LOUISA AMBER O'CONNELL
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Louisa Amber O’Connell
My sister’s foot on my side quickly woke me up, and once again I pushed her foot off of me. We share one bed, cause none of us like to sleep alone, but sometimes sharing one bed isn’t all that fun. Everyone says I’m the quiet one, and I know I am, because I just don’t like being with those I’m not sure of. After trying to get to sleep, and not being able to, I carefully slipped out of bed, making sure I had Victoria, my baby who has dark hair like me and my sisters. I have two sisters, and we are triplets, or thats what people who see us when we go to the store with daddy and mother say. I really don’t know what that means, all that matters to me is that they are my sisters, and my very best friends. It was still dark out, as I walked down the hall to my parents room, and the only light on, was the pretty lamp on the hall table. Mother said that Grandmother Carnahan bought that when she and grandfather were in India. It’s very lovely, with a red cloth shade that goes over the light, and the pole that sticks in the light is gold, at least I think it is. At the end of the hall is the room my mother and father sleep in. Finding the door open was a good sign that I wouldn’t be disturbing them. Alex always says that when the door is shut they are playing a game, and that we can’t disturb them. Quietly I walked to my daddy,s side of the bed and found his back to me, and being short, I couldn’t reach him, so I simply called out for him.
“Daddy I can’t sleep,” I said. He rolled over to face me, opening his eyes and shutting them like he always does when I wake him up. I watched as he looked at the alarm clock, then moved a bit as he stood up. The thing me, Becca and Ella find funny is that he only wears his underpants. Adults are so strange. After he stretched he picked me up and I sighed resting my cheek against his shoulder.
“Can we have ice cream again?” I asked. Last night he had taken me downstairs, and we had shared a bowl of ice cream, so I had hope that he would let us do that again tonight. Oh I forgot, we don’t live in England now, because of the bad man, I think his name is Hitter, but he isn’t nice, and because of him we moved to America, and we live in a state called Conneticut. Our house is close to the beach, and we go there lots with daddy. Mother works at the Museum in the big city. Our Uncle John lives in Egypt, and that made all of us sad, because he is really fun to play with. Alex came with us but he’s been really grumpy, and daddy yells at him alot which makes me want to cry. When I saw that we were in my room I let him know I wasn’t too happy.
“Daddy I can’t sleep, my tummy hurts because it needs ice-cream,” I said.
“Sweetpea, it’s very early in the morning, and last night was a special occasion,” he said as he sat down in the rocking chair with me on his lap. I yawned and took his hand holding it up in front of my face while he rocked us.
“Because I saw you hit Alex with the belt?” I asked. Daddy moved me so that I lay in his arms, so that I could see him.
“Why did you hurt him?” I asked. Daddy leaned down and kissed my nose.
“Alex took my car without asking my permission, and what he did was very dangerous to him, and to his friends,” Daddy said.
“But he was crying,” I whispered. I had grabbed the belt away from daddy and ran off with it, and hid under the bushes next to the house, and daddy and mother found me and tried to tell me that getting spanked was Alex’s punishment, but I didn’t understand, and I still don’t.
“Louisa, Alex is having a very difficult time right now, and he is doing things to get our attention. When he does things that are naughty, just like when you do things that are naughty, he has to get punished,” daddy said.
“Is everything all right?” I heard my mother whisper as she walked in. Daddy told her what we had been talking about, and then he stood up and gave me to her, kissing me goodnight. When I get upset about something I don’t sleep very good, and mother is the one who puts me back to bed. She held me like daddy had, and started to sing our favorite song. I watched her as she sang to me, and tried as hard as I could not to shut my eyes but they did shut. Mother stopped singing but she kept humming, and I did go to sleep.
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The next day I decided I needed to talk to Alex about what I saw the other night, and knocked on his door. Ella and Becca go in without knocking, and that always makes him angry.
“Alex please may I come in?” I asked. He said I could, so I opened the door then shut it, and went to where he was making a model ship, and sat down on his lap. Alex always talks to me when I need him to, even if he’s mad. He put down what he was doing and I felt his kiss on top of my head.
“Why did daddy hurt you?” I asked. I felt him sigh.
“Well I’m not all that thrilled about having to be here, and dad got after me for not helping out with things, like watching after you and Becca and Ella. I told him some things I shouldn’t have, mean things, and he grounded me. I guess I took his car to show off to Paul and Jack, and since I’ve only driven it in England, which is much different than cars are here, I wrecked it into a police car. Daddy only uses the belt when I do stupid stuff okay? And I don’t hate him or mum, I’m just sad because I miss being in England,” he said. I turned around and gave him a kiss and laughed when he wiped it off.
“You need to get out of here, before I get in trouble,” he said. I nodded and got out without anyone knowing I was there. Back in my room I got Victoria out of her bed, and carried her downstairs with me to the back of the house where I found Becca and Ella playing dress up. Daddy was sitting at his desk looking mad, so I guessed I shouldn’t bother him. Since I don’t like dress up, I decided to go outside. We can go out by ourselves, but we can’t go to the beach, or leave site of the house. When I walked outside and looked up I saw a very colorful thing in the sky. It was doing neat things like falling down and doing flips, and even though I know I’m not allowed to go to the beach, my feet decided for me that we needed to go there. When I arrived I found a family with a girl who looked to be my age, and a man making the thing fly in the sky. She must have seen me because she ran over to me.
“Hi I’m Courtney, what’s your name?” she asked me.
“Louisa,” I said softly.
“Do you want to play with me?” I looked back toward the house, then at her, and saw she had a baby almost like mine, so the two of us played house with them.
“Do you know how to have a tea party?” I asked feeling more better about being with her.
