Thief 2 (m.e.)

Chapter 7

Something else I learned that I liked about Matt's family, is even though they have that house comforting feeling, they aren't very formal. Everyone is noisy, and obnoxious. They're all very different too, yet they're all so happy, it's like they never have any drama in there life, or that they ever have.

"Mom can you hand me that?" Carter says pointing to the salt.

Matt tences up as his mother nods and she grabs it.

"Can you please hand it to me after him mommy?" Tasia ask.

"Mommy?" Matt scoffs. "Did you just call her mommy? And did you just call her mom?"

"Well he is our brother, she is our mom, doesn't that make it his mom?" Nash says.

"Uh, no."

"Tasia always calls mom mommy-" Hayes begins to say.

"Maybe you would know that  if you were around more often now wouldn't you!" Tasia says cocking an attitude.

I swear I don't like her.

"Tasia, get off my dick." Matthew scoffs.

I cough on my drink as I involuntary start to laugh then quickly cover my mouth.

"Matt don't say that!" Babe says in a high pitched voice. I can tells she's preppy.

"Get off your dick? I couldn't get on your dick even if I wanted to! You're too busy letting some chick that none of us even know get on it all the time, so you're never around."

My mouth drops as my eyes grow wide.

"Tasia, don't." Tracy says putting her hand on Tasia's shoulder.

"No mom, I'm sick of him not being around!" Tasia demands.

"Just because I'm around her all the time doesn't mean we fuck!"

"Then why don't you go hang out with a guy?"

"Because all of my best friends are at this fucking table! And all my friends are friends with my best friends, she's the only one who's not!"

"Wait because all of your friends know each other you don't want to be around them? I thought I taught you to be a little bit more smart than that." Cameron says.

"No, it's because she doesn't know my life story, and doesn't bother to know about it! She accepts me for who I am-"

"What the hell we all accept you!" Shawn interrupts.

"But the difference is, she's not pestering me to be around with the women who abandoned me, while still living in the same house as me!"

The room goes silent.

  "So... we're loosing you, because we're trying to help you get closer to your mom?" Brent ask.

"Actually," I say before Matt can speak. "If I could butt in for a moment. Matthew and I have been hanging out for like, um, a little over a month now, right? So, like he just said, there is only one quality about me that makes me so special, which really isn't that special at all, he can meet anyone who doesn't know his past. But you all have been around for a while. Therefore he will crave wanting to be around you and get tiered of me being around. So in about a week, month tops, our relationship with start to fade and things will start to work in your favor, because if you want to be around your mother, and continue to be around your mother, he will come around you guys, and have no choice but to be around her also. Eventually he'll forgive her, she's changed, evidently..." I explain.

Everyone stares at me like I'm a weirdo, it doesn't bother me.

I nod. "Its how humans work."

The room stays silent. I look to Matt who sits beside me, who also stares at me, but not like I'm a weirdo, more like he's annoyed with life.