Lacey and I followed Landon back to the house. I was glad he would be going in the house first. I don't know what kind of mood mom was in so I didn't want to go in first. Lacey talked on and on about going to dads. I was excited to but I think Lacey has a case of daddy's girl going on. Good for her.

"Stay behind me when we go in." Lacey said.

"Okay" I whispered.

We followed Landon up to the front door and when he went in it all looked normal and I didn't see mom anywhere. That is a good sign. The downstairs looked normal and smelled normal so we made our way up the stairs and that is when I noticed something was up. My door was open. Landon stepped in first and Lacey and I followed. My room was empty. The only thing there was my clothes, bedding and my backpack. She had taken my bed, dresser and desk. Everything that I had, had since I was younger was gone.

"Well looks like I am sleeping on the floor." I said laughing.

"This is bull shit and the bitch better not have touch our rooms." Landon said.

"I think it is only me she wants gone." I said.

"You leave and I leave." Lacey said.

"I might join the two of you if dad finds a little bigger house. No offence but I am not sharing a room." He said.

"I am going to go check my room and then go find our mother." Lacey said.

"I think I am going to clean my room." I said giggling. I can't help it I think this is funny and I can't believe she didn't do this before now.

"I don't see what is funny about this." Landon said.

"A week ago you would have thought this was funny. But I get it I do. I mean we have grown up but she still hasn't. I am honestly surprised it took this long for her to do this. I am beating that she either burnt it all or gave it away. But you know what, I don't care. I really don't I wasn't taking the shit with me and an air mattress isn't that much money so fuck it. My clothes will hang in the closet and I will sleep on the floor. She is mad and I get it." I said still chuckling.

"You are one weird little dude." He said shaking his head. He left and went to his room. There rooms must have been in tact because I didn't hear any yelling or slamming of doors. 

I hung up all my clothes and found an old shoe box to put my boxers and socks into. She couldn't take my bedding because I had bought and paid for it. She must of known that because it was all sitting in a pile on the floor. I made a cozy pallet on the floor and set my alarm on my phone because the bitch took the alarm clock. I didn't have to get up until six so I was glad for that. I was however getting hungry again. I needed to make a trip to the attic to get my supply of food. I could hear arguing going on somewhere in the house but wasn't worried about it. I climbed out my window and carefully made my way to the vent that went into the garage attic. Once inside I gathered all my stuff and headed back to my room. I should have left some of it there. I made it back to my room and put all the stuff in my closet. I was going to transfer the lock to my door to the closet and start putting all my stuff in there.

"Mom gave all your stuff away so I called dad with her standing right there and told him what was going on. She agreed to buy you a new bed and a dresser by Friday. He said if this shit continues then you will be moving in with him. I told him we would all be moving because we will not stay with her." Lacey said coming in my room.

"I really don't need a bed or anything. She will find another way to try and hurt me or fuck with me." I said.

"You may not want or need anything from her but this is more to punish her then it is anything else. Wait until she tries to use her phone. Dad shut it off when he ordered you a new one." She whispered and then giggled. I was cool with all that but part of me didn't like it.

"That is just going to give her another reason to hate me. I don't care that she hates me I really don't I stopped caring a long time ago but that only means she is going to do something else to try and hurt me. If she touches my things I will get the police involved. That is why my truck stays on the road and my shit is always packed. I don't trust her. I had an alarm put on my truck when I bought it. They place that did it laughed at me. But it's mine and I worked hard for it so I want to keep it nice." I said grabbing a can of soup and a bowl and spoon from  my food tote.

"What is all that stuff?" She asked.

"My food and my own dishes." I said.

"Sad, so fucking sad. You know what don't eat that I am ordering pizza. Do you like pizza?" She asked.

"Yes, I love pizza. Make mine with everything but fishes. I hate fishes on mine. I love lots of meat and veggies no fruit or fish." I said laughing.

"Okay so two supreme and one cheese pizza coming up." She said taking out her phone and tapping her fingers away on it. 

"What's going on in here?" Landon asked walking in.

"She's ordering pizza." I said.

"Cool, I want a supreme." He said.

"They will be here in about a half hour. I am going to go shower so that I am out when it gets here. Landon do you still have moms credit card?" She asked.

"Yep, I will get the pizzas." He said smiling. I really didn't like that idea. I don't want that lady buying me shit.

"Suck it up, Luc. She owes you." Landon said.

"She might own me but I still don't like taking anything from her." I said.

"Okay, look this is what I learned in the last couple days. One this house was bought and paid for by dad. Two she gets almost eight hundred dollars a month from him for us. Three she has never worked a day in her life. Four you gave her two hundred a month to live in a room. And five she had spent or taken anything that was for you from dad and used it for herself or us. So one fucking pizza is not going to put a dent in what she owes you." Landon said.

