The next day, Jake chased his niece and nephews around the house and played games with them. He was feeling a lot better and had the energy to entertain three young children. Delilah, of course, helped out where she could while she was home and not studying. Watching Jake with his niece and nephews impressed her. He’s going to be such a good daddy. But, he obviously gets it from his father. David is an amazing man. He’s a loving husband and father. It’s obvious that he passed those traits on to Jacob. He’s patient and kind when he’s rested and aware. I can’t wait until we have our little one. He’s going to be a wonderful dad.
“Uncle Jake, were you destructive when you were a kid?” Elijah asked.
“You’d have to run that question past Gramma and Grampa. I really couldn’t tell you. I don’t think I was, and I KNOW I was NOTHING like Uncle Jay and Uncle ‘Miah.”
“I bet you were the builder”, Isaiah said to his uncle.
“Nope. That was your Daddy. I was the chemist.”
“What’s a chemist?”
“Someone who mixes a bunch of different chemicals together. Sometimes, I’d get a big BOOM”, he said with a laugh.
“Can you teach me how to do stuff like that?” Elijah asked.
“Nope. I’m sure your Mama and Daddy would KILL me if I tried to do that.”
“Aww, Uncle JAKE. You’re supposed to be the fun one.”
Jake looked at the little boys. “Said who?”
“Grampa”, Isaiah was quick to respond.
“Hey Grampa!” Jake called out.
“Yeah. What’s up?” David said when he walked into the room. He was helping his wife make lunch for the grandkids. Their other Aunts and Uncles were at school.
“Did you ever tell these two that Uncle Jake was supposed to be the fun uncle?”
David shook his head. “Nope. The fun ones are Uncle Jay and Uncle Miah. Uncle Jake is the serious one. When Uncle Jake says to do something and Mama and Daddy aren’t around, it’s just like if Gramma or I said it.”
Jake nodded. “Yep. You don’t want to make me have to tear up that butt. I get a hold of you and it’s worse than if Grampa did.”
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A few weeks passed and the Draiman family started getting ready for Hanukkah. Jake was getting ready to take eight days off of work. Eight days straight without having to deal with the other doctors on his floor. He’d written up his complaint against them and it was going to be considered after the new year began. He would call everyday and check on his patients, but the nurses were told that if they called or paged him during the Festival of Light that it had better be the end of the world.
When Jake got home from work on Christmas Eve, the day before Hanukkah began, he was looking forward to a nice quiet evening at home with his wife. He announced his arrival home, headed out to the house and got a shower. He and his wife then made their way into the house for dinner that night.
Another holiday, another Draiman family get together; another time for SOMEONE to get into a fight. Thankfully, Malachai and Amanda were working out their problems and Jordan was taking a break from women until after the new year. It had later come to everyone’s attention that Sammi had been cheating on Jordan while Jordan was on the road. What was worse was that Sammi had been cheating on Jordan with a man and was pregnant. When she told the guy she was pregnant, the guy up and left. Sammi called Jordan the night they were preparing for everyone to come home and told her about what happened. “Ok, so here’s what we can do about that, because I’m not going to get back with a female that’s cheated on me. I don’t play that game. Did you want to keep the baby?”
“No. I can’t keep a child that their father won’t keep help me out.”
“Then once you have that baby, I’ll adopt him or her from you and you won’t have to worry about a mother fucking thing from that point on. I’ll take care of that child as if it were my own. Now, I’m about to have dinner with my family, so we’ll talk about this shit later. Good BYE, Samantha.” Jordan hung up and put her phone back in her purse with a satisfied look on her face.
Jake laughed. “Nicely play, twin sister.”
“I know you don’t think I’d make a good mother, Jake, but I do want kids. If I have to be the new age Angelina Jolie and adopt, then I’m going to.”
“At first, Jordan, I was a little worried about you becoming a mother. You seemed a little fickle to me. Sammi was going to carry the baby because you didn’t want to ruin your figure? That was childish in my opinion. But, you just proved to me that you’re going to be an excellent mother, Jord. I’m sure Mom and Dad would agree.”
“Thanks, Jake. That really means a lot.”
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Right as everyone was washing up for dinner, there was a call from the foyer. “Mom, Dad, I’m home!”
Everyone flooded into the living room to see Maddie dragging in her suitcase. David and Brie went and greeted their second daughter. “Hey Maddie, baby!” Brie said with a smile. “How’s school going?”
“Really well.” She hugged her mother then turned to her father. “Hi Daddy. I’ve missed you.”
David smiled at his princess. He may not have treated her that way, but he still thought of her that way. All of his girls were his princesses. “Hi, Maddie girl. We’ve missed you here too.” He hugged her. As he held his daughter in his embrace, a young man made his way into the house with wide eyes. “Madison”, he said, pulling back from the hug. “Who the hell is this?”
“Mom, Dad, this is Kendal, my boyfriend. I figured that it was time to bring him home to meet everyone and that Hanukkah was the perfect time to do so.”
