I can’t believe my aunt Gaby is pregnant, how could she do this to me? Why would she ever do this? Now she won’t love me or care for me, or she probably forget I even exist! All the attention that I had would go to him! This is so frustrating! Have you ever been jealous of someone in your family? I surely have.

Laughter is what you heard in this house. It was a great house to be in, it was my mom, dad, brother, aunt Gaby (she’s like a second mom to me), and my uncle. Oh, and of course me. My brother was an only child for a year and 7 months, then I came along. I got all the attention of my family, but my brother didn’t mind. He hates attention and likes to be alone. He’s always been like that. And I have always loved attention, and that’s what I got with my awesome family.

My aunt is a short and skinny lady. She’s is super nice and caring, and she had a lot of energy especially, because she’s young. So we hung out all lot, since everyone else was working, and of course my brother was in his room doing his own stuff. So it was usually left down to just me and my aunt. She always took me on walks to the park near our house, we had many picnics there. I played and played almost all day.          

     And one day she had an idea, “Hey Cristal, I have an idea!”

    “What is it?” I asked.

    “How about me and you make up some cute little shows to entertain you mommy, and daddy, and uncle? We can make them up here at the park and then at home show them!” She explained

    “YES!” I said joyfully, and excited.

So we did, and we came up with a new show everyday, or we continued from the show of the day before. We had all lot of fun together coming up with these little shows, and my parents and uncle thought it was super cute and entertaining (Which was the point). And I was getting so much attention and I was loving life.   

Then one day, we had finished the show for that night, and she said she had a surprise for the family. I was super excited and couldn’t wait to found out what the grand surprise was going to be! I guessed and guessed all day long but never guessed the right answer. I begged and begged for her to tell me but she never did, so I patiently waiting for everyone to come home. Once they got home I said, “No time for anything! Let’s get on straight with my show!”

    “Dang Miss Sassy pants,” my uncle replied, “are you that excited to demonstrate your great show today?”

    “Nope! Aunt-ty said she has a surprise to announce when I’m done with my show,” I explained, “and I have been dying all day to know! NOW LET’S GET ON WITH THE SHOW!!”

    So after my great show, my aunt announced, “Ok, well the grand surprise it that... I’M GOING TO HAVE A BABY!”

     This couldn’t be, my aunt was going to have a baby and she was going to forget about me! Who would take care of me? Not my mom or dad, because they work all day, and not my aunt anymore because she was going to care for her baby. What would happen to me? I thought to myself.

    “WHAT!” I screamed, “NO THAT CAN’T BE!! NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO,” ok I’m just dreaming this, I pinch myself, ouch, no this has to be a nightmare!

    “Oh my goodness, Cristal, it’s ok, aren’t you happy? Your will have someone to play with! Because you know Ricardo doesn’t play with you.”

    “NO! I DON’T WANT ANYONE!” I scream in anger.

    “But… why not?”

    “BECAUSE YOU WILL LOVE THEM MORE! AND YOU WILL FORGET ABOUT ME!” I said sobbing.

    “No I won’t Cristal, it’s ok I’ll love you just the same!” My aunt tried and tried to explain to me that it was going to be ok but I didn’t listen.

    They came back from the hospital a few days later of my birthday!

    “Why weren’t you here on my birthday?” I questioned my aunt.

    “Well, because Brayan, your new cousin here, was born on your birthday also.”

    “WHAT? WE EVEN HAVE TO SHARE MY BIRTHDAY!” I screamed furiously.  

    “I’m sorry honey but yes…”

    I stormed off in anger to my room crying. So after a few months I got tired of no more attention, no more shows, no more love, and now more aunt and me time. She was too busy taking care of Brayan, is what she always said. I was feeling very jealous.

    I got tired of this situation so I pretend to be him, I took his blanket, clothes (even though they didn’t fit!), bottle and I went into his crib and pretended to cry, made baby noises, swung my arms and legs everywhere, but that didn’t work, my aunt just said get out of his crib because Brayan was going to sleep now. So she got me out of there and I ran off to go think of another plan.

I was in my room coloring when the greatest idea hit me! I had to get rid of him! So when my aunt went to go fix his bottle down stairs, I ran over to his room, got into his crib, and I started to scoop at his eyeballs!

My aunt came into the room and she looked at me in fear, “WHAT ARE YOU DOING?” my aunt screamed at me, as she ran to get me off of him before I did anything major.

    “I’m sorry,” I said sobbing, “I just felt like you don’t love me anymore because of him so I thought I had to make him go away! I had to get rid of him!”

    “Oh Cristal, I told you that I was going to still love you the same.” She explained.

I was crying because, I felt really bad for making my aunt cry because I almost killed her baby! She forgave me but once my parents came home, she told them what had happened.

They came to my room and gave me this big lecture on how that was my aunt’s baby and how she was obviously care for him more now, but that since I was their child they loved me more than they loved Brayan, and this lecture took a while, but I finally understood that I must appreciate my family. So I went outside and I looked at him and walked over towards him. He had just learned to walk, so I decided I would help him be a master at it! So I grabbed his hand and started walking and then I picked up the past until I was running with him! He ended up tripped and I was dragging him! But I love him!

And my aunt and uncle didn’t plan to have anymore children so they spoiled him, but 3 years later they had another child, this time it was a girl. The same thing happened Brayan did not like her because he felt unloved, so I told him to get rid of her like I almost did with him, I told him I would help him! We had become super close throughout the years so we helped each other in everything. So I told him I would keep an eye on him while he did something to her. But before we could do anything Ricardo had overheard us and went and told on us! So Brayan got the exact same lecture I did when I was his age! And then another three years later my aunt and uncle had another baby and they thought Alondra was going to react the same as Brayan and I had reacted, but she was the complete opposite. She saw Angle (her new baby brother) and she hugged him and loved him, she asked to carry him and to change his diapers! She even promised she would always love and care for him, and let nothing bad happen to him! Me and Brayan looked at each other and laughed, if only we had reacted this way! We learned to all love each other and care for one another and to appreciate our family because they are the ones that truly love us and will always be there for us.