"That shit doesn't bother me. I sometimes think I am better off because of the way I was so called raised. I am not afraid to work. I understand what it is like to have to pay bills and I also know that shopping for your own shit is nicer when you know you worked hard for it. Take my truck for example. It may not be as nice as yours or Lacey's but it took me almost two years to save for it and  when I finally bought it I was so fucking happy. I love my truck. It might be a pile of shit to others but it's my pile and I love it." I said smiling.

"I think I want to get a job." Landon said.

"I am going to be looking for a second one so I can let you know whose hiring." I said.

"You don't need a second job do you?" He asked.

"I may not have to hand over the two hundred to her every month but I am still saving for college. I want to live off campus and I want to make sure at least one full year is paid for. If I get some scholarships and stuff that will help and I won't have to work a bunch of hours on top of school." I said.

"I hope that you are happy you little son of a bitch. You are always taking what is mine and I am so tired of it." Mom said interrupting Landon and I.

"What the hell have I taken from you now?" I asked.

"My phone isn't working. Do you know why?" She demanded.

"Because it was mine in the first place and your ex-husband my father is done paying for your shit?" I said.

"You spoiled, selfish little brat." She yelled before slapping me across the face. It stung but I wouldn't let her know that.

"You know what mom. You are the biggest baby I have ever meant. You are the selfish one and you are mean and hateful." Landon yelled as he pulled her away from me.

"Landy baby, please don't leave mommy." She said looking up at him with tears in her eyes.

"I am not falling for it. Not this time. I can see right through your act." He said looking right at her.

"I see he's brain washed you." She snapped.

"Grow up mom. Or I will move the fuck out of here. Lucas is your son. If you don't want him then you don't want us either. We are not your trophies and we will not do your bidding for you anymore." He yelled.

"Whatever, I don't need you." She said laughing and leaving the room.

"She is crazy." I said.

"I think you might be right. I think I might call grandma and have her come for a visit." He said.

"I haven't seen her in forever." I said trying to remember the last time I saw her.

"She thinks you live with dad." He said.

"Oh well that explains a lot." I said.

"Yeah mom take us to see her every summer and tells grandma you refused to come. I will set her straight before she shows up." He said taking out his phone and heading downstairs.

How many lies has that woman told people? I wonder how many of my memories are real. I don't think anything would surprise me now. I decided a shower sounded nice and if I hurried I could get it done before the pizza got here.

Lacey and Landon were both in my room when I made it back from my shower. There was pizza boxes on the floor with plates, napkins and the sodas. 

"I talked to dad, he is going to start looking for a bigger house tomorrow. I don't trust her and I don't even want to know what she is going to try next. So if you see or hear of anything with like a five or six bedroom for sale let me know and I will tell dad or you can call him." Lacey said before taking a bit from here pizza. 

"Actually, I do know where a house is." I said.

"Really is it close?" She asked.

"Yeah it is about two blocks away on it's own little road. It's the Ralph's old farm house. The one that those contractors bought and rebuilt. They added a bunch of stuff to it and it is all updated. They even took one of the barns and turned it into an apartment." I said.

"How do you know so much about it?" Landon asked.

"I have always loved that house and one of the contractors is a really good customer and he and his wife let me go out and see what all they had done to it." I said.

"How many rooms does it have?" Lacey asked while doing something on her phone.

"I  think it has one huge master suite downstairs on the first floor. There was three nice size rooms on the second floor and he was talking about adding two up on the third along with a game room. The two up on the third would be a little smaller and have slanted ceilings but those two rooms came with the game room."  I said.

"What about the apartment?" Landon asked.

"It was either two or three bedrooms with indoors parking." I said.

"How does that work?" He asked.

 "You park next to the kitchen and living room. Well there is a wall there but there is enough room for a bunch of cars and shit." I said laughing at the face Lacey made when I said what I said.

"Dad said he will call about it tomorrow." She said putting her phone down. Our dad text? Cool.

"I think I know what place your talking about now. Beth Ralph used to live there. They moved to one of the Virgina's a couple years ago. I've been to that house." Landon said.

"I was friends with her brother in grade school, Westley. I went there a couple times for birthday parties." I said smiling at the memory.

"I don't remember either of those people." Lacey said.

"Westley was sent to a different school right before we went to middle school because he was losing his hearing. He parents wanted him to learn how do use sign language and stuff." I said.

"Oh I remember him. You got into your first real fight because someone was making fun of him." She said.

"Yeah it was with Marcus Young and you beat the shit out of him." Landon yelled almost bouncing in his spot on the floor.

