The Loss of Reason John [1] 7

I woke up to the smell of bacon and eggs in the house, I inhaled deeply. John was already up, probably cooking. I crawled out of the bed, got dressed and made my way into the kitchen. Sure enough John was standing at the stove I walked up behind him and wrapped my arms around his waist.1

“Morning,” he said as he turned around and kissed me. “Sunny side up?”2

“Yep.” I let go of his waist and went over and sat on the love seat sense Alex and Sarah were taking up the couch.3

“Morning sleepy head,” Sarah laughed. The one thing that I loved about living with John and Alex and Sarah they were all lighthearted people and some of the best friends that some one could ask for.4

“So what are we watching this morning?” I asked looking at the TV.5

“Hell if I know this is what she put it on,” Alex answered.6

“Lifetime, but the shows going off so ya’ll can change it.”7

I had just gotten up to change the channel, yes I said gotten up to change the channel we don’t have a remote scary isn’t it, when John said, “Come on you three forget the TV, foods ready.”8

I just bypassed the TV and went to the kitchen picked up a plate and took it to the table. John had a pot of some sort of tea sitting on the table. “What kind of tea to day John?” I asked, he experimented with herbal teas a lot and they were usually very good.9

“Cinnamon, plane and simple for once,” he said as he picked up four cups and carried them to the table along with his plate. He sat down the cups and every one reached for one. Breakfast conversations were few and far between. And the few conversations that we did have where so far from important it was another zip code.10

We had just finished eating and were sitting in the living room watching the Golden Girls, I had never watched it before, but it was funny who would have thought that four straight old women could be so funny, when Amy and Blade came in.11

“Morning what are you doing here so early?” I asked.12

Amy groaned, “Oh my god I’m getting sick of telling this story.”13

“She got kicked out of her house and is moving in here with us,” Sarah said.14

“Why?” yes I’m clueless sometimes ok.15

Amy groaned again, “Okay I’m going to tell this story all the way through one more time, is there anyone else that wants to know if so get them in here now.” She paused took a deep breath, “Okay, this morning at around six in the morning, my mother barged up into my bedroom. She caught me in bed with Blade, we had fell asleep there last night. Go ahead jump to conclusions it’s not that far to jump. She got mad at us, sent him home and started yelling at me. She called me a slut, and slapped me. I told her just what I thought about her and she quote unquote kicked me out. So I’m moving in here. Any questions?”16

I shook my head. “Ok then good, now I have something to ask now that every one is fully aware of the fact that I’m moving in.”17

“What?” Alex asked as I moved over to sit on the armchair of the couch with the others18

“I know all the rooms are full, but Blade’s parents kicked him out too…”19

“Crazy psychos,” Blade said.20

“Anyway I wanted to know if Blade could move in too and stay in my room?”21

Everyone was silent as the looked at one another and back to Amy and Blade. Then finally Sarah said, “Well he’d be under the same conditions as you of course.”22

Blade had a confused look on his face, you could tell that he had no idea what those conditions were.23

“Which amounts to paying the rent your self for one month then paying a sixth of it for the rest of the time,” Amy informed him.24

“Oh, I can do that,” Blade said, “I just need somewhere to stay and I wanted to stay with Amy.”25

Sarah looked at me and I nodded. Then she looked at John and Alex each in turn and we all nodded, “Okay he can move in.”26

Amy smiled something that I hadn’t seen her do often, and ran over and hugged us all. “Thank you guys so much.”27

We all laughed, and our “Your welcome” over lapped each other. Amy let go of us laughing too. 28

“Anyway guys I’m going to go get the rest of my stuff,” Amy said.29

“I’ll come with you,” Sarah and Blade both said.30

“Thanks guys, come on we’ll take my truck.”