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“Shitshow.” She kicked off her heels and let them land wherever in the pile of shoes that had collected in the last week since she had cleaned.
“Buzzy, Mom needs a drink,” Harper stated and pushed her little sister off the couch.
Buzz got up and backed out of the room. “Wine, beer, something hard?”
“Did you have your big meeting today? The one throwing Harrison under the bus?” Agatha asked from her corner.
“Yes, it was as bad as I thought it would be. Old men are the worst,” Sera said.
“That’s why I never date old men, that and the gross factor,” Lucy replied and held up her bottle to Mabel beside her for a cheers but didn’t get one.
“Speaking of old men, where is yours?” Harper asked.
“Old man? He is six years older than you, you brat,” Sera said as Buzz came back into the room, her arms full of alcohol. Carefully she set the bottles on the coffee table and waved over them.
“Let me get changed, and I will pick then,” Sera stated, wanting to be comfortable when she got drunk. It was always better that way.
“Okay, but hurry back,” Agatha said. “Oh, and you got a call on the home phone, which I didn’t know we still had, but anyway. A Simon-something wants you to call him about your mom and dad. Very vague and intriguing.”
“It’s nothing.”
“Making it even more intriguing.” Agatha raised an eyebrow.
“When did you get parents? I don’t remember grandparents at Christmas, not once. Did they just send a card with cash, and you kept it? Mean, Sera, very mean.” Buzz took her time picking a beverage and flopped onto the couch with her wine cooler.
“But you have no family,” Harper said in shock.
“Yes, I do. Parents and a brother and a sister. I’ve just been estranged from them for years.” She turned to leave.
“Do we ever get to meet Grandpa and Grandma? Wow, I can barely say those words. Grandpa and Grandma,” Mabel said slower the second time.
“I prefer Papa and Nana,” Buzz cut in and took a drink of her wine cooler.
“No, you will not. They are nothing to us. Same as always,” she replied, and then they started to fight about rewinding the movie that had kept playing while they were talking and now had to be rewatched. Or at least some thought so.
Sera chucked as she went and changed for the evening. It seemed like it would be a night in with her kids. It was just what she needed, every one of them around her, distracting her.
She headed back downstairs after shedding her work clothes for jeans and a fun gray Grand Cannon T-shirt. This time, she could smell the lasagna when she made it to the first floor. Perfect.
Sera decided to leave her phone in her room. Harrison had called four times, but she wasn’t ready to call him back. After today, she didn’t need him yelling at her or tell her it was over. She had known when she went into the meeting today that their relationship was over.
