Chapter 5 Background on the Daniels family - the beginning of tearing a family apart

Something did not feel right when Sam brought his step dad and mom to meet us. My mother and his father seemed acquainted already. The talked as if they knew each other for years. Dinner was served. We all ate together and talked. I just could not shake the odd feeling from my core.

The next week we had gone to Sam's house for dinner. Sam had 2 half sisters, they were spoiled children, around ten and eleven years old. He did not get along with them at all.

My odd feeling had nagged me. I knew something was fishy. My mother had worn a top of mine. It was bright red with a white dragon. It had many straps and was very low cut and revealing. In all these years my motber was a typical old fashioned persin, with plain skirts, high cut jeans and floral button up blouses. This dressing caught us all by surprise, as she haf also worn a bootleg jeans and heels.  I have never in my 14 years of lifr seen her wear heels.

After these encounters, my mother used to tell my father she was going jogging in the afternoon and tagged me along. 

The house was situated next to a quarry with s stretch of land in between. Someone had purchased tgis property and started their building plans. They had made a driveway already which led to the road which was far up and could not be seen from the house. They had also built a wall by the driveway making the property closed from prying eyes, but this also meant from the Daniels house, once you have reached the road, you are out of site. The new owners did not fence their yard from ours as yet so this was the ideal place to use for her evening rendezvous with Chuck.

She tagged me along every afternoon while he waited on the top for her. She would get in his run down Ford Escort and have a chat. I would sit in his back seat silent. Little did I know that across the road Jacob's parents watched from their window. And talked about the inappropriate behavior and the sin she was committing. 

As the months went by she got even bolder. He would come home occasionally.  Long after Edith and Sam broke up Chuck had now creatrd his position as a friend. 

There were days when I would come from school,exhausted and hungry to find the doors locked and his car in the driveway. After banging the door like a mad person for almost half an hour, my disgraceful mother would open the door. Chuck would be in the bathroom. 

There were worse days when she would walk out with her dress upside down. AND CHUCK WOULD BE IN THE BATHROOM. 

All this happened when my father worked during the days. 

My mother now treated me badly because of the questions I raised and threatened to tell my father. Emily sided with them as she was the golden child that would soon own everything if she kept her mouth shut. 

Edith was already married. It was just Nash and I. And we both started to become a thorn in there sides. 

This all lead up to my current situation. The marriage we were not ready for.