The Unspoken Prophecy

Chapter One: The Call

Chapter One: The Call

As the younger twin, it is very difficult to get the older one to admit that she is wrong. Especially about our grandparents. They shared folk-tales to us as children for bedtime. She says "you're wrong" and "grandma is gone, stop talking about her." Ever since grandma passing, my sister, Laurine took the death badly. Laurine fell into deep depression for months. The past two months, she has been doing better but mom still isn't happy. She misses her mom. Mom took Laurine for a few months to Acadia, Maine, to help her heal the hole in their hearts. I had to stay home with Sofia, my four-year-old daughter. She starts pre-school today, she is very thrilled to start school.

"Will you quit with the stories and grow up, Raylee!" Laurine yells at me as I dress my beautiful baby girl. "Stop filling my niece with useless stories!" Sofia long blonde hair swept in front of her face as she pout at her aunt. Laurine just rolls her eyes at Sofia.

"Don't tell me what I can or can't tell my daughter. Sofia is only four and she loves the stories our ancestors passed down through the generations." I tell my sister.

"I love folk-tales being told to me." Sofia innocent blue eyes look directly at Laurine and spoke with integrity, Laurine shrieks and storms out of my bedroom. She is probably going to tattle on me for being "mean" to her.

Sofia bursts into crying laughter and I tapped her nose gently, " don't let grandma or Laurine hear you laugh at her. Let's finish your hair hair." She nods lightly and hands me her Princess Ariel hair brush. Her long blonde hair slushes around the brush as I pull her hair into two high ponytails.

Once I finish. Sofia turns to me with a huge smile and a twinkle in her memorizing blue eyes. "I love you, mommy," she says and dives into my arms to give me a bear hug.

Right then, the moment was ruined by my own mother, " what did i say about arguing about your sister!" I just rolled my eyes at her. She is always taking Laurine side.

"Seriously, Mom." i Say.

"Don't 'seriously, mom,' me. Leave her alone. That's my last warning." My furious mother said.

"No, i won't leave her alone when she tries to tell my daughter what stories she can or can't listen to: nor when she tells me what i can or can't do." I spoke furiously at my mother.

"Do what i say or else you will go live with your father!" Mom says. Like that's an actual threat, She would miss Sofia to much to actually make us go live with dad.

"I don't mind going to live with dad! At least my daughter will be able to listen to whatever story she wants. Especially the ones passed down through grandma's family." I spoke harshly to my mother. Mom slaps me and then storms out of the room.

"Grandma is mean." Sofia says to me. "Why don't we go live with grandpa?"

"Because grandma would miss you."

"Well, I think we should go live with him and only visit grandma on the weekends." Sofia told me very sincere.

"Maybe. Let me talk to grandpa first."

She jumps excitedly around the bedroom yelling, "yay-!"

"Okay , Sof, let's go eat breakfast," I tell her and she runs out of the room. "No running in the house!"

"Okay momma." she yells down the hall. Her small feet paddling down the hall and stairs.

I softly walk down the hallway making my way to the stairs being careful not to make noise. I can hear the voices of my mother and sister in the living room. They are arguing about me. "MOM, WHY DO YOU ALWAYS LET HER DO WHATEVER SHE WANTS IN THIS HOUSE,. THIS IS YOUR HOUSE!" Laurine yells at her. Mom says nothing but humbles an agreement. I just shook my head, nothing unusual, Laurine always been the golden child for mom and grandma.

Even more so now. Because I got pregnant five years ago, when i was eleven. I had gotten drunk with my friends at one of their birthday parties. Mom refused to talk to me for months after i found out i was pregnant.

I had decide to live with dad then and i'm deciding that now.

I just continued to the kitchen to feed my daughter, her Lucky Charm cereal. Laurine came down and sat next to Sofia. She ate her eggs and toast in silence while I just ate a granola bar. Once Sofia finished her breakfast, we both headed upstairs to brush our teeth in our own bathroom.

Sofia's bus will be here any minute so I grab my red Canon camera and Sofia's Ariel backpack. We both rushed down the stairs, where I take a few pictures of her for her grandparents. Then we go outside by the tree waiting for her bus and take a few pictures of her posing for the camera.

The bus comes to a slow stop in front of the house. "Good luck baby!" I hug her and she lets go. She runs all the way to the bus but stops. She turns around and waves goodbye to me and i snap multiple photos of her. Then she finishes going up the stairs of the bus. She sits in the first row of the bus seats.

I rush inside to grab my backpack and cell phone. I then quickly scurry out the door pushing Laurine out of the way. Just as Alton and Adam pull into my driveway with their blue 2016 chevrolet cruze. I slide into their backseat while Laurine rushes to the bus stop is. She rides the bus with the schools bad boy and boyfriend, Brent Newton. She hasn't told mom because mom wouldn't prove of the relationship. The boy is always in a fight or skipping class.

"Let's go. I don't want to be late on our first day as Seniors and Juniors!" I yell and Alton rolls his eyes but pulls the car into drive anyways. While Adam laughs his brain out.

Reach for my cell phone in my back pocket to call dad. I dial his number and it rang four times before an answer.

"Hello." A sharp voice comes through on the other line.

"Hi, Daddy, can I ask you something?" I inquire.

"Yes, sweetheart. You can ask me anything." He tells me.

"Can Sofia and I move in with you?" I request.

"Have you spoken to your mom or Laurine about this?" He interrogates me.

"Mom is constantly yelling and mad at me, while Laurine gets furious at me for telling Sofia the stories grandma used to tell us. Sofia asked me to ask you, if we could move in with you." I tell him.

"So you haven't spoken to your mother or Laurine about this. But Sofia is asking to move in with me." He questioned me once again.

"Yes, dad, i haven't spoken to them about moving in with you. All they do is yell at me since grandma died. Also, yes, Sofia asked me this morning, if we could move in with you." I told him and Adam is laughing at me while Alton is staring at the road with a smirk upon his face.

"I don't know,Lee." Dad says hesitantly. "Your mother will be furious about this."

"Dad, all she does is yell at me and she keeps making Sofia upset. Laurine constantly won't let me raise Sofia, the way I choose." I tell him.

"I understand, Raylee." Dad says. "I really do."

"Okay , can we move in?" I asked anxiously.

"Only if, this is what Sofia really wants. I love you." He says.

"I love you, too. Good, it is, otherwise I would still being living with mom."

"I know, bye darling. See you later." Dad says.

"Bye, daddy." I say and he hangs up. I then place the phone on my lap.