While I was helping my dad unpack our belongings at the apartment, I remember taking out each photo and placing a sticker over my mother’s face. Each and every picture got a, and my dad asked me what I was doing. My reply was short and direct, “dad, I hate her, and I am glad she is gone.” All my dad could do was shake his head, he knew what she had already done regarding another man and that I was a smart kid.
After a couple of months with going back and forth, I had my first “light bulb moment” as some would say. My mother wasn’t really that giggly type, so when she was acting like a little school girl with laughter, I asked her if she was happy without a dad. She proceeded to ask me how I felt about them not being together, and without a pulse, I said I was not pleased about it. She then asked me how I felt about having a stepdad.
Right there at that very moment I knew how I had been feeling was correct, she left my dad for another man. I told her that I would be happy if she would just tell me why. Jackie said to me that she met this man at her job (when she was a cashier at some department store call Luskins) and that he made her feel beautiful and that all my dad ever did was trash talk her and mistreats her.
Now at that point in my life, my parents did an excellent job keeping whatever issues they had behind closed doors. The only fight I ever saw them have in my life was from my mom starting it as soon as he walked in from work. Either way, I wanted to meet this guy who is apparently worth leaving dad for and only seeing her children part-time.
That weekend my mother picked me up and said today was the day I would meet this guy, and if I recall correctly his name was Dave.
We pulled up at this house in Glen Bernie, Maryland, it was about 35-45 minutes from where my mom lived. I remember going into the house and being amazed at what I was saw. This guy had aquariums full of fish, turtles, lizards (iguanas, bearded dragons, etc.), an assortment of sneaks, in his walls.
Literally, when you walked into any room, the aquariums were on tables pressed against the cutout. This guy Dave had a place strictly for breeding mice and crickets for feeding. Then I met Dave himself, and this guy was an arrogant asshole who lived there with his brother and his brother’s girlfriend. All I remember of those two is the girlfriend, and that is because she was a hottie.
This visit ended up being a few hours due to my mom and Dave getting into this huge fight over her bringing me there. I recall him saying to Jackie is that she had to choose him or the kids.
Well, yet again she surprised me with how she did stand up for my brother and me.
Things are about to spice up, stay tuned…
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