Cursed Mother
Natalie Wrathright pulled into the garage for her suburban home.
After closing the garage door, she made her way into the kitchen where she then began to make herself a single cup of coffee with her Keurig.
As the coffee was being made, she removed the black blazer she wore to the weekend meeting she just came home from. Aside from the blazer she wore a matching black skirt, high heel shoes, and a bright red dress shirt, which she undid the top button of to allow her double D breast to breath a bit.
Hanging the blazer on a coat hook near to garage door, Natalie heard some voices coming from the other room.
Looking through the doorway that lead to the living room, Natalie confirmed it was her Son, Damian, and his two friends Seth, and Mike.
Damian, who was sitting in the lazy boy recliner with the foot rest up, was somewhat lanky, and took after his mother with the same fair skin, dark blue eyes, and fluffy jet black hair (though Natalie liked to keep hers straight to let it fell down her back).
Mike was sitting upright on a love seat. He was the tallest and the skinniest of the three. He kept his dark hair short and neat. He also wore glasses.
Seth was spread out on the middle of the couch. He had red hair with the front combed up, was middle height, and the most muscular.
Walking into the living room Natalie greeted them "Hello boys."
"Hi Mom, was starting to wonder when you would get home." Damian said.
"Hi Ms. Wrathright" Seth and Mike said together, though Mike said it in more of a monotone, and Seth shot her a bit of a flirty smile.
"I'm making myself a cup of coffee, you three want anything from the kitchen?"
"No." Mike said.
"We ate lunch before we got here." Damian said
"Thanks, but I'm good." Seth said as he took a sip from a bottle of ice coffee he had.
"So how have you three been doing, I feel like you've been spending so much time together this past week, but I've hardly seen you?" Natalie asked.
Damian seemed to tense up a little bit.
"Oh, we've just been working on a project for most of this past week." Seth answered
"For school?"
"No, it actually something we read about online and want to try for ourselves." Mike clarified.
"I hope it's nothing too dangerous." Natalie asked.
"It's nothing like that, just an urban legend kind of thing. Damian was the one who read about it, and he wouldn't let us do anything too risky, right Dami?" Seth nudged Damian's arms, using the nickname he had hear his mother call him by.
"Huh? Oh, right, yeah Mom it was just some magic trick I read about, and we wanted to give it a try, but it's nothing dangerous."
Damian did have an interest in things like magic and occult stuff he read about online, it was a little quirk of his. Apparently, Seth and Mike seemed to think it made him fun to be around.
A beeping from the kitchen let Natalie know that her coffee was ready.
Back in the Kitchen, Natalie took her first sip. The taste helped ease the stress left over from the meeting her marketing firm made her attend. It was with their biggest client, so they didn't want to make them wait, she had flexible hours with her management position, so her workload wasn't usually that hard, but they were working on a big project lately.
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A bit of back story. Natalie married her husband, Harold, right out of college. He shortly after started a career that provided well for both of them, and for Damian once he was born.
Life was good for the small family. Damian was a bit of an introvert from the start, but that was just another thing he got from his mother. The two of them became pretty close.
But tragedy hit them out of nowhere, when a large traffic accident on a freeway took Harold's life.
The shock was the worst of it, but fortunately, Harold got himself a good life insurance policy that kept Natalie and Damian's home safe until Natalie attended some grief counseling, and was able to get a good paying job at a local marketing firm thanks to a recommendation from a friend who worked there to. Natalie eventually reached a management position, allowing her the income needed for her and Damian to have a fairly comfy home life.
Natalie always tried to be appreciative of the good fortune life had given her, from her happy memories of Harold, to a good job, to her son that she loved more than anything.
Damian was only ten when his father died. Harold's more outgoing personality seemed at odds with a quite introvert like Damian, but their relationship was still healthy, and the accident did shack Damian as much as it would any boy at that age, but Natalie was always there for him.
It was near the end of middle school when Damian meet Seth and Mike. Seth and Mike were childhood friends but had begun to take different interests.
They were pretty much stereotypes of a jock and a nerd. Seth was into football and was starting to play for the school team. Mike was more into computers and coding. How Damian fit into that was a mystery, but Natalie didn't mind as long as he made friends.
Though it could have been they just didn't fit in the usual social groups, which made them being outcasts the one thing all three had in common.
Seth was good at Football, but was far from the best, he had been left on the bench a few times, and was never considered a star. He didn't seem to get along with the rest of the team because of this.
Mike was smart, but never into much of what the other smart kids at school were into, in terms of hobbies.
And Damian just wasn't not much of a people person. Near as Natalie could tell, he simply started hanging out with one of the other two during free time, and then the other friend joined in later on.
That friendship had lasted into their senior year of high school as of now.
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Seth entered the Kitchen.
