All families have rifts and many couples have tifs but not the Neilson family nope not our family we never have the slight misunderstanding that always ended well the way most families did when we have misunderstandings it ends up being a war , a war so fierce that it reek's havoc
Today's war seemed like it was going to split the world into two and if not that then it most certainly would cause the walls of the house to fall down and crush us all inside ,as I sat in my bedroom trying to tune my stupid aunts voice crying and howling out I heard my phone ring I looked at the caller id and almost threw the phone at the wall ,it was my best friends kylie and vanessa ,I mean how hard was it to understand that I couldn’t have them come over to my house because of a family situation
I put the phone on silent mode and sat on my be ,I was about to go start browsing the internet for funny baby videos because in situations like this they cheered me up, when I heard a what sounded like a window beak and ended up downstairs in the middle of the crossfire for the umpteenth time
It was Carol ,throwing another one of her tantrums this time it was about her fiancé leaving her and she blames everything on my poor mom Cristina ,I found carol to be mentally unstable and she was taken to mental care once due to that suspicion but somehow managed to come out clean with just a report claiming her innocent and even more hatred for our family
To top it all off she was kicked out of her house and being the kind hearted person my mother is she let her stay with us since she got on her feet but that turned from a matter of two weeks to three and a half months ,
My sister tiara heard the commotion and raced into the living room from her bedroom, we were at home alone while mom and dad went to work and I often took tiara out to the mall after she finished school and made sure she did her homework when we got home ,I was in my second year at med school and I had my work cut out for me but my work load got doubled when carol moved in
As I surveyed the scene from the doorway to the living room ,it looked like we were robed the frames on the display cabinet were on the floor with the glass broken and the chairs were lying legs up it took me awhile to locate carol ,she was lying on the floor howling about how mean the world is and how stupid Bryce was for dumping her ,personally I thought he was the smartest guy I've ever known for cutting his losses before he got in too deep and couldn’t escape ,I noticed the pieces of the wine bottle and figured out what had happened ,carol went into a fit of rage and had obviously had something to drink and threw the bottle at the window obviously she was standing to close and the glass pieces gave her several gashes
Tiara saw the same thing I did and as she ran to go get my car keys and handbag and then she helped me get carol into the back seat of the car ,as we drove to the emergency room of the hospital carol wouldn’t shut up ,she howled and wailed and kicked and tossed she even managed to hit her nose on the window causing it to bleed ,when I got there she was taken in and finally shut up once they sedated her ,tiara and I were sitting in the hospital cafeteria trying to figure out what we were going to tell our parents she ordered a coffee and sat back in the chair opposite me and closed her eyes
I called up my mother and explained our whole situation mom sounded like the last straw had been pulled and said that she would be at the hospital in twenty minutes and she hung up
Tiara looked at me and soon we both were laughing ,we had a lot in common and our bond was stronger than most and while we were laughing my parents arrived , I ”Natalie”, my mother said from across the room and soon both mom and dad were seated at our table laughing with us at carols stupidity
But after fifteen minutes of side splitting laughter dad told us that he called Bryce and told him about what happened and that he was going to get her admitted in the mental asylum and that mom was going to kick her out and sue her for damages to property and emotional abuse ,we all knew that this wasn’t going to be easy but like always we stood like a family unit and we would fight this battle together ,we went up to the trauma unit and carol was still sedated ,the on call doctor told us that there was a probability that carol might be an alcoholic since they had to pump her stomach before they sedated her since she was full of alcohol ,dad explained her current absurd behaviour to the doctor and then we left the hospital, the doctor said that they would have to keep carol for a few days to monitor her situation ,which meant we would have peace…hopefully
In the parking lot tiara said she wanted to drive home with mom and dad since she wanted to see their faces first when they drove up the drive and saw the state of the house. I got into my car and followed behind dad ,I couldn’t help but think how carol would handle this situation not like I cared about her but I tended to feel sorry for a mass population of wrong doers and back stabbers
As we approached the house, dad slowed down and I could imagine why ,I quickly thought of the excessive smile on tiaras face and my mood brightened up I pulled into my spot and got out of the car, the look on mom and dad's face gave all their feelings away dad saw the remained of the wine bottle on the front lawn and all the glass that scattered with it and he looked over to mom who didn’t seem to have anything to say, tiara walked over to were i was standing as if to get a better view of the situation but instead highlighted to me the massive moving truck coming our way
Dad began rejoicing because he thought that it was carol coming to move out once and for all, the tall dark figure emerged from the driver's seat once the engines roar came to a hault ,I began to walk toward him as he to me ,my family looked concerned and dad called out to me but I couldn’t stop my heart began beating faster and my feet wouldn’t stop it felt like my brain had stopped working and my entire body was listening to my heart ,the brooding shadow became clear and my heart began thumping faster ,we stopped in front of each other and he looked down at me and held out his hand ‘Marshall Sampson’ I finally came back to my sense and greeted him ’Natalie Nielson’ I asked him what he was doing here and to my surprise he said he was a lawyer my dad came forward when he heard that and asked what he wanted ,he was carols lawyer, it did make sense what was going on and how did carol know about what was going on if she was knocked out and we couldn’t tell her before we left the hospital ?
