Sisters But Not By Blood   Gracie Bargo   © Copyright 2002 by Gracie Bargo

               I became Mary’s aunt in 1994 we became very close as soon as we meet she was six and  I was 15, we had our times when we had our differences and all though we loved each other, we fell apart we could not communicate with each other we didn’t see eye to eye on things at all we were like to sisters fighting, seemed like everything I did Mary didn’t seem to like me at all, she always did things that she new would make me mad, sure she was still a child but still I tried every thing to get her to like me but no matter what I did she would just hate me that much more,
               As years went on we had rough times things were good for a while and then in know time things went bad, I was even the first person to take her to her first day in school she cried and begged me to stay, even after that day she still could not like me for who I was, I tried so hard to be her mom her friend and her aunt all at the same time but for some reason I could not get close to her, it was like she was scared or didn’t want me to love her but no matter how she felt I loved her and that was all it was,
             Days went by she was growing into a young lady and seemed like she was starting to come to me for answers, but seemed I would give my advice and she would do the opposite from what I told her, I was the one taking her to school, going to her cheerleading games just doing all I possibly could do to make her like me,
            Although Mary had a big sister named Samantha we were close from day one she was like a child that I never had, I think we were so close because she was so much like me in so many ways, we tried to let Mary do things with us it would last for a hour or two and then Mary would get mad go home and the next day she was so hateful at us what could I do I thought to my self to make this child that I love so much love me back,
           Years went on that way Samantha and I was like sisters always trying to get Mary to join in the fun with us but she wouldn’t, we kelp drifting farther and farther apart and at this point I was giving up on trying to make her love me for who I was and to try a make her understand that I wasn’t trying to take her mothers place I just wanted to be her aunt, and know matter how long it took me to get her to love me I was welling to try for a life time if it took that,
          The year 2002 came alone Samantha was wanting to live with her mother and so she did sure Mary and Samantha didn’t get alone very well but it broke Mary’s heart to see her sister leave her alone, but at this time in mine and Mary’s life we finally started agreeing on so much we even caught our selves laughing together and seemed like all those years that we couldn’t even have a laugh it was catching up with us we started being like to friends, we still had our rough times at disagreeing with each other but as time went on we figured out how to work things out together besides being alone we were working together as one,
           Seems like know we are the best of friends, all this time that we was apart I figured out Mary didn’t want me to be her aunt but she wanted me to be her sister, and to be the one she could come to, lean on when times got rough, and that’s all I wanted to be for her to but we couldn’t see eye to eye on what we both wanted,
          We are friends we are sisters, we are there for each other when one is felling down the other has a shoulder to cry on, and know when you see one you see the other we are not apart know longer but together, know Mary is fourteen and I am twenty three but like some young teenagers they would not like having there aunt tagging alone, but Mary does not think of me as her aunt but as her sister,  when me and my son goes out she is with us and were like one best friends hanging out, our day starts with a laugh and ends with a laugh so this goes to show us all never give up on someone just because you can’t get their love right then and there never give up on what you want because in the end it will all come together.
 
 

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