Lisa walked down the stairs yawning; Mason was sitting on the sofa watching the hobbit.
“Hey you” Lisa said
“Morning”
“What was your attitude about with my mama last night?” Lisa asked
“Nothing” Mason said
“Clearly wasn’t nothing”
“When’s Jess calling?” Mason asked
“Later…Mason you can’t keep lashing out at Mum and Mama that will just piss Jess off and you know that”
“Mama snapped at me, she said I didn’t do my homework because the school sent home a letter, I did do it”
“Did you explain that to her?”
“Oh yep because she does that listening stuff so well” Mason said sarcastically
“Oh dear god you sound just like Jess”
Tina walked down the stairs, going into the kitchen and putting the kettle on. She walked into the living room.
Mason got up
“No I don’t think so just sit right back down, us 4 are going to have a chat” Tina said
“Me, I didn’t do anything” Lisa said horrified
“I know” Tina laughed “Can you go make me and your Mama a cup of tea please?”
Lisa got up and went into the kitchen, Bette came down the stairs. She sat beside Tina on the sofa.
Lisa returned handing them both a cup of tea.
“Thanks sweetie” Bette smiled
Lisa said beside Mason.
“So…” Lisa asked
“Ok so…Jess is away for another 2 and a half weeks and we can’t keep going on like this, Mason you need to lose this attitude I don’t know what’s going on with you, but if you don’t talk we cant help.” Bette said
“You snapped at me for not doing my homework when I did!” mason snapped
“See there you go already with the attitude” Tina warned
“No wonder, that letter was clearly a mistake I didn’t do my homework!”
“Ok I’m sorry, I will look into that” Bette apologised “But that isn’t the only reason you’ve been rude and ignorant towards me or your mum”
“I just miss Jess!” Mason said
“We all do, I miss her more than anything” Lisa added “I also miss Jace”
“You don’t see Lisa snapping”
“No she’s just hiding in her room all the time!” Mason said “You don’t get it!”
“Don’t get what?” Bette asked
“This house is so lonely when she’s away”
“What do you mean?” Lisa asked
“You hide in your room, Mum works late, Mama sits on her laptop all the time, no-one talks to each other we don’t do family stuff, but minute Jess is home BOOM were a family again!” Mason snapped “its rubbish!”
“Ok he has a little bit of a point” Lisa admitted
“Then we need to sort that, but you can’t not talk to us, were actually oblivious to the fact were doing it” Bette admitted
“Look Mum is a work freak you’re going to need to get use to that Mason because she’s ALWAYS been like that, be grateful she’s not doing a Jess and touring the country because she use to ” Lisa admitted
“We all have different coping strategies when Jess is away, I don’t even know how Jess pulls us all together because she’s the quiet one” Tina laughed
“No No she puts us into a false sense of security with that” Bette smiled
“She’s the only one who actually makes an effort to see how I’m feeling or asks what I would like to do” Mason said “She cared when no-one else did”
Mason got up and stormed up the stairs. Lisa got up to follow him
“Let him go” Bette said “I’m going to get Jess to speak to him later.”
“He’s so confusing” Lisa admitted “I can see some of his point, but I always ask him how he is”
“He sees Jess as the person who got him a family, she’s his role model” Bette explained
“This was years ago though, we are his family, he calls you mum and mama, I don’t see him as my adoptive brother…he’s my brother it’s just silly”
“Bottom line is we all need to make a little bit more of an effort with him, but he also needs to know he can’t speak to us the way he is doing so.” Tina explained