what,” I say to her. I wasn't trying to make her
feel bad – but it was the truth, and mother had always taught me to
speak the truth, and say whats on my mind.
So in reality, I was just doing what I was told.
“I know Gracie,” She said. “Look, Gary is really great and he makes
me happy, when your father and I got divorced I was heartbroken and
never thought I would be able to find love again, but then Gary came
along and showed me that I could love again,” Mom said.
“For six months,” I couldn't get over the fact that they were dating for
six months without me knowing.
That would be like me not telling her I was pregnant for six months -
which for one would never happen.
“I know, but why do they have to live here? Michael is a jerk,”
“Gracie, your nineteen now, I think you can handle being an adult
around him no matter how much of a jerk you say he is, - the kid has
been through a rough time with his mother dying and everything else,”
That's nice, I had been having a hard time ever since my parents got
divorced, does that mean Gary has to have sympathy on me?
Probably not.
“Fine,” I fold my arms in front of my chest with a deep sigh.
Mother kissed my forehead. “Thank you baby, now go get ready for
dinner, Your meeting them tonight,”
Reluctantly, I did as I was told
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Dinner was possibly the worst.
Gary set next to my mom, kissing and holding her hand, mom giggled
like a cute little school girl as he kissed her teasingly, I rolled my eyes
and I was trying not to gag on my food while eating.
“Can you two do this when your alone please,” I say. Both Gary and my
mother looked at me, my mother mostly looking at me with a scowl.
Gary cleared his throat.
“So,” He said. As he had gone back to eating his food.
“Do you have any plans for school Grace?”
It wasn't any of his business, but why not enlighten him?
“Yes,” I say. As I took a sip of my drink. “I want to be a history
teacher,”
“A teacher?” He questioned my dream, and I was starting to become
infuriated.
“Why a teacher?”
I sit back in my chair and look at him directly in the eyes. “Because
of my grandma,” I say. “She is the one who inspired me to be a
teacher, she taught me, and now I want to teach others,”
Mom decided to chime in, and I wish she hadn't. “Gracie was home
schooled for a couple years, she finally decided she wanted to go to
a public school when she had started middle school,”
I sigh.
I wasn't going to win this.
“Oh,” Gary said. Almost sounding surprised.
“Do you mind me asking why?”
Before I could even speak, mom chimed in again. “She had really
bad anxiety attacks since the age of four, it was just too hard with her
anxiety to even step into a school, so I had decided to home school her
my mom was a teacher, so it wasn't hard to get one for her,”
“I see,” He smiled. “I wish I could have meet your mother,”
Yeah, right.
“I do to,” Mom said. “She would have loved you more than Justin,”
Mom chuckles, and I just roll my eyes.
This was the start of all my problems, when I didn't need them, I
gained them, and when I already had problems, more problems were
created.
So this was the start of my story, on how I had fallen in love with my
step brother.
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It had been a good year or so since Mom and Gary had been
married. Mom and Gary were still sleeping, as I walked into
the kitchen with my jogging suit on and There he was - Staring at me
with his beautiful icy blue eyes I couldn’t help but think of him as a
different person, he was so perfect in every way shape or form, I didn’t
understand why i was feeling this way, I knew it wasn’t right