Thanksgiving My Grandmother: A Short Story

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On Thanksgiving I went to my grandma's house. Most of my cousins were there, my aunt's, brother, and my grandma. When we go to her house for any event we most likely will spend the night with all of our cousins. My older cousin,Savanna is one month older than me and the oldest of the young teens. Savanna is a very supervising person and always thinks she is everyone's parent or in charge and has always been like that. And it has always bothered me since we were little.

This Thanksgiving my three cousins Naviea, John, Savanna, my brother and I stayed at my grandmas house for 2 days. The night of Thanksgiving we all wanted to play a game together because we barely see each other. All my cousins decided to go in the other room except Savanna,
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I tell her to stop trying to control everyone like always and make me mad. She starts raising her voice sounding like a single mom yelling at her innocent “kids”. I speak for everyone else because I got tired of her controlling and this was the last time she was going to be a “mom” to her cousins that are only 1 month to 4 years younger than her. I calmly speak to she was getting angry for no reason because I was just trying to say what everyone or just me was thinking at the time. I stop speaking because there is no point, and that was when I was ready to leave because she was being disrespectful to Naviea and me from what she previously …show more content…
We drop him off and I tell my mom he was also talking about me when we were at my grandmas house worshipping his “queen” like John. When she talked about me to my brother that felt different because me and my brother are very close. I was both angry and upset because I never seen that side to any of them and when they are around her it's like a spell is put on them. I went months with anger and sadness not because of Savanna but because of my brother. I didn't understood why everyone was so mad at me, he never realised she was shutting Naviea and I out, I broke a relationship to say what was on my mind. I now talk to them, yet, I still have some kind of anger in me and feel I will always have

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