If happiness was with you

Chapter 8: Fuck off

Baxter
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I excused myself from my moms room as I walked to the hallway and try to hold my anger.

"What," I say ruffly as I hear my grandfather chuckle on the other hand.

"I will let that slide...for now" he says in a serious tone.

"Why are you calling me again? I'm sure it's not about how mom is doing," I coldly state to him. I heard him chuckle from the other line. I hate his laugh. It's reminds me of the devils laugh....evil.

"Baxter I need you to come home. I have a proposition for you" my grandfather says. I started to squeeze my phone from all the anger I feel towards him. "I don't fucking want it. Why don't you fucking shove it up your ass. Since you don't give a shit about mom, I don't give a shit about what your offering me" I say before I hang up the phone.

Fuck, now I'm angry!

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It's been a few days since mom was admitted to the hospital. She woke up not too long ago and she seems to be okay. But I'm not leaving her side. I'm scared that if I leave her again, something bad will happen.

I walked into my moms room with some food from Chick-fil-a, since I don't want her eating this gross hospital food. As soon as I walked in I saw mom sitting down, watching wheel of fortune.

"Oh come on! Clearly the sentence is vacation to the Bahamas!" Mom screams at the TV. I start to laugh knowing how much mom loves this TV show.

"Hey mom, I brought you some food. Hopefully I'm not bothering you and your wheel of fortune" I say with a chuckle.

Mom looks at me and starts to smile. "There is my baby boy," she says as she opens her arms for me to go and hug her. I put the food down on her tray and go in for one of her popular mama bear hugs.

"Mom I'm so happy that you're okay. I was scared that I was about to loose you" I say as I start to feel tears form in my eyes. Mom releases me from the hug and holds my face in her hands.

"Sweetie, I'm sorry for scaring you like that. I promise you that it was all false alarm" she tries to tell me.

"But that's not what the doctor said mom. You have stage two breast cancer. Mom....what if you.....what if you die cause of this," I say as my bottom lip trembles. I feel mom start to wipe the tears off my face.

"Honey, I promise you that everything will be okay. I won't leave you, you're stuck with me until you give me great grandchildren," mom says and I start to laugh. She pulls me into a tight hug and I hold her for a few more seconds feeling happy, knowing that I have the best mom in the word.
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Another few days passed and now mom is being discharged from the hospital. I am happy that she is feeling better now that she can come home. But I don't want to go back to that hell hole I call home. I start to grip the steering wheel knowing that my grandfather doesn't give a single shit about us. He never once came to visit her.

"Honey what's wrong?" Mom asks me as she rubs my arm. She knows that I'm angry at something or should I say someone. I don't want mom seeing me like this, so I take a deep breath trying to calm myself. I look over at mom and smile at her.

"I'm okay mom" I reassuringly tell her. But she gives me a worried look knowing I'm not being honest with her. I let out sigh before telling her.

"Mom...we can't stay with grandpa anymore. I know he is your husband and you love him, but we just can't stay there. He is abusing us...more to you. You think I don't notice the bruises on your arms and neck?!" I say as my voice starts to crack.

"Oh my sweet baby boy" mom says as she holds onto my hand. "I didn't know you knew about what your grandfather did to me." She says.

I look at her before I start to tear up again. "Why didn't you tell me that he hurts you? I have money saved up to last us at least good 6 months in a hotel. I can still work at the gym over time and we can find a way to live after the six months. As long as we are away from that monster" I say before I start to ugly cry.

"Oh honey" mom says as wipes my tears away. "You have no idea how much I want to leave your grandfather and take you with me. But I can't. I don't want anything bad to happen. please sweetie, don't make this hard" she tells me. I take a few deep breaths before I nod my head and continue my to drive home.

When we made it "home" I thought I was entering the gates of hell. It wasn't welcoming at all. I let out a sigh before getting out of the car and grabbing moms things and helping her inside the house. Once we entered through the front door, we were welcomed by our butler Hank.

"Good afternoon Mr.Lopez Jr, Mrs. Lopez. Please allow me to take your bags. Mr.Lopez senior is expecting to see you two" Hank says.
"Thank you Hank, you may be excused" mom tells him. Hank bows his head as he goes upstairs to moms room. Great. What the fuck does he want now?

Mom and I head to his study and I knock on the door assertively. "Come in" he says in a dry tone. I open the door and I see him smoking a cigar while reading some papers. He looks up and see us and he puts the cigar away.

"I'm glad you two are home," he says and I roll my eyes at him. Sure he is happy that we are home. "What do you want? Mom needs to rest" I tell him through clenched teeth. He laughs a bit before he continues.

"We have guests coming over tonight. The recently moved here from another state and I wish doing business with them. So I need your mother to prepare food for tonight and I need you to be at your best behavior. I heard they have a daughter around your age. So drop your dick act for tonight" he says as he points at me.

I roll my shoulders back before I say anything. "Fine, I'll be on my best behavior sir. But I won't promise that I'll be her best friend or anything" I tell him before leaving the office. I head upstairs to my room and take a long hot shower. When I come out I heard the door knock. "Come in" I yell out.

I see mom entering my room and she has a piece of paper in her hand. "Honey I was wondering if you can go to the farmers market for me real quick? I need some of these stuff for tonight's dinner" mom says as she hands me over the list. I nod my head in agreement. She kisses my cheek and leave my room so I can change quickly and leave to the market.
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I get to the market and I grab everything on the list. God my feet are killing me. As I start to head to the cashier, I heard my phone ringing.  I took it out and I saw it was Jasper.

"Hey man whats up?" I ask him.

"Nothing much dude. I was wondering if you wanted to hang around with me and Andrew and watch tonight's game?" Jasper asks me.

I let out a sigh. I forgot that tonight was Friday and every Friday night we watch soccer tournaments.  I can't believe I forgot. Fuck!

"Dude I'm sorry, but I can't come tonight," I begin to tell him.

"Awh man, are you boning some chick? Is that why you aren't coming?!" Jasper asks.

"Dude, that is something YOU would do. Not ME!" I tell him. I heard him laughing at the other end of the line and heard him say 'true'. As I begin walking to the cashier talking to Jasper on the phone, I feel someone bump into me, then falling down on the ground dropping everything. Shit!

"Hey Jasp, I'll call you back later" I tell him before hanging up on him and helping this girl out.

"Shit, my bad. I didn't see you there" I say as I kneel down and help her gather her things from the ground. "Um thanks. You don't have to help me. I can get it myself" I hear the girl tell me in a small voice.  I can hear a southern accent coming from her.

Once I helped her grab all her things, I look up to see the girl I bumped into just a few seconds ago and I was immediately got lost into her blue ice blue eyes.