The New Boy

Uncle Jonny

After spending the rest of the day with James I quickly tidied up my room so my parents wouldn't be suspicious about how messy my bed was and why my clothes were scattered around the floor, I laid for a little bit and started thinking about my relationship with James, a smile appeared on my face as my thoughts explored our best moments I felt like my life was perfect. My mother snapped me out of my daydreaming session:

"Hey Ed, already going to sleep?", She asked looking surprised.

"Oh no", I awkwardly laughed, "Was just taking a break".

She looked even more confused, "Taking a break of what?".

"You know... studying", I said without thinking.

"You studying?", She started laughing, "Well that boy James is really helping you become a good student".

Memories of James and me kissing popped in my head for a second, "Yeah... a student".

"Well anyway, your uncle Jonny is here, come down to greet him", She said leaving my doorstep.

Talking to visits is never a fun thing for me to do, especially when you don't know the person you're greeting, I've heard a lot of things about my uncle but never actually spoke to him since he lives outside of the country.

Slowly I got up and started walking towards the stairs where suddenly I heard my father scream:

"YOU WHAT?", He shouted.

I stopped walking and sat on the stairs making an effort to understand what was going on.

"You have to be kidding", My mom said.

Still confused I tried peeking at them, my mom had tears in her eyes and my dad was with his face red like he was about to burst, they were both talking to a tall man with black hair who seemed about to cry like mom. Their conversation resumed after a brief silence:

"You came all the way here to tell us this disgraceful thing?", My dad said looking like he was about to punch Jonny's face.

"What you wanted me to do?", Jonny responded, "To keep living a lie?".

"YES!", Father shouted, "That would have been way better".

Jonny's tears finally came out, "How can you say that?".

"You and your boyfriend are not welcomed in this house", My dad exclaimed. 

This got me by surprise and in my reaction, my feet hit the side of the stairs:

"Ed?", My mom said.

I quickly got up and started coming down the stairs, "Hey mom you said you wanted me to come to talk to Uncle Jonny".

Jonny started walking up to me wiping his tears but my dad intervened, "Sorry son", he said looking directly at Jonny's face, "He's already on his way out".

Jonny looked at me with a faint smile and started walking towards the exit, mom walked to the kitchen while dad and I stood there in the living room quietly. I finally decided to walk back to my room when  father stopped me:

"Your uncle is going to stay in the city for a while, I'm gonna be clear with you, stay away from him", he said this and walked to the kitchen.

I slowly walked up the stair thinking about what just happened, my life didn't feel perfect anymore.