One More Chapter
A twenty two year-old's view on life, death,
and Taylor Swift conspiracy theories
and Taylor Swift conspiracy theories
3/31/2014 1 Comment Listen To Your Parents, FolksListen to your parents, folks, because more often then not, what they tell you is most likely the truth.
For instance, my parents - all adults rather - told my sister and me that one day we would be best friends. We just laughed at them and shrugged it off at the time. There was no way in hell that Audrey and I ever thought we would be able to even sit in the same room as each other for more than five minutes without bickering. It would drive our parents bat-shit crazy, our inability to stand each other's company. I couldn't stand the way she scratched an itch too close to me, she hated it when I sniffled too many times in her presence and so on. My brother was also subjected to hearing us bicker, and it didn't exactly help bring us close to him. He tended to just avoid us mainly, except when forced to take the middle seat in the back of my mom's small sedan so that my sister and I wouldn't claw each other to death. Over the years various circumstances have begun to bring us a bit closer together. When my parents got a divorce it was just my sister and I who were shipped back and forth each Sunday night since my brother was away in college. We witnessed the subsequent fights, we saw my mom riding off on the back of motorcycles when going on dates and lived through my father's second marriage together and we dealt with all the emotional baggage that comes along with all of these things. We began to mature together. Audrey got a job at the wedding venue I had been working at, and as we began to go on vacations with just us and one parent we also began to bicker less and less. We had more in common since many of our friends were mutual between work at the wedding venue and both working (not her any longer) at the same summer camp. We had more to talk about, especially as we started obsessing over the same books, movies and television shows. Both our best friends (Claire for me and Erika for her) soon became mutual as well as we started taking them with us on vacations. We also would room with Claire and her mom at national competitions and Audrey would bring Erika. Soon we were a tight knit group of girls on vacations. Now my sister and I rarely fight, and more often than not we find ourselves actually enjoying one another's company. Sometimes I can't even believe this day has come myself. Now, don't get me wrong, my sister and I have never been the kind to share emotions and get all emotional with each other, and we never outwardly acknowledge our love for each other since it would just be awkward and unfamiliar at this point. We aren't the sappy, mushy sisters and I usually find out about Audrey's more personal endeavors through her friends which I have no problem chatting with freely or from my dad who somehow seems to know every detail of my sister's romantic statuses. But we seem to be in a place right now that we've never been in before, and dear God I hope she it not reading this for she might find it too emotional and open. But we actually seem to be enjoying our times together when I am home and missing each other when I am away. The other day I called her just to ask where our mother was and we ended up just staying and chatting on the phone for a solid amount of time. I honestly love where our relationship has ended up, and while we still may be very different people, we are also so similar and it feels like, for the first time in my life, I truly have a sister, not an enemy. So for those of you who bicker with your siblings all the time and laugh whenever those pesky adults tell you that it will all change one day and you will become close and miss them and actually love them, just trust me on this one: sometimes adults are right, and this is one of those times. Thank you for reading, Amanda Lucille
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Frankie
4/1/2014 10:53:33 am
Hey amand Frankie again I totally understand
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