trying to hide my smile, Idon't what your talking about mom, those pregnancy hormones got your mind allover the place. She looks at me with her "mom" stare and I let a out a small chuckle, well if I didn't you wouldn't eat and you gotta feed my littles-i-s-t-e-r I stretch every letter out. She laughs while shoving a bite in hermouth. She chews her food and watches me do the same. She looks back at me after taking a swallowof the orange juice I laid out beside her and she says softly , what makes yousay sister, do you not like having abrothers. I glare at her, well for starters Byron may be your step son but Idon't know him ,so to me he will be the stranger danger living across the halland then theres the big butthole Stephan you so happened to already blessed mewith not only to be my brother but a twin at that ,so when ever I look in themirror I see his face only more feminine! So yes this one I say as I'm rubbingher belly will be the sister I always wanted. Isn't that right my little cutiepie , I say to her stomach in my most annoying baby voice. She just laughs andsays 'whatever you say my weird child'. I give her a quick hug and say goodbye. I head for the door and grab mybag and my cell phone. I place the cell phone in my back pocket then open andclose the door behind me. Its going to a long muggy day and the only thing im looking forward to isvolleyball practice this afternoon. I put my head phones in and swipe throughmy phone till I finally find my playlist that I have saved on my slacker radioaccount. I push play and turn the volume all the way up. I get on the bike andhead towards the right towards schoolwhich is a few blocks away. Once I get close enough to see the school I get offthe bike and fix my shorts which are

riding up my ass, last thing I need to for every one to see my ass cheeks more than they usually already do when I'm in my volleyball uniform , which leave very little to the imagination of what kind of underwear I might be wearing , but I love to play , it lets me get all this build up energy and anger out of my system plus I'm really good at it so I just ignore the sexist uniform we have to wear. As long as I get to keep playing I'd probably be okay with being naked (most likely not but you get what I mean) . I lock my bike up to the bike stands and pull my cellphone out to text my brother.