Interruptions Galore

     If you have siblings, you know it is impossible to practice an instrument, speech, or anything else without interruptions.  Each one of us plays piano.  Katie, Nick, and Brigitte started when they were in second grade, while Natalie and I started in first.  We all have to practice piano as one of our chores.  Since we don't have a set time to practice, it's a race to the piano.  Once someone gets on, they have many interruptions.  Each one of us has something that we do to get one of our siblings off the piano.  

Katie: Katie can play for hours.  She just sits there on the bench and makes it so that the rest of us can't do our piano.  Her way of keeping everyone off the piano is to just keep playing.  However, in most cases, Katie doesn't make it to the piano first because she doesn't wake up early enough.  This makes it so that she has to come up with something to get us off.  Katie comes into our piano room, and tells whoever is on the piano that we are needed immediately by our mom or dad.  When we go, she gets on.  The rest of us picked up on this really quickly.  The problem is when our parents actually do need us, we don't listen to her.  It's like the story "The Boy Who Cried Wolf."  

Nick: Nick plays for the minimum time possible, so the rest of us don't have to try getting him off the piano.  However, Nick does a lot with his friends, and he can't do anything until his piano is done.  That means that he has to get us off the piano.  Nick plays lots of computer games and video games.  If you've ever heard the music for them, you'll understand how annoying it is because of the loudness and repetitiveness.  To get us off the piano, Nick gets on one of his computer games and turns the music all the way up.  We can barely hear ourselves play, so we leave, and he gets on.  

Natalie: Natalie is the crazy sibling of mine.  She does a lot of things to get us off the piano, but she has a favorite. Natalie comes in crawling so that we don't notice her.  Then, she quickly jumps into our laps and starts playing her pieces over us.  Natalie eventually pushes us off the bench with her bottom, and she continues to play her songs.   

Brigitte: Brigitte knows how to fake cry her way out of everything. The only thing she really can't cry her way out of is practicing the piano.  To get the rest of us off the piano, she goes to my dad or mom and cries until they tell her that she can play the piano before any of the rest of us do.   

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