"And prince plum takes the lead," I hollered.
"No fair," whined my sister Lilac.
"I told you I was good." I reminded my little squirt. I smirked and she started to tear up.
"Mom." She yelled. "Antonio's not playing fair."
I sighed. I spoiled her too much before. Mom stopped at the bathroom door, looked at us both and picked me up first.
"Antonio Michael Sage," she was calm, as always. She gave me a look I knew. It said explain and fast.
"She won three out of four times so far." I explained. "I just won the recent one." I rolled my eyes, and she started a tantrum.
"Lilac Jane Sage," mom said sternly. "Get up and apologize. He won only once, and you've won three times that."
"But I always want to win," she cried. She rubbed her red eyes, which made it worse. I gave in, again.
I switched the toys places and she looked at me, then smiled.
"Kay," she hugged me. "I'll let you win next time!"
She danced toward the door, as I pulled the water plug in the tub.
"Dinner!" Father called up to us. Dinner finally? Take a guess at what it could be.
Lilac jumped past mom and called, "race you mommy."
"You're on." Mom agreed. They left and I followed behind slowly.
"Yes, subs." yelled Lilac. I stopped at the table. Couldn't we just not have these every day.
"Again," I mumbled under my breath.
"So how was my family," father questioned us, as we sat down to eat.
"Alive," I said.
"And" mom continued.
"Whining," Lilac shouted.
Together we should have sounded like we were alive and whining. Dad laughed; it made me want to throw up my bite of food.
"Alive is good but nobody should be whining," he said smiling.
Please I wanted to say, tell that to the baby in the family.
Dinner as always was loud. Munch, munch, munch, munch! Munch, munch, munch, munch! Munch, munch, munch, munch! Munch, munch, munch, munch!
This goes on for what seems like years.
"What happened today?" Father looked at me. I looked away. I noticed him frowning.
"I won in a hero tub race," Lilac said.
"Cool. Did your brother win," father looked at me again. I ignored it and started to choke on my drink.
Does father know Lilac or me anymore? Man, that was a very stupid question.
"He did but gave it to Lilac because she wouldn't stop whining," mom said to both of us.
"That was nice of him. Lilac say thank you." father demanded.
This time I didn't get to choke on my coke-zero, it came out of my nose. I was laughing so hard. Fathers gone brain dead
I was getting dirty looks but it's like he doesn't spend enough time with us anymore, which is still so true.
"Ewww," Lilac yelled and jumped up to move away from me. I laughed harder.
"I," laugh, "need some," snort, "time," laugh, "to myself." I finally managed to say. I took my drink and walked up to my room.
I was still laughing and snorting when I hit my head on my pillows. Dad sure needs to spend a day at home with us, and soon.