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Chapter Twenty-Two
“Your mother did what?”Buzz asked, trying to hear Louisa above the cacophony of all her sisters talking at once in the kitchen.
Stepping away from the non-stop noise, she headed into the living room. Today the sisters had gathered on the day Sera and Harrison were coming home with the kids, and as a surprise, they were going to move as much of Sera’s stuff into the new house as possible, thus forcing Sera to actually move in with her husband.
“She was having sex with Brett and Ross at the same time,” Louisa repeated with the same monotone she had used the first time she had said it; Buzz hadn’t heard wrong. She still couldn’t believe it, but she hadn’t heard wrong.
“Wow,” was all she could think to say. Judith seemed to be so conservative and against sex in general.
“Can you come and get me? I can’t stay here.” Louisa sniffled into the phone.
“Yes, give me ten, and I’ll be there,” Buzz said as Harper looked in the living room at her.
“Thanks. I’m not at the house, so call me when you get close.” Louisa hung up.
After slipping her phone into her pocket, she told her sister, “I’m going to get Louisa.”
“Is that wise?” Harper asked.
“Maybe, I don’t know, but Judith was just caught fucking the kid Louisa liked, so I can’t not go get her. No matter what happened between me and her brother.” Buzz sighed.
Harper gave a concerned look before telling her. “Tell her I told her guys were shit.”
Buzz nodded and headed out the door to bring one more sister back to the fold. The drive was short, and Louisa was waiting a block from her house with nothing on but a light sweatshirt and jeans. She was shivering in the chilly afternoon sun. The winter weather was too cold for the outfit, and Buzz was mad once again at Judith for letting her daughter leave without a jacket on, though it sounded like the woman had been busy when she left.
Louisa climbed into the Jeep and said nothing to Buzz as they headed back to the house. As they approached, she saw nothing but an ant trail of people carrying boxes the two blocks from the old house to the new house. Never was Buzz so glad that two of her sisters had husbands to help with this endeavor. It was a cold day, but the trip was short, and the chill made everyone move faster.
“We’re moving my stepmom out of the house. It’s a surprise for her wedding,” Buzz explained.
“Wouldn’t she want to move her own stuff?” Louisa watched as Cliff carried a giggling Maby back into the Lovely house over his shoulder.
“No, she likes us too much to actually move herself. We’re kicking her out.”
“My mom doesn’t want me anymore … she never did. She didn’t even care that I heard her say it.” The kid shrugged, and her voice cracked.
“Mom’s suck. My real mom didn’t want me either, or any of my sisters. Sera’s our stepmom,” she admitted, though she probably shouldn’t have.
“I didn’t know that.”
“You’ll figure it out once she gets here; she’s very different from the rest of us. But now, let me introduce you to everyone who is here.” Buzz jumped out of the car.
At the door, they nearly got run over by Kaine carrying more than he could see around. The man was already tired of this and had offered more than once to pay someone to actually do the moving, but nobody else seemed interested in wasting money. It was much more fun to see him scowl and have to work.
“Kaine is married to Harper.” Buzz pointed at him. Then in the house, she pointed to Lucy and Maby, who were sitting on the couch. “The twins; don’t tell them they look alike,” she whispered.
“One is my children’s lit professor, or at least I think so. I only went to one class,” Louisa stated, as if she ran into professors every day in their homes, arguing with their identical twin.
Then she introduced Louisa to Cliff and finally Agatha, who was shoving Emma’s things in boxes so fast the room was nearly empty already. Taking the girl to Harper’s room, she found a sweatshirt for her to wear and informed her she really didn’t have to help. But after all the teasing she had already witnessed, she said she would have more fun helping than moping around.
Harper only gave her a nod and insisted that everyone call the girl Lou, which everyone did after an hour. No one questioned who she was, not even Maby, who was her teacher.
Within an hour, the moving was interrupted by the bride and groom’s arrival at Lovely house. Sera caught Harper and Maby holding Lucy down, trying to make her eat something that had been found in Violet’s room.
That prompted Sera to immediately tell her new husband, “This is why I cannot move out. They’ll kill each other!”
The sisters let their captive go so that everyone could hug the travelers. Harper was the first to tell the older woman, “Mom, we are kicking you out.”
“What did I do?” Sera was already on the verge of tears.
