A Family Affair

…Mekayla POV…

With the kiss between Xavien and me still very much alive in my thoughts, I climb the wall to get into my window, but I stop halfway as the thought of his lips on mine captivated me completely for a moment, and I experience it all over again. I get back through my window and who do I find waiting for me in my room. My mother.

"Hello, mother."

"Hello, mother? Is that all you can say? I have been waiting for you for over an hour, and then I had to make some lousy excuse as to why you did not come back from freshening up?"

"I told you that I do not like Raymond and that he is only after your money."

"And I have told you that you are wrong about him. I have seen what kind of a person he is, and he will be a good husband for you like your father is to me."

Well, that is an understatement of the year. As I recall throughout my childhood that my dad did a little more than just talk to my mother, and she was more than once away on "h