Vivid Experience

             A grayish bluegreen color we know as dusk hovered outside my sister's window suggesting nightfall. The sun settled behind the horizon and lingering rays were all that lit up my neighborhood. In a few minutes, the streetlights would come on casting shadows of the trees in our yard on the far wall of her room. On the other side of the window, my sister sat, studiously on her bed, her left leg bent at the knee with her foot underneath her stretched out right leg in almost a half Indian-style position. She rested with her back against the wall, her dark brown hair done up in a pony tail to keep her neck cool. She had frizzes coming off the side of her head like wings and her bangs rested on her eyebrows-the typical look of a high school girl. Her massive textbooks covered the bed. A bulky, black calculus book, with a matching black binder, a gray biology book with an enormous elephant that was half torn off leaving the brown, rough cardboard showing through on the cover and various spiral notebooks acted as a blanket to her bed suffocating the pink and yellow plaid comforter that lay beneath. Her room was on the second floor of our house. A right turn after reaching the top of the stairs from the first floor and just three paces forward into her room was the path I took almost every day after finishing up the early evening cartoons. I joined her to do my homework. Just like all little kids, I thought it was cool to say that I had allot of homework and so I would lug my two notebooks, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles coloring book and my box of crayons up to her room and get to work. Sometimes I would sit next to her, if there was room on her bed, and look over her shoulder and try to mimic what she wrote. Otherwise I sat at her desk with my feet crossed, dangling above the floor, usually an untied shoelace dragging on the carpet. I would scribble away, pretending to be intelligent, trying to make sense of the marks I was ...

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