FLOWER

CHAPTER 2.4

She finds her sister on the sofa in the living room quietly snooping around on some social media. I approach her with a beautifully wrapped gift in an eco-friendly bag.

- Guess what I have for you.-She glares at me with suspicious eyes.

- I have everything-I don't need anything, but thank you in advance for remembering.

- At least take a look inside. - My exultant tone of voice apparently betrays too much.

- No.-She is busy with the screen again. The intruder must be rid of the bed. I turn and say on my way out.

- OK, I'll clean this mattress for you myself.-She stands up as if she's scalded.

-What! Spike, but thank you.-She hugs me exultantly.-I had forgotten to death.-She snatches the bag from my hands and looks inside. She pulls out a preparation with latex gloves. She delves into the product label.-It's perfect. But it's late today. We'll do it tomorrow.

Good possibly I can agree. I can get through one more night with it. I sit down on the sofa and look at my phone. And the sister with the preparation and gloves disappears somewhere. Mum appears on the doorstep.

- Róża would you like to talk to me.-I straighten up immediately.

- Yes.-She comes over to me and sits down.

- It's all right.

- Yes.

- You know you can count on us with your father.

- Yes.

- So what happened in the shop.

- I hit one like this. -I'm dragging this sentence out endlessly.

- You won't achieve anything by force, it can only harm you. No one else. Think how much you can lose by one ill-considered impulse.

- Why are you so delicate! I don't get this kind of feigned rebuke. - Says the evil sister.

- You have long since reached your limit for them.

- When?

- In my first primary school. Every week I listened to you bullying your classmates.

- Not every week, barely three times a month. And besides, they were no classmates. They were bullying me, of course nobody saw that. -She says haughtily.

- Nasturcja, you broke one of their noses.

- He deserved it.

- Girls, I ask you for one thing: let's leave the justice to the proper institutions. Good. -She nods.

- Good.- Responds reluctantly sister. Mum seeing her determination just shakes her head in disbelief. And leaves.

My sister knocks my legs off the sofa to then sit down contentedly staring at her phone. What's the meaning of this, there are two more empty seats. I am giving her my smelly feet. And she fulminates me with her eyes, then puts the phone down. She knocks me down again. And she pulls the cushion behind her and hurls it at me. I intercept the missiles.

- It's not what it looks like.-You're about to be explained by your sister. I turn around.

- But I don't say anything.-Mum looks at us from the corridor.

I throw back my pillow as my parent is already gone. At which my sister jumps on me with all her momentum. Causing the greatest pain where our unfortunate bones meet. And tries to smother me with the pillow.

- Nasturcja, now explain to me. What did Róża do to you that is tantamount to strangling her with a pillow.

- She threw it at me earlier.- Mum looks at her sister intensely.

- Let me guess, earlier you hit her with that pillow.

- Everything in your mouth puts me in a bad light.

- I know, get off your sister. We'll enjoy her longer without the need for a doctor's intervention. - Nasturcja stands next to the sofa. -Clasping her arms around her chest. -Róża take a prophylactic walk for me. I am asking you very much.-Nasturcja's face clouds up even more at these words.

I stand up and take a few steps forward to the back. Like a good doggie. Mum's gaze softens. She walks over to the table and takes her phone from it.