AURELIA
"This is nice, isn't it?" My mother smiles so blissfully, blissfully unaware of the tension that has filled the entire room... The entire house.
This birthday dinner is not exactly going the way I believed it would...
My mother went all out though and it is obvious so nobody is going to try and ruin this with an argument...
Nobody would be Ellie to be more specific... She has been acting up since I admitted where I got the phone. I should have just kept it to myself before throwing it away...
"It is! We should do this more often, Ruth." Aunt Ceci comments as she chews her food. That is her, never cares if there is a s**t load of food in her mouth or not, she will say what she feels she needs to say.
"Family dinners? I don't think so. It will take away the special essence
