Inheritance

003

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

Third-person POV:

"Alexandria!" The woman calls up to her daughter.

"Yeah?!"

"Can you come here, sweetheart?" She grabs the small plate she had been preparing food on. She walks to the table that was surrounded by her children.

"Momma, can I have some milk please?" Cameron holds his cup up and his mother takes it.

"Sure baby." She walks to the fridge and Alex enters the kitchen. "Your plate is on the table by Elizabeth." Elizabeth makes a gagging sound, then mumbled the word 'dirty'.

"You act like I wanted to sit next to you birdbrain."

"Birdbrain." The two four-year-old twins laugh and point at their eldest sister.

Katherine closes the fridge door. "Hey! What have I said about calling Elizabeth names like that?" She places Cameron's cup in front of him.

"That's not fair she can act like that but I can't." Alexandria crossed her arms over her chest. "Elizabeth is always your favorite."

"I do not have a favorite."

"Yeah, then you wouldn't let her pick on me the way you do." She picks up her plate. "I'm eating in my room." Katherine sees the tears welling in her daughter's eyes.

"Alex." She says heartbroken.

"Let her mom, she's just a big baby anyway," Elizabeth says in a very cocky tone. Alexandria stops and stomps back over to her spot. Now she didn't want to leave because she saw it as a weakness to Elizabeth.

Before Katherine could say anything Maliki chimes in. "Oh suck it Elizabeth. Don't be mad because everyone likes her better than you."

"Oh yeah?"

"Yeah, and you know it. If it wasn't true then you wouldn't be so uptight when it comes to her." Elizabeth rolled her eyes and you could tell she was only getting angrier. "Oh what, did I hit a nerve?"

"You wanna go Maliki I will gladly kick your ass." Elizabeth raised and her hands lay flat on the table so she leans forward.

"Elizabeth." Maliki shoots up with Cameron and Alexandria following.

"Bring it on bitch." A sinister smile played on his lips. Satisfied that he had gotten a rise not only with his sister but with his brother too.

"Okay, that is enough." The four siblings look over at their mom. "What is the matter with you four?" She scolds her children.

"There is absolutely nothing wrong with me and Kai mom. It's these bimbos."

"I don't care who it is. You are brothers and sisters, you should not be fighting like this." Elizabeth rolls her eyes.

"Whatever. I'm going to Jazzy's house." Elizabeth walks out of the kitchen, and the rest of the family listens until the door opens and closes.

"You are up her butt aren't you Cameron. How did her pancakes taste?"

"How did Alex's taste?"

"Elizabeth doesn't have to be mean to Alex and you know that."

"Yeah. What did I do to make you not like me the way Elizabeth doesn't like me?" Alexandria looks up at her older brother.

"I never said I didn't like you. I just need to stick up for my sister." Cameron shrugs his shoulders.

"I'm your sister too.  But you just don't seem to care, do you?" A tear falls down Alexandria's face and Cameron finally comes to the realization that it was no longer a game.

Now his little sister thinks that he doesn't care about her. When the rebellion between siblings started it was funny to see the younger kids try to hold their own. Now Elizabeth was trying to go for a much harsher.

"Al-"

"No. Don't. I know where your morals lie and I don't want anything to do with it. I have done nothing but be nice to everyone and have gotten nothing in return but being laughed at in the face." She huffs in frustration. Her words all jumbled because she couldn't seem to catch her breath.

As Katherine listens to her daughter's rant from the door her heart breaks even more.

"One day I won't be here and I will be sure to stay the hell away from you." Without another word, Alex walks out of the dining room and stalks past her mother.

"Baby."

Alexandria spins around in a fast motion. "No Mom, you too. You hear all the things they say to me and Maliki but you don't stick up for us. We are your kids too." She flips around once more and disappears up the stairs.

"I never meant for it to get this serious. It was just a fun little game." Cameron's voice catches Katherine's attention.

"It was never a game and you know it." Maliki spits and follows the way Alex went.

"Their right." Oliver finally speaks after having sat there and listened to the whole encounter. "Elizabeth spits nothing but horrible things to them and you two just sit there and let it happen."

"Don't try to play the high and mighty card you haven't said anything either."

"I never said that I have. But she has never said them in front of me. Maliki and Alex have come to me crying because mom won't listen to them and dad is never home for them to tell him."

"Where is sissy?" Nathan says, trying to get out of the chair he was sitting in. Oliver stands from his chair walking over to the twins. Grabbing one by one putting each on a hip.

"I don't know why don't we go see where she is," Oliver says in a cheery tone.

Leaving the two individuals to think about their decisions. Their choices. Thinking about why they had let this go on for so much time.

It wasn't always this hectic in the Wright household. You would never see Elizabeth and Alexandria in the same room because they had so much anger for each other. Katherine never knew where it had come from considering it came out of nowhere.

None of her other kids fought the way Elizabeth and Alexandria did.