Give me Time

10. Realization

Chapter 10: Realization

"Lyla!!!" My niece Athena and my nephews Jake and Rylan yelled as I ran from them in the back yard of my sister Cara's house. It was spring break and my mom, Lexi, and I decided to drive the short 2 hours to visit my other sister Cara and her 2 children for a fun-filled week of Florida spring break festivities.

"Help! I have a hoard of little people coming at me!" I yelled to my sisters and mom as I tried to escape their tiny hands that had begun to come closer and almost trap me.

The eldest little person stopped and so did the others. I turned back around to see Athena crossing her arms. "Hey I am not little. You're like a foot taller than me!"

I ruffle her messy blonde hair as I laugh. "Honey, You've only been on this earth for 9 years and you're under 5 foot. You're little."

She growls and my smile disappears. Uh oh.

"AHHH" I scream but sadly I couldn't get away fast enough and I've been tackled to the ground.

"Ow ow. I can't breath here," I say as they all sit on me and start hitting me. "Jake! I thought you loved me!"

"Sowwy Lala" The 4 year old blue-eyed brother of Athena laughed.

"Rylan?" I look at the little boy and he stops hitting me. "Ok ok... Hey! Stop hitting my sister!" Surprisingly the other two stopped at his command

"I'm not your sister Rylan, I'm your mom's sister." I say as I sit up and start brushing the dirt and grass off of my shirt.

"No you're not!"

"Ok fine." I say as I try to get up from off the floor before I get tackled again, only this time it's not by a human. "BRADLEY!!" The big pitbull/lab mix sat right on my stomach. I love this dog to death but he's too big to be a lap dog.

"OK that's it. Bradley off!" I push the dog off and stand up, looking at the 3 possible targets. "Who called the dog?"

The children laughed and I had to try hard to keep the smile off of my face.

"Oh so it's funny now?" I say as I walk slowly towards them. Their smiles disappeared and they started backing up. "How funny is it going to be when I throw you in the pool?!" I start running after them as they screamed.

I really did love my family.

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Later that night, I cuddled up with my little mini me's and watched some Moana. Jake liked to act like the little chicken hei hei so it was always a hit.

Soon they all fell asleep and my sister's kidnapped me. Not really, but they took me into the other living room and we watched more movies. Any time we have to ourselves is time well spent since they have kids and can't really get away from them to hangout with me. So today of course instead of watching a normal movie, it had to be an 'OH MY GOD YOU'VE NEVER SEEN THAT BEFORE?' movie. Therefore here I am watching Jackass with my 30 year old sisters at 1 in the morning.

"Seriously Cara?" A voice calls from the hallway. We turn and see our mom giving her oldest daughter a stern look.

"What? We're watching a movie..." Cara says as she pauses it and finds mom's eyes.

"Jackass 2?"

"Yeah she's 16, you act like she's so innocent." Cara rolls her eyes.

"She is, isn't that right Lyla?" I look at my mom who's smiling because she knows that she has shown me worse.

"Sure mother." I laugh and she moves towards us and the couch we're sitting on. Soon she's laid out on top of us trying to steal our popcorn.

"Hey that's my popcorn!" I exclaim before getting hit in the forehead with a piece of greasy microwavable popcorn.