Tales of the Yul

The cool breeze caressed my face as I gazed at the scenery, "ah, what a beautiful scenery", I whispered, my sigh carried away by the wind. I turned away from the breathtaking view and hurried back home, I checked the time on my wrist watch and noticed my father would soon be home, if he gets home and finds out i left home alone i, a girl all alone? That's definitely not allowed in my family. I ran as fast as my feet could take me and luckily for me I got home early. The smell of my stepmom's cooking hit me and God it smells divine just like it's taste. My step mom is quite a good cook almost on par with my moms'. Oh yeah I forgot to tell you all. I am Azriel, 14 years old, I'm the eldest child of my family . I have two mothers and 7 other siblings and yes my father married two wives. He recently got me a step mom few years back and now she has 3 kids for him. The chores are shared between we the females, I'd say we are totally 7 females plus my mothers. Formerly, we had just one male child that's my younger brother from my biological mother but a month back my stepmom just gave birth to a bouncy baby boy and he's so cute, his name is Ayden. Oh shit I'm getting carried away again, I guess that's enough for an intro gotta go. I quickly slipped into the kitchen to where my stepmom was and peeked at what she was cooking "Chef, chef" i jokingly said. She chuckled and said "I bet I'm your favorite now and that would be because of food right". I answered as I smiled"Oh aunty you know me too well". She shakes her head lightly and said "You and your love for food, here go set up the table before your father comes". I collected the plates and cutleries and began to set the table, immediately I was done I quickly went to the room where my mom was making the bed , I joined her and helped her, I was so glad no body really noticed I went out I'm not ready for another lecture. I quickly finished up with the chores and went to meet my younger siblings. My brother wasn't there, he's my immediate junior, he's 12 but normally accompany my dad to his farm especially nowadays since we were on our holiday. That reminds me school is starting on Monday just few days to come. I slumped to the chair and was getting bored and hungry and soon slept off. I felt someone tap me and I got up and slept on my bed, the next morning came with an heavy rain I yawned and got up. My life has really been so boring, more or less like an endless loop. Hours passed and I had done all chores possible. Food was almost ready when my step mom called for me "Yes aunty". My stepmom spoke "Could you please go get me some moringa leave". I was so elated, I could see that beautiful scene again and now that it was raining it was going to be more breathtaking . I quickly wore my slippers and just as I was about to head towards the door my aunty called out "Take your brother along!". I had to resist the urge to roll my eyes, what's with my family and their obsession with wanting me to always not go out alone. It's really annoying but I just have to comply, I turned back and called out my brother and we both left home. After walking a while we both got to the moringa tree, the tree was quite sparse with leaves and the rain never relented. "Jaime, quickly go pluck the leaf and let's go, we can even go play in this pouring weather". He looked at me and smiled and said sarcastically"Such a pity you rarely go out and now that you are outside you want to play. Ay, what an starved fun girl". I looked at him with a scowl"That's no way to talk to your elder ones". He was getting happy seeing me all riled up and said"come on, you are just two years older it's no big deal. No need to get worked up too it's not your fault you are a girl". I forgot to tell you all, my brother has a knack for getting on my nerves at this point my eyebrow began to twitch "Jamie stop getting on my nerves", he chuckled as he crossed the stream water blocking our pathway to the moringa tree, he said "I'd quickly get the leave for my weak sister". I was so angry as I wanted to retort back I saw my brother entering the stream . "What are you doing you idiot". He replied "Relax I'm not going to die just from this, the leaves fell in here so I just want to pick it up I don't want it to waste.". I looked at him disapprovingly as I spoke "just be quick about it alright". As he tried to come out the tides of the water was increasing because of the rain and at this point he couldn't move his leg in the direction he wanted it to , the tide kept pushing him. At first i thought it was all a part of his annoying stunt until i noticed he was struggling and panicked set in , i screamed"Jamie!! Come out!". He spoke within struggles"I'm trying". No one was around the area so I quickly turned to him and said"stay here, I'm coming let me go and get help" after saying this I went back home and told them what happened at first they all told me that it's no big deal that he can swim but when they noticed i still wasn't calm they followed me and when we got there he was nowhere to be found. If only, if only I hadn't left, if only I had stayed and tried to pull him out, he won't be missing, would he? If any only if