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After Christmas: 2

Added 2022-01-07 01:14:25 +0000 UTC

I knew this would end badly since the first time my mother mentioned me this year we would travel to Texas to visit my aunt Adelyn and spend Christmas with her and her family, don't take it the wrong way, my aunt Adelyn is pretty cool and kind but … My cousins
and the rest of their family is… disgusting.

Don't get me wrong, they are good people but spending more than 5 minutes in the same room with my cousins

makes me want to change my last name and get away as quickly as possible from that smelly cabin they call a farm.

They're a bunch of idiot rednecks who hopefully finished high school, when you are clear that you will work your whole life among the pig shit and covered in dirt watching the corn grow on your family's farm, you don't have to make an effort to spend all the time. night studying for a math or english test ... or any other class.

the last time i visited my aunt's farm was a couple years ago and i swore i'd never go back to this dump, on that side of my family a party means blaring country music in her stinky barn with leftover shit from horse on the ground and everyone partying, eating and drinking beer like it was the last night of their lives, too loud and dirty for me.

so we packed our bags and took the train straight to texas, we left behind the white christmas i had waited so long to get to a hot ranch in the middle of nowhere, the view was pretty, blue skies and greenery was everywhere, well It was like that until I noticed who came to pick them up at the train station was my cousin Cooper.

He appeared with a smile showing his yellow and crooked teeth, without a shirt to protect him from the strong rays of the sun showing a pair of badly done tattoos and with a beer can in one hand and waving with the other.

-It seems that nothing has changed in years- I whispered to my mother before she turned to see me angry with a look in her eye that clearly said "be nice, don't say those things"

Thank god we only stayed for Christmas and tomorrow morning I would say goodbye to them so as not to see them again in another year, apparently not only Cooper had not changed anything in all these years the whole family was exactly how a band remembered her of rednecks, dirty and idiots. my mother was really happy to be reunited with her sister after so long and well I was just counting the hours on my phone to get out as quickly as possible.

when the night came the "Christmas" party started if you can call a bunch of drunk guys in a barn acting like dirty cavemen to Christmas, I preferred to get away from all that is not that I didn't like the party it's just that I would rather be having a quiet dinner with my parents than being at a noisy party and having to skip my routine at the gym because I drank my weight in beer the day before.

-cousin! why are you out here? Aren't you having fun? - When I thought I had escaped from my family when I returned home and sat down, Cooper appeared behind me with a big smile on his crooked teeth, he approached me with a couple of beers in his hands.

"It's ... it's just too much for me," I said clearly nervous. copper extended her hand to my chest with one of the beer cans and I politely declined saying that I was on a special diet -oh come on boy for a beer you won't lose your huge muscles, one won't hurt you- and when I notice that He wouldn't leave until I had a drink, took her hands and took a small sip while he looked at me with that crooked smile.

It tasted a little strange and I had never seen this brand in my city, otherwise when Cooper brought it it was open perhaps the gas had already escaped from the can, I don't usually drink a lot I prefer to spend the nights in the gym at my university or practicing some sport, although I have to admit that the beer didn't taste bad at all.

I and Cooper were talking for a while while we both drank a little the most hurried drank can after can and I just a few small sips of the beer that I had in my hands, maybe he was already completely drunk when he began to say how much he envied me ever since we were, I was always more, handsome, strong, smarter and had many more opportunities to go to university but the most important thing he told me was the last thing I heard from him -Whatever… see you next year cousin-

I don't know what exactly happened next, my mind is still very confused, I try to remember it but I can't, but the next day I woke up in Cooper's disgusting body with the biggest headache I've ever had in my fucking life and the horrible texas heat did not help me feel more comfortable, I was outside the house next to the pig pen, maybe Cooper dragged me here or maybe this body was so drunk that I forgot what happened the day before, I doubt that I can remember it some day.

And not only did my body reek of all the beer Cooper had drunk last night, but also the smelly sweat of a hot afternoon at the farm. Why the hell was it so hot? I searched my pockets for my cell phone and the only thing I found was Cooper's old cell phone. 2:35 PM my family was gone hours ago and Cooper was gone too.

Now the hideous tattoos, hairy armpits, that southern accent, crooked teeth, cooper's manners and intelligence, addiction to alcohol and marijuana, it was all mine now I just hope wherever that son of a bitch is he's prepared for next year…