Apple of my Eye

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My auntie always calls me the apple of her eye and I usually hide from her because she also twists and presses my cheeks .

I’m not much of toucher I would say, and the cheek pressing just hurts my skin.

I try to avoid her most of the time! but she shows up in my house before I come back from school. She is always waiting to press my cheeks and annoy me again.

So today when I came home from school, and realised that she had paid a visit, I tried my best to avoid her and tried to slowly go up the stairs and to lock my door.

But of course not !

I heard my mum calling me downstairs the very moment!

Maybe I wasn’t as sneaky as i had to be.

I accepted my defeat and went downstairs of course.

And there she was, the fat witch waiting to squish my cheeks. She walked right up to me and with her 7 inch arms swung her fingers near my cheeks.

“You’re the apple of my eyeeeeeeee” she said while twisting my cheeks and pulling them apart like I wasn’t human.

"I hate this aunty though and enough is enough!" I said to myself.

“Stay away from me you fat cow lady!” I scream,

“SHUT UP CHILD! ”, my mother screams,

And as if my cheeks weren’t damaged and hurt enough! my mom planted another slap on my face.

“SHE IS YOUR AUNT AND YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO HER! now do what she says and I’m going and borrowing some sugar from the neighbours meanwhile” She said angrily,

I know I have to really behave when mom gets angry because the last time when i didnt, she had kicked me out of the house, so I don’t really have a choice but to obey her this time.

My mum left and I stood quietly staring at the beastly aunt.

“beta help me find apples” she said.

I looked at her in distress.

off course I needed to find the apples now or mum would never forgive me! and who knows what other punishments she might come up with? she did say a few days ago that she will make me wash my mouth with soap. Oh god! Never! I shall be a good child and obey her now.

So I quickly went and grabbed a knife and pierced it through Aunty's left eye. she was screaming but I had to find the apples.

"I Don’t want mom to think I disobeyed her." I thought to myself and continued the digging.

I took a spoon and popped her eye out of her face, it was quite a struggle as it was stuck to her face with a string, but i did somehow manage to pull it out.

I cut it in half but there was no apple inside it!

"So of course it must be in the right eye !" I thought to myself. the right eye being my last hope.

As she pretended to sleep I penetrated her right eye with the same knife again. But unfortunately there was no apple inside it either.

I got really scared and so in anxiety and fear the only place left for the apples to be at was somewhere behind her eyes. "maybe it is hidden in all that fat ?" I thought.

So I pierced the knife deeper and deeper through the eye in hopes of finding the apples or even merely feeling them inside.

At some point I think I did feel something hard, but by then it was too late.

Mom had already come back and she got really hysterical!

I first thought it was because I couldn’t find the apple, but I guess it was for some other reason.

“What did you do !” She screamed,

“Mom I was just trying to find the apples in her eyes!” I said.

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