The morning has started off beautifully with animals and sunlight and -------
"Journey!!" A voice sliced through my brain viciously "staring at those trees isn't going to helpget breakfast ready, get down here this instant!"
Mom's dangerous voice shouted from downstairs -- as if your shouting gets you paid -- I stood up from the cushion beside the window and inspected my room. The bed was made but someone had tread on it ,probably the cat .Odella was sitting on my dressing table "get down from there, you're ruining my papers" ,I playfully said and picked her up and plopped on my bed with her in my arms and I folded her into the crook of my neck and tucked her into my arms like she was a prized possession in this crowded house ; like a secret to warm to keep but too precious to spill .She probably didn't need the cradle but I did and she held on like she knew what I felt and wanted to help.
"Young lady are you coming down or not ", Mom's unfamiliar voice cracked through the door again and I held onto the soft creature tightly like she was the only thing I couldn't break by holding too tight .Hesitantly I dragged myself downstairs into the doom I was already expecting ,but I was immune to the suffocating feeling by now so it wasn't as bad as last time.
"I won't call you down twice next time, keep that in mind ,and I told you to turn the porch light off last night" Mom said,
"You never told me to do that ,I thought that was river's job..!", I replied reluctantly.
"But I specifically told you to do it last night"Mom said,
"I remember her saying it"Rivera's unwelcome words reached me,
"You remembered her saying it but you didn't remember where you put my favorite hoodie ,did you---",
"I told you, I put it in your drawer" River said,
"I think you mistaked my drawer for yours or did your sleepy self just trod into my room last night to get it again?" I replied,
River glared at me like I was a cause of her problems and apparently, the cure was my hoodie.
"Stop squabbling and do something good for a change" ,Dad said ,unfortunately ,cuz these were one of those rare moments when I wanted to squash River's ego down.
Yeah something good like a royal son Martin's doing ,sleeping upstairs, I stopped myself from saying these damn words just in time but said them under my breath the moment Dad walked out. I could swear I saw a huge smirk on River's face.
Huh, finally made someone smile today.