My sister has Down syndrome. She's my hero. I think she's gorgeous, and smart, and perfect. I want to be just like her. The world is so cruel to her. She gets stares everywhere we go. People whisper. People laugh. And I just don't get it. She's everything to me. I think she's the perfect person.My name is Sunshine. And that's her fault. So I love it. My parents tell me the story every week. How Jane looked at me when they brought me home for the first time, and uttered one word under her breath.
"Sunshine."
She calls me Sunny. I call her Janey. My parents realized that Janey couldn't go to school. If adults were so mean to her, hey couldn't imagine the way kids would act. And if Janey didn't go to school, I didn't either. Our parents taught us everything from math to reading, and I not once had actually wanted to go to school.
My life basically ended when my parents enrolled me into Beecher Prep. If I didn't make my life like Janey's, I wanted it to be over. It took about 3 months of therapy to learn that everything I did didn't have to be because of Janey. So now I'm definitely my own person, but I'm also starting my first year at Beecher Prep in 5th grade. Janey is still my favorite person. We read The Giving Tree every night before bed. It's her favorite story.
She introduced me to Marvel. That started the main point of my life: superheroes. I own every book, movie, shirt, dress, and costume on the market. And I pretty much know everything that's needed to be the #1 Marvel superhero nerd. My favorite superhero is Spider-Man. He has been since I was young. I always thought he was super funny, and dorky. And wow, so so cute. And most of all, we have a similar last name! Who knows, we could be related!
I don't know if it's a serious issue, but I tend to blurt out whatever I'm exited. It doesn't seem too serious. It's nothing I can put my finger on. I have ADHD. I guess that's a given, I've been going on and on for countless paragraphs. And I definitely can't sit still. But it's not too bad, they say people with ADHD get more work done, so I guess it's kind of a gift.
My name's sunshine. My mother and father are Robert and Annie Parks. My sister is Jane Parks. Next week, I'll be a new student at Beecher Prep public school.
As far as I'm concerned, I don't need friends, I have Janey.
Even more that that, I don't need a boyfriend.
I shouldn't, I'm only 12.
But what does age matter.
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Sunshine; Jack Will x Oc reader
FanfictionSunshine. Nobody names their kid Sunshine. Why'd they name her that?