Chapter 1
CHAPTER 1
I removed my shoes as I entered the house. I still cannot believe that I failed my biology test today. I mean, I didn't prepare for it but I still hoped for the best. I went into the kitchen and opened the fridge, checking what I could grab while I waited for dinner.
"Mother!!!" She didn't prepare anything again This woman is something else. I do love her and everything, but this online book club of hers has been taking so much of her time.
"Yes dear, I'm coming." I heard her footsteps as she was descending the stairs and sure enough, she had a book in her hands . She was also wearing reading glasses.
"You forgot to do the groceries again, didn't you?" I asked. even though we both knew that there wasn't any food in the house.
"Uhhh maybe I might have forgotten it, but I swear I was about to go now." She squashed her eyes closed.
You know, sometimes I wonder who's the elderly in this house since our father went away to join the army and left us three with mom. Things have been a mess in the house. Just imagine six months of disaster, plus I have to also take care of my other 2 twin siblings, who are only 15 years old and I'm a 21-year-old still in college.
"Yes, yes, I believe you just give me the money and the car keys and I'll go and buy them." I placed the bag that I had strapped on my back on the floor. While I waited for mom to come back with the car keys, I knew very well that she'd take more than ten minutes searching for them. She never puts anything where it's supposed to be anyway.
"Here and please do buy anything else extra you need ...oh also, I didn't have time to write the list. Will you be able to buy everything that we are short of by yourself?" She was shifting her weight from one foot to the other one, while looking eager to go back to that book club class, whatever it was.
"Yeah, you can go back to whatever you were-" I didn't get to finish my sentence and she was already running back to her study. That's what it's like to have a writer for a mom, always eager to go back to writing her lies and discussing them I never understood why she was so obsessed with aliens, vampires, wolves, and all the other weird things. It's not like they're real.
On my way to the store, I received a call from my twin siblings. It's a boy and a girl. They both look identical, other than the fact that the other one has famine features and boobs, so yeah,
"Hello and if you two are about to ask for money, then I don't have any," I had to say that immediately or else they would have asked
"Hello, how are you too, brother? Why do you always think that's what we want from you?" Jamy, my brother, inquires.
"Well, you always do, so if that's not what you wanted, what else do you two want?" I disconnected my phone from the car and placed it on my ear while I exited the car and locked it.
"We needed a favour. You see, me and Rosey thought that it would be great if we both went to this pajama party, but we..."
"...Need me to help you convince mother to let you two go?" I took the trolley and started my shopping. I already knew what to buy, so I had no trouble choosing what to pick.
"Please we will cover for you on Friday when you have to go to that party—I forgot what you called it," says Rosey. This fucker knew where to catch me. I understand that I'm 21 and an adult, but my mother doesn't seem to understand that.
"Alright, but why are you calling? You could have told me this during dinner." I was in the snack row.
"Well, you see, it's because we can't make it to dinner,"Rosey said.
"Alright, I'll see what I can do. Bye." I hung up and focused on my shopping. These two are going to be the end of me.
