“Well, it’s pretty inconvenient to just pop up here and expect your mother to just cater to your little whims,” Jabarri opens his mouth and lets all that stupid fall out.
Skai stops what she was doing and turns her full attention to him, “And it was inconvenient that your mother missed her birth control pill and fucked up and had you but you can’t win them all.”
It’s well known among us that Jabarri was an oops baby, our mother thought she was going through menopause but was actually pregnant. So sixteen years after she had Jaasiel she found herself pregnant with Jabarri. It's a sore spot for him and Skai just applied pressure to it.
“You are such a brat” he spits out.
“And you are such an ass, don’t you have some classes you should be at? Shouldn’t there be a zookeeper here to keep an eye on you? I mean, after all, you just learned not to drag your knuckles on the floor.”.
I bite my lip to keep from laughing and I peek over at Jabarri who’s so mad the tips of his ears are beet red. He opens his mouth but nothing comes out so he closes it and tries again and he still can’t form a sentence.
Skai looks at him and shakes her head much as you would at a child trying to walk but just not quite getting the hang of it, she reaches over and pats his hand. “It’s ok,” she says real slow and loud, “I'll talk in little words so you can understand. I’m sure they can add some extra lessons for you. I mean one step at a time right and talking is so hard for a primate of your limited intelligence. Maybe we can get you a picture book so you can point to what you want to say”. And with that, she jumps off the stool and heads back to her mother’s suite of rooms.
As soon as she’s out of sight we roar with laughter. “Shut up,'' he says, looking like the baby of the family.
“Why don’t you just stop being a dick to her and ask her out,” Anson says.
“First of all Joshua, second of all she has a girlfriend, and third she is technically my niece.”
“Excuses,” I tell him. “Man the fuck up and talk to Jag and Savvy about your intentions if she means that much to you. As far as her being your niece she's what, three years younger than you and you’ve been her quote un quote uncle for all of two years” Stop making excuses before someone else snatches her ass up or she marries her girlfriend and they have a baby with a willing donor.” I tell him and walk out the kitchen.