I can only hope their grandkids isn't like that! By: Omar Black

Sidney's no stranger to seeing her relatives bad mouth one another like that person who's the topic of discussion is the most pitiful being on earth. It hasn't amazed her then and it doesn't amaze her now to see her cousins talk bad about each other the same way her parents and uncles and aunts used to when she was a child. "It's genetic" she says to herself on a daily basis. She sometimes finds herself doing it out of nowhere which causes her to pause on occasion to bite her tongue to prevent her from exposing a loved one. She knows what needs to be known about everyone's long dirty pass and sometimes she finds herself belching out her one sided opinions to any relative and their significant other who enjoys an occasional conversation about someone's private life that no one should know about. She's discussed how her cousin cheated on his wife with her sister and best friend which no one in the family besides her knew about. She swore secrecy on the matter but one drunken evening with a family event set on her schedule she discussed the subject out of nowhere. Allegedly that cousin whispered in the ear of her mother about Sidney sleeping with her stepfather over and over again once she turned eighteen which caused a huge rift in the family. Sidney and her mother didn't speak for over a year and it took a family tragedy to unite them. It took death to unite them like it usually does in her family. Sidney constantly thinks how horrendous her family treats their own blood and she can only hope that the next generation is nothing like the prior two which is evil to each other. Nothing but ill will and bad blood..... To be continued!