David extended his hand to the young man. He’d learned to tell a lot about a person by the way they shook hands. “It’s a pleasure to finally meet you, Kendal. Can’t say I’ve heard a lot about you, though. This is the first I’ve heard of you.”
The young man didn’t even take David’s hand to shake. “Nice to finally meet you, Mr. Draiman”, he said as he looked around the house.
David pulled his hand back and crossed his arms over his chest. “Ok, then. Will you be joining us for dinner tonight?”
“Yep. I think I supposed to be joining you for Hanukkah or whatever the holiday is called.”]
“It’s called Hanukkah, you had it right.” David scratched an eye brow with a pinky as he watched the young man. “And you would do well to LOOK at me when addressing me, Kendal. It’s a sign of respect.”
Kendal didn’t know it, but his night was about to go very badly, and he’d just arrived.
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The family had eaten dinner, and they were all sitting in the living room talking. The children under the age of 12 had been sent to bed for the night. “Kendal, stop acting like you don’t know any better”, Maddie said to her boyfriend as he sat in her parents’ living room and acted like a child. “My niece and nephews don’t eve act this poorly. Are you insane?”
Kendal had been ignoring her and playing with some priceless trinket that her father had bought her mother. When she called him insane, he responded violently by throwing the priceless trinket against the wall, then started screaming at Maddie. Any male in the room whose last name was Draiman was on alert. If the guy swung at Maddie, he was a dead man.
When Kendal stood and started screaming down in Maddie’s face, Maddie stood and yelled right back. She had been taught by her mother never to back down from a man. She would stand toe to toe with him and if he swung, she’d whip his ass. As they had their screaming match, Maddie pushed the fight toward the door to take it outside. That’s when he slapped her. All of the Draiman men were on their feet in a blur of motion. As David ran up the stairs when he saw his daughter’s neck snap to the side, Brie was three steps ahead of him screaming, “No, David, he’s not worth going to prison.”
And Maddie was about to surprise the hell out of everyone.
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“Oh, HELL NO!” Maddie yelled as she shoved Kendal THROUGH the closed door and into the cold December evening. “No man puts their hands on me!” She grabbed a shovel that was leaning against the side of the house.
Jake had instructed Marc to sit with Delilah because if Delilah got hurt, there was going to be hell to pay. All of the other boys flooded out of the house behind their sister. By the time they arrived, she was swinging a shovel at the boy that had just slapped her. She connected with his head when they had arrived. She was about to kill him. All four of the young men outside could see it and sprang into action. “’Chai, you get Kendal, Jay, Miah, and I will get Maddie”, Jake said.
“You got it, Doctor”, and with that, Malachai ran out toward the fight.
Jake tried to put himself between his sister and the young man she was swinging the shovel at and got sucker punched. He saw red for a moment, then reminded himself of the oath he’d taken upon graduating from medical school. First, do no harm, Jake. Yes, you want to take this little punk’s head off, but you can’t do it. You’re a fucking doctor, he thought to himself as he wrapped his arms around his sister’s waist and started pulling her backward. “BRING YOUR ASS, MADISON JADE!” he yelled. Jeremiah had to grab her around the shoulders to keep her from swinging the shovel anymore, and James pushed back with everything he had. Maddie was small like their mother, and she was a firecracker.
Malachai as trying to pull Kendal back toward the property line when their father came out with a hand behind his back. “You done fucked up, bro”, Malachai said as he let go of the young man and stepped to the side with his hands in the air.
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David had every confidence that his boys could handle Maddie. She was so little that there was more than likely very little threat of a problem from her. He was sure of it as he made his way as calmly as he could to his bedroom to get a rifle out of the gun safe. He was going to shoot the little fucker from the bedroom window. If only his wife would get the hell out of his way. She planted herself in front of closet door. “NO, David, he’s not worth prison. Let Maddie take care of it. She might just surprise you.”
“He put his hands on my daughter”, David said, his voice low and dangerous.
“I know, David, and it’s everything I can do just to sit here and NOT grab two rifles out of the safe here so I can shoot him too. Maddie maybe our daughter, but you don’t have to run to the rescue with her. Remember her training.”
David put his fist through a wall. “God DAMN IT!” he screamed, then he heard the clanging of metal hitting something hard. He moved to the window to see Maddie swinging the shovel and connecting with his head. Fine, no rifle, that’s what my pistol is for, he thought as he headed out the bedroom door with Brie hot on his heels.
They ran down the stairs together and out the front door. David’s hand went behind his back as he walked out the door. The look on his face was calm, but he was pissed. He walked to where Malachai held the boy and pulled the pistol from his waist band as Malachai let him go and stepped away with his hands in the air. The look in David’s eyes shot daggers. His voice showed just how pissed he was. “You have five fucking seconds to get off of my property before I put one right between your eyes”, he said as he pointed the pistol and aimed it to plant a bullet between the young punk’s eyes. “FIVE! FOUR! THREE! TWO!” Right before David reached One, the young man was gone. Now, he had to deal with a pissed off Maddie and his pissed off sons.
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