Charger Opinion

I wish I were an only child--sometimes

Katy Wynn, Charger Staff

Usually my sister and I get along with each other great. We never argue over anything big. We just stay out of each other’s way and are loving siblings, until now.

With me being a junior and her only being in eighth grade we haven’t had to clash with each other about school, but with friends it is a different story.

I am only two and a half years older than her and we both have many friends. It just happens, though, that most of these friends are the same.

Sometimes I would just like to spend some time with a group of my friends without being told that I can’t unless my sister goes with me.  We were in one of out first real fights in a long time over this.  It was basically just an argument, nothing too violent. I can’t even talk on the phone with one of our mutual friends without her wanting to listen in or talk to them also.  I do admit, though, that when she is on the phone with someone I know also, I will ask to say “hello.”  I guess I am just as guilty.

A year ago, if someone would have told me this is the one thing we would be fighting about I would not have believed him.  This time last year she had her “gangsta rap” friends and we were total opposites.  Then she became the girlfriend of this “punk” guy and she transformed.  She started hanging out with his group of friends and since then everything has been different. 

She started to ask to borrow my clothes, especially my band shirts like Jimi Hendrix, AFI, Pink Floyd, and The Doors.  She didn’t even know who half of them were and asked me what some of their songs were so if people asked her about them she would know.

Next year it will be even worse because she will be freshman and start going to CHS.  School is my escape from her so I don’t know what I am going to do.  Then again, she will be a  freshman and I will be a senior so it will be nice to have that senority over her. Whatever happens, I just hope that we will be able to survive it.