Voices of the Valley: Meet Phuong Scott
From: Vietnam, Current City: River Falls
On that day, a beautiful sunny morning I visited my cousin, her name’s Lan at her house. I met Lan’s friends and other cousin who is Lan’s younger sister. My cousin asked us: “We should go to my friend’s house and pick up some fruits. There are a lot of delicious mangos, the skin is shiny on the outside, the inside is bright yellow, the mango flesh is sweet and fragrant”.
After we heard Lan say that, we were very excited and left immediately. On the way we came across a group of people. There were about five girls including Thanh who my cousin didn’t like. Thanh was my cousin’s neighbor, I recognized her because I’ve met her before but I didn’t know other girls. They talked and laughed together in excitement about something. But I suddenly saw that my cousin wasn’t happy. I felt a bit confused because I didn’t know why my cousin wasn’t happy when saw Thanh. I passed Thanh I could smell her perfume emanating from her body and I knew she was a rich girl. Thanh stepped to my cousin and talked about something, then I saw their faces look like they were angry and arguing with each other. Maybe Thanh is trying to hinder us from going to my cousin’s friend’s house. She says some bad things to my cousin, I thought.
“What’s wrong with you, Lan?” I asked. “I don’t like Thanh,” my cousin replied. “She’s so bossy and sassy. She’s never a nice girl to me. She don’t let me go to my friend’s house now.”
And that’s why my cousin asked me to fight her. I knew how she was before so I didn’t hesitate to agree with my cousin even though I was smaller than her. Me, my cousins and my cousin’s friends were a group. Thanh and four other girls were a group. Our two groups stood facing each other. My cousin also turned to ask Thanh: “Do you want to fight with my cousin?”
“I’m not afraid, let’s fight,” Thanh replied. I saw her eyes that wanted to challenge me. Right after that, I quickly walked over to her. I closed my eyes and my hands formed a fist. I felt I was a boxer for fast attacking. I tore her shirt. She cried. My cousin pulled me towards her. I and Thanh stopped fighting. I saw Thanh was angry with us and still crying.
Then soon my brother came and saw that. He told me “I will tell this story to Mom and Dad”. I started to feel worried. My cousin reassured my brother, she said “Both of them are fine, no one get hurt, don’t tell them”. I also told my brother “Please don’t tell Mom and Dad, I will never do this again”. After a moment of silence, my brother said, “Okay, I won’t tell them”. I felt less anxious. Then Thanh also changed her attitude, she had been mean and was now nice to my cousin.
Our group continued to go to my cousin’s friend’s house to pick mangoes. After we got there we were very excited with the mango tree which was huge and had many fruits. So we were free to pick and enjoy them.
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