I stood there looking for Kym and finally spotted her....Bleach blonde hair, extremely short jean shorts, a tie dyed spaghetti strap shirt and these clog high heal things....she hadn't changed a bit.
She saw me and ran over to me gushing....my baby girl....ohh my God I missed you...look at you, you have gotten so big!!! I didn't say anything. We walked in silence to get my luggage and sat in silence the entire drive to her house. after we had gotten out of Memphis and into Mississippi I noticed how rural everything was getting, when she said we were about 20 min away from her house I started crying, THERE WERE COWS IN PEOPLES FRONT YARDS!!!!! but the homes looked nice so at least there was that.....or maybe not. The closer we got the less houses and more trailers I saw, we pulled into this long gravel driveway and at the end behind a wall of trees was a very old, very dirty trailer that looked like it was falling apart.....I didn't want to get out of the truck, just looking at it made me feel like I needed a shower. I knew I was going to have to get out at some point so I did, Kym said...watch out for that third step, its breaking, your step father was supposed to fix it but hasn't gotten to it yet.......GREAT!
I walk into the trailer and the place smelled like dirty wet dog....a second later I saw why....three dogs came running out of the bedroom and jumped all over Kym and then tried to jump on me, I wasn't having any of that, I yelled NO! Kym got angry and said I wasn't to yell at the dogs, I told her she was gonna have to just deal with it because I wasn't allowing dogs to jump all over me, and if it was an issue she could just sign the papers for Richard and I to get married and I could be on the next plane back to California.....she shut up. She showed me to my room....it was soooo small, I had an air mattress on the floor and a very small closet and a small window that was up toward the ceiling that you couldn't see out of....it was like a jail cell. Kym said after I was settled I could come help her with dinner. I unpacked my two suitcases and my closet was FULL....what the hell was I going to do with the rest of my clothes when they got there? Where was all my stuff going to go? WHERE WAS I GOING TO PUT THE BABY WHEN IT CAME? I sat there and cried for another few minutes then composed myself and walked into the kitchen. Kym then told me about a little bug problem they were having....apparently the entire trailer was infested with ROACHES! yes you read that correctly....roaches!!! *BARF* She said I had to sleep with cotton balls in my ears to make sure they didn't crawl in and I had to keep my room spotless.....no problem, I would just hold a rag in my hand and spin...job done. Kym said that my step dad was going to have the problem handled before the baby got here....I just kept thinking...If I can figure out a way I WONT BE HERE when the baby gets here.
After dinner I had decided to take a shower and go to bed, I was exhausted. I went into the bathroom and it was a gross mess, the trash can was over flowing, the toilet had something growing in the bottom of it and the shower/tub was thick with hard water build up and soap scum and the calking was mildewed. No shower for me that night. I went to bed...with cotton balls in my ears.....and cried myself to sleep...I was cretin this wouldn't be the last night I did so.
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