“Why’d they do that?”
“‘Twas needful.”
Sheri twisted her skinny braid around her finger. It was the one benefit of having really fine hair. She could get it to loop five times while Marina only could loop hers twice. Long fingers helped, too. Marina’s were chunky. From Dad’s side. “Needful how?”
“Protect the tree, this does.”
“From what?” There was nothing in their end of the park.
“From whom, more like.”
Sheri unwound her braid and stuck the edge of it in her mouth.
“Mom doesn’t like it when you do that.”
“Mom isn’t here,” Sheri stated. Besides, her sister was just jealous because her own hair was too short to suck on. “Protect from who? And why?”
“‘Tis for me to know and for you to find out,” Marina regarded the ring of metal stakes, the tree, her sister’s face.
“You plain don’t know,” Sheri stomped, frustrated.
Marina smiled.
For Crispina’s CCC challenge #55
Na'ama Yehuda 
Captured the young sisters’ banter exceedingly well. Could have been my daughters when young. Nice one. 🙂
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Seems this kind of bickering is pretty universal … 😉 And THANKS! 🙂
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Yea, all around the world, through all cultures, throughout time. It’s a human given.
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Yeppers
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🙂
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Yep… you do sisters well (of course you have so little 😉 experience…
Fun, fun, fun!
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LOL! Yeah, I have me a little experience with sisters … 😉 Lotta them to experiment with … 🙂
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Do r I know it…
You gals could make a hockey team! 😉
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And with my nieces and nephews and grand nieces and nephews we can fill the arena … With my cousins and their kids … a City? 😉
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A whole football team, while you’re at it!
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LOL. A whole Olympiad? 😉 One of my friends refers to my family as “The cast of thousands” … and she ain’t all that far off … LOL
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🙂
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