Old Before My Time: Hayley Okines' Life with Progeria by Hayley and Kerry Okines by Alison Stokes & Hayley Okines & Kerry Okines

Old Before My Time: Hayley Okines' Life with Progeria by Hayley and Kerry Okines by Alison Stokes & Hayley Okines & Kerry Okines

Author:Alison Stokes & Hayley Okines & Kerry Okines [Stokes, Alison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Accent Press Ltd
Published: 2011-10-27T04:00:00+00:00


Chapter 17

Hayley

Sibling Rivalry

I WAS NOT PLEASED when my brother Louis was born. I had to share my bedroom with him and he would wake me up in the middle of the night crying. When my sister Ruby was born I was happy. I wanted a sister to play with and I knew when she was old enough we could share our dolls and clothes. When I was little I had loads of Bratz dolls and I would let Ruby play with them and I would do her make-up. Now I am too old to play with Bratz and Ruby doesn’t let me do her make-up any more. I asked her why but she just says she doesn’t want to. I think I may have done it wrong once, but I don’t really know.

Me and Ruby have a weird relationship. Sometimes we hate each other and other times we are best friends. It depends what mood Ruby is in. If she’s in a bad mood we hate each other. We argue a lot. But at the end of an argument Ruby says, ‘Are we still best friends, Hayley?’ I say, ‘Yes we’re still best friends, Ruby,’ until the next time when we argue again. When my best friend Erin comes round to hang out with me, Ruby decides she wants me to do her make-up and I say no, go away because I am busy. Recently Ruby has started saying, ‘You don’t love me Hayley,’ when I tell her to go away. I say, ‘Don’t use that excuse.’ But I still feel bad when she comes into my room crying and hugs me. I think she might get jealous of my friends.

Sometimes Ruby can be really annoying. Like once we were out in the garden playing with our tea set and I went to pour some juice in Ruby’s cup but she wanted to pour the juice. I told her to say please. She didn’t say please so I wouldn’t let her have the juice. She ran in the house to tell Mum. That was really annoying. I hate snitches and I hate it when Ruby is a snitch. Sometimes I wish Mum would have another baby sister but one that would let me put make-up on her and won’t snitch. Louis annoys me when he won’t let me watch my programmes on TV or he won’t let me play on his Xbox.

I feel like Ruby and Louis’ big sister even though Louis is taller than me and Ruby is almost as tall as me. I ask them about their day at school and help them out with their homework. When I am watching TV in my room Ruby usually comes in and asks if I will help her. Sometimes I do, but it depends what mood I’m in and what I’m watching on TV. When I say no she always cries.

At night before we go to sleep me and Louis talk about random stuff. I tell him when I have aches in my body and he says, ‘I’m really glad I don’t have progeria.



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