Disconnected

Chapter four (Family dinners)

 Emily drops me off at my house. I walk in with a sigh it'll be awhile before anyone is home. I'm almost always the first one home no matter what; it's not that I try to be, but mom works five days a week and on Mondays and Fridays Ashley has therapy. Tuesdays and Thursdays, Brittany has therapy with the same therapist. I don't have any therapy. Mostly because I begged mom and dad not to put me into therapy because I knew it would be a nightmare and according to my sisters that exactly what it is.

I set my phone down on the desk in my bedroom. I let out a deep breath. I'm not looking forward to in the rest of my family arriving at the house. Most Mondays it feels like everyone who lives in this house is bunch basket cases. I know that something horrible to say about your family, but it's the truth. I hear the front door open even though I'm in my bedroom upstairs, our door Creaks unnaturally loud. I walk downstairs to see who it is that's home. My mother caries in an armful groceries.

"Hey there's more groceries in the trunk of the car, could you help me get them sweetie." she smiles at me.

I node, I don't go outside to the car. Instead, I grab the three bags of groceries in mom's arms and walk to the kitchen counter and deposit them there. Brittany and mom begin to put the groceries in the cabinet, so I go outside and get the rest of the groceries out of the trunk of moms car. 

"So how was school today?" My mom asks me. I'm the only one who goes to school anymore, sense Brittany and Ashley aren't going to college right now, but Ashely will be attending the community college next semester.

"Good," I say casually.

"So no nothing bad the first day?" My mom sighs as she puts that the last of the groceries up.

Why did she just sigh like that? Does she want me to have a bad day at school or something? Maybe mom and Brittany had a fight in the car? Shoot! After the thought crosses my mind I can't get out my head I tried to push it away, but I can't. I swallow, then I look at my mother and my sister who not looking at each other. I notice how Brittany is simply saying nothing to mom, and how mom is saying everything to me. I should have knowing something was up the moment they walked in.

"Um," I say, "I'm going to go back upstairs . . . Oh and yeah nothing bad happened, it was actually a great day." I exit the kitchen before anyone can protest, and then I run up the stairs. Once I'm in my room again I see my phone which happens the text tone rings at the moment I walk into my room. I pick it up and there's a text from Emily.

Emily. What up girlfriend?

Me. nothing much. You?

Emily. Is everything alright?

Me. yeah, why you asking?

Emily. it just that you seemed weird at school today. You wanna talk about it? I could call? or we could Skype?

Me. No I'm okay. My moms' home now anyways. call you later?

Emily. Later?

Emily. Okay I guess we can talk later.

Emily. Have a fun family dinner :) 

 Ugh, as if. family dinners are the worst for me. Some family dinners can be nice, my family diners are not. The reason why, it's hard to get through a meal without Ashley making some comment that upsets mom; and when mom is upset dad is mad and dad tells Ashley to apologize to her mother. Ashley of course refuses to do so. Ashley and dad begin to fight. That's only one dinner scenario with Ashley. the other one with Ashely, is that she refuses to eat. That one almost always turns into a screaming match. But that's not all the dinner scenarios, we can't forget about my lovely sister Brittney who will pick a fight over anything with anyone.