Chapter 19 Aunt Lori And The Three Minions
Aunt Lori And The Three Minions
My aunt Lori is my dad’s twin sister. Balayaged brown hair with green eyes and smaller.
And she’s what you can call the cool aunt.
She’s widowed, almost like dad, so they really only have each other left.
But instead of two girls, she was blessed with twin boys and a little girl, and somehow, in spite of that, she has a lot of energy.
Too much sometimes, if I’m being honest. Probably to hide how she feels and to overcompensate for her children so that they don’t remember they don’t have a father, and she doesn’t have the love of her life…
But anyways, you might be wondering… Why is Emily more present in my life than my dad’s twin?
For a simple reason. The Wests live a block away from us, where the rich neighborhood meets the poorer one, a road separating them, and since Uncle Josh loved Seattle so much, Aunt Lori has never gotten the courage to leave, even if it means she has to do everything alone, since my grandparents live in Austin.
Why the random backstory drop? She’s standing in the kitchen talking to my dad.
“Aunt Lori!” I almost squeak and go to her for a hug.
“Maddie! Where have you been?”
“Where have I been? Girl, where have you been?” I pat her arm, and she turns dead serious. “I’m so sorry, I mean Aunt Lori, ma’am-”
“How was dinner?” Alana walks in, Lindsey behind her, and I feel like a deer in the headlights. “Oh, did mom and dad tell you their story again? I swear to god, old people just keep telling the same stories over and over-”
“I’m sorry, why were Joey and Emily telling you about their story at a dinner in which Alana was not in?” Aunt Lori runs her fingers through her caramel hair, the other hand resting on her hip.
“Because I am da- In a rela- I can’t even bring myself to say this.” I take the deepest breath in. “I’m sort of, kind of, pretty much dating Jake West.” I wince, bracing myself for impact.
“Well, it was about damn time!” She claps excitedly, and I slowly open my eyes. Then she starts playing the actual song Celebration by Kool )
Me: The bar is in hell I see
Evil Spawn: why? you’re a high stakes woman
I blush furiously.
Me: Shut up before we go back to nothing
Evil Spawn: you know we were never that
Evil Spawn: night Brown
I might be totally fucked.