creative writing

Edie

My sister Edie has soft short blonde hair with a cute side fringe. She has a cheeky smile and little dimples on both her cheeks. Her eyes are sparkling blue like the ocean when the sun is shining on it, and a little freckled nose. She skips beside me and her head almost touches my shoulder, but not quite.

When I talk to Edie she always sounds either really excited, or really disappointed, never in the middle. She always smells sweet like a watermelon, or either exactly like baby powder. Edie always tells me about what she’s learning in ballet or guitar, or about what she does at lunch.

She can be such a little tattle-tale sometimes, like when I say a “naughty word” and her eyes pop out as she draws in a deep breath to shout “MUM NINA SWORED” and it really gets on my nerves. At the end of the day though, I realize, she’s a little 6 year old girl, who happens to have me as her big and oldest sister. What can you expect?

By Nina