Brown Eyed Monster

Samoan Family War-Part I

That Same Day
Jasmine, Ata, Savelina and Moana were preparing the evening meal for the men. In Samoa, the women always made sure that the men were served and ate before anyone else, including themselves and the children. However, Nia and Tamina did not help, as a matter of fact, they served themselves only because they thought that the men could serve themselves and were not "helpless babies". As always, their mother was at her wits end with her two rebellious, stubborn daughters.

After the evening meal was served, and the men were conversing among themselves, Nia and Tamina decided to put their plan into action....

"Do you think your idea will work?" Tamina asked.

"Of course it will, you'll see. Dwayne, Joe, Vili and Samu will be taught a lesson they won't soon forget!" Nia smirked evilly.

"I hope you're right." Tamina said. "I really hope it doesn't blow up in your face. You know as laid back as Dwayne, Joe, Vili and Samu are, they still have hellish tempers when they get pissed. I mean at the end of the day, they are still Samoan men!"

"Don't worry about it. The worse they'll do is yell and roar. It'll be good, those bubbleheads will learn a lesson and the ladies will have some fun for a change!" Nia said.

Just then, Nia and Tamina went over to Ata, Jasmine, Savelina and Moana as they were cleaning up the dishes and putting the leftover food away.....

"Hey Jasmine?" Nia said sweetly, gaining her attention.

"Hi Nia!" Jasmine said, smiling. "Did you enjoy dinner? It's my first time making Samoan food."

"Uh yeah it was cool. Listen, I know that our initial meeting wasn't exactly ideal, so I wanna make it up to not only you, but also Savelina and Moana too." Nia said.

At that moment, Jasmine was flattered by the gesture. However, Savelina and Moana were suspicious of Nia's motives.....

"Why you wanna do that Nia?" Savelina asked, eyeing her cousin suspiciously.

"Why you feel you need to make anything up to us? You told us that we were too submissive to our men." Moana added, her eyebrow raised.

"Yeah, so now why the change of heart?" Savelina inquired.

"No reason.... I just wanted to welcome Jasmine into the family, and I realized I was wrong about criticizing you two about being submissive to your husbands." Nia said, shrugging her shoulders.

"Oh ok, we'll that's fine, what did you have in mind?" Savelina asked, her guard lowered by the softened expression on her face.

"Well since we've had dinner, and the men are all squared away doing their thing, we could go to Apia for a couple of hours. There is a spot that plays R & B. Hip hop and old school rap music." Nia suggested.

Just then Savelina and Moana looked at each other apprehensively....

"Well....I guess there's no harm if we're just going to listen to music." Savelina said. "What do you say Jasmine? You wanna go?"

"Yeah sure, I love R&B!" Jasmine said enthusiastically. "I'm dressed ok right?"

"Sure, it's a pretty casual scene." Nia said.

"Ok cool, we'll let me tell Dwayne and Joe where we're going." Jasmine said.

"Yeah and we'll tell Vili and Samu as well." Moana chimed in.

"Ain't no need for that, you all are not children needing daddy's permission. We'll be back before they even miss us!" Tamina scoffed.

"Well ok..." Jasmine said.