Don't Blame Me I'm A Martian-18

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Don’t Blame Me I’m A Martian-18

Chapter 18

I wake up with my eyes all crusty and eew from crying and a bit of a stuffed nose and a small headache. It’s late in the morning and I get up and drag myself out of bed to the shower and it’s already into the august heat so I start with a on the cool side of lukewarm shower and try to get my head wrapped around everything.

A’shani…

I have no idea of what the heck that means but I remember it just as clear as clear gets and the way that she looked.

She…her…My birth mother.

The first thing I do after getting dressed is walk over to the house and get a coffee and sit at the kitchen counter/island and look at my mom as she’s helping one of my Aunts shop for something online.

“So I remembered what she looked like.”

“Who honey?” she says absently.

“My birth mother.”

It went so quiet that you could hear the whine of the laptop.

“You remembered her?”

“Just a bit but I was really, really little.”

“Are you sure?”

“Yeah Mom I’m sure…it why I need you to help me.”

“Okay…let’s get dressed and we’ll head down to the local state trooper offices.”

“Thanks…and Mom?”

“Yes Dylan?”

“You’re still my Mum no matter what.”

She does this fast walk over and she hugs me and holds me tight and I can feel her shake and I can feel how scared she still is and everything. I hug her tighter because she’s still and she always will be my mum and she’s really gotten to be so much more to me this summer with everything that’s happened so yeah I hug her a lot tighter and just…I dunno try to put the love I have for her into it and she shudders and makes her happy sob sound.

We’re all sobby in the kitchen at that point and we end up going through a whole box of tissues between all of and then we got and get dressed and we get ready. It’s really strange seeing my mom in my new eyes now. I mean since everything happened and we got closer. Like getting into the truck with her and mom even though she’s off duty she’s kinda copped out and has this different vibe to her.

It’s kind of corny but it’s also kind of cool to be able to really respect the heck out of who she is and what she does.

We get out on the highway and head over to Egg…yeah I’m not kidding there’s a town called Egg and it’s not even a small town either.

“Mom.”

“Yes honey?”

“I’ve been thinking about us.”

“Okay…and?”

“Even if this whole chimera intergendered thing never happened. If I turned out to be like you it’d still be cool.”

“Thanks Dylan…you know you’re dad’s not so bad a guy to have as a role model too you know.”

“Yeah I know…Jax, Hill, Me and you guys being married that long and him not tripping out because you’re a cop.”

“Tripping out?”

“Getting all ego-whipped because he’s the stay at home dad.”

“Oh…well we really had all of this hashed out before we had you guys.”

“Really?’

“Yeah, we wanted a family but I am not the stay at home kind of person anyway, I never was and I love all of you kids but honestly I can’t do the mommy thing like a lot of women can…I tried the first two years with Hillary and It just about drove me nuts but your dad…he hated working all of the time and he felt that he was just missing out on everything and even though we didn’t do that kind of stuff at the time…we switched gender jobs. Your dad’s a mechanic so he was doing little stuff at home on the side. And everything was good.”

“Yeah, I get that about Dad y’know. He’s like…he doesn’t care what somebody else might think about him doing that because he’s there…with us and he’s able to just face up to any of that bullshit with a smile and shrug it all off with that whole. I’m a husband and a father.”

“Yeah……..” I can’t help but stare a bit with a little bit of wonder and her that long drawn out yeah was just like I would have done last night with Kaylee…only more? It just feels like more…and it’s that she’s still in that whole soppy love with him.

“There…” I hug myself in a good way and lean into the seat.

“There what Dylan?”

“That…the way that you went all soppy just thinking about dad. I want to feel like that about someone and be all yay and melty and gooey about it and I want to be that kind of guy that makes the person that I’m in love with do that…”

She looks over at me and there’s this really big beaming smile there and this proud of me look that’s just.

Like the dream….

My birth mother looked at me that way with that same exact kind of pride and love and I can just feel that as sure as anything…

Family doesn’t have to mean blood and love is.

It really just is…

I feel different inside y’know. I know that this sounds corny and retarded but. Just knowing that I’m loved like that makes me feel so much stronger inside.

“You are a really remarkable kid you know that Dylan?”

“I’ve got the best role models a kid could have.”

“I like this y’know.”

“What?”

“The way we talk, especially when we’re driving someplace.”

“Me too and I’ve thought about this and me a lot and I wouldn’t take back any of the stuff that happen Mom. We’re so much closer and I feel that much closer to you and everyone else in the family. I mean it’s been really weird…and there’s some days just being like this that I feel like a Martian but it’s been really good y’know…like I’d never give this up good.”

