"Where have you been all day?" Grandfather asked as soon as I walked in the house.
"What's it matter to you?" I walked right past him and up the stairs.
"As a member of this family, you will not talk to me that way." He said sternly.
"Start treating me a little different and I will return the gesture." I said as I stopped half way up the stairs and turned to face him.
"Don't you tell me what to do young man. As long as you are living in this house you will inform someone of where you are at all times. Do you understand me?" He asked.
"Just to make you happy, grandfather, I was with Georgie picking up her mother from the airport and then Mac took us out to dinner. And I did tell someone, I told Ned because I needed to borrow his car." I said as I slowly walked back down the stairs until I was on the bottom step a few feet from him.
"You are just like your mother. Disrespectful and cocky." He said as he turned to go into the livingroom.
"You know what? The only thing I will say to that is 'it runs in the family'. The only reason that the two of you don't get along is because you are so much alike." Usually I would have flown off the handle if someone had talked about my mother that way. But I had been realizing just how much of a 'non-existant' mother she had been. I still didn't like it when someone trash talked her, but I had to hand it to him. He knew exactly how my mother was.
"That is nonsense." He said fuming.
"Have you ever heard of Karma, grandfather?" I asked not really waiting for a reply, I knew he knew what it was. "I happen to be a firm believer in it. All of these things you have done in your life and all of the people you have wronged will one day catch up to you, and it will be too late. You'll get yours back ten fold." I said as he stood their speechless. I turned and went upstairs to my room. I grabbed a few things that I would need for the night and an outfit for tomorrow. I would finally be leaving this place. Tomorrow couldn't come soon enough. As I ran down the stairs on my way out, Grandfather was back in the foyer heading towards the kitchen.
"I'll be back tomorrow for the rest of my things." I said not giving him enough time to ask me where I was going or say a word at all. As I walked out of the house I was satisfied that I hadn't freaked out on him and yelled, because I would have said something I didn't mean and would later regret.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Back at Georgie's House~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It was kind of late so I quietly opened the door and was greeted by Felicia.
"Dillon, come here I need your help." She whispered and waved her hand in her direction. I walked around to the front of the couch and saw Georgie laying there asleep. "Mac went out to the grocery store to pick up some thing that Georgie wanted and other things that I know she'll need and she came down here and was waiting for you to get back and fell asleep. Can you help me get her upstairs? I'd let her sleep here but she would be really sore in the morning." She said looking at me. She had that concerned 'mother' look in her eyes, one that I never saw from my own mom.
"Yea, I'll get her." I wispered as I put one arm under her neck for support and the other under her knees. As I lifted her up she layed her head on my shoulder and mumbled something but I couldn't understand what she said. She was still very light, even now that she was showing, so it didn't take much to carry her up the stairs. Felicia followed me up and pulled back the covers on Georgie's bed as I laid her down and pulled the blankets up on her. I moved a piece of hair out of her face and kissed her forhead before leaving the room. Felicia stayed up there for a couple minutes longer once I left. I went back down stairs and started pulling the cusions off of the couch and unfolding the bed. Felicia came back down with sheets and a comforter and helped me get the bed straightened out.
"I can see it in your eyes." She said as she tucked the blanket in on the side of the bed. We both knew I could make it myself but I welcomed the help.
"See what?" I asked as I stood up and looked at her.
"That you care for Georgie? That you won't hurt her." She said.
"That's true, but how can you tell?" I asked. She suprised me with how intuitive she was.
"I can see it in your eyes, that and I can tell by the way you look at her and the way you held her when you brought her upstairs. The way you are so gentle with her. I can see it in your eyes that you love my daughter." She said as she sat down on the couch that Georgie had just been sleeping on ten minutes before. She hadn't changed yet and was still in the outfit she wore out to dinner. She was very beautiful, I could tell where Georgie had gotten her beauty from.
"I do love her, I have since I first saw her. It took her a while to come around and realize that I liked her, she was so stuck on Lucas, which was beyond me. Even once she did start feeling the same for me, that I felt for her, it still took her a while to come around. She was always guarded for some reason. And then Mac didn't like me, well doesn't like me so that put a lot of stress on her. She really wanted Mac and I to get along, and so did I, but that was obviously not going to happen." I said as I sat down at the end of the bed.
"Don't worry about Mac, he'll come around, he is just very protective over Maxie and Georgie. I can tell that your intentions are good and as much as I don't like what has happened because you are both so young, I can atleast sleep better knowing that you will take care of my daughter." She said looking at my sympathetically.
"I will take care of her, and believe me, we did not expect this to happen. I don't regret it at all, but we didn't go into anything carelessly. The doctor that Georgie and I went to when we first found out told us that even with all of the different methods of protection nothing is ever guaranteed. Which I would be the first one to tell people that nothing is full-proof unless you just wait." I said as I lightly laughed at the irony of what was happening.
"Well it is going to take a while for Mac to come around but he will, but I will be here if you want to talk." She said with a sheepish grin.
"I will, and thanks for letting me stay here. I really want to be with Georgie as much as possible." I said
"I know you do." Felicia said as she stood up and walked over by the front door and turned of the light before heading upstairs. Everything after today would be different. I quietly vowed to myself to get Mac to like me. It meant a lot to Georgie. Even if I had to follow him around until he gave in, I would do it.