Easter egg
Standing there it's surreal,how could I have imagined this people ever being together in the same room without shouting the entire roof down throwing insults at each other that would make any child feel embarrassed sometimes it even comes down to the case of complete genocide and bloodbath on another level,but now this people are indeed shouting but they are also singing,and laughing and there might be a genocide I see uncle Ben hugging the life out of Walter,Uncle Ben is a huge man a compliment after 25yrs of working and running a timber company before an accident took that away from him,he has been bitter since but right now looking at his face and seeing the bright blush on his cheeks I Know he's stupidily drunk but he's also happy-he's happy,and Walter who is his niece.Walter is in his 30's,he lost his father some years back who was Uncle Ben's younger brother,he has always blamed Uncle Ben for it,he said he should have been there to protect his little brother,you may say this might have been childish but you can'not blame a child for that-everyone grieves in their own way,so they would always fight and hurt each other and keep apart when you could see in their eyes they needed each other far beyond spoken words,words that could never be spoken.
I turned and saw aunty Kimsy dancing and twirling around the room graciously the lemon light reflecting off her hair,she has always been depressed for some reason because of that she had fallen into the support of drugs as a result she has been a victim to cases of drug abuse....every corner I look someone,everyone has a smile on their face,a genuine smile.. talking dancing,stuffing food in their faces even the house help Mira has gotten her own share of the joy,my cousin Richie,Tommy,shalla uncle Finnese everyone,from here I could spot my Bestie Courtney talking with my lil bro Luke(he is a year younger than me),these guy's could never been seen together wow,they seem to be laughing and giving each other eyes....o.kay I probably should stop whatever is going on later,my bro and my bestie nah nah..and grandpa too am sure he's well into his 90's and his still showing grandma some moves-real classy,what they have is truly special being able to be with each other at such age,they are the only ones that never fight the happiest couple I've ever seen.....a figure struggling to climb the top of the parlour table catches my attention-its aunty Kimsy she's holding a glass of wine as she's shouting "everyone I love you,I love you Walter,I love you Whitney,I love you Richie,love you Judy,love you Paul love you Finnese" a huge smile on her face,we don't even have a Paul in the house! Looking at aunty Kimsy now her smile gleaming brightly on her face the shades of light bathing and enhancing all the features in her face-she takes the posture of an over dramatic opera singer and just there I see her for how she truly is-strong and beautiful
Our 5yrs old last born Daniel,doing is own share of jumping he's not overly happier than usual but he has always been an overactive and gleeful little runt so he's definitely in his zone right now...I was smiling at him when my eyes caught Mom and Dad arms around each other moving from side to a side with a slow rythem-dancing,they'v had a disagreement with each other lately at first I thought it was not something really serious but then things started getting really cold between them and I guess at some point I thought they were going to spli...No I should not think of that now i know everything is alright again..Today I turned 18,last year April 17,I turned 17 on a 17 crazy right? Now today am turning 18 on an Easter,and everyone is together again I guess it's a prayer I've been praying for so long what a blessing I've been given and even though it's something for just today something has already started growing in me filling up a sphere so perfectly that has been there for so long and even though if all this would be gone by the time I wake up,I will Carry this feeling this joy with me into tommorow and the day after and the day after that until it's ready to hatch and grow and spread touching everyone as much as possible because I know one day I'd have this forever.
I think a tear started rolling down my face then because my Mom looked at me and called out and walking towards me "Lexa honey why are you crying dear" she knelt down a little and cleaned off the tear before they rolled down my cheek,an action that striked me as overly excessive I mean we are almost the same height! Everyone's attention now suddenly seems to be directed at me as they all came closer "Lexa are you okay" "what's wrong kid" "are you alright baby girl" my eyes scanned their faces and I saw nothing there other than genuine concern and care and sympathy-none of them have ever truly shown interest in how I felt and how I was actually doing before,the very thought of this sent more tears to my eyes and uncontrollable sorbs escape my lips "I'm really sorry...it's just I've never seen you all this happy before..you are always fighting and and arguing and being gloomy and it never ends sometimes..." I burst into some more tears making my dad hold me and hug me "oh my little girl" we stayed like that for some while before he pulled out and looked in my eyes and said "am sorry" and I knew then he was referring to him and mom.I heard aunty Kimsy's voice from one side "Honey we are sorry buh even though we are shit sometimes" dad eye's her definitely for the use of that language she sticks her tongue out at him this made me laugh... "and it seems everything is falling apart,maybe because of us but everything will always end up being fine and even though we are always at each others throat and it may even seem we intend to kill each other sometimes" she intentionally pauses and allows Uncle Ben who's hands where currently around Walters throat to stare at each and then everyone else,they both shrugged...geez "we will always pull ourselves at of the storm together...do you know why?" I shook my head "yes..maybe...no.." "because we are family" her shin raises a bit higher and I could see in her eyes she was remembering all the time my Mom stayed with her through those hard nights..nights she thought she wanted to die...nights she wanted to die..the help Uncle Ben has given her...the support this family has been to her to everyone and finally I could see clearly "we are family and we always stick together" uncle Ben shouts...."bring it in kiddo" oh hell am going to be crushed in his arms,but before I could escape that inevitable hug the entire family gangs in on me holds me in place and we all shared a hug together as the tears continues to roll down my face "I love yo'all" ...the hug continued for what seems like forever and I felt something inside me come alive,yeah you know that egg I was telling you about.....I think it had just hatched.
