My summer as my sister
I had been lying on my bed trying to fall asleep, when my sister Joy came home from her dance practice all excited. Her troupe had been selected to travel and perform abroad this summer, and as one of the leads, she would be a key performer, and it could lead to a scholarship to a dance school. That's when she was brought back down to earth by my mother, who said " That's such a great opportunity. but it's such a shame you will not be able to go, haven't you forgotten that you will be spending the summer with my great aunt, and some of your other distant cousins representing our family as she decides which part of her descendants she will be leaving her fortune to". I heard my sister breakdown in tears going on about how unfair it was, that this was her dreams that were being trampled on, while at the same time my mother was saying how much the family could benefit from the money. I didn't hear anything ore as at that point i fell asleep. I awoke the fol...