Sixty

"I don't have time for your nonsense Phoenix" Sophia runs her hand through her hair. If someone else was standing there right now trying to tell her that they would do better in school then Sophia will believe but not when it was coming from her daughter she would never believe her.

Phoenix scoffed. Her mother was treating her like some piece of trash. "Please believe me mother"

"That's enough now go upstairs and take a shower, you reek"

"Mom" Phoenix was embarrassed. "If it is George, won't you believe him and give him another chance?"

"Your brother is nothing like you" Sophia smiles as the memory of George shoots through her mind. Her son was her favorite child. He was good in school and never made her worry about her grades. Unlike Phoenix, she was the opposite of her brother.

"Yes I know and I really want to do well in school"

"You do?"

Phoenix nods her head and Sophia laughs. "Give me a break Phoenix you don't fool me"

"I am not trying to fool you mother, I will do well in schoo