Do you remember being so excited for Friday's after school and getting in the car?
Do you remember meeting on that gravel road and hopping out of the car, running into his arms? Forgetting about her?
Do you remember the drive over? Constant questions and jumbles of information about the most random things?
Do you remember getting home? Seeing all the cats- did she have her litter yet? How many kittens??
Do you remember running inside, hugging Cori, and running to Emily's room? She'd be painting her nails or playing some video game, and we'd spend the evening talking nonstop. The three of us.
Do you remember shoveling whatever Cori made for dinner in our mouths and running outside to see the stars?
Do you remember running up the gravel, crossing the creek and getting on the trampoline? We'd lay there for an hour or two, looking at the moon and the stars before running to the gravel road. We'd clutch onto Emily's arms because we were scared of the dark, knowing she'd protect us from anything. She's the oldest after all.
Do you remember running inside at midnight, giggling and shushing each other because the parents were asleep?
Do you remember going back to Emily's room, playing video games and talking until we passed out in her bed? All of us together. We called it a sleepover.
Do you remember waking up on Saturday, and eating pancakes before running outside again?
Do you remember the golf cart? Do you remember riding it for hours before going to the old shed by the creek?
Do you remember the rope we'd swing on by the gravel road? Do you remember playing tag in the pasture? Do you remember how we'd run inside for dinner and go back to Emily's room? We hardly spent any time in our own.
Do you remember all of us piling in her bed, exhausted? And waking up the next morning for church?
We'd get home afterwards and go back outside, doing anything and everything together.
Do you remember playing Minecraft and watching Dan and singing together?
Do you remember how sad we'd be to leave?
Because we'd be leaving her
Our sister
Like we were leaving a piece of us behind
It was always the three of us
And now it's not
Now it's all different
Sorry.
