Anyone Dares Bully you, Call Uncles! novel Chapter 590

Sean said quietly, "I was eleven when my mother was pregnant with Cathy. I've just started sixth grade."

That seemed like such a long time ago. Sean could barely remember it.

He could only remember running up and down happily, fetching whatever his mother wanted, going grocery shopping with her as they chatted over whether it would be a little boy or little girl. What they would name the baby if it was a boy, or a girl.

"It was me who came up with the name Cathy too," Sean said quietly.

He had even prepared a gift for her in secret.

"The day Mom gave birth to Cathy, everyone was so nervous. Dad was rushing around bringing things to the hospital, and I rushed to the hospital first thing after school as well. Cathy came out of the delivery room just as I got there."

"I was the first to hold her."

Sean was overjoyed then. His mother had asked him if he would like a younger brother or sister, to which he had said that he was fine with either— but really wanted a little sister just a little more.

Then it turned out to really be a little sister.

"She was like a kitten! She was only this small!" Sean gestured with his hands. "I reached out to touch her face, and she grabbed my finger."

Sean would never forget the shock and joy he felt the first time his sister grabbed his finger.

Then came the few days of Dad running to and from the hospital, delivering meals to Mom.

His mother had gotten pregnant at an older age, and there had been complications post-birth that required her to be on medicine. Cathy could not be breastfed because of this, and Sean thus learnt how to make her formula.

Another chaotic week passed, and his mother and sister finally returned from the hospital.

"There were lots of relatives over. They all fussed and cooed over my sister. Mom talked to them, and Dad was so busy."

Everyone was so busy.

Group after group of relatives visited the house. Everytime an older aunt or grandaunt came she would snatch Cathy out of Sean's arms, saying that he didn't know how to hold her and might hurt her.

The house was abuzz with people, his parents chatting and laughing with everyone as they held Cathy in their arms.

He stood by the door by himself. A whole half hour passed, and no one even thought of him.

"That was the first time I ever felt left out," Sean said. "Dad finally saw me standing there, and asked me what I was doing. He told me to go wash and cut up some fruits for everyone."

Sean smiled. Lilly would never know how he felt when he was washing those fruits. He was sorry to say it, but she would truly never feel it.

"And then?"

Sean ran a hand through his fair. "Then Cathy fell sick for the first time."

It was jaundiced, and it wouldn't go down. His parents saw that Cathy's stomach was bulged up like a frog's. It had only been a week, and she had begun crying all day and night without stopping aside from the occasional nap during the day.

They brought her to the hospital, but the doctor said it was just bloating. The bloating was because she did not take well to breastmilk, which meant she couldn't drink breastmilk or she would have an upset stomach from all the gas in her intestines.

So there was no choice but to make her formula. But Cathy was stubborn too, refusing to be bottle-fed ever since she had a taste of breastmilk. So she would cry, which made the bloating worse, which left them no choice but to breastfeed her… and the cycle repeated itself.

Sean had secretly given his sister's belly a little press. Other babies' bellies were soft and floppy, but his sister's was hard and bulged up.

"I only pressed it once, and Cathy burst into tears. She cried so hard she was practically screaming, her lips were all purple."

"That was the first time Mom got mad at me since Cathy was born."

He could not sleep the entire night, and Cathy cried the entire night.

Sean's mother's expression turned terrifying.

"My mom looked at me like she was looking at an enemy, shouting at me asking why I made Cathy cry."