too much|l.h

Do It For Me

⊗Kat⊗

I woke up the next morning around 7. Olivia was still asleep. I stayed wrapped up inside the warmth of my bed and kept my eyes shut for about 20 minutes, hoping I might fall back asleep. But because my mind was now awake, my attempt to fall asleep again failed. I let out a quiet groan as I rolled over to the side where the nightstand was, and I put on my black & red ray-ban prescription glasses. I actually have to wear glasses. I'm blind without them. I usually wear contacts but I wear my glasses sometimes. I reached for the iPhone that was 2 meters from my face, charging on the nightstand. I picked it up, disconnecting it from the charger, and pressed the white home button. I unlocked it and slid my finger down the screen to show my notifications. I had a few texts and some twitter notifications. I pressed the home button once again, and the messaging app in the lower right corner had the number '2' in the upper right corner of the square. I tapped messages, wondering who texted me. Two new people showed up with texts. I tapped the first one, it was in complete Korean,

To:Baby Kat

From: Evelyn

KAT! How was your flight? How are you? How is Olivia, Chase and Jesse? How's Ireland? How's Calum? How are the other boys? Have you talked to Luke yet? I miss you!! I haven't seen you since Ben-Ben's 13th birthday. I hope you're doing well. Work hard and have fun!! Call me soon!! I love you!!

I groaned as soon as I saw the Korean pop up on the screen. My eyes scanned the message sent by my oldest sister. I am a middle child along with my twin sister Eden. There are four younger siblings below us and four older siblings above us. Two older sisters, two older brothers, three younger brothers, and one younger sister. Two if you count Eden since I'm older by two minutes but I don't count it. My family is basically a mix of Korean and Australian. We were all born in Australian. My oldest sister, who texted me in Korean, Evelyn, she coddles me a LOT. She lives in Korea with her husband. So she always talks to all of our siblings and our parents in Korean since we all learned it since we were young. I learned Korean from my parents, English from school and from Mara and Tyler, and I learned Mandarin from taking it from 6th grade to senior year. It annoys me, but I can't blame her for speaking in her everyday language. She treats me like a baby's what pisses me off. She's like 4 years older than me, that's not a lot. I'm 18, she's like, 22. I looked back at my texts after I pressed the back button. I tapped the next one.

To:Darling Katherine

From:Mother

Hey baby, how are you? Your brothers and sister are wondering how your flight was. How's Ireland? I bet it's beautiful. We're all going to miss you so call soon!! I love you as do your siblings and your father. He just left for China on business but you should call him. I love you.

I rolled my eyes. Bullshit, I don't really think my father actually gives two fucks about me. I'm pretty sure he's hated me ever since he laid eyes on me. No matter how hard I worked, it was never good enough for him and Eden always did better work than me. I went back to Evelyn's text. I read it again before I started typing back in Korean.

To:Evelyn

From:KitKat

Hey Ev. The flight was fine. Everyone is fine, I haven't talked to Luke yet and I don't know why you're asking if talked to Luke yet. I'm not getting back together with him or anything. I miss you too. Be well. I love you. xx

I pressed send and decided to just send my mum a simple text back.

To:Eomma

From:Katherine

Hey mum, the flight was fine, we just got in yesterday but Ireland looks pretty nice so far . I'll try to call soon. Love you. xx

I pressed send and I got a new text.