Family Is Forever

6

*Back at the house*

"Is it noon yet?" Sasha asked for what seemed to Charlotte like the twentieth time today.

"No Sash, it's only 10 we still have two hours, go watch TV or something and stop asking" charlotte groaned from the dining room where she was working on her homework. The girl was only in third grade but she had the IQ of someone much higher. Hunter and Stephanie were both called into the office more than once about the girl making her classmates feel stupid with her smart remarks and her constant overachieving attitude. She was even offered to skip a grade but refused every time simply without reason, despite Stephanie's insistence.

"Well how am I supposed to know that, I don't know how to read the clock, and I don't know when noon is" Sasha shouted as she came and stood in the arch that connected the living and dining room

"You're supposed to learn it in the second grade, just look at the clock in the kitchen, once you see twelve, zero, zero then it's time to go" Charlotte said never even looking up at her sister who she now felt was staring over her shoulder at her work, "What?"

"Why are you doing work on a Sunday?"

Charlotte groaned in annoyance, being the oldest meant she not only had more responsibility but also more work. Her teachers continually piled on work after work as retribution for her smart mouth and even though it was easy Charlotte didn't appreciate how much it was.

"Because I didn't have time to do it yesterday with mom leaving and we have school tomorrow so you should do your homework too"

"I already did all of mine"

"Yeah right" Charlotte continued to work as she finished her science pages and moved on to math when Sasha spoke again with a confused look on her face.

"How come you know all this stuff?"

"What are you talking about?"

"You know all this stuff and I heard mom and dad talking about how you could skip ahead to the big kid's class if you wanted to"

"Yeah so...I'm smart...I just know stuff"

Sasha paused for a second thinking before she asked, "What kind of stuff?"

"A whole bunch of stuff" She responded while rolling her eyes at her sister's pestering before she turned the page of her math problems and continued on

"Like...." Sasha whined as she leaned over into Charlotte's face so she was blocking her field of vision

"Like telling time, which you can't do, now get out of my face" Charlotte complained before pushing Sasha's face away from her.

Sasha groaned at this before she plopped down in the chair beside Charlotte but hopped back up when she heard her dad's phone ring. The young girl raced into the kitchen where she saw the phone laying on the Island from breakfast. Once she saw that it was her mom calling for a facetime she answered right away happy to see her mom's face.

"Hey Bab-"

"Mommy!" Sasha nearly yelled into the phone cutting off her mother

"Is that mom?" charlotte asked getting up quickly from the dining room and rushing to her sister to peer at the phone

"Hello girls, where's your fa-?" Came the blurry figure that the girls knew was their mother

"Are you at the hospital?" the young girl asked bouncing on her toes, shaking the phone trying to see around her mother, only causing her older sister to become annoyed.

"Yes but we-"

"Did you see Rebecca?"

"Yes she-"