Daydream Believer

xci. loneliness and little sisters

xci. loneliness and little sisters

I was hoping to have a nice, quiet summer. Aaron was at soccer camp, Noah was at lacrosse camp, and Justin's family was taking a vacation in Hawaii. I didn't have anyone to hang out with, so I might as just relax until school starts, right?

Wrong. I had to babysit Brooklyn again.

Sometimes it was hard to believe that this annoying child who couldn't even say my name correctly would soon be my stepsister. Shonali was already more of a mother to me than my real mother, but I already had a little brother. I didn't need a little sister. Still, Brooklyn could be fun to have around sometimes.

Today, Shonali, Brooklyn, and I were going to a museum in the city. We figured that would entertain Brooklyn for a while.

Brooklyn was in the back singing along to whatever stupid song we were playing on the radio. I smiled as she continuously messed up the lyrics. After a while, it started to bother me though.

"Can you just stop?" I asked.

"No!" Brooklyn shouted. She continued to sing.

"Just ignore it," Shonali said.

I tried to, but it didn't really work. Luckily, we arrived at the museum pretty quickly after that.

"Yay! We're here!" Brooklyn shouted. She had way too much energy for this early in the morning. Brooklyn and I followed Shonali into the museum. The whole place was huge, with way too many people, but Brooklyn didn’t seem to mind. She ran right into the dinosaur exhibit. I doubted that she understood all of the signs, but she was fascinated with all of the fossils. I found a corner to hide in and hoped that she would leave soon. There were way too many people around. Unfortunately, this didn’t happen. She was in there for at least an hour. After a while, I wished that I could be invisible. I didn’t believe it could come true, but maybe if I wished enough? Nope.

 

Finally, Brooklyn had looked at everything. Was she purposely trying to slow me down? There were plenty of other exhibits to look at. We found a relatively obscure exhibit on the Mayans and I took my time there.

 

“Mommy, I’m hungry!” Brooklyn exclaimed after a while. Shonali took us to a cafe in the museum. I didn’t think the food was a bad as it could have been. The food at school was worse. Brooklyn seemed to disagree though.

 

“Mommy! It’s icky!”

 

“Brooklyn, just eat three bites, okay?” Shonali said.

 

“No!” Brooklyn screamed.

 

“Please Brooklyn?”

 

“No!”

 

I rolled my eyes. I shouldn’t have to deal with this. Maybe if Dad wasn’t getting married, I wouldn’t.

 

We left a few hours later, after looking at a few other uninteresting exhibits. Brooklyn was getting tired, and even though she didn’t need a nap anymore, her bedtime was still unreasonably early.

Oh well. This was my life now, and I would have to deal with it.