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"Help your sister, Tai. Don't be so grouchy." his mom admonished, shooing him over to the kitchen, where Kari awaited his arrival eagerly. The whistle was practically deafening to his ears.
He really didn't deserve this. What kind of seven year old gets stuck inside making gingerbread cookies with his younger sister when he could be outside, kicking snow piles or something? Life just wasn't fair.
Tai clambered up on to the chair beside Kari, trying in vain to avoid getting hit by her bobbing head as she jack-hammered up and down on the chair from excitement. Tai couldn't see what the big deal was—the icing was sticky and usually tasted like plastic, the sprinkles practically were plastic, and the gingerbread men were always too hard to bite (at least not without breaking some teeth).
But he was undoubtedly stuck in this kitchen, spreading globs of icing onto rock-hard cookies to please his sister. If there were an award for greatest big brother of all time, Tai would win it hands down.
"You're the best brother ever, Tai!" Kari beamed at him, sprinkles in her hair and icing on her chin.
Tai scoffed (he already knew that, duh!) and swiped the icing off her face before licking it and deciding that perhaps making gingerbread men wasn't the worst punishment ever.
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