Chapter Twenty - Three

Elisabeth looked back at Nick who was covering his face and then looked back out the peephole at her sister. Was that her sister? Granted she hadn’t seen her in almost a year, but when did her sister get flaming red hair? Oh and that earring in her nose and oh my god was that a tattoo on her arm?

“What the hell?” Elisabeth muttered as she unlocked the door and opened it up to see her younger sister, Brandie, standing there with flaming red hair that looked like something that Kelly Osborune would do to hers, and nothing but black on, holding her bag in front of her, “Excuse me, do I know you?” she asked sarcastically as Nick tried to peek out of his hands, looking around her.

“Elisabeth, it’s me,” Brandie said as Elisabeth looked at her blankly, “Your sister.”

“No,” Elisabeth said as she held her hand up, “My sister isn’t walking around in Nashville knocking on peoples doors with no jacket on when it’s freezing and raining outside. My sister does not have this huge ass tattoo on her left arm, or a earring in her nose and my sister’s hair is light brown, and not the color of red on McDonalds’ straws,” she said as her sister rolled her eyes at her, moving her bag to her side, showing a pretty round stomach, “And oh my fucking god, my sister is NOT pregnant!”

“Oh shit,” Nick muttered as he sunk down so far in the chair that he fell onto the floor.

“Hello,” Brandie sarcastically as she looked down at her stomach, “You can’t tell I’m pregnant!”

“For the love of fucking god!” Elisabeth said as she turned around, walking into her apartment. Nick knew she was pissed. She never said ‘fuck’ or ‘fucking’ within a three minute radius. Brandie walked in, shutting the door behind her, and saw Nick peeking over the coffee table, looking at them, “My family is going to fucking hell! My brother is this flaming fag living in Las Vegas stripping -”

“Clay is a stripper?” Brandie asked as Elisabeth turned around, giving her a look.

” - my sister is this whore, my mother is a fucking whore -”

“Elisabeth - ” Nick said as she looked at him, “Yeah I know shut up,”

“Look I had to come stay somewhere. Mom was coming for a visit and I’ve been avoiding her and I haven’t seen her in the last month but I’ve started to get bigger and it’s harder to hide. I guess she was going back to Atlanta and going through Alabama and come see me but I can’t see her,” Brandie said as Elisabeth shook her head at her, “She can’t know I’m pregnant.”

“Dear god,” Elisabeth said as she started to walk into the kitchen, grabbing a bottled water out of the fridge, and walked back into the living room, “Do you know who the fucking father is?”

“Well -”

“Don’t tell me -”

“It’s one of four guys,” Brandie said as Elisabeth dropped her water, looking at her sister, “I was at this party and things got a little out of hand, and well, there was this big orgy and -”

“Shut up!” Elisabeth yelled as she looked down at Nick who was hiding behind a throw pillow. She looked back up at her sister and just shook her head, “You people wonder why I’m so weird and cautious about who I’m with and how I live my life. Look what the hell I’m surrounded by. Two whores that just fuck anybody and get knocked up. What the hell do you know about taking care of a baby? You can’t even take care of yourself!”

“And I thought I could come here and actually depend on you,” Brandie said as she looked over at Nick, “Obviously not since you’ve got your, whatever he is,” she said as Nick looked up at her and she looked at Elisabeth, “Are you two getting back together?”

“That’s none of your business. What are you planning on doing? Hiding out until mom gets the law looking for you?” Elisabeth asked as Brandie rolled her eyes, “I can’t believe you’re knocked up by, well, you don’t know who you’re knocked up by and mom -”

“And your mom is going to be looking for you,” Nick said a she looked at Elisabeth, making sure she didn’t blurt out about her mother being pregnant.

“Uh yeah,” Elisabeth said as she looked back at her sister, “What the hell have you been doing?”

“This is who I am,” Brandie said as Elisabeth rolled her eyes. That’s who she was? She looked like a drug addict, “Can I just stay here for a day until mom goes back home?”

“Uh,” Elisabeth muttered as she started cussing under her breath and walked over to the stairs. She looked back at them and started walking upstairs, stomping her feet as Nick looked over at Brandie, shrugging his shoulders.

“She’s fucking pissed,” Brandie said as she looked around the apartment and back at him, “Dad told me you were going to ask her. She say yes?”

“No,” Nick said as he stood back up, sitting down in the chair again, “Well she hasn’t really answered me yet,” he said as he looked over at Brandie’s tattoo on her arm, “That’s a cool tattoo though -”

“Nick!” Elisabeth yelled as Nick jumped, looking over at the stairs, “Come here!”

“Shit,” Nick muttered as Brandie laughed, walking around the sofa and sat down, watching Nick as he walked over to the stairs and walked up them. He hoped she wasn’t going to yell because he knew she was pissed as hell. Maybe she wanted to have hot passionate sex since she was so pissed.

He knew he could mark that off of the list of things she wanted him upstairs for.

“Yes?” Nick asked as he reached the top of the stairs and walked into her room to see her sitting on her bed in Indian style, crying, “What’s wrong?” He walked over to her, sitting down on the bed and wrapping his arm around her, for her to only shudder a little, wanting him not to touch her, “Okay,”

“My sister is a fucking whore. My mother is a whore. My brother is a fucking gay bastard. My father is a whore hopper and sleeps with anything, which I guess is what whores do -” Elisabeth said as she paused, moving her hands from her face, and wiped the tears from her face, “Can’t I divorce myself from them?”

