When you were born I was very excited. I had always had imaginary friends to consume my time, as I was lonely as an only child. I immediately became protective of you, and rather obsessed with you. I would try and teach you the ways of the world, though since I was a child myself, I didn't exactly show my motives in the right way. Apparently opening your birthday presents for you wasn't exactly the best way to teach you.
As we grew older however, the excitement faded and was replaced with the contempt that all siblings on the verge of puberty had with each other. We would fight all the time. Whether it be a computer game that I wanted a turn on, or a doll that you had accidentally broken, we weren't exactly nice to each other. This wasn't abnormal though. All siblings go through a phase where they aren't the best of friends, and we're lucky that ours happened so early in life.
It was around the time that I entered middle school that we suddenly became inseparable. Maybe it was from living in a foreign country, and not having a lot of friends otherwise, or maybe it was just the fact that we were growing up. Either way we suddenly became the best of friends. We began hanging out with each other at school, and having mutual friends despite our nearly three year age difference. We began sharing interests, whether it be Star Wars, or The Jonas Brothers, or other interests that kids of our age had. As you grew taller, and I stopped growing, people began to have trouble telling us apart, asking if we were twins. And event though it bothered me that people thought I looked young, it was kind of fun pretending to be your twin, as we essentially were personality wise.
High School came, and shortly after you were joining me in those halls. It was in High School that we became closer than ever before. We were both over the years of misled pre-teen angst. We had similar experiences, and thus similar friends. When my friend group fell apart I began hanging out with you and your friends. We were clutching tightly to the last years we had together, before college and adulthood entered our lives.
Now, as I am nearly halfway done with my second year of college, and you with your senior year of high school, you are still one of my best friends. You are still the person I go to when I'm sad or homesick. You're still the person who I have the most in common interests wise. I love you little sis, and I can't wait for you to enter the world of college, and to continue to grow with me throughout this life.
