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Chris burst into laughter.
“Louis, don’t be gauche,” my father said from the far end of the table.
“That’s not an answer,” I pointed out.
“Lou isn’t wrong,” Chris said delightedly.
“We do not use nicknames at the dinner table,” my mother corrected.
Chris grabbed his wine glass and took a sip, amused.
“Well, Mother? Did you and Father want to have kids?”
“I think what he’s asking is if you had kids for the meme?” Chris joked.
“I said enough, Christopher!” Mother demanded.
My mother’s eyes bounced between Chris’s and mine, both of which stared at her.
“There are two of you, aren’t there?”
“What does that have to do with anything?” I asked.
“Yeah, you could have hit jackpot the first time and taken another roll feeling lucky,” Chris replied.
“For God’s sake, just be thankful we made the decision we did and consider it enough.”
“You didn’t actually want kids, did you?” I said realizing they hadn’t.
“We were expected to have children if you must know. We come from a time when we did what was expected of us. Do you think I wanted to ruin my body by pushing the two of you out of me? I was once a beautiful woman, no matter what I look like now. Your father was lucky I chose him.
“So I don’t want to hear either of you complaining about what we did or didn’t do. We had you. Be grateful. My God, when did that stop being enough?” my mother concluded taking a big swig from her glass.
She rang her bell.
“More wine,” she shouted before one of the servers exited the kitchen with a bottle.
I didn’t know what I was expecting to hear when I asked the question, but it certainly wasn’t that. Considering how quiet Chris was for the rest of the night, I don’t think he expected it either.
“Thank you for dinner,” Titus said as we got up from the table. “It was, again, very good.”
Neither my mother nor father acknowledged him. Normally I would have told them off for it, but I didn’t have it in me tonight. My fight was gone.
A lot had happened today. I got my parents to admit they never wanted me, I might have opened Pandora’s box by convincing Titus to take a DNA test, and I may have ruined things with my best friend by kissing him. I was ready to bring the day to a close.
The only thing that made me feel better was that tonight, I didn’t have to shiver while pretending to be asleep to get Titus to hold me. As soon as we were both in bed, he wrapped his strong arms around me.
“They’re reading the will in the morning,” I reminded Titus.
“Oh yeah?”
“You won’t have to be here much longer.”
Titus replied by holding me tighter. I liked his response. It made me think that I hadn’t completely ruined things between us. I knew that wasn’t true. But, for the night, it was nice to pretend.
Chapter 6
Titus
