Love My Crazy by Rachel Medhurst

Author:Rachel Medhurst [Medhurst, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B01BQMJMMM
Published: 2016-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Mum hugged me slightly, one arm coming across my back. That was as far as she would get with human contact. That was okay, though, it was a good sign. They’d given her a huge dose of meds to get her balanced again. She was able to look at me a couple to times. She’d even given me a smile, too.

We sat round the kitchen table and ate Chinese take away. Dick had been kind for once and treated us.

“How are you feeling, Mum?” I asked, looking at the clock. Tiff was due round soon.

“I’m okay, love, I just need to stay on the meds.”

She spoke the words she’d rehearsed in her brain. The doctor had obviously told her the exact sentence before she left the crisis house.

“Are they coming to see you tomorrow?”

I was annoyed I’d missed them. They had dropped her back not long before I got home and left her with the Dick.

“Yes, they are,” he replied, butting in on our conversation. He had a tendency to do that. Although, give him his due, he was still there. He must care about her.

“Good. I spose they’re going to monitor your meds?”

I reached over for a spring roll, only to have Dick snatch it first. I glared at him. How bloody rude. I didn’t care that I’d had most of them, I bloody liked them, okay?

“Yeah, they…”

“I was asking Mum, Dick, unless you’re my mum now?”

Our truce had only lasted a couple of hours. We were back to bickering. Sometimes it felt like he was younger than me. I wouldn’t have believed that he was almost forty. He was a weasel…you know, thin…with thin hair, fingers and toes. He creeped me out and he knew it. In fact, I reckon he did it on purpose to try and make me leave.

“Yes, they’ll be coming round every day,” Mum answered, not even berating me for being rude.

Maybe I should take advantage of her state to wind Dick up a bit more. I looked at him but he shook his head. He was right, it wasn’t fair on her. I’d forgotten for a second that she was still pretty ill and our arguing wouldn’t help her get better. Bloody grown-ups, they were so annoying.

“Tiff is coming round soon. You don’t mind, do you?” I looked at my mum as I asked.

It was still her house and not the morons. Something crossed my mind. Where would they live when they got married? Oh man, he better not be moving in here with us. I would kill him before long, I just knew it. They were a reserved couple. They didn’t stay at each other’s houses all the time.

My mum shook her head as a knock sounded on the front door. Perfect timing, I must have been psychic. Jumping up, I rushed from the kitchen and let Tiff in, taking her straight up the stairs to my room.

“Can’t I say hello to your mum?” she gasped, falling onto my bed after our little jog.

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