Since here’s for the word stuff and your other blog is for arts.
A funny thought because Chrissy’s parents, her mom specifically, is the worst. 20 something year old Chrissy having to deal with her mother constantly asking if she’s seeing anyone in the most snide tone. Like she’s amusing herself picturing her daughter with no one because she lost out on what’s his face. I don’t wanna say his name it feels like I’ll get cursed.
Or what I imagine Eddie says often when he who shall not be even thought of is brought up. Anyway.
Chrissy has weekly dinners with her parents it’s once a week, she promised her little brother, and her mother always brings up the relationship thing and brings up how her hair looks or asks about her diet, whatever, she’s just a horrible person but specifically, she likes to mention all of the people that Chrissy had been acquainted with before who have gotten married, who are having children, who have wonderful husbands or fiancé’s or partners. So Chrissy decides, because she is in her doesn’t give a shit era, to text Billy with an idea. The idea makes Billy laugh so hard he falls out of his seat. He’s in, he is so in and he wishes that he could video the moment they do this. And he does, he takes one of Eddie’s old vests, a raggedy old denim and hooks it up with the camera in the pocket. Hidden.
So Chrissy calls her parents and she tells them, directed mostly to her mother, that she’s going to bring who she’s seeing over. They make her happy, they make her feel safe, she feels fulfilled and happy and loved. She does text her brother to find himself elsewhere that day because things are gonna get awkward in that little boy ain’t stupid.
They’re gonna show up maybe 20 minutes after Chrissy is having dinner with her family, she says they’re going to be a little late. Her mother kind of looks at her and says what do you mean they and then the doorbell rings. In comes Steve Harrington, and here her mother gets a little excited because Steve, while he might have veered off the path, comes from a wealthy well to do well respected family, he’s tall and handsome and polite, and she imagines he’ll probably get some corporate job from his father because of course he will right? So he meets her family he schmoozes they love him. He sits.
And here is where Laura notices that there are two other plates out. Chrissy got the table ready who else did she invite? Now she begins to sweat. The doorbell rings again and inside comes Billy Hargrove, he throws them a hello nice to meet you and gives Chrissy a firm kiss on her lips. Steve had given her a kiss on the forehead. Chrissy tells her parents that Billy is going to college, he has a high GPA, he’s athletic and he makes her happier than she’s ever been. He and Steve make her happier than she’s ever been. Her father starts drinking and her mother’s heart starts to palpitate.
She wants to yell, outraged, but before she can the doorbell rings one final time, and Laura stares at the chair with the final empty plate and wonders who else could possibly be any worse than the bulldog that is Billy Hargrove and his whoring reputation with older women. She ought not to have wondered that.
Walking into her house, a nightmare a tall 6 foot nightmare with scraggly long hair torn up jeans a leather jacket and a cut off T-shirt showing the expanse of his belly. She sees the tattoos, piercings, she gets faint. Philip drinks just a little bit more. Steve raises a hand to wave to Eddie, Billy juts his chin in a silent what’s up, and Eddie smiles brightly and goofy, lifts Chrissy up into the air and gives her a long hard open mouth kiss which ends in him tipping her. Tipping her back and then lifting her. He kissed her like a old fashion romantic movie and it would’ve been cute had it not been Edward Munson.
Before Chrissy can say that Eddie is kind and gentle and sweet and beautiful her mother‘s face connects with the salad upon her plate. Philip puts down his glass, stares at his daughter and says I think you made your point, sweetheart.
Dinner is only a little bit awkward but they finish the meal and leave. Billy has it all on tape and they all haven’t stopped laughing from the moment they stepped out of the house. Laura Cunningham never fucks with her daughter again she learned her lesson.
