Free Family Values by AnDerecco

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    I just see a change in you since you are around your family.
    DWIGHT
    I haven’t changed. Y ou looking for a child or a boyfriend because at this moment you about to have none in a minute if you don’t let me fucking go.
    H e was looking at me with this killer look in his eyes and he didn’t want to let me go at all. I started to push him off me and that’s when he came back stronger. I punch him in the stomach. What did I do that for? He turned around and punched me in my mouth and I delivered a punch to his head. We were literally fighting in the elevator. I know that I am about to get my ass beat but I wasn’t standing for this shit. He was punching and I was punching. I started to feel a bump coming out on the side of my head. I bust my lip on my teeth and that just angered me. I delivered the hardest blow I could to his eye and I made sure that shit blackened.

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                  I walked into the waiting area where Gran was sitting. I stopped in the doorway and watched her search inside of her purse. I was in no mood to really talk about anything. I took a deep breath and began to walk. When I stepped in front of her she stood and gave me a deep hug. I was shocked by her action.
    GRANDMOTHER ELLA
    Have a seat.
    DWIGHT
    Have you been up to see Landon?
    GRANDMOTHER ELLA
    Yes. They are moving him into a room.
    DWIGHT
    He’s awake?!
    GRANDMOTHER ELLA
    Yes. He woke up about an hour ago. He is talking a little but not much.
    DWIGHT
I have got to go see him.
    GRANDMOTHER ELLA
    Not now. They are moving him. I wanted to talk to you anyway.
    DWIGHT
    Okay.
    GRANDMOTHER ELLA
    I want you to move back and run the oil company. I feel that you can oversee the wells and make sure that everything is running right.
    DWIGHT
    Why me? What about Maddie?
    GRANDMOTHER ELLA
    Maddie will continue to be over finance. I want you to be over operations.
    DWIGHT
    Gran…what brought this on?
    GRANDMOTHER ELLA
    Since your grandfather’s death I have done a lot of thinking. I treated you poorly growing up. I made mistakes and I want to right as many wrongs as possible.
    DWIGHT
    By letting me run the company?
    GRANDMOTHER ELLA
    What other way can I make things right?
    DWIGHT

I don’t know.
    GRANDMOTHER ELLA
    Do me a favor…take those shades off so that I can talk to you.
    DWIGHT
    I prefer to keep them on.
    GRANDMOTHER ELLA
    Please for me. I want to look you in your eyes.
                  I turned my face as I took the shades off. I was too embarrassed to show the bruises on my face.
    GRANDMOTHER ELLA
    What happened to you?
    DWIGHT
    Brian and I got into a fight.
    GRANDMOTHER ELLA
    Aww Dwight. I am sorry. Where is he?
    DWIGHT
    I don’t know. I left him on the elevator.
    GRANDMOTHER ELLA
    He is still here. This is the more reason you need to move back here. You don’t need someone hitting on you. You need to meet a nice young lady and start a family.
    DWIGHT
    Please don’t do this right now.
    GRANDMOTHER ELLA
    I am just saying. I know a prefect young lady. Do you remember the young lady that was your grandfather’s nurse? Her name is Robin.
    DWIGHT
    Gran, I accept your offer to run the company.
    GRANDMOTHER ELLA
    One thing though.
    DWIGHT
    What’s that?
    GRANDMOTHER ELLA
    I don’t want you dating men.
    DWIGHT
    You can’t control my life.
    GRANDMOTHER ELLA
    If you want to be over a multi-million dollar company I can. It will not look good you being gay and making deals for this company. Other CEOs and oil companies will frown upon it.
                  I thought about the fight that Brian and I just had. Never before had we ever been in that type of situation. I felt the tears forming in my eyes. I could not bear the thought of being without him. I excused myself from the waiting area with my grandmother.
                  As I was walking down the hall towards the restroom I saw Maddie walking up. I stopped and waited to speak to her. She passed me as though I was a