My Roommate

Chapter 7

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Evan's POV—

"Evan. Mom said that you have to be upstairs within the next ten minutes or so. Dinner's almost ready." Roxy tells me.

Since the stupid science fair ended up being cancelled, I got to longue around doing nothing all day, which so far, has been great. I stopped by Jax's place and jammed out a little; which I made sure to let him know before hand because he went into work today. And then for pretty much the rest of the day, I hung out in the basement. Playing video games and binge watching some shows.

Been pretty chill.

"She's not our mom," I tell Roxy.

"Stop being so difficult. She's the closest we're gonna get as a mom at this rate." Roxy tells me.

"That's not my fault," I mumble under my breath.

Needless to say, our parents got divorced several years ago. And with that divorced, dad got full custody of Jax, Roxy, Mathew, and me. Which, at the time was kind of surprising because not that many single dads get full custody of their kids. Especially if there's no sign of a female partner in the picture or something. Usually, in custody disputes, at least from what I've seen and heard about, the moms usually get full custody.

But not in our situation. Dad got full custody and we really haven't seen our birth mom since he got custody of us.

Well.

I haven't seen her that much since.

Maybe once or twice...every other blue moon or something.

Which, I honestly don't mind at all. And it's not like she ever wants to see me either.

So whatever.

"Whatever. She just wanted me to tell you, don't go shooting the messenger, ok." she says. Seconds later, I hear her footsteps lead up the basement stairs.

Let's see.

Would they really care if I didn't go upstairs and join them for dinner? It's just dinner and it's not like we have to eat together every night. Besides, pretty sure Bec was planning on making meatloaf tonight.

I know I said I love her cooking.

But I can't stand meatloaf.

No matter who makes it.

No offense Bec.

Shrugging it off, I lean back into the couch and get ready to play the next episode of Naruto Shippūden.

Just in general, there's a lot of episodes to the Naruto series. Naruto and Naruto Shippūden combined has over 700 episodes I think. And although I do like watching anime, and like Naruto, I'm surprised I haven't dropped it yet.

Something about long series with endless amounts of episodes.

I drop it sometimes.

Like I can't even get into One Piece because there's a lot of episodes in that anime too.

I don't know.

Just as the opening theme starts, someone shouts from the top of the stairs. "Evan. Get your tush up here!"

Roxy.

Of course.

I'm just trying not to laugh at the fact that she said tush. In my opinion, tush is a funny word to use. It sounds funny. But. Zack's probably nearby. Rebecca doesn't like the idea of us swearing in front of him. Which makes sense, don't get me wrong.