Why does my little red-headed friend insist on visiting during my points of absolutely the highest levels of stress? I woke up on the first day back to school as a married woman, hemorrhaging heavily! Lucky for me, my husband has already thought of this and has fully stocked the bathroom with everything I could possibly need and want… The man even bought Midol! He wakes to the sound of me crying from cramps in the shower, “baby girl”? He climbs into the shower with his sweatpants still on and brings me to my feet. He increases the heat level and holds me to him as the burning water runs down my back. The tension begins to loosen, and I sigh into his bare chest. He turns the shower off and wraps me in a towel, then leaves the bathroom. I put a tampon in and discard the wrapper before heading into the bedroom. He has a loose-fitted pink tee and black leggings laid out on the bed with my boyshorts panties and a matching sports bra on the bed. I sat down next to it and la
I wake up to what sounds like Loyalty whimpering from the bathroom. I find her curled up on the floor of the tub, bringing back horrid memories of my mother. “Baby girl”? I step into the tub with her and pull her to her feet, leaning her into me before cranking up the heat of the water. She lets out a deep sigh and her body physically relaxes. After a few minutes and her skin starting to turn pink, I turned the shower off and wrapped a towel around her before heading into the bedroom to get her something comfortable to wear. She sits on the bed next to the clothes and begins to laugh. “What?” I ask her curiously. “Just curious how many girlfriends of Spin’s past it took for you to know what I needed”, she says. Like anyone before her was worth putting the effort into, “none! My mother suffered from Dysmenorrhea. She would cry in the tub the same way you were just curled up”! “What’s that?”, she questions. “It’s when a woman has heavy painful menstrual c
I’m supposed to go back to school tomorrow, so I do everything in my power, including blowing Spin in the shower, to convince him to take me for my motorcycle permit test! When he finally agreed, I thankfully passed it on my first try! I spent the next several weeks getting him to take me out onto the track to ride my own bike. “Alright, so once she gets her license I’m pulling the ATV out”, Gabe tells Spin as they walk up to the track rolling my bike. “Take it slow baby girl, and remember you’re balancing both yours and Gabe’s weight so ease into the turns”, Spin tells me as I hop on. “I know, I know! Now let me ride. Come on, G! let’s go, let’s go”, I squealed. Gabe straddles onto the back of my bike behind me, and I take off slowly to satisfy Spin. Gabe is telling me pointers as we ride the track until they finally agree to let me ride solo with Gabe riding alongside me instead of with me. That’s when riding became better than being the pep squad co-captain!
On the last day of Loyalty's suspension, she convinces me to take her for her motorcycle permit test before heading to the shop, and passes it in one go… Show off! As the weather gets warmer she pushes harder for me to take her out on her own bike. “Damn Spin, why such heavyweight tires on her bike?”, says Gabe as he rolls it out of the garage and up to the track. “Because the bike is lightweight, with the heavy tires, she can off-track with it”, I told him and smacked him in the back of the head. “Alright, so once she gets her license I’m pulling the ATV out”, he says as he rubs where I smacked him. Loyalty stands in the middle of the track, clapping her hands like a toddler. “Take it slow baby girl, and remember you’re balancing both yours and Gabe’s weight so ease into the turns”, I tell her and she rolls her eyes at me. “I know, I know! Now let me ride”, she squeals before hopping onto the bike. “Come on G, let’s go, let’s go”! My brother awkwardly climbs onto the bike with he
It’s morning and I’m in a room that’s so familiar yet has also grown to be so unfamiliar at the same time. Opening my eyes to the bare walls of my bedroom at my foster parent's house makes me question if my life for the last few months was just some really odd dream. That is until I look at my hands to see my enormous pink diamond adorning my ring finger. No, not a dream… More like some really horrific and cruel nightmare!It’s after ten in the morning and nobody is home. So, after I have a small breakfast, I head back to my bedroom where I curl into a ball and cry myself back to sleep. I literally just wake up for food and the bathroom calls of nature!On day two, I woke up with a purpose! I’m going to weigh all my options and prepare myself for the next stage of my life. Step one is my adult adoption. I reprint the section that I’m supposed to fill out, including all of my aliases on this special form that Kevin mentioned yesterday. My name as it is known by the agency is, Loyalty A
The next morning, I woke to a cold and lonely atmosphere. My baby girl is still not back. I drag myself out of bed and shower. When I came out of the bathroom, I noticed a Manila envelope on her bedside table, with her name Loyalty A. Hart printed on it. I opened the envelope to find medical documents, a referral to an OBGYN, and three sonogram images. I’m not really sure what I’m looking at in them, and I’m sure she would tell me if she were here… But she’s not! I stuff everything back into the envelope and toss the envelope on top of the dresser before continuing to get dressed. Everyone avoided eye contact with me this morning since they all heard our explosive argument last night. It's one of the downsides of living with so many people. But since there are whole rooms that serve as a buffer between me and the rest of the crew, no one really knows why I'm fighting with Loyalty right now. “Don’t worry”, says Brenda. “She’ll be back! She loves you”! I don’t say anything because, at
~GABE~ It’s still early in the morning, and I’m tinkering near the garage on the ATV before the Summer heat sets in, trying to find ways to increase the torque so I can keep up with Lala on it. I hear my brother stumbling around in the hallway, and I feel like he’s just been drunk for days since she left. He’s starting to remind me of our old man, so I’m just hoping Lala comes to her senses soon before he drinks himself into an early grave. As much as their relationship made me sick, having been in love with Lala since seventh grade, she was good for him. She made Spin a better person, and she never looked at me or anyone else the way she looked at him. It was a hard pill to swallow, but I learned to accept it! Spin finally stumbles into the garage from the hallway, slamming things here and there. “What the hell?” I yell at him as he continues to just toss shit around with no rhyme or reason. “Gabe, Loyalty just took off on her bike. Go get her for me please, convince her to come b
It’s just another night at the nightclub, fucking Monday nights in the Summer are the worst! Tonight I have Courtney instead of Melanie upstairs in my apartment with Stephany, since I know Simon is conducting some business here this evening. I want things to go smoothly and, ever since she’s turned twenty-one, sometimes she’s a little too careless at the bar because she is so easily distracted by the male patrons! I saw Simon waving, so I knew his meeting was about to begin and I turned my focus to maintaining the crowd around him. That’s when three dumb fucks start a fight, right in front of the bar, breaking five glasses as they crash to the ground together. I grab the card off the bartop that belongs to one of them and hand it to Melanie. “Charge this for a case of new glasses”, I tell her before tapping Bo’s shoulder. He lifts me effortlessly onto the bar where I stomp my foot and kick the broken glass to the ground before yelling, “hey break it up asshats”! The guys are stunned