Family Is Forever

11

The family sat in awkward silence with the tension of the new addition weighing heavy on the family. Sasha made glances at Rebecca from across the table as angrily ate her sweet and sour chicken. She mumble small things under her breath every now and then, until finally after the phone rang causing Stephanie to excuse herself from the table and Hunter went to the kitchen to get more wings, Charlotte elbowed her younger sister in the side.

Sasha glared back at Charlotte before she turned back to look over the redhead. The four girls were alone and she had something to say to the new girl, "You don't look like a Leprechaun"

"Because I'm not one" the girl said plainly, not having noticed Sasha's constant staring and mumbles the entire time.

"Aren't you from Ireland?"

"Yes"

"Well Leprechauns are from Ireland"

"Aren't you from America?" This question took Sasha by surprise for a second

"ye..."

"Well unicorns are from America"

"Unicorns aren't real" Sasha snapped with a confident smirk on her face seeming to have one upped Rebecca

"And neither are Leprechauns so what's yer point?" Rebecca smiled at the girl across from her before she went on eating her noodles, smiling even bigger when she heard Charlotte laughing as well. This causes both girls to bicker back and forth with Sasha being upset at her older sister for laughing while Charlotte was barely managing to hold in another laugh.

However Bayley sat there stumped before she tugged on her sister's arm causing her to lean down a limitless as she whispered into Rebecca's ear, "Unicorns are real though right? They're just a secret like the Leprechauns?"

Rebecca gave a confused look before she remembered that she had told the young girl that story back in Ireland to keep her from crying, "Right...but ya can't tell anyone remember?"

Bayley let go of Rebecca's arm and nodded making the small motion of sealing her lips and pocketing the key. Charlotte and Sasha's arguing stopped as Hunter returned with a plate full of hot wings, followed eventually by Stephanie who finished her phone call and the family ate again in silence. Well, all except Bayley who told over and over again, much to Sasha's annoyance, all about Ireland. The family had laughed many times at the young girl's encounter and had moved on to question Rebecca about her life in Ireland. She told them how they didn't have a lot of the stuff and how much bigger America was than Ireland.

"Really we seem kind of poor compared to how everyone here lives. Everything is much bigger" She said with a mouth full of lo mein, "You have a lot of foods and sweets that I've never heard of as well."

"Sweets?" Charlotte asked slightly confused as she picked at the sesame seed chicken

"Oh uh...candy....that's what you all call them here. I uh saw them when we were at the store" She replied trying to think of the words to explain what she was talking about, everything seemed so different, the foods, the space, the words. It was very difficult to get people to understand what she meant.

"Did you know she didn't even know what a PB & J was?" Bayley asked with a smile causing Sasha to snort while Charlotte and Hunter looked on slightly interested

"How do you not know what that is?" Sasha asked a little rudely but only Charlotte and Stephanie seemed to notice.

Rebecca merely shrugged and explained how she just never had it before and how what they call jelly, in America, was called jam in Ireland, and Jelly in Ireland was what Americans called jello, "I don't think it would taste that good anyway"