Gen 1 Chap 5 – He Went To College?!

Sing-A-Grams… That’s what got my singer career off the ground. After a few month’s of playing in bars and clubs with the band someone finally noticed me. They signed me to do mediocre work by delivering Sing-A-Grams to people. Cheer Up A Grams, Romati- Grams, etc. Demeaning but it was helping me rake in cash. 250 a week wasn’t bad at all.

“Ta da!” I say finishing up my little audition.

“Aww! So cute!”

“You got the gig kid.” the proprietor says to me.

“Sweet.”

That was easier than expected. Sunday night was my performance and I was happy. So happy in fact that I invited everyone to it. Even Thomas who has been acting weird lately. By weird I mean that he invited me to a party which he never does. As fun and carefree as he is, Thomas is also really secretive.

Arriving at the place that night and ignoring the weird ghosts outside, I get a strange feeling that I might regret this decision to actually bond with Thomas.

“I really hope I won’t regret this.” I say to myself. “10 floors is a really long way to go up… what if I need to jump out a window or something?”

Thomas was there to greet me. “Kods! You made it. Excellent, excellent.” he says.

“Yeah, hey Tom, who’s uh, house is this?” I ask.

“Oh it’s um… Mataya’s.”

“MATAYA’S??? Why did you invite me to come here?!” I yell.

“Well I wanted to tell you something…” he starts.

“My name was being yelled, I feel I must come to see– oh hello Kody. So nice of you to come to my P A R T Y.” Mataya says.

“Why did you spell it?” I ask.

“P stands for paradoxical  A is for artificial, R is for ratchet, T is for time, and Y stands for yacht.” she says.

“Paradoxical Artificial Ratchet Time Yacht? ……………. Mataya what the fuck is that? You know what, no, I don’t even want to know.” I say.

“Mataya, can you go away for a sec? I need to tell Kods something.” Thomas says.

“Oooh you sound serious. Ok, I shall depart for now. Good bye Kody and Kody’s snazztastic jacket.”

“Snazztastic… Thomas what the hell is going on here? Why did you ask me to come here when you knew she was stalking me?”

“Well she wasn’t stalking you FOR you.” He says.

“What? That’s doesn’t even make sense.”

“She was stalking you for me. You see I know her from my college days and I made a mistake.”

“Oh, well what was—- Let’s just stop this gravy train right now. You went to college?” I ask in shock.

“Yeah… is that surprising?”

“To be completely honest. Yes, yes it is.”

“I went, I studied, I graduated. I’m not a complete fuck up. Anyway Mataya was a girl that I took a liking to and one thing led to another and I found myself in a relationship a little to quickly for my liking.”

“So you left her?”

“Not entirely. I hit it then quit it. She was still on my mind all the time but I avoided her a lot. Little did I know she got pregnant–”

“You’re a father??” I interrupt.

“Surprise… look Kods, the reason I’m telling you this now is because, well, I think I’m ready to settle down.”

“Your’re 21 Thomas. You cannot be ready to settle down now.” I say.

“It may be too soon for you but I’ve done all I wanted. Thinking about moving out to live wit her so I won’t be a burden on you guys.”

“Do you even love her or is she just trapping you with your kid?” I ask and with a tired smile Thomas says he does love her and marrying her would probably be the best thing for him now. I agree but still shocked by the fact that he’s a college graduate and a father I don’t think I even registered that. Thomas, smarter than he looks assures me that he’ll be fine and Mataya isn’t normally strange. She was only doing that to get his attention. I hardly believe that but if its what he wants then I can’t tell him otherwise.

That night as I laid in my bed thinking about what Thomas’s kid looked like something occurred to me. I wanted what he  has. A loving wife… a family…. a college degree. Thomas was, dare I say it, smarter than I was. Sure he made mistakes but everyone does. Sleeping on my thoughts, I hoped that the following week would go by fast.

***Later That Week***

“So did I tell you guys I have a gig today?”

“Yes Kodak. About a thousand times.” Alistair says.

“Did I tell you it’s going to be awesome?”

“Yes Kodak…” Raven says.

“Oh… did I tell you Thomas has a kid, is getting married and is moving out?” I ask.

“Yes Kod— wait wha? When did Thomas have time to do all that?” Alistair asks.

“When he was in college…” I say taking another bite of my waffles.

“Thomas went to college? You’ve got to be shitting me. He has a kid too?! What’s he been doing, leading a secret life?”

“Obviously he was Uncle Ally. I’m happy for him. But one can’t help but wonder why he would keep all that to himself.” Raven says.

“Maybe he hates us. Like I’m hating him right now… oh I am so hating his ass right now.”

“Actually he said that he didn’t want to be a burden to us. I mean once you think about it, Mataya is crazy as hell plus having a baby around here would be even more hectic with Raven–“

“You calling me dependent? ‘Cause I’m not.” She interrupts.

“I didn’t say that Raven.” I say. “I’m saying that having 6 people in this apartment would make me jump off the roof.”

“Why didn’t he tell all of us?” Alistair mumbles to himself.

“I’m obviously his best friend.” I joke but Alistair seemed really thoughtful on this. He finished his food and got up to leave.

“I’m going to look for him. He’s going to tell me what the hell is going on.” He says.

“I just told you.”

“I also need to see what he’s going to do about his band spot.” Alistair says and walks out the door.

“He left his damn plate again… I am not a maid.” Raven says.

“I’ll get it. They better not forget my gig tonight.” I say and get up, hoping that Alistair wouldn’t do anything drastic when he caught up with Thomas.

My first real performance and everyone was there. Well everyone important anyway.

I drank a glass of water…

Took out my mic…

And blew them away.

They were loving it and I don’t think it was just to make me feel better about my life.

Thomas and Raven were dancing.

Alistair was too and a strange man in his underwear holding a balloon was clapping.

When I glanced down at Anubis he was getting nuzzled by another dog. Female I’m guessing, and by the looks of it, Anubis tolerates her more than any other animal.

I finished the show with a bow and I swear my heart was about to jump out my chest. But I liked that feeling, it made me realize that my dream was finally coming true.

When I got off the stage and walked over to Thomas and Raven, I was pulled into a kiss from her surprising the life out of me.

“I uhhh…..” I start out.

“WOOO! Go Kods! Who would’ve thunk you could get a hot chick?” Thomas laughs.

“What? Cat got your tongue?” She asks me teasingly.

“Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…….”

But before I could say anything, she pulled me into another kiss with Thomas laughing in the background. I must admit, that was the best part of the night.

Le Author’s Note: Phew… finally got this chapter out. Some of you may ask why Thomas is moving out and not Alistair. It’s because Thomas actually did start dating Mataya and with Story Progression on it informed me that *bam* Mataya was preggers with Thomas’s kid. So what do I do? Kick Thomas out so he can marry her, which he did as soon as Kodak dismissed him as a roomie. He’s a really fun guy and I’m gonna miss him to death with his facial expressions but with him procreating and making eligible spouses for Kod’s kids, I guess I could let him go.

BYE THOMAS!!

I’m gonna miss that goofy son of a bitch.