"Mommy! Guess what I did today!" I told her with my stupid annoying childish tone.

No answer.

She didn't even stir. Not a budge. "Mommy. Answer me." I ask with a small giggle, but she was cold. I shiver and jump back as her irises were wide. Too wide.

Tears threaten my tiny eyes. "M-Mommy?!" I shout. No movement. Not even a snore.

I panicked. I ran out the house to my 3 siblings." Mal! Hunter! Scott! Mommy isn't moving nor breathing!" I breathlessly shout at them.

Obviously I've got their attention because the baseball struck the window, thus shattering it. "Sally. You're lying. She was just talking to us a moment ago saying she loved us." Hunter told me.

You didn't see... I thought.
You didn't see her... I thought again.

My oldest brother, Mal, saw the truth in my eyes and voice, and ran inside. "Ma! Ma!" He shouts as I run in behind him.

He shakes her. Not evening fighting back, her body limply moves with his motion. "Ma... Don't do this... This isn't funny... Ma... Wake up... Wake up..." Mal's voice broke, never has he ever, cried in front of me. I saw the tears stinging his eyes. I felt his sadness.

Strange.

I felt my heart failing me as my other brothers came in. Everything blacked out for me then. I can't even remember how I got here with her.

Not my mother. My guardian. My step-mother.

I sigh again, this time, more dramatically.