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[	Current Mood	|	embarrassed	]

Phyllis bailed on us. she said that she was going to have kids again til real late and the rest of the week her boyfriend couldn't lend her his truck because he needed it for work. i'm not sure if i believe that or not. Phyllis is known for bailing at the last minute. so my mom asks this girl that she works with, Tina, if she would mind helping us. Tina agrees and so we meet her after mom gets off work and lead the way down to Kevin's.

we stop to pick up Tina's husband so he can help with some of the heavier stuff and then make our way over to Perry St. Kevin doesn't have a driveway so you have to park along the street. there is a white van and an older red Lumina in front of his house so mom and I park in front of his neighbors and let Tina park her van in front of his house since that's where most of the stuff needs to go. I get out of the car and start heading up to the front walk, Kevin has the front door open but the storm door is shut. Inside he's up dancing!! He glances out the front door, sees me, and then closes the heavier door. Uh why did he do that? So anyway I knock on the door, 2 seconds later he opens it, and we all walk in. To my (not) surprise, he's not alone. He has some girl there with him playing a guitar and he's supposedly about to record her singing. She had a pretty good voice but man did I want to warn her as to what she was getting into. I kept my mouth shut and just went about my business. Tina and her husband set about trying to figure out if everything will fit in their van or not, I ask Kevin if I can use his restroom (and casually glance around to see if I see my grandma's sapphire ring-I didn't), and I'm not sure what mom was doing.

When I come out they've decided that not everything will fit. So they offer to go back out there tonight with a Ford Ranger...everything'll easily fit in that. While mom and Tina are having this conversation, Kevin turns to me and asks how I'm doing. And that's when I realize. He's high! He hadn't said much this whole time, pretty much ignoring us and talking to this girl (I think her name was Mindy). He's slurring his words, his eyes are glazed. And then I really look at him...he's looks thinner than the last time I saw him and older. I tell Kevin I'm fine and then turn to Mom and answer her question that yea the tv and little end table will fit in our back seat. So we decide to get those things. Against my grandma's permission, Whitney had been using the tv in her bed room so I have to go in their and unhook it in order to get it out. Of course Kevin's not going to make anything easy for us.

So we load up the tv and end table and head back home. But not before Tina turns to mom and says "you're brother is a trip". I'm sure my mom was blushing from embarrassment at this comment but thankfully it was dark and Tina couldn't tell. So we get home and everything just fine and then Esther calls. Esther is Kevin's girlfriend that's in the hospital. The house he's living in his actually hers.

Mom recounts the events to her, omitting (by my grandma's instructions) that Mindy was there. However later in the conversation Esther mentions that when she went into the hospital Kevin didn't own a guitar so how was he playing one? (When we stayed there he had TWO guitars proudly dispalyed in the front room...where did those come from?) I tell mom to just tell Esther about Mindy (she has a right to know what's going on in her own house, kwim?) and she does. Esther knows who this Mindy is, she's the sister of their neighbor across the street. Esther also mentions that the red Lumina we saw belonged to Mindy. Then Esther asks about her car. Ummm. Her white car is always parked right out front where the Lumina was. Her car doesn't run, they've been waiting on a part for it forever so they could fix it. The problem? We didn't see her car. It wasn't there. Mom tells Esther that we'll look for it while we're out there tonight. Mom suspects he's sold the car for parts in order to get drug money. I can easily believe that. When Esther and Mom get off the phone Mom turns to me and says she thinks she remembers Kevin telling her that he had to sell it.

I feel sorry for Esther having to come home to all this. He's lived with her for 8 years but he's been good for most of those. He's only cheated on her once (which if someone cheats one me even once that's it-i don't tolerate that) which is a feat for Kevin. Used to he'd have a different girl every night. I kid you not, that's how he had a place to live-by picking up random girls and crashing at their place as long as he could. He's nothing but a leech. And he "needs CONSTANT supervision" (said in Sebastian the crab's voice-from the little mermaid) otherwise he gets into trouble. Ever since Esther's been in the hospital he's gone down hill. He's been lying, stealing, doing drugs, i'm sure cheating, he has no self control, no boundaries. He neeeds a mother figure in his life. Esther says she can't kick him out because he has no where else to go (i say tough, he's 54 he should be able to take care of himself). But he will refuse rehab if you even mention it-he'll tell you he doesn't have a problem. Whitney had been living with him but she got so fed up with how he's acting and the drugs that she just up and moved out yesterday! I'm not sure where she went, maybe to her mom's idk, but she's gone. And Kevin can't stand to be alone so he gets Mindy over there. But now there's no one there to keep an eye on him. Esther mentions trying to convince Whitney to stay just til she gets home to make sure he's ok (he's set the couch on fire before by falling asleep with a lit cigarette) but I pipe in and say "you can't expect her to do that, she has a 6 month old baby to think about!!!"

Esther said that while she's in the hospital she's going to take the time to think about what to do. Whether or not she can handle continuing to be his "mother" or whether she's just fed up and is going to put him out. In case you all don't know what I'd do: he'd have been gone a loooong time ago from my place. She mentioned a couple times just taking some money from her disability check and buying a one way ticket to her son's place...I forget where he lives. I'm thinking somewhere on the East Coast. I wouldn't blame her at all if she did. I wouldn't want to deal with some one like Kevin. He's nothing but trouble. He's 54 physically but he has the mentality of a 17 year old-that's when he started drugs. If I were Esther I'd just...be done with it and live my life in peace. Why put up with that if you don't absolutely have to?