Reblogged from pensitivity101:

Nora couldn’t find Tommy anywhere.
Like all little brothers, Tommy was a pain.
Nora was going to meet with her friends that afternoon but had got lemonned with babysitting the little brat.
She rang Sally and left a message to let her know what had happened and that she had to bring her brother. She then told Tommy that if he behaved, she’d treat him to a MacDonalds.

Halfway to The Mall, Sally called on her mobile to say they couldn’t make it afterall, but Nora knew different. It was Tommy’s fault.
Her friends didn’t like him, and it hadn’t helped that he’d started making exaggerated sucking noises and called them all wannabe vampires because they’d been experimenting with dark makeup and black clothes a few months ago.
Nora had actually found his comment quite funny for a six year old, but the girls had taken umbrage and it had taken a while for her to smooth their ruffled feathers…

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