The story of our evil cousin

So me and my sister have this cousin. She's really our step cousin but whatevs. Anyway, she and her family live in the Middle East, but they come to visit quite often and stay with us.

On one such occasion, I must have been in year 9 or 10, or maybe 8....they came over. Now keep in mind my cousin was 10 years old at the time of the incident. Before they had come over, me and my sister had been playing one of our favourite games; Banjo Kazooie. You know, it was holidays and Banjo Kazooie is like the only thing we did on holidays. We had nearly finished the game, we had collected 97 puzzle pieces (you need 100 to complete the game) and we were up to the very last level.

So, in walks in the cousin and she's like "hey, can I play?". My sister and I looked at each other with dread on our faces. Stuff the fact she is 10, stuff the fact she was a guest. We said "nahh, sorry" and kept playing. She started whining. "But whyyyyy??? WHYYYYY? come on guyssss". We had to make her stop so we created a new file for her to play on and let her play for a bit.

After a while of playing she said "Nawww, this level is boring, I want to play on the level Jade was on". I told her that she has to collect enough puzzle pieces to unlock a new level, and eventually she will be up to the one I was on. But of course, that wasn't good enough, and so another onset of whining began. I just can't handle her whining voice. She has one of those REALLY loud husky voices that go high pitched when she's whining. It's awful.

I gave into her again and told her that she could play in my file so she could play on the level I was on. But only under the condition that she doesn't erase the file, and she can't save over it. She agreed and was playing quite happily. Then I remember my mum called me into the dining room to help with lunch, so I saw that my cousin was playing quite well so I left. This moment was the moment that I still regret.

I come back into my room, and I see her playing on the very first level again. I said to her "Oh, did you decide to play in your file again?", but no response. That was when my heart started to race a bit. I grabbed the remote from her and checked...she was still in my file. Then I asked her "oh, so you got out of the level I was on and went back to the start?" but she just looked down sheepishly. I checked how many puzzle pieces I had....it said 0. That's when it hit me. She had deleted my game. SHE FREAKING DELETED MY HARD WORK, MY BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS. THIS GAME WAS MY LIFE. SHE DELETED MY LIFE. I turned to her, and yelled at the top of my voice "YOU DELETED MY GAME, DIDN'T YOU?!?!?!". To this she replied "no". Then I yelled "I CAN SEE THAT YOU OBVIOUSLY HAVE AS I HAVE NO PUZZLE PIECES". Then she broke down; "Okay, okay. Your level was too hard so I wanted to ease it". To ease it? To EASE IT? SHE DELETED MY GAME TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR HER WHEN IF SHE JUST HAD STAYED IN HER FILE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE CASE. I was so mad, and my sister felt my pain, she just stared at me helplessly. I stormed out of the room, with tears filling up my eyes.

My sister ran behind me and grabbed me, and when I turned around she saw all the tears pouring down my face. She asked me if I was alright, to which I replied "I just need to be alone now". She nodded an understanding nod, and let go of me. It was a movie moment. I then walked around the house, but because we had so much people living with us, there wasn't anywhere for me to be alone. So I went outside, and locked myself in the chicken cage (my dad built a cage to put the chickens that we never ended up getting in) and just sat on the floor in a little bundle just crying.

And that's the story of how me and my sister realised how evil our cousin was. But I just laugh so much every time I think about it, and the fact that I ran and cried in a chicken cage over a game LOL. It was like my world had just ended. There are many other stories involving my sister, me and the cousin. Perhaps I shall share them all with you. We are seeing the cousin again in about a month's time. Wonder what shall happen next haha.

P.S. I forgot to say, after I got out of the chicken cage and went back in the house apparently my sister had "told on" my cousin and she was being punished. When I went back into my bedroom my mum, the cousin's mum, the cousin and my sister were there. The cousin was whining to her mum saying "but i just wanted to ease it, they are being unfairrrrrrr" and her mum said something of which I cannot remember and walked out of the room. A few moments later after she had walked out the room the cousin turns to face me and my sister, giving us a death stare, the whining had suddenly disappeared. Now, I am not exaggerating this at all. She said, in a really low voice "I like my revenge" and walked out of the room, still death staring us. NOT EVEN KIDDING. THIS GIRL WAS 10 LOL. Yeah.