I looked up at my family and see that they all were smiling at me, I could tell that my parents and sisters were proud that I got through to my dream university. They all knew I wanted to go the NYU and that I had been studying very hard for the past two years to accomplish that. They just didn't know the reason why I wanted to go there.
The next day was my graduation, because it was a Friday my two sisters were disappointed that they couldn't attend my graduation and they had to go to school. Leah was sixteen and Mia was fourteen, they were both attending the high school nearer to the hospital that my mother was working in and their school were stricter than mine so they weren't allowed any day off.
My mother had an off day while my father had a business meeting so only my mother would attend the graduation with me. After I finished reading the letter of acceptance we had dinner together and then my mother left for her shift that would start at six.
I head to the laundry room to get the clothes from the drier and to start ironing them, Leah took the dirty dishes and head to the kitchen to wash them while Mia did the tidying of the house. My mother had started to train us to take care of household duties from when we were five years.
We all started off with tidying the house, then when we turned ten we would learn how to clear the dining table and wash the dishes, then from the age of fifteen how to do the laundry, iron and cook. The five of us in the house would take turns in doing the household duties, since my sisters and I would be home in the evenings after school we would do the laundry, tidying of the house, clearing and washing of the dishes during the week.
My mother and father would take turns cooking dinner during the week, while in the mornings each of us girls would take turns preparing breakfast or lunch. The three of us girls enjoy helping out with the household duties because we know the sacrifice that our parents would make so that we could get everything that we wanted.
After the three of us finish doing our chores we took our turn and head to the study to wish our father a good night before heading to our room. We live in a small company house with two bedrooms that our father got five years ago because of his performance and position in his company. Our parents stayed in the master bedroom while the three of us shared one room.
There was one queen size bed that the three of us would share, Mia loved to sleep in the middle because she said that she would feel cold in the night but Leah and I believed it was because she liked to be cuddled by the two of us. The three of us are not very close but we understand each other and wouldn't do anything to cause trouble for the other two.
"Good night," I said as I was anxious for the next day to reach, I was the valedictorian in my high school because of my top grades.
"Good night," Leah said and turned her back to Mia and I.
"Night," Mia said before taking of the light and crawling between Leah and I, she moved around a bit before making herself comfortable and then our sweet lullaby of Mia's snoring put Leah and I asleep.
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I was the first to wake up, it was my day to prepare breakfast for the five of us. I quickly got of the bed and hurried to the bathroom where I brushed my teeth and showered before putting on a leggings and a home t-shirt. I quickly tired my hair in a messy bun before heading down to the kitchen and started preparing our breakfast which was pancakes, scrambled eggs and bacon.
Mia came down shortly after, "Morning," she said as she did some morning stretches before walking over to the refrigerator and took out the burger parties, lettuce, cabbage, cucumber, tomatoes, cheese, mayonnaise, ketchup and mustard. She then opened the overhead cupboard and took out the fresh burger breads with sesame seeds on top.
"Burger?" I asked.
"Yep, been a while since we last had those."
"True, is Leah up?"
"Yep, she was in the bathroom when I woke up."
"Okay," I said I started to put the pancake barter in the frying pan.
"Morning," we heard Leah say shortly after, I turned around and saw her in her tights and vest as she placed the rack with her school skirt and shirt on the hanger before grabbing the broom to sweep the apartment.
It didn't the three of us long to do our chores, Mia was finished packing the five lunch bags since mom wouldn't be coming home due to going to the graduation with me. She hurried to our room to start organizing for school, while I laid out the five plates with our breakfast on the dining table with five glass of orange juice.
Leah was putting on her school shoe when we heard the front door opened and mom entered, she looked tired and at the same time dad opened the master bedroom where he walked out already ready for work.
"Cat, go get dress," my mom said as she went to her room.
I returned to our room, my hair was naturally straight so all I did was comb it and clipped two small quantity of hair from either side of my hair at the center. Mia was still dressing when I put on the sapphire sweet heart neck line, off shoulder, knee length lace dress that mom and dad had given me for my birthday the year before.
Mia helped me zip the back and I helped her with her hair, then the both of us head to the dining room to have breakfast. Our mother was already there waiting for us, as soon as we sat down our father said a word of thanks and then the five of us had our breakfast.
After breakfast our father took the dirty dishes, he did the dishes while my mother returned to her room to put on her makeup, comb her hair and put on some jewelry, Mia went to put on her school shoes, Leah returned to our room for her bookbag while I returned for my shoes, graduation gown and valedictorian speech.
The five of us was soon ready to leave the house, my father got in his car while my sisters and I got in my mother's car together with her. Since it was my big day my sisters didn't make a fuss about I taking shotgun.