Chasing Another Happy Ending; The Players Prayer

The Three Amigos

When you talk  about a true friend, your best friend, the one you go to no matter what the situation may be, my younger sister K'mya, cousin Kourtni and I should be a prime example. The three musketeers is what they call us.

Believe me when I say it wasn't always this way but we worked up to it. Honestly I'm happy we did. 

Only a few months apart we all look, act, sound and move alike. I mean we've grown together. So, I guess the saying is true, when your around someone long enough you start to rub off on each other. We were alike in more ways than just a few. We're often mistaken for triplets, sometimes even quadruplets when my mother was around. I remember several times when we've gone out and people would mistake us for one another especially at family functions.

We weren't cousins in our eyes, we are sisters. Our sisterhood and friendship has been put to the test on several occasions; starting as children when our aunt Glenda died in a tragic fire. Our parents decided to take our cousin in as their own, it was more challenging than a little. 

Sometimes we use the excuse that family is family and we have to accept the disrespect, the betrayal and everything else because of the six-letter word and the sacred bond it is supposed to represent. I mean who will you turn to when all you know is family anyway? Somewhere along the line things got a little blurry but we're family and family is family, there's nothing we can't work out.

When Kourtni first moved in with us, she used to do the grimiest things ever to my sister and I, we used to think that she was low key evil. I mean sometimes we wouldn't know what she was planning. Within no time she went from stealing our crayons, lying on us and getting us in trouble to stealing our boyfriends in high school. She did the sneakiest things and gets away with it because of her innocent demeanor.

I remember when she broke my mother's favorite antique china set aunt Glenda gifted her. K'mya and I got blamed and got grounded for two weeks. But K'mya and I grew past it and we moved forward. Then, when we were in middle school Kourtni skipped school for senior senior skip day, she borrowed money from my dad without permission. K'mya got blamed because according to Kourtni, K'mya said that my dad said it was okay to take the $500 out of his wallet, she needed for an outfit to go to the all-day beach jam she was attending while we were supposed to be in school. But again, we forgave her and moved past it. It's the small things we were able to look past.

But once we moved past the grieving and came to an understanding things cleared up a little, for a while. After the money incident we made a pack to never cross each other again. We knew what boundaries were set and the relationship began to flourish into the relationship we now have.

Once we realized that the bond we had was golden and worth more than we imagined we it would be we put the past in the past and left it there and moved forward with out lives strengthening our sisterhood.