The Bachmann Family Secret by Damian Serbu

Author:Damian Serbu [Serbu, Damian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: NineStar Press, LGBTQIA+, YA, teens, first romance, gay, ghosts, clairvoyant, warlock, magic, grief
Publisher: NineStar Press, LLC
Published: 2020-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Magical Revelations

I raced inside the house the minute Dad parked the Blazer in the driveway upon our return home from the funeral-cum-nightmare. To no one’s surprise, we rode home in the Bachmann tradition of total silence when faced with a crisis, even if I longed for Mom or Dad to speak, anything to indicate we could grasp the situation and survive. The quiet gave me too much time to think and come up with horrifying scenarios.

I shoved the front door open, greeted Darth with her wagging tail, and hurried for the stairs but Dad’s voice halted me before I got more than three steps. “Don’t go anywhere. We need to talk.”

Maybe I was wrong. Maybe I didn’t want him to take charge because my shoulders tensed while I thought about what may come next.

I turned around to see Jenn right behind me, stopped in her tracks too.

“Go into the living room, now.”

Even Darth stopped halfway up the stairs and spun around at Dad’s command. I followed Jenn and her into the living room, where I plopped onto the floor, leaned against a chair, and patted the ground next to me for Darth. Sitting here kept her off the furniture and gave me the comfort of her presence for whatever was about to transpire. Jenn sat in a chair next to me, and Mom and Lincoln filed in to take seats on opposite ends of the couch. Dad walked in with a frown but gave a nod toward our obedience, pulling out the piano bench for himself.

“I don’t know what in the hell’s going on,” he spoke with calm but also conviction. “I don’t know what in the hell to do. I wanted to bury my father in peace, to say goodbye in the respectable manner he deserved, but…” he trailed off and shook his head. “The last thing I need is for this family to fall apart. I mean us.” He gestured around the room at each family member. “The five of us. We’d better pull together and damn quick. I’ve no idea what Alice and Harold or their kids will want. And we can’t do anything about their decisions anyway. But everyone in this room had better come together.”

Despite his tone and words, I heard a note of hesitance in Dad’s voice, maybe even a glimpse of fear. Wow. Shit. I’d never seen Dad betray himself with those emotions.

“So what should we do?” Lincoln asked before the silence became too awkward.

Dad sighed and held up his hands. “No fucking clue.” His hands slapped down to his lap. Something else new to me—Dad dropping the f-bomb.

“That’s enough.” Mom threw her hands in the air and stared at my father to shut him up. “It won’t solve anything to sit there and cuss. Why don’t you start by telling us what you do know. You’ve kept a secret from us. The rest of this family has. I know there is a story here. For too long, this family hid a secret.

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