The Chase

The mama Drama. (Chapter 5)

The next morning, I'm awakened by my alarm that has the sound of water being poured into another water. For some reason, I always feel like if I don't get up, I'll be the next to get poured on. I'm a pretty deep sleeper at times so, as weird as it seems, it kinda does the magic for me in getting up early in the morning.

I lazily cut it off with my alarm and put my head face down in the pillow groaning. Getting out of bed, I looked over at the time on the alarm clock. "4:00AM it read. I went into the living room to do my morning ritual exercise for six minutes before fixing breakfast and preparing my little siblings and I for school. Since my dad passed away, I had taken that task upon myself to release my mom of the stress even though she still protests against it, but after beating her to getting up early in the morning few times, she's eventually coming around. When dad was still alive, he would be the one to wake me up. Sometimes jumping on my bed and making lots of noise, or tickling and calling me lots of embarrassing names like... Oh you don't have to hear it. I really missed those times and knowing that it's never coming back, I decided that I'm going to make things different because every morning, those memories hunt me and I just can't stand the amount of pain it puts in my heart.

So doing this, was my distraction from it. My phone's alarm went off indicating that I was done with exercise. My cheeks suddenly felt itchy. I reached out to scratch it and noticed that it was wet. I realized I've been crying. So much for a distraction. I thought to myself as I wiped the tears away and went into the kitchen to prepare all the items I needed for breakfast and got the coffee machine ready for mom when she comes out.
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Few minutes later my mom came into the kitchen while I was mixing the ingredients for the pancakes. "Good morning." She said while yawning with her hair all over the place and bed marks visible on the side of her face. "Whoa... Someone forgot to cover their hair..." I said smiling. She's always the one nagging me about covering my hair."Well do you mind?" She snapped. "Not at all. Coffee?" I said putting my hands up in surrender and smiling. "What do you think?" She snapped again. She was totally not in a good mood this morning. "Go get your siblings ready for school I'll handle this." She said after I handed her her coffee. I wanted to protest, but the look on her face told me that it wouldn't be wise if I do that. What was up with her? I thought as I climbed the stairs two at a time to get as far away as possible. I hated seeing my mom that way. It made me feel sad and angry at the same time. I reached the twins room and opened it. They were fast asleep in each other's arms. They looked so adorable. Mars had left his bed and climbed into Venus's bed. I had forgotten that I was upset just looking at them. I took in the rest of the room that had things all over. Books, toys, cover sheets, you name it. Everything in the room was purple and aqua. (except their clothes and books) It was their favorite color. I took in the mess they had made and shook my head. It wasn't shocking anyways, I guess they stayed up late after I had tucked them in bed and read their bedtime story.

I knew they weren't going to be sleepy after all that long sleep they had during the day. My eyes went back on them and I remembered when they were still little babies, about three or four months old and I used to love just watching them sleep. I was nine years at the time. I managed to get them in the bathroom after a real tough time of getting them out of bed.
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6:30
We all sat at the table to have our breakfast after getting ready for school and work. I helped mom set the table with the the pancakes bacon and eggs. "Mom can I have cereal instead?" Venus asked after staring at her plate for a while. She's usually picky when it comes to food. "Why?" Asked Mom. "Because I want cereal." "No honey, this is what we're all eating. No one gets to eat something else." "But..." "No buts! Now eat your pancakes!!" She snapped leaving us all in a very uncomfortable silence. Man I can't wait to get out of here this morning. What's up with her? All of a sudden, Venus starts to sob. "Venus what's wrong?" I asked wiping her tears. "I really don't want pancakes." She said sobbing louder. Causing mom and Mars to stop eating as well. "This is so not fair Venus! You should learn to appreciate me at times you know... Do you know how hard this is for me? I woke up early this morning, just to prepare this breakfast for you to eat. Do you know how many kids out there wish to have just a little bit of the life you're living?! Why do you have to be so selfish!" Mom burst out with tears in her eyes, stood up and marched out of the room. This caused Venus more tears and Mars joining into the chorus of crying. Leaving me to console them. My whole household was an emotional mess. My heart hurt for my mom and whatever she was feeling. She's never snapped at anyone like this before. Tears threatened to come but I pushed it back because I had to be strong for all of them. Right within that time, my phone buzzed with a message. I took it out and read it:
Sharon: need a ride?
Me: yes please come and get me outta here!!
Sharon: 😂😂 thought so.
Me: one favor.
Sharon: what is that?
Me: could you please drop off my lil siblings off at their school?
Sharon: sure.. where is it?
Me: few minutes away from ours.
Sharon: okay. 🙂
Me: thanks so much!! You're the best!!/😘
Sharon: I know right..😉🙂 I'll be there in a few minutes.
Me: kk... Bye now 👋

"Okay guys start packing your things, we'll be leaving soon." I said right after texting Sharon. "Who's carrying us? Mom is sad." Said Venus. "Sharon." "Who's Sharon?" Asked Mars. "A friend of mine." "Okayyy." Venus said with a shrug. "I'll go get my things upstairs." "Me too!" Mars said racing her to the door. "Hey!" I called after them making them to stop abruptly and turn around. "No running Mommy doesn't feel okay remember?" "Ohhhh.." Mars said face palming his forehead and they both went as quietly as possible to their room.
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Peep, Peeep!!!!!
A car honked outside. That should be Sharon. I thought as I hurriedly packed the twins lunch into their bags as well as mine. I hadn't noticed the car that was parked was starting to reverse because my head was ducked in my bag in search of my phone. After my search, I lifted my head to see a purple 2018 Chrysler driving slowly towards where we stood. As it came closer, I realized that it was Sharon. She had on sun glasses and a very glossy lip gloss, glancing at me with a smirk making it look like one of those cliched moments in the movies. She honked once more after she had parked completely infront of me shaking me out of my shock. "What are you waiting for? Come on.. I need to go show off this baby." She said and unlocked the doors for us to enter. "Surprise!!" She said the moment we were all settled in the car. "Wow! Sharon, when did you get it? This is soo beautiful!! I screeched. "So this was actually a surprise. My dad bought this like some couple of weeks ago and decided to wait till last night to surprise me with it. I was so happy!! You shoulda seen me. I was like literally all over the place. She said laughing. "I'm so happy for you." I said smiling. "Thank you... Oouuu who are these cuties!! She said looking at Venus and Mars through the rear view mirror who were looking directly infront of them completely oblivious to our conversation. "What are your names?" She continued. "Mars and Venus." I answered for them because I knew that they won't. "They're not comfortable with strangers so they're like literally mute around them." I explained. "Ohhh... But they're so cuttteee." She cooed. I chuckled quietly at the annoyed expression on Venus's face. She hated when people do that to her.

Okurrr people... I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Comment in the comment section what you think about Venus, Mars and... Okay scratch that, comment what you think about everyone in this chapter. And also, I hope that scene of Sharon and her car was dramatic enough.🙂 Love you guys... And don't forget to 🎶🎤voteeeee🎶🎤 I know not much people are reading this right now, but Jonah had hope so will I. 😉😉