"I didn't beat him that bad. I got a lucky shot to his nose and it bleed. But I don't like it when bullies pick on people just because they can. And Westley was a really nice person. I think him getting picked on was the biggest reason his parent took him out of our school. People would make fun of the way he talked and shit like that. I hated it so just imagine how he felt." I said shaking my head sadly. People could be cruel.

"I was one of those people. I still am I guess. But I think it is time to grow the fuck up and start treating people like I would want to be treated." Landon said.

"Can you say, after school special commercial?" I said laughing. Lacey joined me and soon Landon was laughing with us.

"You know what I mean." he said still laughing. This felt good it felt right.

"Yeah, I do." i said smiling at him. 

"I say we play a little game call who knew. What we do is go around and say "Who Knew and you tell everyone something about yourself." Lacey said.

"Like, who knew that I could graduate this year if I took a test for the state and passed it but I don't want to miss out on senior year." I said having never told anyone about this.

"No fucking way." Landon said.

"Yeah, I call bullshit." Lacey said. I got up and went to one of the bags that was in the attic and got out the letter and handed it to them.

"You mean you could have gotten out of here and chose not to." Landon said.

"I could have started college but it was the community college here and I would have still been living here. And at the time Harvey and I were planning on going to Florida together so I turned it down. I didn't want to ruin what we had planned plus I really did want to finish my senior year." I said.

"They would chose what college you went to?" Lacey asked.

"Yeah because technically I would still be in high school and would have walked with you guys anyways. I would have used my college classes as both high school and college credits. I thought that was a confusing mess and didn't want involved." I said.

"I don't think I would have done it either." Landon said.

"What if you did both. What if you went to both schools and got to still do your senior year?" Lacey asked.

"I might do it then. I wouldn't mind having a few classes that challenge me a little more. I am in all AP classes now and some of them are senior classes according to Ms. Walker." I said.

"I thought you said you didn't have any classes with Harvey." Lacey said.

"I didn't, he isn't in AP and I have always been. He's smart really smart but he chose to stay in non-AP classes." I said.

"He doesn't sound so smart to me." Landon said.

"He is really, but he also worked was in basketball and wanted free time." I said.

"You work and still managed to get this offer. I would see if they would let you do what Lacey suggested." Landon said.

"I might, I will have to talk with Ms. Walker. Plus I need a parent to sign the papers because I am a minor." I said with a sigh.

"Dad can sign those papers." Lacey said grinning.

"Oh yeah, I wasn't about to ask mom she wouldn't let me do that." I said.

"If they were sending you to China or something she would have signed in a heart beat." Lacey said laughing.

"Okay, someone else's turn." I said laughing.

"I'll go, who knew that, I am actually still a virgin." Lacey said turning red.

"BULLSHIT" Landon yelled making me jump.

"Truth brother, Geo made up those stories about me in tenth grade and nobody would listen to me so I went with it." Lacey said with a shrug.

"Why didn't you tell me I would have pounded him." Landon said.

"I did tell you and you called bullshit on me so I gave up."She said looking kind of hurt still.

"Well maybe me and Geo should have a little talk." He said sounding pissed.

"Why bother every guy that has tried walked home with sore nuts. I am not giving it up to someone that I am not in love with." She said.

"Good for you." I said.

"So tell me little brother are you or aren't you?" Lacey asked with a wicked smile on her face.

"I am not." I said feeling my face burn.

"You want me to kick Harvey's ass?" Landon asked.

"No, I did love him and what we did was great so I think I am okay with it." I said laughing.

"Bottom or top?" Lacey asked and Landon looked interested also. Man why do people need to know these things?

"Both" i said.

"No shit." Landon said.

"What, you don't see me as a top?" I asked.

"No not really." He said chuckling.

"I can top." I whined.

"I'm sorry I just can't picture it." Landon said now laughing hard.

"You are so mean." I said pouting.

"I agree with Land, you don't seem the type." Lacey said giggling.

"I didn't say I did it all the time. But I have." I said shaking my head.

"Okay, Landon your turn." Lacey said still giggling.

"Who knew that, I really have never cheated on any of my girlfriends?" Landon asked.

"My turn to call bullshit." Lacey said.

"I haven't, they always think I am cheating because I flirt a lot. But I don't correct them so that is how I got the rep for being a cheater. I don't believe in cheating, I think it is really wrong. But this is high school and I really don't care. When I am ready to find the one I will fight to keep that one." He said. That was deep. I never knew Landon could be so deep I thought chuckling to myself.

We played for another hour or so while we ate out pizza. I learned a lot about the two of them and I think they learned a bit about me. I still didn't completely trust them but I like where things are going.