Being Oldest

by Dragonfly in World of Books

Hi. My name is Lia R. Arbo. R stands for Rosalia. Know what? I REALLY,REALLY DON'T LIKE BEING THE OLDEST!!!!!!! There I said it.Ok. Maybe your the oldest. And maybe you like it.But your probably not the oldest of NINE brothers and sisters! Big load right? Heres are family timeline. Neko Arbo(my dad)was born two years before my mum who's Applonia Arbo. Then two years later, TA-DA,I was born. But of course I was two when Jada was born. Then there was George. Then Leslina. Then Timothy. Now Jada was okay. So was George. And Leslina. But when Timothy came around, I had had enough! At first I thought, cool! I'll have the most brothers and sisters on the block. Besides, I liked switching our names around.

Then after awhile I got tired of switching are names are names around. I was tired of the crying in the night. I was tired of my brothers and sisters whining. I was tired of it all! So I was no happy camper when bawling Terry came around. He cried the most. No doubt about it. So nobody got much sleep. And when tiny Edithina came, I expected more loud wailing. All she would do was whimper. And give me most of her smiles. Everyone envied me. I'd also become well known. Always having a baby around. Thank goodness they stopped coming at Kico. Luckily he was another solemn baby. Of course I had to deal with little wailing two-year old Vernalise and four-year old Mamiea. But I had become a good baby-sitter by then and knew how to handle them. But no baby-sitter, good or not could deal with what happened next.

"Hon, we need you to baby-sit for us. I know you wanted to go to the movies with your friends but maybe next time. Okay?" Yes!I couldn't believe it. See a couple of days ago I asked mum if I could go to a movie with my friends. I figured she would say no. But instead it was yes. I hadn't wanted to go. See my friends would normally sneak something into a harmless plan. Like we would go into a movie and then go into a movie that would make us stay way past our curfew. I had thought about lying to my friends, but I couldn't. So up till now I was stuck.

But when mum said I had to baby-sit, I wanted to scream and yell with joy. But I just said "Its ok. I don't mind." Then they left. And then all of of a sudden the doorbell rings. So I open the door and guess who's there? My friends. I couldn't believe it.

"What are you doing here?" I yelled letting my temper go. "Chill girl. We're helping you get this party star-ted!"said Beulah. "There's no party starting. I'm BABY-SITTING!"I let the last words really show my temper. I couldn't believe it! I could not and would not have a party. My friends stared at each other. And right then I knew I was in an unfixable mess. "Well there's a funny thing about that.We already called the guests. "I groaned. This was gonna be bad.

Then the doorbell rang. My friends rushed over and opened it.Even though I couldn't see who it was, I simply knew it was a boy.Why? Because Beulah was using her flirt voice. I rushed over but Ann stopped me. Then she said" There already here so we might as well get it started." I said no you can't do that. And then my so called friends, Ann and Janise, locked me inside the broom closet.

I fought hard to get out. Finally, three hours later, I was out. And the place was a mess! But my first instinct was to find my siblings. I would hurt those rats if anything happened to them. I searched and searched but I didn't find them until I leaned against back door and heard wailing. I opened the door. And there were my siblings. I comforted Kico and told Jada to go to her room and lock the door.

Then climbing on a table I screamed. Everybody looked at me. I yelled "OUT! NOW!" Over and over. And while I yelled, my parents showed up. I ran to them and told them what happened. Then they got my ex-friends and called there moms. There dads came to who had worse tempers than there moms.(which was already bad.)

And when the parents got here, they got madder and madder. And all my ex-friends went home crying. When they were all gone, I said I would check on Jada, George, Leslina, Timothy, Terry, Edithina, Mamiea, Vernalise and Kico. Then I would go to bed. They said good night. Then I went and checked on my siblings and they were fast asleep. I smiled and went over and joined them. Then waiting for sleep to come, I thought maybe being the oldest isn't so bad after all.