My heart is thumping with excitement with the feeling of Nothing that can go wrong! "oh my goodness , she is going to love this!" I hear my mother say in the background. "Amy be careful up there! we don't need to be going to the hospital before she gets here." "got it dad" i replied. If I wasn't doing this welcome home sign alone maybe i wouldn't had almost fell and cracked my head open. Its been a year since my sister Janee left for a trip around the world. My sister had always been adventurous,and beautiful ever since we were little. she had beautiful long jet black hair with big brown eyes and a round face with a skinny body. unlike me with short light brown hair and tiny blue eyes and glasses. i wasnt skinny but i wasn't pudgy either. my sister and I had always been tight since the beginning. we would play games together like, rock climbing, and bungee jumping, survival, and sky diving. of course it was all imaginary and we would always end up almost killing our self jumping off the bed playing sky diving . my sister would always come through and do it again even after the fact of my mom coming in and scolding us. when we weren't trying to be rambunctious we would sit in Janee's room and eat junk food and sit and watch old movies like the bad seed and old romance movies. my sister loved romance movies. she would stare at the TV all day and watch how the woman would run into the mans arms and he would twirl her around. she loved that type of junk unlike me who hates that mushy gushy stuff, however i would watch it because i love seeing my sister smile at me after she would finish watching. My sister had a beautiful smile that would light up a dark room. there was a time where she smiled at me and it was this smile that would make your heart light up. I remember one day we were sitting on the bed chucking popcorn in our mouths and on the part where the man took the woman and kissed her Janee paused the movie and turned around to me and said " Amy, one day I'm gonna be that girl. that girl who is madly in love with another human being. That girl who can only see that one person and is blind by everything else." she smiled a beatiful smile that showed how beatiful the type of person she is . my heat sunk as i sat there staring at her and she turned back around and pressed play. what was so great about that smile? was it because my sitser always had that natural beauty? then it hit me.No. Janee had a passion. a passion for love which brought out the life and beauty in her.
"she's here!" my mother cheered. shocked that she wasn't supposed to be here for another hour I leave my thoughts and finish putting up the sign. I hear Janee knock on the door. my heart was beating really fast. i missed her so much. I cant wait to hear those awesome stories about her trip and if she finally accomplished finding love so i can see that beautiful smile of hers like that one night. Mom opened the door. "WELCOME HOME JANEE!" we yelled. all of a sudden i feel this tension and cold chill. who is she? she looks familiar... but it cant be. "janee?" i asked. she looked up and stared at me. Her eyes weren't as friendly as it used to be.they were dark and empty unlike before where it was brown and soft. " ill be up in my room unpacking." she said. the room was dead silent. "janee um.. let me help you unpack" she continued to walk up the stairs and not look at me. this wasn't my sister. no where near my sister. my sister would have ran in here and would have hugged and kiss mom and dad and then look at me and mess up my hair. then ask questions about hows thing are going and and talk about all the things shes done in the past year since she hasn't seen her family who just spent almost all day creating a welcome home party.she would never and i mean never would have disrespected us and walk upstairs without showing any love. I started getting angry. then a thought hit me. maybe shes just a bit jet lagged. i calmed down a bit.i walked up the stairs and opened her door. "Janee?" i called "what the hell are you doing in here?"she yelled. shocked "I came to help you unpack" i muttered " i dont need help from you! now get out youd dont belong here!"
At first Dinner was silent. i couldn't even look at Janee. She seems to not like me anymore of course , if she did she wouldnt had yelled at me this afternoon. "so janee..." mom began. " you ready to start junior year tomorrow? i got theses really nice clothes for you to wear for the first day of school and..." "no" Janee said cutting off mom. "pardon me?" " i said no! " Janee shot back. Janee stood up from the table and walked back to her room leaving her plate on the table. "Amy darling can you please clean this up while I go talk to your sister?" my mother said " i dont care how long she's been gone but she couldnt have forgotten how to put her own dish away." "listen to your mother please." dad said. i got up from the table and cleaned up me and janee's food. whats her problem? i dont get it.
"AMES! Over Here!" zeek yelled. zeek has been me and janee's child hood friend since he moved across the street from us and stoped bullying janee . when he first moved to town he wasnt much of a cool guy. he would tease Janee about her shoes she had to wear since mom and dad couldnt afford new ones. one day me and janee was walking to the corner store. like always back then zeek would come and start teasing janee. "knock it off zeek!"i said. "its ok amy,he's just a jerk... mostly because his father left him when he was a baby and his mother is a..." "stop it!" he said cutting off janee. i was confused. why would janee say something like that? when i turned aroud she had this look on her face. it was unusual. it was scary. the next day he apologized . me and my sister accepted his apology and we started hanging out with him more. after that he was our friend and now my best friend. " so ames, i heard the janester is back! sorry i didnt get to help with the party i had to study." zeek said "its cool , it was pretty lame anyways." i replied "really? i thought having janee back was supposed to make everything fun and cool?" "i thought so to! now its more like dead and dull." "what happend ?" zeek asked "i dont know ! she just started acting all mean,dark, and selfish." "maybe i should pay a visit, you know say hi and cheer her moods up" zeek said "yeah, maybe if she starts getting settled and hanging with friends she can loosen up and get back to normal." i replied. the bell rung and it was time for my first period for my first year of highschool at ceasar jet high.
"Do you think I give a damn about what you have to say to me?" janee yelled. I heard yelling from a block away coming from school. "Don't you speak to your mother that way!" dad shot back. "whats going on?" i asked. " why dont you tell her mom and dad or Bert and Jessica, should i call you that now?" janee teased. "stop it janee you know its mom and dad. your over exaggerating" "over exaggerating? you lied to me!" janee yelled ."i still dont know whats going on" i said. janee took a deep breath and said " im adopted." I stared at mom and dad and said " ...and you didnt tell anyone?" "were sorry ! we didnt know how to tell you ! you were so young back then and we didnt want you to think you didn't belong."mom cried "how did you find out any way?" dad said . thats none of your business the thing is you lied to me" janee scolded. janee ran up the stairs back into her lair and i ran after her.
