My Typical Day

So this is what happens when me and my sister have an argument: While I'm just sitting where I am and minding my own business, carefully avoiding my sister's eyes, she just comes near me, brushes EVER so slightly against my shoulder and yells her head off, crying (or that's what others think) with ABSOLUTELY NO tears, and calling EVERYONE in the house to that room. And I'm turning my head in every direction to understand what was happening.

Just then, my grandfather says his usual "Who's troubling the child?" line. And my father is yelling at me about teasing her. My grandmother is asking me to not poke my nose into her business, and my mom launches off into a BIG explanation about being a happy, loving sister. And when I TRY to tell them that I didn't do anything, I mean, like, ANYTHING, they tell me I'm arguing, talking back. 

Hot lava and anger, ready to burst, bubbles inside of me when I keep telling them I didn't do anything, and they keep informing me that I was talking back. I try to bottle the anger, but some if it escapes anyway and, on my way to the room, I bump into a chair, maybe a bit too aggressively. But hey, I didn't do it on purpose. Then my mom gives me an explanation on controlling your anger no matter what.

And behind all the chaos, my sister, who, in between her fake cries, shoots smug looks at me, thoroughly enjoying all the drama. 

But that was only until I got my revenge (technically not my OWN revenge, but it just happened and it was my turn to smirk), when my sister got scoldings for playing too much video games.

So, my sister isn't even the main part of all the chaos. My parents are. It's just SO ridiculous that each time, they fail to uncover what ACTUALLY happened. And I don't know why, but my mom absolutely LOVES lectures. And I, love reading my book when they shout at me. 

Even though my mom tells me to distract myself when someone's bothering me, I get into trouble for that. When I read my book when I get scoldings, they say I'm disrespecting them. And I close my book, simply stare into their eyes and catch NOTHING from their lectures. 

But then, my mom suddenly says, "I'm not going to talk to you." And when I look at her with my most bewildered face (which is NOT fake like my sister's timid face) she scowls back and informs me that I deserved it. 

But it just gets better when she says, "Same goes for you." to my sister.

I shrug and get back to my book, where things are fantasy and relaxing and wonderful.

But literally like 5 minutes later, my sister tries to pull of her usual "pay attention to me" tricks which do NOT work on me, example, nudging my foot, hugging my knee, making ever so stupid and annoying sounds which she thinks are CUTE, and then tries saying sorry in the same voice.

Frustrated, I agree and we reconstruct that wobbly bridge between us which of course has no purpose, since it will break again. But anyways, we patched up and my sister started formulating a "plan" to get our mom talk to us again.

I just stare at her, my brain half in the world of elves and half in the world of humans. I gave brief grunts in the middle to make sure my sister thought I was listening, and once she finishes, I snap back to reality.

And both of us waddle toward our mom, and shower her with a round of mumbling sorries. She clicks her tongue, nudges us away.

And then my sister looks at me as if the whole world had fallen apart. And then I scoff and melt back into my book world.

And finally, when it's bedtime, I get fed up of the dumb act and try to apologise to my mom. 

I apologised to her until she got SUPER frustrated and gave me one of her lectures on disrespect (which I obviously did NOT listen to). But still, I kept nodding, and when the lecture FINALLY came to a close, I said sorry again and she just told me to sleep.

So, this is what technically EVERY DAY is like for me. But now I know how to handle it. 

But... It might be quite impossible to do.

And until I do, I will have to continue living with this every day.

Well, the 'way' is...

To tame my sister.