Neglected

I knew my life was going downhill when I saw the flowers in the front garden had started to wilt. The petunias were my grandmother’s pride and joy and when the flowers went downhill, I knew her health was declining.  The problem being that just last week, she had been her perfectly normal and healthy self. 

I had strong suspicions her quick decline had to do with my cousin moving in.  Amy was the most selfish and self-absorbed person I had ever met.  I had been living with my grandmother for the last several years out of mutual agreement.  I would help her with her cooking, cleaning and grocery shopping and she would let me stay in her guest room for free.  I had a job I was obsessed with, I just was not obsessed with the pay.  But I was saving my extra money to get a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing so I was saving every penny. 

Amy, on the other hand, spent her money on material items and spent her money without care.  She was sleeping on the couch because she could no longer pay her rent and was hoping my grandma would write her into the will.  Only my grandmother knew Amy was promising her and had totally written her out. I only had to bide my time until I could catch Amy in the act of however she was poisoning my grandmother, but I also knew I only had a matter of hours. What I found on the nanny cams was even more than I could handle. But growing up with Amy made payback even more of a bitch than she already was.