Janie walked into the room, "Watcha' doin' momma?" she asked sweetly.
"Momma's getting us ready to go visit Grandma, wanna go with me?" she asked Janie tickling her tummy and making her giggle.
Cassandra set the bags in the trunk and put Janie's Blue's Clue's bag on the floorboard of the backseat and they strapped themselves in with the seat belts and were on their way to Grandma’s house.
After the three-hour excursion their blue Ford Focus pulled into the long drive along the white picket fence line to a huge Colonial style white pillared home.
Grandma sat in her wheelchair waving, her curly white hair shown bright through the glass door as did her jewels upon her hand as she waved. The sparkles danced rainbows of colours onto the glass.
Cassandra opened the trunk and grabbed her suitcases along with Janie's bag from the back floorboard. Janie walked sheepishly behind her mother with her hands snugly wrapped around her mother's right leg.
"Go to Grandma, Janie." Cassandra coaxed Janie.
"Awwww," Grandma said smiling as she looked at how much Janie had grown since a few years before seeing her. "Give Grandma some sugar, little one." She smooched Janie's cheek upon her entering the home.
Janie wiped the slobber clean from her face and followed her mother into the house.
Sitting on a silver platter on the table was Grandma’s famous Butter Cookies. Cassandra's favourite sweet treats her Grandma always made her when she was a little girl.
"Grandma, you remembered?" she said picking up one of those delectable cookies biting into the sugary treat it melted down her throat.
Grinning ear-to-ear and so happy her granddaughter finally came to visit her, Grandma told Janie all about what her mother was like when she was a little girl. Grandma handed Janie a cookie and pulled Janie to her for a little hug.
For several weeks thereafter, Cassandra helped her Grandmother around the house while Janie entertained her Great Grandma.
"Grandma," Cassandra begun to speak softly, "Have you thought anymore about that will we were discussing?"
"Oh dear," her grandmother said, "I have the will all ready wrote up and signed."
Cassandra wetted her lips, as she turned toward the kitchen window in a frenzied excitement. She thought to herself, "It will be mine all mine so very soon. I shall have it all, the stocks and bonds, the house, and the property."
"Where do you keep the will, Grandma?" Cassandra asked innocently.
Her Grandmother fidgeted in her chair and said, "In a very safe spot, and I tell NO ONE where I keep it that way it is always in a safe spot and no one can steal it."
Cassandra patted her Grandmother on the back, "but you know how forgetful you have gotten lately, you might Should tell me so if you forget I will know and can get it for you."
"No sweetie," her Grandmother said patting Cassandra's hand that was resting upon her shoulder.
A bit miffed, Cassandra went into the kitchen and begun to bang pots and pans while she prepared dinner. She sat out the pasta noodles and fresh tomatoes for making her delicious spaghetti.
"I will make my butter cookies tonight for desert," her Grandmother said. She went to the pantry and got out the ingredients and placed them out on the countertop.
"After dinner tonight, would you like to go outside?" Cassandra asked her Grandmother sweetly. "It is such a beautiful spring evening. Why don't we walk down to the creek later?"
Her Grandmother always loved the view of the creek but it was so hard for her to go outside that far in the wheelchair but since Cassandra was there she could guide and push her.
Janie lie down on the couch and fell asleep upon the couch after dinner.
"I guess it is just us, Grandma." Cassandra said with a smile opening the back door to the backyard that led to the craggy creek.
Her Grandmother fidgeted some more in the chair, and squirmed around like something was under her irritating her skin.
"Do you have a bed soar," Cassandra asked her Grandmother.
"No dearie," she said. "I am just a bit uncomfortable is all."
Under her breath, Cassandra murmured, "don't worry old hag won't be much longer for any discomfort."
Cassandra went to her Grandmother and wrapped her legs in the pretty quilt her grandmother had sewn by hand many years ago. Tucking it under her legs, Cassandra felt something under her Grandmother's legs but wasn't sure what it was. Thinking it was just one of her Grandmother's magazines she left it in place.
Walking out past the terrace and closer to the clear running creek, Cassandra carefully strolled her Grandmother closer. They watched the iridescent water beat against the rocks.
Cassandra walked closer to the edge of the creek as it slanted downhill. "Don't lemme go, Cassandra." Her Grandmother said pleading with concern in her voice. "This is dangerous on this ground. Maybe you should take me back away from the edge now."
Cassandra cackled a horrific laugh at her Grandmother. "I don't need you, Grandma." She said munching one of her Grandma’s tasty cookies holding in the air a document of deed.
"I got what I wanted and it is all mine!"
With a quick snap Cassandra pushed her Grandmother's wheelchair into the creek along with her Grandmother. She tumbled and rolled screaming as she kept gulping water into her mouth.
Cassandra opened the document, at what she thought to be a will. It was just an old deed of land that her Grandmother had owned many years before they moved to the beautiful homestead with the colonial home and all the property.
She gasped, and her eyes bulged wide. Cassandra looked back into the water at her Grandmother struggling in the water.
Grandma screamed frantically at Cassandra, "You will never get my home you will see. You will get your just desserts sweetie."
It was then Cassandra saw the wheelchair tossing in the water and a white envelope fell into the water. Grandma had kept her deed and will in a safe place after all, with her. The envelope and papers disintegrated into pieces as Cassandra tried to pick them out of the water and place them in the proper order but it was hopeless.
Grandma went silently under the water with a smile upon her face as the current took her and her wheelchair down stream.