“Even the body stuff?”

“Yeah even the body stuff.”

“So you’re good with growing up with boobs?”

“I love my boob’s thank you very much, and so does my girlfriend.”

“Pardon?”

“You heard me…I like myself, I like feeling sexy when I want to feel sexy…I think…I’m still kind of figuring that part of things out.”

“Uh-huh so what’s this about Kaylee and your boobs?”

“Mooooom…you’re telling me when you were dating that the guys didn’t get into your top a time or two?”

“True but it’s still the fact that you’re my youngest and you in my opinion are growing up too fast.”

“Uh-huh well tell that to my boobs they seem to have their own schedule.”

Mom laughs and so do I.

We slow down as it starts to rain out pretty hard but we’re still right off the water really so you get a lot of water sometime when it rains around here. The trick is not to drive like a tourist…they never seem to slow down and someone always ends up hydroplaning.

“So have you given any thoughts to doing the girl thing like full time?”

“Actually no… well sort of I mean like given how everything’s been going with me that stuff is like bound to be in the mix. But it’s like every time I kind of go there it just really doesn’t fit. I mean I really can’t picture myself being a girl full time like with the surgery and stuff. Some of the clothes yeah and I don’t know…you think I should choose?”

“I think that you should just be you Dylan no matter what.”

“Me too, and I know it’s going to be hard but I’m not like the only one that has things hard even in the whole sex and gender thing.”

“Like?”

“Well girls for one just plain straight girls still don’t have things exactly equal. Then there gays and lesbians and the trans folk but I’ve been reading and the Intersexed like me get the whole choose thing like the bisexual people do but at least I have like a bio-excuse in a way and then there’s people who are like pan-sexual.”

“Pan-sexual?”

“I’m still figuring out that one myself but it’s sort of like they aren’t really so much into gender roles and identities and stuff but they are into people or into a person?”

“Isn’t that bisexual?”

“No…I know that much, it’s sort of like a bisexual guy is still a guy, he dresses like a guy he identifies with guy things and guy culture but someone who’s pan it’s not even about their own gender as being the factor of who their with? I don’t know it’s still something I’m reading about.”

“I think it’s cool that you’re reading about this and that you’re learning so much about it.”

“I’m kinda in the middle of it Mom, I got to. All I know is that those people who lump other people into male and female and gay or straight and that’s all there is are way off. I’m pretty much certain that there are a lot of variations on sexuality and likely even gender when you go like really deep into people gene’s and stuff.”

“Oh kiddo you so should be going to Med-School.”

“I’ll try my best for a scholarship…hey maybe I will go for the whole first doctor in the family thing.”

She looks at me and there’s that look again.

I grin back at her. Then I see someone up ahead carrying a bike in the rain the back tire bent. Mom slows down. “Dylan roll down your window.” I roll it down and she pulls up beside them. “Hey you want a ride?”

They look over at us and I look over at them and it’s Shy.

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Yay!!

best line ever “I love my boob’s thank you very much, and so does my girlfriend.”
i love this story

;p

Reina does have a point

“I love my boob’s thank you very much, and so does my girlfriend.” What can you say to that? Well, the one about growing up too fast and asking Mom to explain it to her swiftly growing boobs comes close!

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Grover

Thank you both:)

It was a pretty good line or rather lines but it's also kind of that sort of close to a mother daughter talk as well.
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Bailey.

Bailey Summers

Great Chapter!

This was so touching! I admit, I can't even imagine ever having such a convo with either of my parents. Dylan is so fortunate! Now I've just gotta go back and figure out who Shy is.


"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin

They are a close family Karen J.

And getting closer. Dylan loves being able to talk like this with their parents. The same goes though for the mom. She's really happy that they are connecting more than ever.
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Bailey.

Bailey Summers

so Shy's back

and this time mom sees him. how many "martians" are around?
great chapter, thanks

That'd be telling.

But yes, Shy's back in the story:)
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Bailey.

Bailey Summers

Family

Jemima Tychonaut's picture

Awwwww... you had the whole dad - daughter thing over in Bridges and now you do the mom - daughter / son thing here with Dylan. *sniffle* There were some lovely lines about the meaning of family in this chapter and then it ends with a chance (??) meeting with a bedraggled figure who turns out to be Shy! A real 'do-de-do-doo' twilight zone moment as the two of them seem finally due a proper meeting beyond the earlier brief encounter.

I guess next chapter could be real interesting plotwise! :-)



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