Monologue Of Hupa

The Summer of 1863, my mother told me that I needed to watch my younger sister Hupa and my cousin Karuk for the day while she and my aunt went to go gather some new plants. Hupa was about four foot nine inches tall, slightly tanned with long brown hair that mother made her keep in two long braids. She also had sweet brown eyes that came from our fathers side, she wore a golden leather dress fabricated with beads and strings of leather attached to it, and moccasins. Hupa, could be very loving and kind, but she always asked way too many questions for my liking.
“Akecheta, I do not want to study anymore! I want to go play! I’m tired of learning about these dumb plants! Why do I need to know about these? Why can’t I go play outside like everyone
I don’t have the answers to your questions, so just do your work,” I replied to Hupa, annoyed. She never stopped with the questions and I grew tired of them, I was not her mother. I did not have all the answers to everything like the elders do, so why on this great earth would she continue to ask a seventeen-year-old girl all these dumb questions? I honestly did not have an answer for this.
“Hupa,” I announced, “if you really don't want to work then go draw on those rocks over there.”
Hupa looked up at me and smiled. “Really?!? You'll really let me go draw on the rocks Akecheta?” Hupa asked with her eyes glistening and her huge smile.
“Yeah, just be back in a little bit so mom does not worry.” I stated, as I watched Hupa run off towards the rocks to play.
Finally, I thought, I can do what I want without her getting in the way. But the one thing that I never saw coming was my grandmother becoming ill and my mother and aunt needing to go look after her for a few weeks. There was a legend that states if you don't go care for the elders in your family, they will come back to haunt you and your family after they die. Them leaving thus left me in charge of Hupa, and Karuk. I let Hupa go play on the rocks, never thinking anything of it, except each day Hupa would return and talk about this friend of hers that she met and how much she liked him and wanted us to meet him. Karuk would usually follow Hupa out towards the rocks and tease her because that is just
Where are you?” I yelled
“I'm over here watching Hupa make a fool of herself drawing on the rocks. Why?” answered Karuk in an annoyed tone.
“I was just making sure you had not run off, like you did last time.” I retorted sarcastically.
I could hear Karuk roll his eyes it was so loud. Almost two weeks had passed since my mother and my aunt had left to take care of my grandmother. After three weeks of listening to Hupa talk about her “friend” I finally decided to humor her and follow.
“Be careful, Akecheta, he doesn't like new people that much, so don't be mean like you normally are.” Hupa stated in one of the most serious tones that I have ever heard.
“Okay Hupa, I'll be on my best behavior I swear,” I assured her, while doing my best not to burst out laughing.
As we approached the rocks that she loved to play on, Hupa became more and more excited the closer we came to the rocks until we finally arrived, and she could not hold back her excitement any