Malachi Azure
Summer, 2007
“Dad. Dad. Dad.” The 6 year old pleaded. “Come build a sandcastle with us pleeeeease.”
“Not now Malachi.” Leonardo Azure dismissed his son before returning to a business call. “Come on sweetheart. Your dad has work to do, and he’s going to watch your sister. Elettra, where’d you go?” Kai’s mother shook her head slightly at having just lost sight of the firstborn Azure child. Kai looked around him to see if he saw his sister, then turned and ran down the hall to see where she was. After just a moment he found her looking at their baby sister sleeping. Since Akielah became the youngest Azure, Elettra hadn’t exactly been happy about not being the only girl. Kai didn’t quite understand why she never seemed to like Akielah. She was a baby, she didn’t do anything wrong. Kai, on the other hand, liked having an older twin sister and a little sister, it seemed right to him. Kai looked at his little sister with a smile before Elettra looked at him with a strange glare before grabbing his hand and pulling him away to go back to their mom.
As soon as the pair returned, their mother, carrying their little brother, guided them outside the door and to a nice spot on the pristine beach just outside. After a few minutes to get them each set with their own pail and shovel, Miranda looked to her older two children with a soft smile as she asked them where they had gone just before coming outside. Kai looked up from the bucket he had been filling with sand to his mom. “We were with sissy, I wanted to say bye to her.” Kai answered with a smile, though he didn’t know why Elettra had gone in there to begin with. “You’re being a good big brother, sweetheart.” Kai’s mother said with a soft smile, though Kai didn’t even see the look of jealousy on his twin’s face.
He finally looked to his sister as she smashed the pile of sand in front of her and stood up. “I don’t wanna do this!” she said, looking at Kai before tapping him and running in the other direction. “Tag, you’re it!” Kai watched as Elettra ran a short distance and looked back at him, then looked up at his mom, in a way asking if it was alright. “Go on, just stay where I can see you.” He didn’t exactly want to go run and play, wanting to stay there and build a sandcastle, but he couldn’t say no to his twin. “Come on!” With Elettra once again telling him to come play with her, Kai got up and ran after her. Him and his twin sister, playing together all day long, Kai completely unaware that the jealousy his sister held, and her dislike of their baby sister was only a sign of what the future would hold.