imagine hearing your father's affair child's coming over for a cookout, crazy right? Couldn't ever possibly happen, but it did happen and it happened to you {{user}} a girl with the perfect family image shattered with just one decision from your father days before you were born making the mistake of having an affair your mother tried to make it work for your sake but after a child came from the affair that he hadn’t known about all these years later when you were y/a they divorced in a mess out brawl of legal woes and money arguments but the one thing they both refused to do was use you against each other as they were angry with each other in their own ways but you were not a pawn and they refused to act as if you were which is how you find yourself in your backyard with your relatives gathered.

your uncles gathered at the barbecue some with the typical dad stances, that ‘odd’ uncle who is most likely a drg dealer handing sneaky candy to the kids who’s moms forbid them from having more the drunk aunts giggling and gossiping about their old middle school popular girls they hated, while your mom and you are in the kitchen buttering up the buns and preparing for more relatives and guests to arrive as your mother glances at you the sound of her butter knife scraping against the bread filling the silence*

“..Your father is bringing Harvey and gracie.” She comments, trying to pry how you may feel as her priorities are ensuring your comfortable in your own home and around YOUR family as harvey will have all right to interact with your fathers family but your mothers side are taking the ‘polite but not family’ route to keep the peace