“It was actually more than I could ever imagine.”
“Don’t sweet talk me baby.”
“I’m not…it was the perfect first time and I wouldn’t have wanted to experience it with anyone else but you. Waiting was the best thing I could’ve ever done.”
“Well in that case,” Adair threw the cover off their naked bodies. “Round seven.”
DECEMBER 25, 2010
Sabine didn’t live on campus but really close to it in some of the apartments owned by the university. So, the property was basically still considered a part of the school. Everyone was practically gone while she and a few other students walked the ghost grounds.
Sabine: Merry Christmas! I hope you’re having a good time with your family.
Adair told her he had a big family and would definitely be spending the holidays home. He missed his mother and brother which she found cute. Sabine wished she came from that type of background rather than what seemed like a good upbringing to some. Money wasn’t everything and although she’d alwaysgotten everything she wanted, there was a great shortage of the things she needed.
Adair: I am baby. Merry Christmas. Wyd? You having fun with your family?
Sabine may have told him a little white lie about going home for Christmas. She didn’t want him to activate his superpowers and try to fix what was deeply broken. This year, Sabine just would rather be alone.
Sabine: Yea, we’re having a blast.
For twenty minutes she awaited his reply only to receive nothing.
Once Sabine arrived home, she dropped all her belongings by the door and went straight to the bathroom cutting on the tub faucet. She wanted a soothing bath, something fulfilling to eat then a nap.
An hour later, she was thoroughly relaxed and waiting on her food—sushi to be delivered. She kept checking her phone periodically to see if Adair texted but nothing.
Bzzz! Bzzz!
“Oh boy,” she sighed, as mother flashed across the screen. “Hello mom.”
“I still don’t understand why you decided to stay at school for Christmas honey.”
Parthenia couldn’t hold water to save her life. In the beginning it was strange how she adapted and loved her father’s mistress however over the years, it simply became something everyone knew of yet didn’t talk about. Parthenia loved spending time Marie even against her mother’s wishes. It started as Charles just taking her along on trips to visit Sabine then somehow, she’d bonded with his then secret lover.
Unconventional wasn’t even the word when it came to their family.
“I just don’t feel like driving and…”
“And what?”
“I’m not in the mood to pretend.”
“Sabine, what your parents have going on has nothing to do with?—”
“It absolutely has everything to do with me and you don’t have any idea how seeing you let daddy come and go as he pleases affected me! It’s so beneath you mom! He goes home to Karen every night. He’s never once given you the courtesy of even an overnight visit. My Christmases, Thanksgivings, Easters, everything was spent over there when I just wanted you! I wanted to spend the holiday with my mom and even now. You’re not calling for me to come home to you, you are calling because I have to show face at their stupid annual Christmas party where I have to act like someone else birthed me. Love on her, smile at her, put on this act and the fact that you don’t care all for the love of a man!”
“How…” Marie took a deep breath and Sabine felt awful because she knew she was hurting her mother’s feelings. “How your father and I manage our relationship is none of your business. We parented you the best way fit for his career. You’ve never had a worry in the world?—”
“His career…oh my—” Sabine’s eyes rolled to the ceiling. “It’s none of my business yet I was a part of the circus. Five years old and I’m confused why I have to call some woman mommy in front of cameras while you coach me that it’s okay!”
“You know…I don’t think it’s such a bad idea that you stayed at school for break.”
“Mom—”
“No, let’s try this conversation again in a few days and hopefully you’ve come to your senses and find the respectfulchild I raised because I don’t know who the hell I’m speaking with right now.”
Sabine took the phone away from her ear realizing her mother had hung up on her. They’d gotten into it in the past but that was by far the furthest that Sabine ever expressed her feelings. She loved her father and mother, hell even her stepmother, however the way they went about bringing her into the fold of their dysfunction wasn’t fair nor did they consider how it would affect her mentally and emotionally.