“I love having them,” she said to me. I watched her go to a basket, and she got her set, but it wasn’t as fancy as mine and my sisters. While we played her mother came over, and Courtney told her who I was.
“Louisa do your parents know your here?” she asked. I don’t know why, maybe beause Courtney was my first friend, and because she and I like the same things, but I lied and told her yes. We played that, then ran down to the ocean holding hands and laughed as the waves splashed at our feet.
“Louisa oh thank god,” I heard my brother say as he ran to me. I looked at him wondering why he looked so afraid.
“Alex this is my best friend Courtney,” I said as he came over and picked me up hugging me close.
“Say goodbye to her little sister, because your in big trouble,” he informed.
“Alex put me down, I know how to walk you know,” I said as he began to carry me back up the beach. When he didn’t I got made.
“I told you to put me down,” I said and wiggled but he still didn’t listen. He carried me all the way back to the house, and by then I was ready to tell daddy how mean he had been to me.
“Dad I found her,” Alex said as he carried me into the kitchen. I heard running feet, then daddy took me hugging me close.
“Daddy I’m not hurt,” I said as he sat down and held me away from him.
“She went to the beach,” Alex said. My daddy got a very scary face then, and I started to cry hugging my face to him, so I didn’t have to see it. He turned me so that I was over his lap and I screamed as he smacked my bottom twice, then he hugged me close while I cried.
“Don’t you ever do that to me again,” he said, and made me cry more because his voice was scary. I knew why I had gotten spanked, and I wished I wouldn’t have gone to the beach, and told him that as I cried. Daddy put me in my bed and told me to take my nap then left and I cried more. I cried so hard that I choked.
“DADDY DADDY,” I screamed. I think I cried for ever because it sure felt like it before he came back with a glass of water. He picked me up, and I was really scared because I couldn’t get my breath.
“Shh take a deep breath and let it out.”
“I I ca ant,” I said crying more.
“Yes you can,” he said, and I did three times before I finally could breath again. I took the glass of water he had and drank a few sips then closed my eyes as he started to rock me.
“I’m sorry I made you spank me,” I whispered. I dont know but I don’t think my daddy likes to do that to us. He kissed the top of my head and told me to go to sleep, and I did safe in his arms.
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It was mothers soft voice and feeling something cold on my legs which woke me up.
“Shhh, you have sunburn my love,” Mother said, and when she rubbed my legs it hurt, and I told her as much.
“Ouch.” Mother sat down next to me and I sat up but hurt all over my body. I still had on my sun dress and when I looked at my arm it was really pink and there were bubbly things on it.
“Angel I need to put this lotion on you, it will make the stinging stop,” she said. I closed my eyes and let her do it, trying not to cry but it really hurt. She finished as Rebecca and Elizabeth walked into our room dressed for bed.
“I want to sleep with you and daddy,” I said softly. Mother picked me up and I held on to her as she carried me over to the dresser where we keep our night cloths.
“You need to sleep in your bed,” she said, and I wished I didn’t have too. It hurt to get undressed and dressed in my night, but mother has always been good about being careful and fast, and once I was dressed, she started to carry me to the bed where my sisters lay, and stopped. I looked past her as daddy walked in.
“Rick I think she needs to stay in bed with us, the way they girls sleep, one of them might pop the blisters on her arms,” mother said. I simply rested my red sun burned cheek against her shoulder waiting for daddy to say something but he didn’t. I woke up in their bed crying because my arms hurt so bad. Daddy sat up and turned on the light and I cried more when I saw the big blisters on my arms. Things happened fast then. Mother and daddy got up and got dressed then Daddy picked me up and carried me downstairs.
“I’m afraid,” I said shivering because of the cool breeze coming in the windows. Daddy put a blanket over me and told me he wasn’t going to let anything bad happen, and I held on to him as we all got in the car, well me daddy and mother. I guess Alex stayed home with my sisters. Mother kept asking daddy if I had a fever, and he talked in a soft voice which made me feel better, and I think mother too. When the car stopped we were at a large building of some sort. We went in some very big doors and there were lots of people there, mostly people wearing white cloths, and some people wearing night gowns. Daddy hummed our lullaby and I shut my eyes, but didn’t go to sleep, then I heard someone call out my name.
“Hello Louisa,” a strange man said as we walked into a room with all sorts of scary things. I hid my face against my daddys neck certainly not about to let him do anything to me.
“We will need to lance her blisters, its best if you and your wife stay here so that she won’t associate you with what needs to be done.” I didn’t understand what he was talking about, but he left and daddy sat down.
“Loiusa, in a moment you are going to go with the nice Doctor and he is going to fix your arms,” he said. I held on to him as tight as I could and screamed when I felt mother pulling my arms away. Strange people took me away from them, and I screamed as loud as I could for them to save me. A pretty woman, but not as pretty as my mother, took me and showed me some pictures and I stopped screaming.
“I want my daddy,” I said to her.
“I will take you out to him just as soon as were finished. Will you lay your head on my shoulder, and promise not too look?” she asked. I felt tired and my stomach and my throat hurt, so I did what she said to do. I felt something stick me and I cried hard until they finished with me. My arms had bandaged on them and I cried more until my daddy held me again.
“It’s all finished,” he said as he danced with me. Mother was talking to the doctor about something and I shut my eyes, wanting to be home. I felt the blanket placed over me and knew we were finally going home but I was too tired to really care.
~*~
My blisters and my sun burn went away, though my skin was darker than Ella’s and Becca’s. Mother says its a tan, but I don’t think I like it too much. Mother also told me that all of us would get tans from the warm sun and the beach. Today we get to go to the Pavillion, so I have to go get ready for that. Elizabeth can tell you how that goes. Come back and see us again. Good bye.
NOTE: okay Its stupid but I couldn’t resist tell me what you thought???