THE SPAWNS

Spray Them With Holy Water

Chapter XXXVIII—Cole

© DarknessAndLight

I drove off from Jayden's house thinking that maybe I should turn around and go sit between Jay and Mai and spray them with holy water anytime they tried making out.

But I guess it was kind of useless. If my bestfriends wanted to have sex, they would have sex. There was nothing I could do against it. And there was nothing wrong with it, ultimately. It was just... I don't know... not unfair... But like they knew the secret recipe to KFC's fried chicken and I didn't. I could go on with my life really well without knowing the recipe, but the fact that my two bestfriends knew it and not me would make me feel out of the loop. I don't know, it kind of made sense in my head.

"So, those two are having sex now?" Dakota suddenly said, snapping me out of my thoughts.

Ugh. "No they're not," I automatically answer.

"But they will."

My hands tightened around the steering wheel. She'd been silent during the whole car ride, why did she need to speak to me now? "It's a safe bet to say that they will at one point in their lives have sex."

"With each other."

"With other people. With their own hands. Who am I to make assumptions?"

She rolled her eyes and stared out the window. "Whatever."

I stared at the road in front of me. "Yeah, whatever."

I was fed up. I had enough human interactions. I wanted to be left alone with my cat. I didn't want to have to deal with humans anymore.

When I could finally see my parent's place, there was a discernable car that shouldn't have been there.

I hoped to god it was someone here to pick up Dakota. By the way she suddenly seemed to wiggle in her seat made me think that it was.

I parked the car and then we grabbed our stuff from the trunk and headed inside.

When we walked in Kingston was sitting on the couch, with my parents standing around. Yuck. Maybe his pants were pregnant now.

"Hey fucktard," Dakota greeted him. How lovely.

He just smiled at her. Obviously he was used to it. "Hello sister dearest."

"Here to take me to military booth camp?"

"Something like that," he answered.

She nodded, almost reluctantly. "Let me go grab my stuff," she said and headed for her room.

Mum and Dad weren't saying anything. It was kind of strange.

I went up to the more pleasant cousin. "Thanks for coming through, and sorry if I was a bit of a dick on the phone."

Kingston shrugged. "It's fine, you were right. Problems don't just go away if we ignore them."

Dakota came back just then, with her bags swung over her shoulders. "Well, thanks for nothing everyone."

"Wow." What a shitty person. She wasn't even slightly trying.

"I hope you have a nice summer," Mum said, ignoring the rude comment.

"Yeaaah," Dakota just drawled as an answer, waved and walked out.

Dad let out a whistle, like a phew glad that nutjob is out of the way kind of whistle.

I followed my cousins out. Not because I wanted to prolong the goodbye, but because I wanted to make sure Dakota was really going to leave.

"What an enlightening few days," she said when she had reached her brother's car.

"I'm not hugging you goodbye. I'm no even a little bit sad that you're leaving."

"Yeah, me neither."

"Get your shit together," I simply told my cousin.

She gave me a tight lip smile. "Right back at you."

And finally she closed the car door behind her.

I stared at the car driving away.

Good riddance.

Some people were rough on the outside but gentle on the inside. Some people needed a lot more time to get accustomed to, but turned out nice in the end. But some people were just genuinely bad people. Maybe she would grow out of it a one point. Or maybe she would always stay this despicable bitter person. She would decide. I just knew that sometimes, being nice to someone would never be enough.

I wasn't my cousin's keeper. I could have tried harder if she had shown even a glimpse of regret for some of the crap she'd said, if for one second I felt like she wanted my help. But she hadn't. And you couldn't help someone that didn't want to be helped.

Sighing, I went back inside.

My parents were just standing there a few feet from the door, looking at me eagerly.

"It's a good thing you're back. We need to talk," Mum told me.

What now? "If you want to kick me out of the house because you guys are about to have an orgy, I'm sorry, but you'll have to take a rain check because my ass is staying in my bed for the next twenty four hours."

"No, no orgies," Dad answered.

Super. "Well then, whatever it is, it can wait."

"Afraid not. Well, not really," Mum said.

I threw my head back, annoyed. "Uuuuuuugh."

"Sit down Cole, we have to tell you something."

They both looked serious. Like really serious. And they were holding each other's hands and there was something wrong. Something wrong had to be happening. Oh god, did one of them have cancer?

"What's going on?" I asked as I sat on the floor. Never touching the couch again, nah ah.

"I'm not sure how to say this..." Mum trailed.

Dad squeezed her hand and started to say, "Son, here's the thing, when a man and a woman love each other very much, they give each other a special kind of hug."

Unbelievable. "Wait, are you trying to have the sex talk with me?"

"No, it's is just the premise, like the intro to the actual dissertation," Dad said.

"What's going on? Seriously, you guys are freaking me out..."

"I'm pregnant," Mum blurted.

I blinked slowly. "You... what?"

"You're going to be a big brother!" they exclaimed together, overly happy.

Again, I blinked. "What?"

This wasn't good news. I loved my parents, but they were too immature, too weird and unstable. I loved them, but I didn't wish them on anyone.

With me, they'd focused so much of their attention on having another kid that they forgot about the one they already had. So maybe that now they would have a new one, things would be different, but honestly I doubted it. They weren't horrible parents, but they weren't good parents either.

And all I was thinking was, this wasn't the first time. It wasn't the first time that Mum was pregnant and hopeful and happy before everything turned to shit. What made her think that this time would be any different? I didn't want to see my parents miserable again.

"We've already started decorating his room. It's a boy. You'll have a baby brother. The doctors are all saying that everything looks good, so we're really hopeful that I'll be able to carry him through term," Mum was rambling.

"You know what. It's great that you're happy," I got up. I tried to smile. "Congratulations Mum. I'm just really really tired. If you don't mind I'll go take a nap and then you can show me everything."

Her smile dropped a little. "Oh, alright."

I smiled more. "It's really great Mum, Dad, congratulations."

I knew I was being a party pooper while they were happy and I wasn't, but I couldn't help it.

I was drained. I was tired. I wanted my bed.

What did they want me to say? I didn't have the energy to fake being happy anymore.

So I just left them there and headed for my room.

I let myself fall down on my bed. Fluffy walked up to me and came to lie down on my chest. I stroked his back. I could feel him purr against me. It was a comforting feeling.

My mother was pregnant. Unbelievable. I thought they had stopped trying. Obviously, I was wrong.

What was up with people having sex all the time? Seriously, holy water everywhere for everyone.

I might need holy water too because I closed my eyes and pressed my fingers to my lips, thinking back to Beth's kiss.

I just needed to wait a few years, and I could do it again.

Yep. Holy water.

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