“Doubt it,” Nick whispered as he moved over, sitting on the edge of the bed, resting his elbows on his knees and holding his hands together, “You can’t let their mistakes interfere with your life. You being with me has nothing to do with them. You’re not like them. Just think, you’re like in this big batch of oranges and you’re the best one. They’re all rotten or defected. You’re juicy and just right,” he said as Elisabeth turned her head, looking at him, “Yeah I know, bad joke.”

“I just want to strangle her. I mean how fucked up is it that my baby sister and my mom are both pregnant at the same time?” Elisabeth asked when they heard something and looked up to see Brandie standing in the doorway, “Shit.”

“Mom’s pregnant too?” Brandie asked as Elisabeth fell over on the bed, covering her face up, “Oh my fucking God! Mom is pregnant?” she asked as she walked into the bedroom and looked at Elisabeth, “Mom and Richard are having a baby?”

“Well,” Nick whispered as Elisabeth looked up at him, “I’ll let her answer that.”

“She fucked Daddy when they had dinner discussing you being a party animal whore,” Elisabeth said as she sat up, looking at her, “So yeah, like mother like daughter,”

“Whoa,” Brandi said as she backed up a little, “She fucked Dad? Nasty.”

“Oh yeah, you say that but yet you fucked four guys in one night and don’t know who the father is,” Elisabeth said as she shook her head at her sister, “I mean God. I’m the only one in this family who has any bit of common sense,”

“You’re also the only 23 year old alive that’s still a virgin,” Brandie said as Elisabeth gave her a evil look. Nick just looked in shock over at Brandie, not even looking at Elisabeth.

“So what? You’re the one that’s pregnant by someone and you don’t know who and you’re going to knock the same sister down that you want to put a roof over your head tonight for waiting to have sex with the right person?” Nick asked as he stood up from the bed, “Hell no, I’m not gonna let you do that. Get your ass out of here,”

“Nick -” Elisabeth said as he interrupted her.

“No,” Nick said as he looked back at Elisabeth and then back at Brandie, “Apologize to her or leave.” Elisabeth rolled her eyes at Nick. Her family always picked on her for being a virgin ever since her big mouth mother let it be known at Thanksgiving a year ago.

“Sorry sis,” Brandie said as Nick sat back down on the bed, “I just want to stay tonight and then I’ll go back to school.”

“Do they let you stay in the dorms pregnant?” Nick asked as Elisabeth looked up at her sister who looked down. She didn’t say anything. “Well?”

“No, I’ve moved out and I’m living with my boyfriend,” Brandie said as Elisabeth rolled her eyes at her sister. This had to be good here.

“Is he one of the possible fathers?” Nick asked as Brandie looked around, not saying anything again. Elisabeth just started to laugh hysterically, falling back down on the bed. Nick looked over at her wondering what the hell was going on and then back at Brandi, “Well?”

“No, he’s not,” Brandie said as Nick looked down, shacking his head, “Elisabeth, can I just stay here tonight?”

“Yeah, tonight.” Elisabeth said as she sat back up on the bed, and looked over at her, “But tomorrow you’re going back to school. Now, let me talk to Nick alone.”

“Okay, thanks sis,” Brandi said as she walked back over to the door, and began walking down the stairs. Elisabeth put her hands over her face, and just shook her head into them. She didn’t know what to say. There was really nothing to say.

“You okay?” Nick asked as he looked at her, “I wasn’t going to let her -”

“I’m used to,” Elisabeth said as she looked up, staring at her wall, “I’m so ashamed for you to even know my family with the way they are. They embarrass me so much.”

“Well, nobody’s family is perfect. Specially mine,” Nick said as he scooted over, closer to her, “Just think, one day, if you agree to marry me that is,” as he laughed lightly, “we’ll have a family and show them all what a family is supposed to be.” Elisabeth just looked over at him and smiled.

“I hope that’s true,” Elisabeth whispered as Nick leaned over, kissing her on the cheek, “Just damn, you know what I mean? My parents are going to have a stroke when they find out. Then they’ll bitch at me because I knew before them and I can’t tell them. I mean I should but, I just can’t, you know?”

“Yeah, I know,” Nick said as he moved a strand of hair behind her ear, “Let’s just go order some dinner or I can cook -”

“She’s pregnant. We don’t need to poison her,” Elisabeth said as Nick laughed sarcastically at her before rolling his eyes at her, “I’m joking. Come on, you love me.”

“I really do,” Nick said as he clapped his hands together, “I can go get some Mickey D’s?”

“With my car?”

“You hate me driving your car don’t you?”

“Yes,” Elisabeth said as she started to laugh at him, “You can drive it.” She whispered as gave him a little kiss on the lips, reaching over to get her keys off her nightstand, and handed them to him, “Here.”

“Thanks,” Nick said as he stood up off of the bed, “Double cheese burger meal, with just mayo and ketchup right?”

“Right,” Elisabeth said as Nick leaned over, kissing her on the cheek and smiled before walking downstairs, yelling at Brandie asking her what she wanted.

Elisabeth sat there on her bed, putting her hands over her face and taking a deep breath. Her gay brother wanted to marry a guy in Las Vegas. Her mother was pregnant by her father who she was divorced from and now her baby sister who was about to be 19 was pregnant and didn’t know the father was.

She really didn’t know what she could handle next.