What is the definition of Happiness?

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Summer went by really quick. One moment I'm exchanging a tear-filled hug with a stranger, and the next I'm getting my bag ready for school. Most of my summer was spent with my sister at the pool, library, or just us at home playing games, but I never did see Mari again and it made me kind of sad. I did go to her apartment once but she wasn't there and I always found myself scanning Starbucks every time I went there. I thought I saw her once, but I wasn't sure so I didn't check. No matter where I went I always thought I saw her, but I never did. At first I thought she was avoiding me because she was embarrassed about what happened, but then it was almost like she disappeared from existence since I never did see her.

It was about 7:15pm and Audrey was finishing up her favorite book, "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss, and yes I know what you're thinking, "But she's only 5," yeah she's only 5 but she is extremely smart and can already read, spell, and do math like a pro which makes me so happy that I have such a smart sister. Now yes she is in kindergarten, but she is already doing 3rd grade math and spelling. She can also read higher level books, but she still prefers that I read them to her, and when she does read books she likes to read Dr. Seuss books. 

It may seem like she would be sophisticated and act more grown up, but she still acts like a little kid all the time even in school. She loves to play outside, and would always run around like a toddler all the time. When she finished her book she gets up, telling me she is ready for a bath. I walk over to the bathroom to get the water ready, and she runs off to go get her pajamas. Coming back, she is carrying a light green nightgown with little pigs on it, and places it on the counter. I take out her reddish-haired pigtails, and she hops into the warm bubble bath. 

After making sure she's ok, I walk out to go start heating up the water for my Green Tea, I grab a tea cup and teabag, and I start walking around picking up little things around the house like Audrey's socks, shoes, toys, and art pictures that she loves drawing for me. I keep cleaning until the whistling of the tea kettle starts, telling me that the water is boiling, and pour the water to make my tea. Then the call of my bathing sister starts up telling me that she is done with her bath.

 When I walk into the bathroom I see the bath water had already been drained, and my sister was just sitting in the tub with waiting pale-blue eyes and a drenched body. I grab a towel and she hops out of the tub, and lets me dry her off, help her into her nightgown, then I grab the blow dryer to dry her hair. When I'm done she brushes her teeth and runs off to the kitchen for some water, and I follow her down the hallway into the kitchen. I knew that she would need help eventually so I just decided to save myself the extra work and go with her. After about 5 minutes in the kitchen with Audrey slowly drinking her water, and occasionally procrastinating, I walk to the bedroom that we shared to tuck her in and kiss her good night.

When she was finally asleep it was my turn to go shower, so I grabbed my clothes and walked into the humid bathroom, turned on the water, got undressed, and just stared at myself in the partially foggy mirror. I studied every detail of my body, from my face down to my feet, stopping at my strangely non-flat chest, and my stomach that seemed really large to me. Everytime I was at the pool so many people had remarked many times at how thin and pretty  I looked so I didn't think about it too much. Realizing I was thinking too much, I just hopped in the warm shower, and started washing myself. After my body and hair were clean I dried off, cleaned up the bathroom, and walked to the dark bedroom to go to sleep because I was surprisingly tired even though it was only a little after 8 o'clock. 

I walked over to my bed, laid down, and closed my eyes. I don't know why though, but I couldn't sleep. Even though I was so tired, I just couldn't sleep. I kept tossing and turning in the bed, so I got up and went to go read for a little bit to calm myself. I got bored in about two seconds. Instead walked to the kitchen, grabbing leftover pizza, and started eating it. It was a vicious cycle of un-satisfaction for about 3 hours. I would sit down and try to read, trying to keep focus, but couldn't. I would then go back to the kitchen, and eat whatever my hands grab. This was my normal nightly routine, just waiting for time to pass as my distracting and loud brain kept me awake. Eventually I gave up, and just sat there in the living room. Staring at the quietly ticking clock, watching the thin red line tick all the way around the clock over and over. Just watching it until I guess my eyes got tired, and drifted off to sleep without even realizing it.

When I woke up I realized it was morning. Looking at the clock, I saw that it was only 5:30am so I let my sister keep sleeping. Yes it was a school day, but she didn't need to be there until 7:00 so she had more than enough time to sleep. So did I because for me school started at 8:45, but thanks to exhausting insomnia, my mornings started early, so I just went to the kitchen to get some water. In finishing my water, I went back to the living room, and just started reading the book my brain refused to find interesting last night.

I allowed myself to be distracted for awhile, and when I looked back up at the clock it was 6:15. I decided that was enough reading, and time to wake up the sleeping mess that was my sister. I walked in the room and noticed a soft buzzing coming from the dresser which meant I had left my phone in the room, so I turned it off and walked over to the bed to wake Audrey up. The morning was really easy for me because Audrey was so cooperative with everything, like what clothes she was going to wear, and the breakfast I made her. She just did everything I asked so it made it easy to get ready myself.

 I grabbed my clothes, which was a dark purple shirt, my black jeans, my maroon sweatshirt, and headed to the bathroom. In the bathroom I pulled on my clothes and started working on my hair, brushing my messy hair, pulling it up into a high ponytail, and leaving the bathroom after. When I was done getting dressed she had finished her breakfast, and was putting her books in her backpack. She then put her shoes on which told me she was ready to go, so I grabbed my already prepared bag, slipped on my shoes, and walked out the door hand in hand with my sister.

Today was the first day of school for both of us, but we were ready for anything that came our way!

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