Life is a bit of hell, Cache' Evans [feel good novels .TXT] 📗

but didn’t really pay attention to. We got to the house and warmed the rolls up. The chicken was still hot, so we got the plates out and ate and complete silence. “Well you should go to bed, since your spending your day with Ali.” She smiled and was on her way up the stairs. I didn’t say anything but put the dishes into the sick and clear off the table in put the food in the refrigerator. Then I went up the stairs and put some of my pajama shorts on with a spaghetti top with my flip flops and eased my way down the stairs to the back door. Then I walked along the stream of water. I heard some footsteps behind me. I was getting scared. Then I saw him Dylan his shaggy blonde hair was smiling at me. “You should be ashamed of yourself for scaring people like that.” He was laughing, “This isn’t funny I thought you were some kind of killer.” “Well now you know I’m not. What are you doing out here this late anyways. You should be in the house sleep.” “Well at home I always came out at night to go to the beach when no one was there or it was less crowded however way you look at it. I guess I’m just looking for the same contentment as at home.” “Uh huh I see that, well I just like walking out here at night the sky is so clear. In New York the sky isn’t clear as this. So at least when I’m here the stars you’re able to see and it’s just so pretty.” “Yea stars are pretty they make everything seem to just fade away as you look at them.” I stopped and looked at him. He was looking at the sky like he was dazed off. He didn’t look like the Dylan I met on the plane. The one I met on the plane seems to be a different person then the one I’m standing to now. He interrupted my thoughts, “hey do you want to dance. I have a little radio and I don’t know. I just feel like dancing.” “Sure I love dancing, doing ballet for nine years.” He turned the radio on some white song came on I acted like I loved it. I just danced around moving my hips and then I start jumping up and down like a white girl listening to rock and roll. Dylan had moves he was doing some dance I never seen before. Then we both fell to the ground and start laughing. I could hardly breathe. “We should do that again sometimes but not tonight I think I’m exhausted.” “Yea, he said and a gasp. I didn’t know you could move like that.” I propped myself up on my elbows and looked over at him. “Well I love dancing I use to be in a group.” “Well that something we have in common. I got this song I want to get a dance routine to.” I just nodded my head. He turned the radio back on and I heard Ciara voice from the speakers. I got up and he starts dancing. I looked shocked I know it was all over my face. I didn’t think he had those kinds of moves. Then he starts dancing around me and I was watching him in awe. “Show me what you really have little Mrs. Jayla.” “I rolled my eyes at him and said not tonight.” He sat down beside me on the grass we just listened to music and talked. “Well I better get going I’m having my first slumber party tomorrow.” He looked shocked, “For real, I mean I thought girls had slumber parties all the time.” “Well my mom is a little untraditional but that’s another story to talk about some other time. I’ll probably bring Ali around here tomorrow to meet you.” He nodded his head and I waved bye at him and start walking back to the house. I went into the house through the back door and went to my room and lay down.
The sun was so bright when I woke up. I could hardly open my eyes. I could hear pots and pans getting moved down the stairs. I got up and walked into the kitchen where Aunt Margaret was just about to start cooking. She had biscuits on the table so I was picking at one of them. “Good Morning, Aunt Margaret.” “Hey you’re up early for you to be taking night walks.” I felt bad for not telling her that I went out so I put my head down. “I’m sorry for not asking I just thought it’ll be ok.” “No honey, don’t worry about it. I don’t care that you go take walks or what time you go as long as you’re moderate about it and don’t be getting pregnant during your stay here. I know your mom would love to blame me for something like that.” I could feel myself getting embarrassed just of the thought of that. “I’m not I promise. I just love going to take walks at night.” She just nodded her head while whisking the eggs and milk together in the bowl. “I hope you like scrambled eggs with cheese.” I smiled at her, “Oh yes’ maim I love them you can even add extra cheese. You know what I was just thinking about. How come we stopped visiting you a couple years before the divorce? I mean mom use to love coming down here until that night I heard ya’ll arguing.” She turned around and put her hands on her hip and looked at me. “Child doesn’t worry about that. I mean you’re mother just hated it here and Arkansas she always wanted to be far from me. I guess the only reason why she came down here