Hi!
I always wanted a big brother, but even so I was not prepared for what I got. When you first came into the family, I didn’t like you because it felt like you were taking my sister away from me. I’d never had to share her before now and I didn’t like it. For a while you were just some dude that my sister would hang out with, some dude I didn’t even know. Of course, it took my sister a while to understand why I didn’t like her new boyfriend. It took some time, but eventually I started to warm up to you. You started to come around more and we started to hang out, and then I started to realize that this random dude isn’t so bad. I now realize, he’s actually pretty cool.
So that’s when it all started.
It’s a weird concept, you know? To think that some guy just dove into the family and all of a sudden I have a big brother. It was weird that I now had to introduce my boyfriend’s to you, and I had to listen to your opinions of them after you and my dad fully interrogated them. It was weird that now I had one more person acting as a parent, acting as a dad. It still blows me away sometimes. Now there’s this new person in the family that busts missions with me to take my sister lunch when she’s at work, and there’s a new member of the family that paints my toe nails when I need it or that watches Grey’s Anatomy and eats ice cream with me when I’m sad. It was weird to think that some random dude would end up crying over me moving when I went away to college and lecturing me on being responsible. It was weird to think that some random dude would make me turn my location on so you know where I am at all times before my first Coachella and that we would end up going on double dates together.
I always wanted a big brother, and I never expected someone as great as you to come along and take that position. Although, maybe I should have considering you are my sister’s boyfriend and she’s my best friend. It seems only fitting that we’re the three musketeers. It’s only fitting that now we do everything together and we’re inseparable. I know it’s hard to spend time together now that I’m in college and never home and when I am I want to spend a lot of time with my boyfriend, or you’re always working. But when we do spend time together, I cherish every minute of it, even when it’s just you sleeping on my couch while I watch TV when we’re waiting for my sister to get home.
I guess I never really say it enough, but thanks for everything you do for me, for accepting me as your little sister, and thank you for becoming part of our crazy family, and not running for the hills after you met all of us. I couldn’t have asked for a better big brother.
Love you!
Your not-so-little sister
