This is supposed to be the best summer of my life. I wake up happy because I go down to see my breakfast on the kitchen table with my mom and grandma cooking for me and my siblings. My face is carried with excitement when I remind my mom the plans I have with my friends about us going to Cancun for a weekend without any worries, just the rode my friends and I when she interrupts me by saying "Kids i have to tell you guys something" to which my excitement shut down almost immediately and responded by saying "okay is something wrong?" she looked at me with a worried look but I wasn't sure she was troubled but most worried towards our sign of of judgment towards what she was about to say, which did start to startle me, she inhaled a big breath of air and then began by saying "I've been single for quite some time" I couldn't let her finish off because I already knew where this was going and I was not used to the idea of my mother being with someone else other than my mother that I decided to just walk away and find myself at the door with my mom asking me in a very sympathizing way "Where are you going" to which my response was so upsetting that I didn't even let my mom finish without the sound of the door slamming shut with nothing else but awkward silence in the kitchen room.
I had to get out of my house I couldn't stay there without punching a wall or even worse yelling at my mom so I decided to go to my best friends house and woke him up so we could talk, I didn't even have to knock on his door, we became so close that he was basically my brother. He was so pissed when I shook him up that he started to yell "I swear on my mothers grave Nate if yo don't stop shaking me I will get up , beat the living shit out of you and go back to sleep like nothing ever happened" I couldn't help but laugh because I knew he had never been into a fight that I was being nice and decided to tell him "You love me too much to even do that bro" he finally decides to open his eyes and looks at me still a little sleepy he asks "Whats wrong Nate you always come when you either need money for condoms or when you fight with your mom, and I know you don't need condoms at 8 in the morning cause it's Sunday and you would be in church with your family" I instantly burst out in laughter and said " Ben you know my family stopped going to church since I was ten , and I do have a problem my mom met someone" he instantly got up and said "Wow we do have a problem. And, what else did she say?" I responded confused "I don't know , I left before she could say anything else I just don't have to listen to that crap!" Ben was so mad at me that he slapped me like a pimp slaps his women. I was so shocked I asked "What did I do to you bro? That hurt man" he got up and started to lecture me by saying how i was so selfish for not listening to what my mother had to say, that it was a total disrespect to her and that I possibly may be the worst son in the world. I understood where he was coming from, then a text message was sent to my phone , I was so shocked, I threw my phone in the air then caught in midst of the fall. Ben responded to my catch with an amount of claps in which in response I bowed as if I was in a stage after preforming in a play. I read the text message that said: Come home we need to talk. From: Mom I had to face my mom I left Ben's house by saying "Wish me luck bro, ill text you if anything important comes out of this" Ben had a little smirk and told me to just listen to what my mom had to say, and frankly he was right, it was time to act like and adult and just be understanding.
Arriving home was the most nervous I ever felt and I was scared of what was to come next but I guess life isn't predictable and you just have to live with it and that's exactly what i did. I opened the door finding my mom in the living room relieved that I came home looking like I wasn't in a fight or I wasn't out drinking with my friends. My brother Michael and my sister Ana were sitting on a three person couch and left me a seat just in time for my mom to explain what I didn't allow for her to finish. She began by saying "Nate you know I love you with all my heart and you guys are my number one priority, if you guys don't approve of me and my friend being together I will just drop it and pretend like it never happened" I was beginning to feel so selfish which made me realize Ben was right I was acting like the "worst son in the world" and before she could say another word I got up from the couch, grabbed her hands and pulled her to her feet when suddenly I couldn't do anything but hug her and tell her how she had been taking care of us by herself since i was 10, I can't be that asshole son who doesn't want his mom to be happy so I asked her "Mom I will approve only if you really like this guy not just after the first fight he leaves type of relationship" my mom smiled and said "Of course I do i wouln't date him if he wasn't the real deal, he wants us to live with him" I was a little skeptical about moving in with a guy we haven't met so I asked "Where would we be living?" "Well" my mom replied "It involves us leaving Seattle and moving to Chicago" My stomach immediately dropped, i've never felt so angry that I once again had to let go of my life and start a new one, but after all it is summer and summer is only temporary happiness and that's all my life was: Just temporary happiness
