This one-shot story is in first person.

This story is in remembrance of my own little sister.

…Based on a true story

Most of the following events did actually happen

Little Sister's Memories

-Danica Loy

Hi my name is Hannah! Thank you for visiting with me. Hey do you want to hear a story? It's true; I promise. Oh, you want to know a little about me, well I live with my two older brothers, actually their only a year or two older. I also have a mom, a dad, and a big sister. I see them all almost every day, especially my sister. I enjoy my time with her, and I know she does too. We watch movies together, play all sorts of games, and go on car rides. I think when she grows up, she going to be a writer. Everyone says she's good, except her, why is that? Maybe I'll ask her sometime. I do know she calls me her inspiration. However, that works the same way because she is mine. Just by thinking of her takes me back to the very first time I saw her.

I am racing down the warm, tight tunnel, towards some strange bright light. It looked so beautiful I couldn't help myself but reach for it. Suddenly everything was bright, and big. And…cold! I am freezing. Everywhere on my little body was shivering. I wanted to cry my eyes out. Everything was so new and strange to me. Hands are starting to reach for me and I tried to get away but I couldn't move. I was still too cold, until a big warm white cloth was wrapped around me, and I felt I was back in my little cocoon home. Next I was laid in another warm place, the chest of a woman. I could hear her say that she was my mommy, and I could tell as I looked at her breast that I was drooling with only one word in mind; Lunch. I am sooo hungry!

Before I know it, I was in the lukewarm water of a large basin thing. A lady was gently scrubbing me all over as I splashed around in the clear wet stuff. I could hear the other ladies saying something about another girl who got the hiccups when she was got her first bath, and wondered if I would get the same seeing as how she was my older sister. Wow! I had a big sister! I wonder if I'll meet her some day.

Hey wait a minute! Where am I? It looks I'm in a big plastic bubble with holes in it. Is this my room or something? Well I at least I have a playmate to keep me company. Hi there! What's your name? What are you? She was so quiet and she looked like she was made of peach-colored cotton. Excuse me are you my sister? She didn't answer. I started to poke at her body, boy she was big and soft. Maybe she is my big sister? 'Do you want to play with me?' No answer. I poked at her again. This time she fell over! Oh, no! I started to panic. I killed my big sister! However, as she fell I heard a light tinkle sound like a rattle shaking. Did the sound come from this creature? She's alive! Yeah! Just then a small hand reached up through one of the holes of the bubble and set the soft pink creature upright. Now who is it? Oh boy I'm just getting all sorts of attention today! I looked up to see a pair of big cute brown eyes.

I reached out my small hand to the larger one and our fingers brushed against each other. In that instant, I felt a spark. It shot through my body making me feel warm and safe. I think she felt it too. Wait! Could she be…my big sister? In that one spark, I knew there was a connection, and I never wanted to leave her side. I grabbed onto her hand and held tight as I could; I didn't want to lose her for a moment.

Just then, she hesitantly started to pull away. Wait…don't go! I stared at those brown eyes again, pleading with them to take me with her. She looked so sad, I think she wanted to take me home but couldn't. She bowed her head and turned to walk from me. Wait! I want to go with you! She couldn't hear me. I watched her as she walked away towards two really tall people. Hey that was the woman who held me and fed me! My mommy! So that girl IS my big sister! And that tall man next to them is my daddy! Oh please take me with you, but they were already gone. I looked back at the stuffed animal beside me. Well I guess it's just you and me until my big sister gets back.

Oh did I fall asleep? Hey! I'm not in the big bubble anymore. I looked up to see that my mommy was holding me again! Yea, I thought, it's lunch time! Wait a second! What is this they are forcing into my mouth, some kind of bottle with white liquid, no! I want my mommy's milk! I started to cry. Just then my sister came up. I got quiet, sniffling a bit. She took the bottle and held it to my mouth. I just looked at it curiously, and then I looked at her. She just silently looked back, as if trying to tell me it was all right. Well, I guess I have to trust her; she is my big sister.

Wow this stuff is so good almost as if I was drinking directly from my mommy. It's a good thing for everyone my big sister was here.

I am sooo bored! cough I have been in this stupid bubble room for what seems like forever. cough the only good thing about this place is that I get see my big sister almost everyday, but she nor my mommy and daddy ever take me home! cough forgive me; I've had this cold for about a month now. Is that why I can't go outside? Well, I don't care! cough I want out! I try to tell people that but they just look at I'm speaking another language. Read my English-speaking lips people: I want to go home!

Yippee! cough I think my wish is coming true! cough I finally get to go home with my big sister! cough I look up into her brown eyes and she looks into mine. I wonder what color I eyes I have. I bet their just like hers. I could tell she was smiling. Her embrace was so warm and tender like she was almost afraid of dropping me. I wanted to tell her that she would never lose me, but I didn't know how; she still couldn't understand me. Still looking at her, I smiled as wide as I could. She smiled back. I than began to reach out my tiny hand toward hers to grasp it. We were almost there when all of sudden bright light erupted from all around my body. The light filled my eyes almost blinding me. Then the warm embrace of my big sister began to fade as I felt myself float into the air. There in front of me, mommy and daddy were looking at me then down in silent reverence. I reached out to them but I just kept floating farther away from them. Then they disappeared in breath of wind but soon replaced by my big sister. I could see her with tears flowing as she tried to reach out to me. I began to reach out to her too, but it was so hard; I just kept floating further away. The closer our hands got the harder the pull behind me became. I could feel her tears fall onto my cheeks.

Closer our hands reached…

Our fingers stretched…

Closer…

Suddenly, everything went black.

The next thing I know I'm sleeping on a soft white blanket that looks like bunches of pure cotton but feels like a thin water bed. I was wearing a pearl white robe and tiny feathered wings uncurled from my back. I knew this had to be heaven and I should have been upset or scared or sad even that I had…um…died. However, when I looked up I couldn't care about anything else. There sleeping peacefully with her arms wrapped around me protectively, was my big sister. Ok, so it was an astral projection and she wasn't really there, but I didn't care. I smiled for now I was home, and no matter what I looked like; I never wanted to leave my big sister's side ever again. Nothing ever could.

The end

I hope you like this. It actually took me a long time to write and an even longer time to get it out of my head, come to think of it, it still haunts me. Anyway enjoy and tell me what you think.