Michael
I followed behind Luke, knowing he was upset. I didn't want him to stress out about his mother, he had bigger things to worry about.
"Babe, wait, slow down." I said, trying to catch my breath. For a small person like him, he sure could walk fast.
"I hate her, I hate her so fucking much!" He screamed, once we were near an open field, den the street from his house.
"I know, baby, I know, but you have to calm down. When you get stressed, the babies get stressed too." I told him. "So you have to calm down, we don't want anything to happen to these babies." I said calmly.
He sniffled a few times and just wrapped himself around me. I wrapped my arms around him and kissed his head as he cried.
"It's okay, Luke, it's okay." I kept saying, hoping that he believed me, because everything was gonna be okay.
"I don't understand why she's such a bîtch all the time. All she does is yell, complain, insult everyone, and just act so bitchy." He said, just rambling. I just let him say what he wanted, I wasn't going to stop him, he needed to let it all out.
"I wish I could just stay with you." He said.
"I know, I wish you could stay with me too."
He sniffled, then pulled away. "I don't wanna go back there, not yet."
"But it's your party, babe, don't you want to show everyone what you're having?" I asked. "Don't you want to show me what you're having?" I added.
Luke pulled out something from his pocket, then gave it to me.
"What's this?" I asked him.
"Open it." He simply said.
I shrugged and opened it, scanning it over. When I realized what it was, my jaw dropped.
"We're having a boy...and a girl?" I asked him.
He nodded and started to tear up. "Yeah, I was surprised too." He said, wiping his tears away.
"So I'm gonna have a son and a daughter?" I asked, smiled.
"Yep."
I smiled and hugged him. "Come on, let's go back and reveal the genders to everyone else." I said. "And don't worry, just ignore your mother, she wants you to get all worked up and upset." I said.
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We walked back to the house, seeing that most of the cars were gone, except for Jack's car.
"What the hell?" I heard Luke say, before he walked in the house. I followed behind and saw that everyone except Jack, his wife, their children, and his parents were still there. I stood in the kitchen, while Luke went out to the backyard. When he came back inside, he looked furious.
"Why did you do that, mom?" He said, staying a few feet away from her.
"I wanted everyone out of my house, so I did the reveal and sent everyone home."
"More like you stomped outside, ripped the boxes apart, and told everyone to get the fuck off your property." Jack butted in, holding a small toddler in his arms.
I couldn't believe it, but sure enough, I walked outside and saw the balloons poking out of the destroyed boxes.
I walked back inside and saw that they were all going back and forth.
"This was my day, mom, my day, and you just had to ruin it by being such a bîtch." Luke hissed, crossing his arms.
"You will not talk to me that way-"
"I just did, mom, I'm tired of you thinking that you can just go around, judging people, all because of your mistakes!"
She laughed. "What mistakes? You don't know shit!"
"That you had Ben when you were sixteen!" He shouted.
His mother's face fell, shocked. "How do you know-"
"I put the pieces together a long time ago." He said. "I'm not as stupid as you think I am."
That's when his mother blew up.
"Your father made me keep all of you, I didn't want kids to begin with, that was your father's dream!" She screamed, her face turning red. "I wanted to put all of you up for adoption, but your father wouldn't let me, so I had no choice to be stuck with all three of you ungrateful brats!"
"Ha! Ungrateful?" Jack laughed. "You should be thanking us for tolerating you, not the whole way around. Sure, we broke things and put holes in the wall, but we were kids, what did you expect?!"
"One of the reasons why I didn't want any of you, you were all so destructive, breaking everything that paid good money for." She said.
"Oh poor you, mom! Everything in this house is cheap, it got easily replaced." Jack said, before telling his wife to take the kids to the car.
"That's not the point! All of you were demons, never listened to me and always talked back to me."
"We. Were. Kids!" Jack argued.
I had enough of this, I took Luke's hand and took him upstairs. "Come on, I heard enough, you're staying with me tonight." I said. He didn't say anything, he just nodded and went upstairs.
As he was in his room packing, I could hear Jack and Liz still arguing downstairs. I didn't want Luke around his mother anymore, the things that woman said had my blood boiling. I'm not the type to argue back and forth, I'm the type to lash out and talk later, but since she's Luke's mother and a woman, I just wanted to get out of there before I did say something very disrespectful.
"You almost done, baby?" I asked gently.
"Almost, I have to pack some shoes." He said.
I nodded and kissed his head, before sitting on his bed, taking a moment to think. I haven't smoked any wèed in almost three days, so I'm going crazy. I pulled out my phone and started to call my mom, she always knows what to say when I'm upset. I dialed her number and waited for her to answer.
"Michael?"
"Yeah, it's me."
"Are you okay? Me and your father had to leave. That woman was just disgusting, the most disrespectful person I've ever met in my life, and I've encountered some pretty disrespectful people in my days." She said.
"I know, mom, she's said more than enough not too long ago."
"Did she say anything to you? I swear if that woman did, I'll come over there and beat her down, I'll go to jail over my child." She said, her voice rising slightly.
"Calm down, mom, she didn't, at least not this time." I said.
"She better not, I almost had to fight her in the backyard, but your dad was there, she was lucky." She said.
I chuckled at her. These were the times where I loved my mom. She gave me tough love when I was younger, but I could never hate her or my dad.
"Luke is coming to stay with me tonight, I don't want him around her for awhile."
"Don't keep him for long, sweetheart, that woman might be crazy enough to call the police and accuse you of kidnapping."
"I won't, mom, it's only for tonight. He might have to stay with with his brothers after tonight." I said, looking over at Luke.
"Why don't you and Luke stay over here tonight? I'll make up the guest room and make you your favorite pasta." She said sweetly.
"Will dad be okay with that?"
"He'll get over it, once I tell him what's going on." She said.
"Alright, we'll be over there once he's done packing." I said.
"Alright darling, I love you."
"Love you too, mom." I said, before hanging up. I looked at Luke and saw he was basically done.
"Ready to go?" I asked. He nodded and grabbed his suitcase, leading the way out. We went downstairs and saw that his mother was on the couch, glaring at us.
"Don't come back either, I'll have the rest of your stuff packed up and on the street." She said.
I couldn't hold it in anymore, this woman had to be shut down.
"He won't, actually. As a matter a fact, I'll have the papers mailed to you, so you can sign your legal rights over." I said, before shutting the door behind me, I don't wanna hear anything else she had to say.
I unlocked the doors, so Luke can put his bags in the car and get in.
"Are you really going to have papers mailed to her house?" He asked me.
"Do you want me to do that?"
He nodded quickly, biting his lip. "I don't want to live there anymore."
I nodded. "Then I'll have those papers mailed to her tomorrow."
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I don't know the laws for getting emancipated, but half of it is going to be made up and half will be the actual laws for it.
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-Apryle ❤️