Silver Stars on a Starless Night by Cheyenne M (story reading txt) 📖

eyes just the smallest bit to look at my mom but she was facing her window and I couldn’t see her face. I was behind Daniel who was in the driver’s seat, for one of the rare occasions in which he did drive. My mom moved a bit, readjusting herself, and I immediately shut my eyes tight and turned my face so that it was buried in my sweater, I couldn’t risk her finding out I was up, or they would stop talking.

 

Thus, this lead to the beginning of my eavesdropping, it became habit when Daniel was around so that we could figure out why he was pissy, when it was really for no reason, so that we could hear what my mom was saying, and all the lies he told her. We could do it all without getting in trouble. However, being in such close range to him, I was afraid he would figure it out.

 

“I don’t understand why you are so set on this. I didn’t want to leave my family, you are taking the kids away from the only family they have ever known.” My mom was frustrated

 

“Well I am their family. They have a dad which is more than they ever had before so stop your bitching. You are lucky that anyone was even considering you since you had two kids from a prior marriage. You didn’t hear me bitching about that and now you want to bitch because I want to give you a better life?” He was pissy again but that didn’t surprise me.

 

“Who says this is a better life?” She sounded like she was crying, I really hoped not. “Being torn from my parents, the kids from their grandparents, all because you don’t like them? Why?”

 

“Because.” He wanted to stop talking about it.

 

“That isn’t an answer, you are just avoiding the question.” She didn’t sound like she was crying anymore, she sounded pissed. “I’m fed up with you always having it your way, that is so childish. What next? You gonna throw a tantrum too?” She shook her head and turned to look out her window.

 

“You know what?! I am done with you! I took you in out of the kindness-”

 

“No!” I jumped, I’d never heard my mom yell so loud. “Stop saying that! You aren’t a saviour, no saint, no angel. So quit acting like it. We aren’t a charity case that you decided to let into your home. You didn’t have your own house to begin with. You lived with your mother and relied on the military. You don’t know how to make it on your own, so you didn’t “take us in” or save us from a worse situation. We had a place, yeah I was with my family too, but at some point I had been on my own, I had a husband, and I have kids. What do you have?” She cut him off repeatedly, she was tired of him trying to make things his way. She was shaking because she was so mad.

 

“F**k you!” That was his only come back. I knew there was nothing else he could say that wouldn't send her over the edge.

 

“Yeah, whatever.” My mom sat back in her seat and closed her eyes. I eventually fell back to sleep wondering about what would happen with all of us, only to wake up at our location.

 

We began moving our things into this new house. I was excited and to top it all off, we would be going to school this year, it did not start for a few weeks, but when it did that meant time away from Daniel. The house was small with a small yard, but I didn’t care, it was ours. It took a few days to get everything settled. Me and my brother shared a room as we did before. We didn’t set up the bunk bed though, upon arriving, we realized that it wasn’t going to fit. So we laid our mattresses on the floor.  

 

We had been there about two weeks, I noticed that my parents never seemed to fight while we were around. I didn’t pay much attention to it. However, I was shocked when I came into my parents room one morning to see everything packed up again. At first I thought that maybe they just had not unpacked some of it. Then I realized there was way too many things in boxes for this to be true. I had helped my mom unpack most of their things. My mom was in the bathroom, so I tapped on the door. 

 

"Mom?" I waited outside, Daniel would always get pissed if we walked in before knocking and recieving the answer. 

 

"Yeah?" her voice was thick, she had been crying. So I stayed outside the door. I never liked to see my mom cry. 

 

"Why is all your things back in boxes?" I glanced around again. "Are we going to have to leave again?" 

 

She blew her nose and I waited for the answer. I was rather dissapointed that we might be leaving. I had just gotten used to the ides of not living with my Nana and Papa. 

 

"Yeah Autumn." she paused "We... ummm." another pause. "We have to move to another place taht is closer to the school and where dad will be working." 

 

I accepted the answer without any more questions at that point. I still had a lot of questions, but she didn't seem to be in teh mood to talk about any of this. So I went to find my brother and tell him. He was outside playing with his action figures. I looked around the side where the driveway was, no car, Daniel was gone. 

 

"Guess what?" I said as I sat next to him in the long grass. I loved this spot, beneath the huge bushy tree, the grass was long and it was cool and calm. 

 

"What?" He said without looking at me

 

"We are moving again" I blurted it out, not because I was excited, but I didn't know how else to say it. He stopped playing with his toys, sat down, and just stared at the ground. Then all of a sudden his face lit up, 

 

"Are we going back to Nana and Papa's?" I hadn't thought of that. 

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Text: Me
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Editing: Me
Translation: me
Publication Date: 04-23-2014

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Dedication:
To my family and my fiance, they all helped me through the dark times. To my new dad who was the star in our family.