“Ouch!” I screamed, as Yas smacked me in the face, “I’m telling Dad on you!”
“Go ahead, he was the one who told me to do it,” she replied.
Yas and I had been sitting on the floor in our living room watching TV. I was around five years old and Yas, my older sister, around six and half. I’d picked up a bad habit of making funny movements with my face without realising I was doing it,stretching my nose and mouth in a downwards position. I ran out of the living room screeching as loud as possible to get Mum’s attention, and towards the kitchen where Mum was, straight into her arms.
“Muna, baby, what’s wrong with you?” she asked as she picked me up and cuddled me while wiping away my tears.
“Yas punched me in the face,” I lied.
“No I did not!” Yas came storming in. “You’re such a liar! I just gave you a little slap to stop you from making those stupid faces, and anyway Dad told me to do it!”
“Dad told you to do what?” Mum asked. She wasn’t happy with Yas for hitting me, but hearing Dad told her to do it made her angry.
“He said if you catch your sister pulling those silly faces again give her a slap!” Yas replied.
“No, Yas, that’s not the way to stop her from doing it, so I’m telling you to apologize to your sister and do not hit her again.” Yas was always the stubborn one.
“No way that’s not fair! Dad told me to do it so get him toapologize when he gets back; it’s not my fault, why do I always get the blame?” Yas stormed out of the kitchen and upstairs, stomping her feet as she went along so we would get the message that she was upset; the next thing we heard was the bedroom door slam.
“Don’t worry baby, I will talk to your Dad, but you really need to stop making those faces, they spoil your pretty face!” Mum kissed me and told me to go upstairs and make up with my sister.
I went upstairs into the bedroom that I shared with Yas. I sat next to her on her bed but she shoved me off with her feet. “Get off my bed!” she sulked.
“Sorry for telling Mum on you Yas, but you hurt me,” I replied.
“Yea I know Moo, and I’m sorry, but if you keep pulling that stupid face you’re going to end up staying like that forever, so if I see you doing it again I’m going to smack you! Anyway you know Mum and Dad are going to argue now, don’t you?”
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