It was in the middle of the spring semester of my sophomore year at the university when I got a call on my cell from my mother. Mom asked me, "Lisa, when do you plan on coming home again?" Mom sounded a little bit nervous or apprehensive but, I didn't know just what was going on.
"Mom, spring break starts next week and I plan to come home for that week to visit with you, Dad and Cindi. I'll be leaving here this Friday afternoon after my last class of the day. I'll have this weekend and all of next week to visit with you, Dad and Cindi." Then, I asked her, "Is everything Ok, Mom?"
She responded, "Everything is Ok but, I want you to sit down and have a heart to heart talk with Cindi."
"Ok, I can do that but, what's the matter with Cindi, is something wrong, Mom?"
"Lisa, Cindi was dumped by her boyfriend earlier this week and she has been moping around the house ever since that happened, Dear. She won't hardly talk to me or even leave her bedroom."
"Mom, I plan to be home at the end of this week probably late Friday afternoon or sometime into the early evening by the time I get there. I hope to be home before dark, Mom, and hopefully by supper time."
"Ok, Honey, I'll expect to see you then and we'll be happy to have you home again when you get here, Sweetheart. Then you can try to talk to Cindi and cheer her up and help get her over her problems with her boyfriend. Be very careful with your driving on your way home, Sweetheart."
Cindi is my younger sister who is 18 years old and she is in her senior year in high school. She is a good student who makes really good grades but, she is a little high strung. I guess that is a pretty good description of me, too, and probably even our mother as well. As sisters that are only about a year and a half apart in age. We have always been pretty close to one another and I have always been able to talk to Cindi and get her over her problems. That is what our Mom is relying on me to do when I get home on Friday afternoon.
Our mother is still a beautiful woman for being nearly 45 years old. She has maintained her great shape over the years since she gave birth to me and Cindi. She has maintained her hour glass figure and our Dad says that she turns every man's head when he takes her out to a football or basketball game or they go out to a restaurant to eat. Our mother is as sweet, gentle and loving as any mother could ever be to her family and to others as well. Cindi and I both love her beyond words and we would do almost anything for her since we love her so much and we know that she loves us just as much.
Cindi and I both resemble our mother very closely in that we both have her light brown hair that just touches our shoulders and frames our face, with light brown eyes that pretty match our hair color. We are both 5 Ft.-4 in. tall about 110 pounds and have the same hour glass figure that our mother has with our 36B-24-36 shape. As one can imagine our great shape and our pretty looks attracts a lot of boys. Cindi and I look so much alike, many people think that we may be twins when they first meet us. Neither one of us has ever had any trouble attracting boys in high school. And I have had lots of dates during my time at the university, too.
However, if Cindi's boyfriend dumped her I can understand what she is going through. I went through that same thing during my senior year in high school and I moped around the house for a couple of weeks until I finally realized that life is too short to moan over one fricken, self centered boy with a stiffie between his thighs. There are a whole lot of other boys out there that are willing to treat a girl well and not give them a hard time and then dump them if you know what I mean. I guess it all comes down to why he dumped Cindi in the first place and how he did it.
Friday afternoon came and I packed up the stuff that I was going to take home with me for the week, loaded it into my car and headed home for a week of fun and relaxation, some of Mom's good home cooking and NO classes.
Mom met me at the front door as I came into the house; she threw her arms around me and said, "Hi Honey, we are really happy to have you safe at home here with us from school." She squeezed me so tightly I thought that I could not breathe as we warmly kissed each other's cheeks. Mom continued to hug me and kiss my cheek. It was really good to come home to see and hug my beautiful loving Mother and get some of her love for me. That is the way she has always treated me and I know that she always treats Cindi the same way, too. I have no idea of how she treats Daddy when they are in their bedroom. But, if Cindi and I can believe our ears they treat each other very lovingly.
As we released our hugs, I looked around for Cindi and she was not in the living room with us. I asked Mom, "Where's Cindi, Mom? Is she here or is she out with her friends somewhere?"
She replied, "No, Honey, she is in her bedroom lying on her bed and moping like she has done since her boyfriend dumped her last weekend. Would you go in there, Honey, and talk with her and see if you can get her to cheer up and get her to be a little more normal and cheerful and bubbly like she usually is?"
"Sure, Mom, I'll try and see what I can do for her and for you, too." as I sat my suitcase down and started to head down the hall for Cindi's bedroom.
Then Mom hugged me and kissed me on the cheek again and said, "Thank you, Honey I haven't been able to do anything with her all week." I walked down the hallway to the bedroom that we share and lightly tapped on the door. There was no answer to my knock so I quietly opened the door to find Cindi lying on her bed, her eyes were shut and her headphones clamped over her ears. Her eyes were red like she had been crying. She was listening to music and she could not hear me knock on her door or even hear me as the door creaked when I opened it and entered the room. I walked over beside her bed and gently brushed her cheek with the palm of my hand so that I did not startle her. Cindi slowly opened her eyes, took her headphones off, jumped up off the bed and hugged me very tightly.
I kissed her on the cheek and said, "Hi, ya, Sis, I am happy to come home to see you. Mom tells me that you have had a rough time the last week or so."