Miranda's POV

After that delicious dinner, I was able to tuck all my sisters to their respective rooms. The twins sleep together in one bed. With the mattress cover on their chest, they both smiled as they look at me with full of excitement.

"Okay, let's play this game. Which one is Mirtle?" I asked in a cheerful tone. They both giggle at the same time.

"Here." She dryly replied as she folded her arms. She even rolled her eyes because maybe she finds me silly for treating them as children.

"Which one is Myrna?" I smiled as I am pointing fingers to either of them.

"Here! Present!" Myrna cheerfully answered. I saw Mirtle poked Myrna for moving excessively as she did the "present!" gesture using her hands. She even grinned from ear to ear.

"Very good! Now I will not mistake which one is which."

"Eh, dear Miranda, you knew it already. It's easy. It's like finding Elsa and Anna in 'Frozen'. Mirtle said that made me laugh as I pinch her nose. She smiled a little as she put my hand away from her nose. "Of course, I'm queen Elsa and you will be Anna."

I saw her frown as she looked at what Mirtle told her.

"Okay, fine great girl. Mirtle and Myrna, sleep very well. I love you both." I kissed their foreheads and they started to close their eyes. I slowly shut the door behind me and sighed with relief.

I went to my room with Maria on my side for always. I saw her sleeping with her head at the foot of the bed and her feet touching the headboard. I giggled at the cute sight of her. I gently carry her and placed her sleeping body on the ride side. I covered her with a blanket and put a soft pillow where she can rest her head too.

I slowly caressed her hair as she's sleeping right now.

"What a cute face for the youngest sister. I am so lucky to have you, dear." I whispered to her ear. I started to get on the bed as I carefully moved beside Maria. I am afraid I might interrupt her kind of sleeping right now.

I am the eldest sister among the four of us. We are all girls. The twins were born fourteen years after I was born. I remembered my mom had a lot of adjustments since she never expected that my sisters will go out as twins. Not only that, identical ones. Maria was born out of luck I should say. She was born five years after the twins were born and our mom is already turning forty years old at that time. It was risky but later on, I realized it was all worth it.

I remembered a time clearly. That pregnancy is already too risky for her, she was advised to stay in bed for two weeks before she will give birth to Maria. She will also drink numerous medicines just for Maria to hold on to her womb because of the old age. Good thing she was able to give birth to a beautiful, healthy girl. I also admired mom for still being pretty even if she only gave birth at the moment, unlike other moms.

Even if mom gave birth to the four of us, her relationship with dad never changed. As what I have observed, it worsened when Maria was born because mom almost lost herself in the process just to keep our sister.

My dad is known for being a womanizer. Mom thought that he already changed when he will get married to her but she was wrong. He never even thought about us for a second. After their endless arguments, dad moved out of our house and never seen again.

Well, I would spot him at the malls with different women greater than my mom when it comes to physical appearance. However, whenever I will see him, I would simply not care at all. I guess he taught me how to forget and move on to the things that happened in our lives from the past.

That's why no matter how I wanted to hate mom, a part of me still wants the best for her. It is even if she doesn't show that she cares anymore. Even if she already got hooked with playing mahjong with her friends even if she doesn't take a bath for many days. I understand where she's coming from. Maybe, she can't accept that dad will leave her easily.

Maybe, she also blames the four of us to her present misery and what she's experiencing right now. I never knew but I hope she will not entirely abandon us like the way dad did. I will always understand her addiction and whatever she's doing just to keep herself happy. For as long as she will never leave this house and show to my other younger sisters. I don't want them to feel that they are unloved and alone.

"Dear Miranda?" My thoughts were interrupted by Maria just now.

"What do you need my baby princess?"

"Why are you not sleeping yet?" She innocently blinked that made her long eyelashes move gracefully.

"How will you know I am sleeping if you're also not doing it?"

I looked at my youngest sister as she smiled at me.

"Okay. Let's play a game. I will count one up to three. When you hear 'three', we should both close our eyes because we will sleep now, okay?"

"Deal." She nodded.

"One..." She giggled because of too much excitement.

"Maria, we're going to sleep and not chase each other tonight, alright?" I smiled which made her giggle even more. I love hearing it from her so much.

"Two and three!" I saw her shut her eyes very well.

"Good girl, Maria." I tapped her head and kissed her forehead. I started to close my eyes because I should be waking up at five in the morning because of my day job.