Chapter 35-The Inappropriate Stepbrother
Helanie:
Something about this guy claiming to be my stepbrother just didn’t sit right with me. I kept glancing over at my mother and then at my father while I sat in the passenger seat. My new, mysterious stepbrother sat in the backseat.
We were driving back home in our own car, and my mother had insisted that I sit up front with my father.
"Why did you call yourself her stepbrother?" I heard my mother ask the guy named Kaye, which is how he had introduced himself to us.
"I don’t know. Did I?" he responded.
"Kaye! You must have forgotten. You’re her real brother. Your father and I gave you away because we didn’t have the means to take care of a child when you were born. You’ve been living with my sister, but you always visit us," my mother explained. The moment she said that, a memory of him visiting us resurfaced.
However, I still felt a strange, heavy unease with him being in the car. I steadily turned my neck to pass a quick glance and instead stared at my mother as she quickly moved in front of him. Her hair got in the way.
Two beautiful purple roses rocking her hairstyle.
Wait! She had one rose earlier, where did the second one come from? Did she pick it up from the venue? My mom was very particular about the rose in her hair. But now she has two.
"Oh right. I remember now. Wait! How did I forget?" Kaye suddenly straightened up, startling me with how tall he was.
"Or were you just playing a prank on us?" my father asked, and that’s when the three of them started laughing. I thought maybe I should laugh too.