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He didn’t give a shit now.
“I never wanted to get married,” his mother yelled back. “My parents forced that. I’ll never forgive them for it.”
This was news to him. He hoped his father didn’t know it, but something told him that might have been the case. Maybe that was what the final straw was for his father to move away and not try to win his wife back.
“You were an adult. You could have said no,” he said. “You’ve done what you wanted to your whole life.”
“I was pregnant and felt alone,” his mother said. “I didn’t know what to do. I wasn’t even sure I wanted to have a child.”
He wasn’t surprised to hear that and wasn’t going to be hurt by those words either.
“Lucy!”
He walked out of the den and saw his grandmother coming down the hall. They were yelling loud enough that the neighbors probably heard what was going on.
“What are you doing here, Grandma?”
“I ran to the store to get groceries. I haven’t gone to the hospital yet. Grandpa was having tests done and I’d just be sitting around. I know why you’re here but not Lucy. And I sure the hell don’t know why she is starting crap with you and saying what she did.”
“You always took his side,” his mother said. “If not his, then Sean’s.”
“Because you’re always the one making the wrong decisions,” his grandmother said. “What are you doing here? I had no idea you’d be here or I would have told you not to come because Sawyer was here.”
“So Sawyer gets preference over me?” his mother asked.
“At this time, yes,” his grandmother said.
“I came here to make some food for you. You looked thin when I saw you last night. I brought some food and have been cooking.”
His mother looked like she was ready to cry and he bet it had more to do with her not being put first like she always had to be.
“I appreciate that, Lucy. I haven’t been home much and have been eating at the hospital. I knew Sawyer would be here this weekend so I went to get some food to have but appreciate that you cooked too.”
“I don’t know why no one told me he’d be here.”
He couldn’t believe his mother just said that. “As you said, the phone goes both ways.”
“We haven’t talked in five years,” his mother said.
“Fifteen,” he corrected, not surprised she didn’t know that.
“That’s even worse,” his mother said.
“That’s right, Lucy,” his grandmother said. “It is. You left and you never tried to make amends for what you did to your son as a child. Whatever you may feel toward your father, me or Sean shouldn’t be taken out on Sawyer. He was innocent of this all along, regardless of the fact you weren’t sure what to do when you found out you were pregnant.”
So everyone knew about that but him. He shouldn’t be shocked over it.
Probably a good thing no one told him and it made him realize that was why his father and both sets of grandparents worked so hard to give him a good life.
“I made the best of things,” Lucy said.
“No, you didn’t,” Sawyer said. “You did what was best for you and no one else. I’ve got nothing else left to say and things to do.”
He moved back into the den, his mother leaving and going to the kitchen. He could hear his grandmother and mother talking in there in hushed tones while he worked.
It was best to push it from his mind until he heard his mother yelling at his grandmother. Cursing at her and saying it was her fault everything turned out the way it did.
That was it.
