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Exordium (or Prologue For The Stupid)

Prologue

My mother first told me she was considering dating after I first got my heart broken.

She combed my hair and said: "Drew, You get hurt in life, but you just can't stop caring about people because of it." At the time, I actually thought she was saying it for me. I thought she was trying to make sure I started eating again, that I'd go out again. But it turned more into her own self reassurance that what she was about to say was the right thing; That completely not adressing my father's part in this was best for the both of us. In theory, she thought that not bringing him up made everything she was about to say some how normal; But I still wasn't in the upmost interested in what she had to say.

My mother and I weren't the least part close. So me being vulnerable, and a girl, was right up her alley in the both of us finally talking again. I knew it hurt her when i stopped letting her in, or even telling her about some of the biggest moments in my life. But hey, ya' get hurt in life-- her word's exactly.

"I'm.. I'm thinking about dating again." She slipped in, and I knew she was about to say something she'd been holding in for a while from the way she hesistated. She always hesitated.

"Are you thinking? Or are you already." Typical mother. Real typical. I saw her as nothing but a coward, sometimes I tried to respect her and all of her decisions-- girl power and all-- but she made it so hard.

I'd known she'd been moving on after she started dancing again, Salsa dancing. Something she only did with my father and considering she was going again, when you had to have a partner, i knew she had to be dancing with someone.

"Dewy.." She started and I almost cringed hearing someone call me that again. She made me cringe.

"It's Drew." I answered. And got up, for the first time in a week for anything that wasn't the bathroom. Because she was going to completely change my life again, with her vagina. And I wasn't exactly interested in watching it happen again.

Even if it were for the better of all humanity for me not to live under the same roof as her anymore.