Circumstance

When I was about five years old I received some news that would change my life forever. My sister was 16 and pregnant. I am the youngest of to sisters and we're 12 and 10 years apart. Its great to be the baby especially when there's no one even in the same vicinity to compete with for attention. This news was a major shock to my family but we adapt. Kayla was born and my life changed drastically. Now I know this doesn't sound like a hardship but for a fie year old its hard to understand. none of my friends had sisters or brothers that were having baby's and why wasn't she married? Isn't that how its supposed to go? I didn't understand the teen single mother situation that my sister was in. It's not anyone's  fault but I was left alone to deal with this. My parents had to take care of Jessica and her newborn and my other sister, Jennifer was only 15, she didn't want to deal with it either. So as time went on Jenny went away to college in California and  I was left alone in a house with a screaming three year old who was very stubborn and almost motherless. The thing about my sister is she didn't know what being a mother was so she was just my nieces friend for the most part. and when my mother was forced to take over that motherly roll I was put on a back burner. I'm not saying this is a traumatic event and I'm not saying it messed me up in any way but on the contrary. I think it taught me to be selfless, to put others first even when its so hard and I don't understand. Putting others before myself is something I hold as one of my best qualities that will carry me through college as someone everyone can count on no matter what.