My Sister's Big Toe
My name is Anna Marie Patrick and I'm eight years old. I love to play dress up and do ballet. I have a big sister named Susie, and she's sixteen years old! Sometimes I wish I was as big as her! I usually love my sister very much, and that's why I sleep in her room every night. I know it bugs her, and that's partly why I do. Well anyways, at my house we never go to bed earlier than twelve o'clock. It's my mommy's fault. She's usually at our church working, at someone's house talking their ear off, or on the phone with Sissy (she's my aunt, her real name is Lynn but because she's my moms twin sister, we call her sissy.)
I'm very picky about the way I sleep, and even though it is Susie's room, and Susie's bed, I act like its mine and tell her how she can and can't sleep. She is not allowed on my side of the bed; and she is not under any circumstances allowed to touch me, or allowed to be near me. I don't care if she is asleep and accidentally rolls over to my side of the bed. I am not understanding, and that is not allowed to happen.
It was really late one night, and we were finally going to bed. Susie was exhausted, but I didn't care. I was in a very picky mood. Susie was too close to me and I had to do something about it. I threw back the covers and drew a line threw the middle of the bed and told Susie not to cross the line; she was too tired to argue. She rolled over to the edge of the bed and went to sleep. I was almost asleep when I felt something touching me! I threw the covers off and I saw Susie's big toe, it was across the line on my side of the bed! I could not believe this, how dare her! I started screaming at her about her toe and she was so tired all she did was lay there and look at me. Then I heard my mother yelling for me to go to her room, so I got out of the bed and off I went.
When I got back to Susie's room, I threw on the light and got in bed. After that I told Susie to get up and turn the light off. And do you know what she said? She had the rudeness to tell me to get up and turn it off myself! Can you believe that? First her toe and now this. I couldn't take it anymore. I jumped on top of her and started hitting and scratching her, all she did was scream for me to get off and told me to start sleeping in my own room if I was going to be so picky. Can you believe she would say such a thing? I started to hear footsteps and in came my father. UH OH, I thought. I immediately put on my saddest poutiest face, and started to produce tears. I told him that I no longer felt loved by my family and that I wanted to run away. He said okay and helped me pack a suitcase, then led me to the door. I couldn't believe that my daddy was actually about to put me outside and let me run away and that made me very sad. All Susie said to me was bye and told me to have a nice life. My daddy told me he loved me and would miss me but if running away is what I wanted he would let me. When he opened the door it was pitch black outside and I got scared. It was to dark and cold outside so I told him that and said I didn't want to run away and that I was sorry and I loved him.
Daddy tucked Susie and I back in her bed, and left. I got scared when he left. I was afraid the Wicked Witch of the West would get me, so I made Susie put her arm around me to comfort me, and that's how I fell asleep, in Susie's arms. Even after all the trouble her big toe caused.