Another Lovely Evening in the Alandt House:

My mom was out picking up Ashley from Ligon and my dad was still at work, so, I went downstairs to procrastinate because I didn't feel like doing my homework. I was sitting there, peacefully taking a nap because I fell asleep during While You Were Out, and all of the sudden I was awoken by my brother's screaming and I opened my eyes and Ryan (who's 11) was laying in the fetal position on the floor and Brandon (12) was kicking the shit out him. So after my brain registered what was going on, I started screaming like crazy at them to stop. I'm used to them fighting, but this one was a bit more brutal than they usually are. Usually Ryan's getting at least 1 or 2 hits in but he was just curled up on the floor laughing like a maniac. And I screamed and screamed until I felt like my throat was freakin bleeding, and then they stopped. But then Ryan got up off the floor and was like "C'mon Brandon, if Erika won't let us fight in here let's go into another room." and I was like wtf?? and then they started screaming and hitting each other again (they never did make it to another room) so I started screaming again, and I usually don't call my parents unless they like start throwing shoes or shit, like shoes, at each other (oh, don't laugh until you've been hit in the head with a flying heel. trust me, it hurts like hell..) but they had just woken me up from my nap, and if you're smart, you don't wake Erika up from her nap because I am the biggest bitch when I wake up. So I called my mom and I was like "Mom you need to buy cages for Ryan and Brandon because they're going to kill each other." and she was like "okay calm down what is going on?" I had turned my back on my brothers and they weren't making any noise so I figured I'd scared them by calling Mom, but then, I turned back around and Ryan had one of these huge as shit knives that my dad uses to cook things and he was pointing it at Brandon, (this has happened before too, but usually it's a pocket knife...one time they chased each other around with other random kitchen utensils and broke all of our spatulas...oh and once Brandon was chasing Ryan with a meat mallet and he accidently put a hole in the wall...) So of course I just freaked out, because knives make me uneasy anyway, and when Ryan and Brandon get mad they are capable of inflicting serious harm on each other without thinking about it, so I started screaming at Ryan to put the knife down, and finally I got it away from him and then my mom wanted me to put Ry on the phone but he wouldn't listen to me and he just went upstairs and slammed his door, probably because he knew he was in serious shit now. And so mom talked to Brandon and then she got home and she yelled at them. And then Dad got home and me & Mom told him what happened and he really didn't do shit about it and so Mom got mad and they were screaming at each other to shut the fuck up and she was talking about how if he didn't punish them she was packing her bags and leaving and me & Ashley were just sitting there eating our macaroni and cheese and we were looking at each other like "holy shit what the hell is going on" because we've heard my parents fight before, they fight a lot actually, but they had never told each other to shut the fuck up, at least not in front of us. So then I got upset because they were acting like a bunch of 15 year olds and so I slammed my dishes down in the sink and stormed upstairs, followed by Ashley. Now everyone is in different rooms and my house is unusually quiet, which I would enjoy under different circumstances...
Sorry, I had to get that out of my brain so I can go do homework now.

XoXo -Erika Rae-

And we just want sleep but this night is hell. -Brand New

When happiness is based on lies, it's so hard, it's too hard to tell the truth. What do you see when you look at me? Do you take me for a fool? This fool is through. -The Starting Line