So the past two mornings I have woken up with this massive bloody nose along with the biggest headache and my teeth hurt so bad. Tuesday morning I stuck though it and went to school, thinking it was just the common cold. Well yesterday when I woke up it was a little worse and I felt like complete shit.
When i went to the doctors there just said I had a pretty bad sinus infection, they also gave me a tip to maybe start suing a humidifier in my room because having the sinus infection along with really dry air wasn't helping out so much. Anyway, when I got home i took some medicine and fell asleep for 3 hours, just a straight up dead sleep. around 3:00 my cousins comes through the door, Skylar, Avery's older brother just yelling as loud as he can that he is staying the night tonight because his mother doesn't want to come pick him up. Knowing that my grandmothers best friend was staying the night, I knew right away that the `12 year old boy would have to sleep in my room tonight, and with working the closing shift tonight, I wanted a lot of sleep which I wasn't going to get.
9:00pm came around and nannie told us to get our stuff together and get our butts to bed, being the adolescent boy he is, he argued to stay up longer, blah blah blah. I was laying in bad as he thumped his way up the stairs, he comes through the doors, lays softly on the bed and says "Nat-Nat, do you ever just think about him?" Knowing just who he was talking about, I said "There's not a day I don't." We went on about a 20 minute conversation about my grandfather and all the memories we had together with him, shockingly he nor i cried. Then to go on further, just breaking my heart even more, basically saying what I said in my last blog, he said "Oh and I have something else nat, when you go off to college this year, it's gonna suck, your my favorite cousin, please don't tell anyone that, but you are. I just don't want you to think that because you are too old we can't have spend over nights at nannies." and I said "No matter how far away I will be, or how old I am, I will never be to told to spend time with you." He turns over and goes to bed. I never realized how much of an impact I had in my cousins life until now, and until now, I've never hated the thought of college so much.
9:00pm came around and nannie told us to get our stuff together and get our butts to bed, being the adolescent boy he is, he argued to stay up longer, blah blah blah. I was laying in bad as he thumped his way up the stairs, he comes through the doors, lays softly on the bed and says "Nat-Nat, do you ever just think about him?" Knowing just who he was talking about, I said "There's not a day I don't." We went on about a 20 minute conversation about my grandfather and all the memories we had together with him, shockingly he nor i cried. Then to go on further, just breaking my heart even more, basically saying what I said in my last blog, he said "Oh and I have something else nat, when you go off to college this year, it's gonna suck, your my favorite cousin, please don't tell anyone that, but you are. I just don't want you to think that because you are too old we can't have spend over nights at nannies." and I said "No matter how far away I will be, or how old I am, I will never be to told to spend time with you." He turns over and goes to bed. I never realized how much of an impact I had in my cousins life until now, and until now, I've never hated the thought of college so much.
My heart literally just broke into tiny little pieces.....WHY NATALIE WHY!
ReplyDeleteThat is such a beautiful piece Nat. I love your writing!
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