Memories

It's the Day before Thanksgiving, and I'm sitting in my room on the window seat looking out the  at the now bare oak trees.   Memories have been flooding my mind all day, the memory of spending time with the Jonas Brothers, the memory of Mama J. making Nick his favorite thing, Pumpkin Pie. I close my eyes, and I'm there again. sitting at the table asking her "What are you making?" she smiles at me, and says "It's for Nick. I'm making him Pumpkin Pie, he loves his Pumpkin Pie."  "Does he know?" I ask, in fear of saying the wrong thing, she says nothing to me right away then she says "No" suddenly I hear Frankie, he's crying downstairs, he must've fallen down, so I get up, and rush downstairs, Frankie's sitting on the floor, and Kevin's just looking around, and has paused a Karate Movie.  I ask him  "Kev? What happened?"  he looks around, and then he looks down at his feet.  then he responds "I punched him" I scream "YOU WHAT?"  Then Kevin started to explain, he said "We were watching the Karate movie, and we were gonna practice by pretending to hit each other, and I didn't mean to punch him, but I swung as hard as I could and knocked him in the face!  Right away, when I felt his face in my hand, I was like 'oooh!' then he started crying, and you came down! Please don't tell my mom! please!" I told him  "Why are you watching a Karate movie with a 6 year old?"  he didn't answer me, then he finally said after 5 minutes "Blame Joe, he told me to watch it with Frank." Then Mrs. Jonas came downstairs, and she questioned Kevin about why Frankie was crying, and Kevin couldn't  lie, not to his mom. He told her the story, and she grounded him. I'm back to reality again, but my mom is making Pumpkin Pie, and I'm back In the warm brown and tan kitchen, Joe and I are playing cards, Frankie's icing his nose from Kevin's (accidental) blow and wiping the last few tears that have fallen with his hand, and Mrs. Jonas and Nick are by the oven taking out the pie.  Nick calls to me "MANDY!" I drop my cards, and go over to the oven. Nick's smiling showing his teeth, he's seen the Pumpkin Pie! When I saw him Smile, It made me smile cuz He's so charming, and funny. Frankie saw the Pumpkin Pie too, and he runs over saying "MANDY! MANDY! MANDY Pumpkin Pie, pumpkin pie!" And he jumps up and down as his eyes sparkle when the candlelight hits his brown eyes, as he spins around in the warm kitchen that smells of sweet Autumn wreaths, and pumpkin pie   My mom calls me, and I can't stay in Mama' J's warm kitchen with Nick, peering into the warm oven at the Pumpkin Pie.  I'm back at my window again, the sun has gone to bed, and so must I, but as I looked out the window at the crescent moon I went back to Wyckoff, It's 6:30 p.m. we're all gathered around the table, and Papa J is saying the prayer.  It's really quiet,  and then Joe snorted.  He caused a crack up at the table. Later on that night,  Mama J bought out the pie. Nick was so happy.