Chapter 1

Tall, legs for days, long wavy brown hair, darker skin tone, light green eyes, fashion sense... on point. Lizzo? On repeat. College student, wannabe nurse, caregiver. Loves my sister to death. Would do anything for her, my sister is my world. Journey, my name. Also my goal to have the best journey with my little, disabled sister. My sister, Kylee. Short maybe? Hard to tell, always in a wheelchair. No hair because of chemo, but dark brown eyes. a little lighter than me, but a dark skin tone. I'm is 26, Kylee is 16, but mentally about 6. Kylee has basically everything. Blind in one eye? Check. Cancer? Check. Arthritis? Check. Strokes? Check. Asthma? Check. Hypertension? Check. Epilepsy? Check. Several heart conditions? Check. More? Probably check. She basically can't leave the house and has no friends. But that doesn't stop me from taking her out on trips. I have a job right? No. The community knows all about my sister and is willing to send us on trips we normally wouldn't be able to afford. They also give us gifts, including money. It's a lot of help especially with medical bills.

What about our parents? Where are they in this situation? They died when my sister was actually 6. I think that's when she stopped her brain from developing. Because the doctor did say that Kylee purposely stopped her brain from growing. He said that a traumatic event can do that. Keep her mentally at 1 age for the rest of her life. Sad, actually. She also doesn't really remember the car accident and we never talk about it.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow is our favorite song. Not only is Judy Garland's voice incredible, but it gives us hope. That my sister will get better and there's always something over the rainbow. We wanna go to OZ.

"Journey!" Kylee shouted from her room.

I walked in with a big smile on my face, she got dressed all by herself. And this time she did a good job. An off the shoulder, colorful shirt with a pleated light blue skirt and her galaxy converse. Oh and her black cat hat that she always wears. I'm wearing a floral black tube top, black ripped skinny jeans and black boots.

"Ky you look great!" I said happily.

Now how can she get dressed by herself if she's in a wheelchair? Well she just surprises me every day. She's so smart. I have to go to class, but I do send her a daycare. They're very welcoming of her, all the kids are so nice to her. Like they don't notice her disabilities. I wish I could be as brave as her. I guess that's why I'm trying to be a nurse, so I can help her even more and understand her.

I dropped Kylee off at daycare. There's always a student teacher there, this week it's Jerome Harvey. He's the sweetest kid, goes to the same uni as me. And his style is always on point. He's average height with short blonde hair and bright greenish blue eyes. He has freckles too. His style is more street. Like he always wears a headband, today it's all black. He also have little black earrings. He was wearing a black and white stripe turtle neck with a yellow and black bomber jacket, black baggy yet skinny jeans with a yellow and black belt and white Doc Martens.

"Kylee! How are we today?"

"I'm great! I don't know about you."

"Pretty good, excited to have you today."

"Take care of her, please." I added.

"I always do." He winked at me.

Jerome and I always flirt. Kylee actually asked when we're getting married. So embarrassing. I'm not really looking for a relationship. With school and Kylee, I have so much on my plate. A guy? Yeah right, like I need that right now. What about my needs? I have my sources.

Speaking of sources, I'm at class. Oh so I hook up with someone in class? You could say that. He walked in. Average height (no one's taller than me), short black hair, dark green eyes and a little black scruff. Today he's wearing a blue shirt with a black blazer, black pants and black shoes. His name's Gage Kemp. He's my professor. Call me what you want, he doesn't give me special treatment, we just hook up... I guess the only downfall is that we can't tell his wife and kids. I mean makes sense.

"Alright, where did we leave off last time?" He asked.

His memory isn't great.

"We were going to see where we would fight best in the nursing field." Some random kid yelled.

"Right, right. There's actually a lot of fields. Not just hospital and educator."

Even though I want to work in a clinic, I'm interested to hear what else there. Gage went off talking about all the fields and they were cool, but I still want to work in a clinic. I would love to work at Planned Parenthood, they had an opening, but again. My sister. Not saying she's a burden, just that it's a lot of a mid 20 year old.

Class is over and I walked up to the front of the class. Waiting for Gage to be done talking to some students. After everyone left, we left to his office where we def hooked up. Once we were done he asked if I wanted to be his TA. Not because we hook up but I'm actually doing pretty good in his class and I can honestly say that's all me. I declined the offer though, you can probably guess why.

I left and picked up Kylee. I only have 2 classes a day and my other one isn't until Kylee's bedtime. I trust letting her stay at home at night. She sleeps peacefully throughout the night and if anything happens, I do have cameras in the house. We went home. I made lunch, mac and cheese. Both of our favorite.

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