One Hundred And One Sleepless Nights

Eleven years later

I looked out of the window and chewed on my lip. I started to mess with my phone before I ended up dropping it. Instead I started tapping the dashboard. Matt used his free hand and stilled mine. "Stop," he said lightly. "Is it left here?"
"What?" I asked distractedly.
"Where's your house?" Matt asked again, a smile tying the corners of his lips.
"Left." I said.
He took a left and parked up outside my house. Everyone's cars were there. Shit. I got out and wrung my hands together. Matt came over to me and wrapped his arms around me. I sighed and rested my head on his chest. "Calm down, Alex." he soothed.
"Why? And why aren't you nervous?!"
"I am." Matt admitted.
"I mean your family are normal. They're nice. Your dad's a dentist. Your mom's an office temp. Normal jobs. They give you sweaters for Christmas. You have family nights and play monopoly!" I rushed.
"Your parents have cool jobs. Your family all do. Don't worry."
"You're going to hate them."
"I'm not nervous that I'll hate them. I'm nervous in case they hate me."
"They'd never hate you!" I promised.
"Tell that to the four Mexican men standing in the window." Matt muttered. I looked over and saw Dad, Uncle Mike, Uncle Jaime and Uncle Tony all looking over at us. I swallowed hard and shrugged.
"I'm so sorry for what they're going to put you through." I said before I took his hand and pulled him up to my house.
I opened the door and peered inside. I don't want Matt ambushed before we even walk in the house. We went inside and I took Matt into the sitting room. This seemed to be clear from all the interrogating mothers. Not that Dad would be much better.
"Right and then Laura is in this chick's face and next the chick is face first in the snow, cheap, nasty faux leather ass in the air!" Uncle Mike exclaimed. I shuddered.
"Why are my family so weird?" I sighed.
"They're fine!" Matt rushed. "Weird is interesting."
Everyone turned to look at us when I walked inside. "Um... Hi," I smiled. Nobody said anything. Why would they? "This is my boyfriend, Matt." I introduced him.
"Nice to meet you everyone." Matt waved.
"Get over here." Dad urged. I took Matt over and felt him grip my hand tighter. Dad looked at Matt and narrowed his eyes. Everyone else followed. Matt looked like a deer in headlights.
"It's so good to finally meet you, Mr Fuentes. Alex always tells me how rad of a dad you are." Matt tried.
"Hmm..." Dad muttered. "I bet she does."
"Dad." I tried.
"She said how good your show was last week." Matt said.
"It was." Dad said flatly.
Everything suddenly got much worse. "I know you're not glaring at Alex's little boyfriend!" Mom exclaimed from across the room.
"Of course not, babe." Dad rushed.
"Because if you were you wouldn't be out front drinking beer you'd be in the kitchen cooking while Charlie is critiquing everything you do and Jemma is telling you in detail about her anniversary last week."
"I'm not glaring so we don't need to talk about that." Dad said quickly. It's obvious who wears the trousers.
"Nice to meet you, Mrs Fuentes." Matt said.
"Nice to meet you too. Now why are you late?" Mom asked me.
"That's my fault. We left late. We watched movies late last night so woke up late." Matt said and I winced.
"You said you were staying at Sarah's." Mom narrowed her eyes.
"I- Um- There was a really good movie that Matt had..." I stuttered.
"Are you being safe?" Mom asked in hushed tones.
"Mom!" I exclaimed.
"I would never..." Matt shook his head.
"We've only been together two months." I added.
"It only took your parents two minutes before they were in bed!" Uncle Mike grinned at us.
"Shut up!" Mom snapped and hit him across the back of the head.
"Ow, Zee." he whined.
"Zandra!" We heard a yell. It only gets worse. Everyone started to head outside and I looked around. I saw Uncle Alan standing by his car gesturing while. A three week old Rebecca Ashby was asleep inside.
"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!" Uncle Alan panicked. "Leah will kill me! She'll never trust me. I'm dead! I'm worse, I'm the undead. She'll kill me over and over and over again!"
"What have you done?" Mom rushed.
"I locked the car by accident and now I can't find my keys."
"You locked it with Rebecca inside?" Uncle Austin asked.
"I forgot about her!"
"How can you forget about her?" Mom asked.
"I just forgot! Now my keys have gone missing."
"How can you lose them? You just had them." Mom shook her head. To make everything worse Rebecca started to cry from inside the car.
"I'm a horrible dad!" Alan yelled. "I should have used a condom!"
"You!" Mom said angrily. "Shut up. Inside now. Let me deal with this."
He was still gesturing wildly as he went inside. Uncle Austin was urging everyone inside. "What'll happen?" I asked.
"Your mom will sort it." he told me easily.
"Alan you fucking idiot the keys are under your car!" I heard Mom scream.
"She's worse than Leah." Aunt Jemma told Austin.
I suppose it could be worse. Moms family could be here too. I don't think Matt would survive meeting everyone in one day. I stopped and pulled Matt in for a hug. "Your family are awesome." he assured me. I didn't reply, I just got on my tip toes and pecked him on the lips.

Notes

Hey everyone!

Wow, mixed emotions. It's over. It's finished. What did you think? Not just of this but the whole story. Is there anything you hated? What did you love? Tell me!

This has story has been amazing for me to write. I could never have dreamed that so many people would enjoy this. The comments have been crazy. People have told me some amazing things. I've been getting at least 9 comments daily. That's insane to me.

When this story started and throughout it until maybe chapter 30 everyone would tell me how much they hated Polly and how horrible she is. But that all died down. That's something I wanted and I wrote for that. At the beginning you hated her because Zee did. Zee only saw the bad in her. But slowly as Zee liked her more so did you. That's what I wanted.

Now I know people will want a sequel. But I'm sorry, I won't be writing one. I could write one about Alex but stories like that never work. It would ruin what I already have. Everything must end and everything has it's time. So it's time for this to end.

There are a lot of other stories I have up. I think a lot of you would like Fight Back which is posted on the PTV Fan Fiction site. I am working on another story too. It should be pretty funny like this one and I think will be another Vic story. I'll post here when it's up.

This is something I really want to say. Your comments make me so happy. The things you've said to me have really made me feel good about myself at times when I really didn't. People have told me my stories distract them from their problems and make them happy and that means the world to me. I want to devote my life to helping people. It really upsets me to know that some of you feel so horrible about yourselves. People tell me some crazy things. I want to say that if you ever feel horrible then please don't think you can't talk to me about it. I will never not help you. I'm always here. You can message me on here or on tumblr (link in my bio).

As always if you need help with your writing please get in touch. I'm not writing collabs right now but I can help on the ideas and improvement front. If you want to chat please message me. I'm not scary! I'd love to talk to you.

Thank you so much, I love you all and you're all special and important and worth love!

Stay true to yourself!

Kelci xoxo