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A Hard Day's Night Chapter 9 Teaser

Finally, after an hour and a half Masen and Ben joined us. Masen wanted me to follow after him so I did. When we got to the kindergarten fishing pole activity we ran into Angela. I don’t really know why she was here, but whatever.

She came walking over to me and I noticed that her mother hung back with some other teachers. “Hi,” she smiled.

Masen jumped up, “What are you doing here?” he asked.

She laughed at him and then pulled out her phone. “I just wanted to show you a picture of Masen I took a couple weeks ago in class.”

She pulled up the picture of him with two big stickers on his face for Newton Outfitter’s. “I told him let’s take a picture of you and show it to your mother,” she laughed.

I was slightly bothered that she was taking pictures of my son, but I wasn’t going to say anything now. So instead I settled for, “Well, that’s Masen. He will do anything for attention, that’s why he’s my last child,” I laughed.

She gave me a timid smile, before heading over to her mother. “Why the hell is she taking a picture of your son?” Rose whispered.

“I don’t know. She wanted to show me a picture of Masen horsing around in class. I wonder if Mrs. Weber asked her to take the picture so I would be embarrassed by Masen’s behavior and ground him.”

“What a bitch,” Rose huffed.

 

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Tanya came walking down the pool, wearing white heels and a black bikini—if you could call it that.

“Where the hell did you get that!?” Edward yelled at her.

She rolled her eyes and ignored him. He turned to me his eyes blazing. “Bella, did you buy that shit for her?”

I shook my head. “No, I’ve never seen it before.”

“Demetri bought it for me,” Tanya smiled.

“You look like a fucking hooker. Why the hell are you wearing heels?” Edward wasn’t reacting well to her little outfit.

“Tanya, go back and change into something more appropriate.” I used my stern mom voice.

“Are you serious?” she asked.

“Tanya, you heard your mother,” my mother said.

Tanya rolled her eyes and walked back toward the hotel. “That is fucking ridiculous, Bella. That boy’s buying her that kind of shit now?”

“Edward! I don’t want to hear that language coming out of your mouth, young man.” Esme scolded.

Edward scoffed and Esme cocked her eyebrow up. “Sorry, Ma,” he mumbled.

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I traced the ink design on his right arm. I still wasn’t into wrestling and I didn’t want to bother him by changing the channel. Masen soon came running down the stairs in his Angry Birds pajamas. He sat next to me on the couch. He pulled out a small black foil package and dangled it in front of me.

“Momma what’s a Trojan?” he asked pronouncing the name wrong.

“What the…?” Edward turned.

Masen sat there his brown eyes staring at us for a response. He was such an innocent boy. “Where did you get that?” I asked with a shaky voice.

Edward and I haven’t used a condom since we were teenagers. He didn’t like the feel of having a barrier in between us. I’ve been on the pill for years.

“Masen Thomas Cullen, where did you get that?” my voice raised.

Edward was still in shock with his mouth opened and his eyes wide. “I found it in the bathroom. I was trying to find a Band Aid because I cut my finger, and I found a box of these in the drawer. When I opened one it didn’t look like a Band Aid.”

I looked at Edward for help. How were we supposed to explain this to our son? “Mase, that’s like Saran wrap. Saran wrap protects the food,” Edward coughed, “and that protects other things you are not old enough to know yet.”

“Why?” Masen asked.

“Mase, I will tell you when you are older. Please go get your sister and tell her to come downstairs now,” Edward growled.

 

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“Just go away, Masen!” Tanya screamed.

“You go away! No one likes you!” Masen retaliated.

“No, I think you have confused me with yourself!” Tanya yelled.

I slammed the black oven door, fed up with fighting. Their bickering hadn’t stopped since the minute Tanya got home. All Masen wanted was for someone to play with him— it didn’t matter if it was Legos, a Wii game, even coloring— all he wanted was that interaction with someone.

I was making dinner so it was a little hard to play Legos with him at the moment, so I thought it would be a great idea when Tanya walked in. I should have known better. Tanya hated our family. I didn’t understand why, but she did. She always made it known any chance she got. I felt frustrated and angry every time.  

I walked out of the kitchen and into the family room. Masen was sitting on the floor with his box of Legos and Tanya was filing her nails on the brown leather couch. “Tanya, why can’t you play with your brother for a few minutes?”

She looked at me with narrowed eyes. “Why don’t you play with him?”

 

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