every summer then. Was because you could know me then I guess after she thought you were old enough to stop those visits they just stopped all together. She always felt like it was my fault for not making our father stay.” She took a long sigh, “I mean I couldn’t do anything about daddy leaving us I was just seventeen. Mama had died by then and your mama was only one then the only thing I could do was get a job and work my tail off. I had to jungle school and raising a one year old who wasn’t my responsibility. She blamed me for a lot.” I looked at Aunt Margaret for awhile before I could say anything else. “She never tells me much. I guess some stuff I wonder about and don’t have anybody to ask but you.” She nodded her head. “Well I’m here for you and I may not be able to tell you everything about your mama or why she did some of the stuff she did. All I can tell you though are she loves you and she try her hardest to do what she think is right.” “I know she loves me. It’s just that…” I take a deep breath. “Have you ever felt that people just deal with you because they have to? I mean love is one thing and like is another. Do you think that somebody can love you without liking you?” She just nodded her head and kept scrambling those eggs in the pan. I didn’t say anything g else I left it like that with that sentence in the air. I guess we’ll get around to it again. The phone starts ringing Aunt Margaret went to go get it. I heard her, “Hello, oh hey Ali. Hold on second here she is. Jay this Ali come and gets the phone.” I got up from the table and went to stand by the wall where the phone hung and she put it in my hand and rubbed my back and walked back to the stove. “Hey Ali so can you come over and go to the movies?” “Hey and yea I can she said it was fine with her as long as I be back by eight o’clock tomorrow night.” “OK what time do you want Aunt Margaret to pick you up?” “She can pick up now, if that’s ok with her.” “Let me ask.” Before I could ask she just nodded her head. “First let us finish breakfast and take showers and everything tell her we’ll be over there around an hour and a half. So be ready.” “Yea Ali she said we’ll be over there after we get done with everything over her. So it’ll be about an hour and a half.” “Ok that’s fine with me. I’ll tell my mom, bye.” Then we hung up. I went back to the table and put eggs and a biscuit on my plate. Aunt Margaret put three sausages on my plate. She sat down and starts putting grape jelly on her biscuit with eggs on it. She glanced up and looked at me. “Well you never put jelly and eggs on a biscuit together or something. You’re giving me that look like wow.” I shook my head no. “No it’s not that mama always said that’s just country and that we shouldn’t do that.” Aunt Margaret just shook her head and start eating it. “Well you should try it. I bet you’ll start doing it for now on.” I start laughing. I start putting the jelly on the biscuit with some of my eggs. I tried it. I fell in love with the taste of it. “This is really good.” Her mouth was full so all she did was nod her head and smile. We ate the rest of our breakfast in silence like we’ve been doing lately. She got up and put her plate in the sink. “Jay, when you get done eating wash dishes please. Then please come upstairs and take you a quick shower because we can go get Ali. I know she is excited about this hardly ever getting to get out of the house.” I stop eating and looked at her. “Is she always that busy helping her mom out with her little twin sisters.” “Yea sometimes you have to leave your teenage or just your youth to do stuff that you really don’t want to do. I’m glad you came maybe she’ll get to do a little more teenage stuff and learn that you can still have fun while being responsible at the same time.” I didn’t say anything just put my dishes in the sink. I watched how Aunt Margaret walked up the stairs comparing her to mama. How the walk and act or very different. I mean mama doesn’t have the same meaning of life as Aunt Margaret and also Aunt Margaret seems way older well that because she is. She never had time to be young and do crazy things like mama got to.
We pulled up in Ali’s yard. Her sisters were outside playing with the water hose. I got out the car and Aunt Margaret was heading to the door she waved at the twins and walked in the house. I walked over there were they were at. One of them put the hose up at my face. “You want to get wet, her little squeaky voice said.” The other one said, “Tia you suppose to be nice to her.” Tia rolled her eyes at the other one, “Whatever Kia do you want to get wet.” Kia and her start chasing each other with the water hose and I walked away as unnoticeable as a possibly could. I walked into the house and Aunt Margaret and Mrs. Harris was sitting at the table. “Hi, Mrs. Harris, where is Ali.” ”Oh hi, Jayla I didn’t see you there she should be in her room go straight down that hall and pass two doors and take a right.” I