Confessions of AUBREY: Chapter 2 is UP!!
SenkoTwiik:
CHAPTER TWO: February 20th
Mom came home on Monday, but she hasn’t been able to do much around the house, so I have been out of school this long. Today was my first day back. And it was NOT a good day to start. This past Tuesday morning, I drove Adam to school on the way to my school to turn in my work and get more for the rest of the week. Anyway, I was caught up, and a little ahead by the time I got to school today anyway, so I thought it would be a relaxing escape from having to take care of my entire household and destroy my sleep with school work to make up.
It was homeroom and a guy I‘m friendly with named Travis asked me, “So, girl. Where have you been? I have been bombing this class cause I don‘t have you in front of me to ask for answers. Tracey has been yellin at me. It‘s been horrible.”
So I say, “My mom had her baby, and she had to get a C-section, so she needed to rest and needed help around the house until she was healthy enough to handle lifting and cleaning. She’s fine now, though.”
I thought that would be the end of it, but then some girl decided she was going to throw her hat into the ring. She says, “Um, your mom could still pick up her baby and take care of it with a C-section. You seriously didn’t need to miss school.”
She said it in such a snarky way, I felt like I had to say something. I tell her, “Yeah, maybe she could have taken care of the new baby, but she was really out of it from her pain medicine, and there are now 4 babies and/or toddlers in my house to care for, and that was too much for her.” She didn’t shut up, either.
She continues with, “Well, that’s not YOUR responsibility to take care of all your mom’s kids. If she can’t take care of them, she shouldn’t have had them.” She had a point here, but she wasn’t meaning to make a point, she was meaning to be a self-righteous ass. She was insulting my mom, and I was getting more angry by the minute, so I blurted out, “She CAN take care of them on a daily basis, and for your information one of those babies is mine. So I owe her a lot and it was the right thing to do to help her out. I’m still caught up in class so there was no harm in it, jeez!” She said that I could get in trouble for truancy, but it was an excused absence.
She muttered something about me being a slut under her breath, because I was 15 with a baby. One of the cholas in class was like, “My mother had me when she was 17, and my sister had her first child young too. And they are NOT sluts. A lot of my friends and young people in my town have kids. And if you’re talking trash about my town, you better believe you’re going down.” Somebody laughed and said, “Nice rhyme.” Chola girl smiled and said, “Haha, I totally made that up just now.” She slapped a high five with the Nice Rhyme guy, and then continued, “So if you know what’s good for you, you’ll shut your damn mouth before I get up out of my seat and shut it for you. Believe me, I will, and if you so much as roll your eyeballs at me, I will slap them out of your head.”
The girl didn’t say anything, no apology but she also didn’t run her mouth anymore. She didn’t even look in our direction again.
As much as I’m not into fighting, I wanted to laugh.
The girl that defended me straightened up her hair (though I’m not sure why because it wasn’t out of place) then looked over at me and said, “Hi, my name’s Evie.” I told her, “I’m Aubrey. Thanks for that.” She replied with, “Don’t worry about it. Us Dusk people have to stick together. A lot of these Sunrise jerks think they’re perfect, while the rest of us are scum.“ A guy in class with a thick Russian accent looked over and was like, “I’m one of those Sunrise jerks.”
She smiled and said, “I wasn’t talking about you, goofball. Aubrey, this is Trey, he’s a pretty decent guy for being from Sunrise.” Trey nodded my way and said, “Pleasure is mine. . .always.”
So apparently I made my first couple friends today. We hung out at lunch time today, and I learned a little something about the two of them. They first became friends with each other through their families, both restaurant owners. Evie’s mom owns Pita’s Mexican Restaurant in Dusk Valley, and Trey’s aunt and uncle own Bob’s Burger Joint in Sunrise. Evie’s real name is Eva-Linda, but she thought Evie was a nicer name. She has been in Dusk Valley as long as she can remember, since before she started kindergarten. Trey came to Sunrise Valley from Russia two years ago when his mom passed away. He lives with his mom’s sister Aria, her husband Bob, and their family of 5 children (including TWO sets of twins, the older boy/girl pair is the same age as Trey, in our class as well, both very athletic, good-looking, not too terribly bright, and funny. Their names are Finn (boy) and Skye (girl). For being fraternal, they look so much alike). Trey is a really smart guy, and very much a slipknot maggot. I love it! <3 Both of them really make me feel much more comfortable at school. It’s good to have some friends to talk to. I didn’t think it would matter, but it does.
Evie and I sat on the bus together on the way home. Our town is REALLY small, so we don’t have a high school there. We all have to bus 45 minutes to Sunrise for school. It gave us a good deal of time to bond and talk a little more. I asked her about her sister she mentioned in class. And she was like, “To be real, you remind me a lot of a white version of my sister. She’s the same age as you, except you’re way smarter than her. She’s a good girl, though. She had her first little one, a girl, around the same time you had Carrie. You don’t have to worry about that stuff so much in Dusk Valley. Young moms don’t catch a lot of beef out here. Sometimes people will be rude, but it’s rare. There were a few people that were jerks to my family about Lexi’s situation, but we ignore them. She is doing fine. She lives with her boyfriend. He works full-time instead of school, real good guy. They fully take care of themselves. It’s all good. Lexi is actually still in school, just like you. She does her school at night, and at home some of the time.”
So that was both disturbing and refreshing. It’s kind of good to know that there are people in different situations that can come out of it. I really believe I can.
Zorom:
Oh wow I'm so glad this story is back, I loved the first part <3 So glad she's doing well :D
Update soon! :)
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