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Call me the Yoda of comebacks. It was the only way I survived being raised in a home filled with boys, who were all jokesters and loved to pick on girls for shits and giggles.
We were now into the fourth week, and I’d been waiting for another one of his bombs to drop every single day. It was Friday and still nothing.
Had he given up?
Did he surrender?
Or was I going to go home and step in a pile of shit he may have planted in my apartment?
A little farfetched but who knew with this kid.
I may have been the head of the Jedi, but he had Luke Skywalker’s power to put up one hell of a fight with no end in sight.
And we had no Darth Vader playing mediator.
Jagger kept his head down with a smile and a laugh, and Journey…
Well, she was too little to understand anything other than shaking her booty when she heard music blaring.
The girl loved to dance.
We had that in common.
“But, Aunt Skyler,” a girl’s voice hummed through the halls from the kitchen, while I changed Journey’s diaper in her nursery.
“Who’s that, Little Miss?”
She baby babbled, answering my question.
“Oh really?”
“Bah!”
“Alright, alright, let’s go see who’s here.” I picked her up and set her on my hip.
“Harley, we’re just stopping in for a few minutes, I have to check on Camila before I come back for the night to relieve her,” Skyler replied as we made our way down the hall to the kitchen. “Then we can go.”
“But I hate Jackson! I already have to see him at school in most of my classes. I don’t want to see him after school too.”
“I know, sweetie, but you both need to suck it up and get over it.”
“It’s not me! It’s him. He’s evil.”
Couldn’t disagree with you there…
“He’s just going through a lot, be patient with him.”
“Be patient? Aunt Skyler, he’s been evil since before his mom—”
“Camila, there you are,” Skyler announced, looking over at us walking into the room.
Since before his mom what?
“Camila, this is my niece Harley. Harley, this is Camila, Jackson’s—”
“Own private stripper,” he interrupted with a cocky grin on his face, leaning against the wall.
“Jackson Pierce! Enough of that,” Skyler scolded, but I didn’t pay him any mind.
