"Opa Barrett!" a voice whined as I looked up from my lesson plans. My young granddaughter's tear streaked face and ruined outfit was proof enough that my daughter had something to do with this.
"Yuri pushed me in the mud!" she whined.
"I did not! You just fell!" My daughter exclaimed, rushing towards us. She stopped beside Cadence, crossing her arms and looking the opposite way of her niece.
"You did too push me!" Cadence stomped her foot, looking over towards her aunt.
They bickered for a moment, before I broke the fight.
"What is the meaning of this?" I demanded.
"Dad! Cadence is blaming me for pushing her! But I didn't do anything!"
"I felt you push me!"
"It was probably the wind!"
"The wind's never even that hard!"
"Alright! Alright!" I exclaimed, the girls looked at me and blinked. "Cadence, I think you should go home and change, I need to have a long talk with your aunt."
"Ye-yes, opa." She wiped her tears as she began to make her way to the farm house. Her grandmother, Rosalind, is definitely going to be upset. That dress was probably very expensive.
"It's not my fault!" Yuri began.
"Okay then. Explain yourself, Yuri!" I demanded as she blushed, tossing her brown ponytail to the side and looking down, rubbing her toe on the floor of the classroom.
"Yuri, look at me!" I scolded, my daughter flinched and looked up into my eyes.
"It's not my fault Cadence is so girly! She suggested a boring game called croquet! But I didn't wanna play it! Then she talked about going to the bathhouse and getting a manicure! But that's so stupid!" Yuri crossed her arms as I sighed.
"And you pushed your niece into the mud? Yuri! That's something we do not do! Just because you two don't like the same things doesn't mean you can be a bully." Yuri looked down, my daughter was a troublesome child, the complete opposite of her older brother. I sighed, she was way too much like me in my youth.
"Yuri…" I began in a stern voice, "We are going to walk to the farm house and I want you to apologize to Cadence. Then you are to remain at home for the rest of the week! No more going out, unless it's to go to school. Understood?"
"But!"
"No buts!" my daughter just groaned.
"Fine." She spat as I walked with her to the farm house. I knocked on the door, Rosalind was the one to open it.
"Hello Barrett, Yuri." She said, "Please, come in!" She stepped to the side, inviting us in. I looked over at Cadence who had changed her clothes and was having her face washed by her mother.
"Hi, Cadence." I began, "Your aunt has something she wants to say." I pushed Yuri over to Cadence, my daughter sighed and in an agitated way.
"I'm sorry." She spat, as I gave a look of disapproval.
"Say it like you mean it, Yuri!" She flinched and sighed.
"I'm sorry, Cadence." she said in a bit of a more gentle way.
"That's better." I said, as I looked up at Cadence and Clara.
"Cadence, what do you say?" Clara asked as Cadence smiled.
"I-it's okay, Yuri…I forgive you." I nodded my head.
"Sorry about all of this." I sighed, Clara just smiled.
"Don't worry about it, Barrett." I led my daughter out the front door of the farmhouse.
"Your mother will hear about this." I said as Yuri looked down, groaning. I grabbed her hand and led her home.