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doing dishes. I like eating with my fingers and off napkins, but my sister says that
doing so is bad for the environment. She is a part of the Earth Day Club here in high school, and that is
where she meets the boys. They are all very nice to her, and I don't really understand why except maybe
the fact that she is pretty. She really is mean to these boys.
One boy has it particularly hard. I won't tell you his name. But I will tell you all about him. He has very
nice brown hair, and he wears it long with a ponytail. I think he will regret this when he looks back on his
life. He is always making mix tapes for my sister with very specific themes. One was called "Autumn
Leaves." He included many songs by the Smiths. He even hand-colored the cover. After the movie he
rented was over, and he left, my sister gave me the tape.
"Do you want this, Charlie?"
I took the tape, but I felt weird about it because he had made it for her. But I listened to it. And loved
it very much. There is one song called "Asleep" that I would like you to listen to. I told my sister about it.
And a week later she thanked me because when this boy asked her about the tape, she said exactly what
I said about the song "Asleep," and this boy was very moved by how much it meant to her. I hope this
means I will be good at dating when the time comes.
I should stick to the subject, though. That is what my teacher Bill tells me to do because I write kind
of the way I talk. I think that is why he wants me to write that essay about To Kill a Mockingbird.
This boy who likes my sister is always respectful to my parents. My mom likes him very much
because of this. My dad thinks he's soft. I think that's why my sister does what she does to him.
This one night, she was saying very mean things about how he didn't stand up to the class bully when
he was fifteen or something like that. To tell you the truth, I was just watching the movie he had rented,
so I wasn't paying very close attention to their fight. They fight all the time, so I figured that the movie was
at least something different, which it wasn't because it was a sequel.
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Anyway, after she leaned into him for about four movie scenes, which I guess is about ten minutes or
so, he started crying. Crying very hard. Then, I turned around, and my sister pointed at me.
"You see. Even Charlie stood up to his bully. You see."
And this guy got really red-faced. And he looked at me. Then, he looked at her. And he wound up
and hit her hard across the face. I mean hard. I just froze because I couldn't believe he did it. It was not
like him at all to hit anybody. He was the boy that made mix tapes with themes and hand-colored covers
until he hit my sister and stopped crying.
The weird part is that my sister didn't do anything. She just looked at him very quietly. It was so
weird. My sister goes crazy if you eat the wrong kind of tuna, but here was this guy hitting her, and she
didn't say anything. She just got soft and nice. And she asked me to leave, which I did. After the boy had
left, she said that they were "going out" and not to tell mom or dad what happened.
I guess he stood up to his bully. And I guess that makes sense.
That weekend, my sister spent a lot of time with this boy. And they laughed a lot more than they
usually did. On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch
some television instead. And I opened the door to the basement, and my sister and this boy were naked.
He was on top of her, and her legs were draped over either side of the couch. And she screamed at
me in a whisper.
"Get out. You pervert."
So, I left. The next day, we all watched my brother play football. And my sister invited this boy over.
I am not sure when he left the previous night.