I've wanted a sister forever. Even before Alfie was born. Then after him i kept wishing and wishing and wishing but she never came along. So im going to remeber this summer holiday forever, even when i'm and old lady with grey hair and wrinkly skin. It's hard to belive how much has happened between finishing school and starting back again tomorrow. I'ts as if these huge hands came down from the sky,picked up my life,tipped it upside down and shook it,like one of those beautiful snow dome things. And i just stood there in the middle while everything got all mixed up and blurry. But then the snow started to settle and now i have to keep pinching my leg to remind myself it's actually true. Here i am, on the beach,alone, waiting to catch some zabaloosh gnarly waves, and my mum isnt even panicking. And i feel squealing and jumping up and down because my sister, Cat, is actually clambering to join me, with her surfboard under her arm. She's actually getting in the water. We're actually going surfing together. And you're never gonna belive it but six weeks ago i hadn't met her. I knew she existed but i'd only seen her face in photos and on the DVD, not properly on the flesh. I didn't know her beetle-black hair smelt like crustard or how loud and ear-splitting her screams would be. I didn't know how much she'd nibble-nibble-nibble on her nails. I had no idea how furstrating and irritating she'd be (and she is really furstrating and irritating sometimes). And i couldn't have even imagined in my wildest dreams that the sight of her running across the sand towards me would make my heart unfurl like a huge pink flag to wrap her in love. Some people wish they had mystical powers so they could see into the future and know what's actually going to happen. Or that there was this big book in the libary where your whole life had been written down. Dad says everything is planned. He says it's already mapped out in the stars and that we choose our life and our famliy and friends and everything that's going to happen to us way before we're even born, when we're just twinkling stars in the sky. Some people think its God that has this great life plan drawn out for us, or Buddha or Krishna or Allah - someone like that. This is how i know we're sisters.
