Life off the road

Chapter Twenety One

"Mom!" I call out "I'm home!"

"Hey honey" she smiles, walking out

"I had to give a police statement" I laugh hugging her, then she pulls away and look at me seriously "Grim's mom's boyfriend beat her, and when we got back from the airport we went to his house cause it's right by bart"

"Oh my god" her eyes widen

"Yeah" I sing "It's good though"

Ping

I look down at my phone to see a text from Grim

Grim:
Sooooo

Grim:
I just got kicked out...

Me:
Come over. Stay with me for as long as you need

"Mom?"

"Yeah" she furrows her eyebrows

"Can my friend Grim stay with us for a little while, his mom kicked him out"

"What the fuck?"

"Yeah she claims that by saving her life, he pushed away the love of her life" I roll my eyes

"Of course he can stay with us"

When Grim gets here, he has only a suitcase, "I'm just gonna leave the rest in my car"

"What else do you have?"

"Six guitars, that are in my trunk, and three other suitcases"

"You can bring whatever you want in" I reassure him

"It's-"

"Hello" my mom smiles

"Hi, nice to meet you" He sticks a hand so my mom grabs it, and pulls him closer, then hugs him

"Some ground rules" she pulls away and I laugh "Don't smoke weed in the house unless it's a pen. The garage is the designated smoking area. I don't need to know about it, but I don't care if you do it. No sex in the house, at least while I'm here. Your an adult, go out if you want, but text me if your gonna be out late or spend the night at someone's house so I'm not worried about where you are. Also if I'm here, be polite and tell me where your going before you leave"

"Okay" he laughs

"Welcome to the family" she smiles

I go out to Grim's car and bring in another suitcase but leave the other, because it's a bunch of random shit; not clothes. "Your so nice" he tells me

"No" I sing "I'm just trynna be a good friend"

"Should I bring in my guitars-"

"I have so many, just use them whenever" we walk into my room and he says

"It's fucking awesome in here"

"Yeah" I giggle, I have a squeeze size bed, above it a shelf, across from it a dresser, with a TV and game console on it, then a window to the left of it, then against the wall a desk. Then there's a closet, and a bathroom. The bathroom is in between me and my sisters room, so we can both access it from our rooms, but not from the hallway

On my one green wall, there's six bad ass guitars hanging up. Then on my bed wall, which is against the green wall, but the head is against a white wall. On the shelf there's stuffed animals, souvenirs from places I toured, figurines, hundreds of books, and Cd's, a couple different bongs and pipes, some sculptures, blunt rolls, papers, and jewelers boxes. Then the empty wall between the two shelves and my bed, there's about a thousand stickers. I also have a huge guitar stand that holds up to five guitars, so I have two guitars, a bass, and two ukuleles on it. As well on on top of my desk I have another ukule by my Wii and Atari. Then on my desk I have all my makeup, a ton of vinyls, my tie dye record player, empty shopping bags, perfumes, lotions, jewelers, a news paper print wig holder, and above it is paintings. Then on my empty walls between my door to enter my room, and the door to the bathroom, there's tons of posters.

"It's our room now" I joke

"Totally" he sings "you can use my dresser, I only use the right side of it, then I just have the rest of my shit in my closet"

"That door is hell's weird" Grim tells me, it's because it's half the side of a normal door "But I like your closet"

There's hangers, but also hella shelves and cop holders, and even a cabinet. "Can I show you something though?"

"Sure" he nods, then I pull up a piece of floor in my closet. Then I go into, sitting down, just my head poking up

"Come in" He crawls into my closet

"I barley fit though the damn door, how am I supposed to get down there?"

"Come on" I crawl forward and bit so he can come in, then I feel the little slope, so I reach up and grab the dangling light.

"What the fuck" he gasps, so I laugh, then get on my knees and crawl backwards till I get to the stairs, so I start going down, then when we get to the bottom I stand "What the hell is this?" He turns around

"Honestly, one day I found this, took my flashlight down there, I was so scared but I crawled down, and there were these stairs, there was carpet on it so it scared me, but once I got down I realized how awesome it was. The last owners created a panic room"

"Wow" He looks around

"I cleaned it up and shit" I nod

"How'd you get a god damn couch down here"

I start laughing, "that shit was already down here, I just vacuumed it, swept up and picked up the garbage. Put pillows and two little throw blankets on the couch for design. Cleared the food off the shelf, put some nick backs on it. Put some posters over the peeling paint on the walls. Then the TV is my old one I put in here instead of throwing it away when I got my new one"

"Must've been hard" he nods

"Eh" I shrug "Took about a week at most"

"It smells thick of weed" he admits

"We love that" I nod "Let's go back up, we can come back down later" once we get back in my room, I admit, "Your the first person besides Cole to ever see that room"

"Really?" He smiles at me and I blush "I'm honored"

I look down, then my mom comes in, "Hey, dinner will be ready in twenty"

"What's from dinner?" I ask

"Enchiladas"

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"So Grissom" my dad says "Why'd you get kicked out"

"Josh" my mom hisses

"So basically" he starts "my dad was an alcoholic and walked out on us when he found out my mom was pregnant. But before that, my brother Brandon, she had and also why my dad left, was around that time he found out he wasn't his. But my mom blames it on me somehow. I've grown up with guys in my moms life, but today I come home, and I walk in on some dude hitting her, so I beat the shit out of him" I kind of cringe when he cusses "And because I saved her life, she says, I pushed away another man in her life and she doesn't want me around anymore so I'll stop ruining her chances"

"I'm so sorry man" my dad says, and Grim shrugs taking a bite out of his food

"It's no big deal, she'll beg me to come back in a week, that's how it's always been"

"I'm sorry honey" my mom coos "You can stay with us as long as you want"

"Thank you" He smiles