Here is a long awaited update that came to me earlier today. I am going to do some erratic writing for the next few weeks on anything that comes to mind so it might be The Cartwright Sister or it might be Sisters and Brothers or a S&B mini story. I do apologize for this and promise I will try and get back on a more normal schedule soon, but for now things are crazy. Thank you for reading and please review.
September 25, 1850
Dear Journal,
Well I'm not sure how to do this exactly. Ms. Jones gave us this assignment. We are supposed to write about ourselves every day for the rest of the year in a journal, and this is the second week of school so that is a lot of writing and I don't like writing that much. Pa thought it was a good idea, but Joe and I sure didn't think so, I guess I should start by introducing myself. I'm Chloè Faith Cartwright. Most people just call me Chloe. The only person who calls me Chloe Faith is my Pa and when he does that I know I'm in trouble. Back to me I'm 8 years old and I have 2 brothers. Pa is making me change that I have 3 brothers though only 2 of them are here that's Joe and Hoss you know them. Joe and I are what you call twins. See we were created at the same time so we look a whole lot alike (cept he is a boy and I'm a girl and prettier, but shh don't tell Joe) and have the same birthday August 9. Back to the brothers' thing see there's me and Joe we are the youngest then there's Hoss he's 14 and then there's Adam. Adam has been away to college for the past 3 years, and I don't remember much about him. I guess I'm still mad and upset that he went away and he didn't even say goodbye to any of us. Pa and Hoss really miss him, but me and Joe don't really care whether he comes back or not. As you probably know Joe and I are best friends, we always do everything together which usually involves us getting into trouble. Well I think that is about it for now so bye.
Chloe Cartwright
September 30, 1850
Dear Journal,
Yesterday Pa left for some big meeting in San Francisco for the whole week, so that means Hop Sing is in charge, and Hoss. Joe and I are gonna have lots of fun hehehe. I'm writing this at night so it's really dark. I can't light a candle cause then Hoss would find out and I would get in trouble for playing with matches. Joe is in his bed sleeping, he is being really loud tonight. Well I'm getting sleepy so I'll write some more later.
Chloe
October 3, 1850
Hey Journal guess what today is? It's Hoss's 15th birthday! We're going to have a party tonight and everything. I really like parties and Joe has this excellent plan to put some worms in the apple pie. See while Hop Sing is baking the pie Joe and I will lure him out of the kitchen and Joe will sneak in and add the worms to the mixture and then tonight when the guests start to eat they will find them in there. Isn't it great?! The only thing left is to make sure we don't get caught. Pa will absolutely kill us if he finds out. Oh that's Pa now so I'll let you know how it goes later.
Later
Well I won't be sitting down for a while that's for sure. Everything went great until Pa had a piece of pie. See this is how it went. Joe and I met up out back at Hop Sing's garden with a basket for the worms, we dug and found a whole bunch a whole bunch of them to put in the pie some real big ones. Joe said that he had a perfect plan for districting Hop Sing I asked what and that is when he shoved me down which busted my knee open. I am proud to say he walked away with a bloody lip for that too. So I went running in 'cryin' and Hop Sing came out asking what was wrong when he saw my knee he ran back in to get his supplies. While Hop Sing was bandaging me up it gave Joe the perfect opportunity to complete the deed, and afterwards Hop Sing never noticed. That is until the party, Pa just had to have the first piece of pie and as he took a bite a worm fell out of the crust and Pa turned an awful shade of green and his eyes darted toward me and Joe. We froze and headed straight for the barn. We knew what was comin', but did he really have to go bare bottom? Anyway I guess I should try and get some sleep tonight I'll have to sleep on my side though.
Chloe
November 16, 1850
Dear Journal,
The last few weeks have been simply awful. It seems all Pa or Hoss talk about now a day is Adam. See Adam sent a letter for the upcoming holidays and now he is all anyone talks about why even Mr. Dave's the shop keeper asked about him the other day when Pa took me to town. It is driving me mad I tell you. I don't want to hear about my absent brother who left his family to go to some school. If he was so great he would have stayed or at least said goodbye. Hoss has told some great stories about him since Joe and I don't remember him to well, but I still don't care I mean he seemed to care about me so much, why did he just leave without saying goodbye. And why did he lie to me? It just doesn't make sense. Joe understands me, I can always count on Joe for that, cause when I can't talk to anyone else I can always talk to Joe. Joe asked me last night what I thought it was going to be like when Adam comes home next July.
"I don't know Joe, weird I guess." I huddled my knees closer to my body and laid my head on them. Joe looked at me and nodded. We were sitting in the far corner of our room with a candle lit low for just enough light as a bad storm raged outside.
"Hey Chlo, What do you think he will be like. I mean I sort of remember him, but I mean he's like 20 now and we're 8 going on 9, it'll be different cause we aren't little babies anymore."
"I don't know and don't care Joe I don't want him to come home at all. We will be better off without him." I almost shouted that last part so I quickly covered my mouth and hoped no one had heard that, Pa would surely have my hide for saying that, but I'm not sorry.
"You don't really mean that Chloe he is our brother and-"
"He is not MY brother! He might be yours but he ain't mine!"
Joe just looked at me with a smirk and sarcastic face, "Well since we are twins we are exactly the same which mean's my brothers are your brothers so he is your brother." With that Joe stuck out his tongue at me and I threw my pillow at him which knocked over the candle catching the pillow on fire I panicked but thank God that Joe is a quick thinker and put out the fire quick, but now we have to hide a burn mark on the floor and a burnt pillow. Joe was nice enough to let me use his pillow tonight. Well that is it for now so write later.
Chloe