Heart

Familiarize

           

We arrived at my house and I helped Eric to my room.

          I sat him on my bed and went to get the stuff to clean his nose.

          I was so surprised that josh hit him that hard. But, it was a sucker punch because in reality josh plays like he's big and bad but really, he's not. 

          I look through my messy closet for the first aid kit, but it took me a while to find it.

          While I was looking, I thought about conversation topics for when I clean this wound up. I really didn't want us to sit in silence for 30 minutes.

          I finally found it and took it into the room.

          "I'm sorry Eric."

          "why are you sorry" he asked.

"because if you weren't with me today, this would have never happened"

          A tear ran down my face.

          He noticed that I was crying "oh no Penelope please don't cry"

          I quickly wiped my tear from my face and cleared my throat.

          "I'm fine" I laughed. "I don't know why I keep crying today, I'm just so emotional, sorry." 

          "Penelope... I.." and I cut him off right there.

          "Shhh, let me clean this".

          I cleaned his nose but as I was doing it, he kept jumping and flinching.

          "stop that" I said it and meant it but for some reason I couldn't help but laugh at the same time.

          "it hurts" he murmured.

          "well too bad, I'll make conversation to keep your mind off it". I assured it.

          "sounds good" he said.

          "So, where are you even from?" I asked.

          "I'm from... everywhere". He exclaimed.

          I laughed and looked confused at the same time.

          He laughs then says, "my family is military"

          "oh..." I murmured.

          "Yea, but I was born in Italy, after I was born my dad got deployed so I didn't have time to make any good memories of the place."

          "oh" was all I said.

So much for the big conversation.

          "I've been to about 25 of the states and out of the country like 5 times." He exclaimed.

           "ever been to Hawaii?" I asked

"of course, I have, I even know how to slightly hula dance, maybe I can teach you one day" he said as he tried to let out a small smirk.

          I smiled "yea, maybe you can".

          He laughed "anything specific you want to know?"

          "Are your parents still together?" I asked.

          "Yes, but my mom is a major drunk now." He said.

          "oh, I'm sorry Eric"                                                                  

          "yea, but its whatever"