12 Months Ago

     "Mera can you please bring me mom's medicine?" No one answered. "Now Mera!"

     "I'm coming I'm coming," Mera slithered off of the couch and grabed the medicine off the nearby kitchen counter.

     "Mom sit still stop moving around," Mera's older sister tried to settle her mother down.

     "Hi mom," Mera waved at her as she walked in the cramped room. Her mother stopped moving around and smiled at Mera. "Here you go Lilith," Mera gave her grumpy older sister the meds ands jumped up on the bed with their mother.

     "Stop calling me that for gods sake," her sister told her.

     "Wow saying the lords name in vain. Proving me wrong day by day big sis," Mera giggled causing their mother to giggle too.

     "Can you two both please settle down," her sister snapped out. "I still can't believe you're going to be eight teen soon."

     "In twenty eight days to be percise," Mera stood up on the bed and put her hands on her hips.

     "Get down before you accidentaly hurt mom again you dweeb. We can't afford another hospital bill," her sister said as she pulled her down.

     "Or tooth paste apparently," Mera waved her hand as if waving away a foul smell.

     "Your not funny Mera," her sister said as she pulled a blanket over their mother. "Now don't forget mom needs her shot every six hours. Hopefully the dinner isn't too busy today and I can get home to give her her other shots. All you need to do is give her the one in six hours. I even set the timer so you'd know when to give it to her."

     Mera stood behind her sister pretending to mimick her while she was talking. This caused their mother to do more than just giggle but bust out into complete laughter. Her sister spun around to see what she was doing. Mera froze with her mouth half open. One of her arms was on her hips and the other was pointing up at the ceiling. Mera's sister just rolled her eyes and left the room. Their mother grabbed her board and wrote something quickly on it and showed it to Mera.

     "Lily mom wants you," Mera shouted from the room.

     Her sister re-entered the room to see what she wanted. Mom was writing something down on her board then she looked up smiled and showed the board to both of them. She had written that she loved both of them and if they didn't want her to die they both better hug and kiss.

     "Well you saw what she said," Mera went in for a hug.

     Lily one the other hand was not happy at all. "You two are both sick," she pushed Mera off of her and left for work.

     "I wonder what's bugging her this morning," Mera asked. Mom just shook her shoulders unsure of her eldest daughters unhappiness.