"Same with me and Marshall," she said. "I mean, we're close in age. I was only a year old when he was born, because apparently my parents had to get busy all the time right after having an infant at a young age." They'd been older than her, but not by a hell of a lot and Kate couldn't imagine herself with a baby at this point. It wasn't something she was even remotely interested in, something she wasn't sure she could ever see herself doing.
"Except it always sort of felt like he was the one taking care of me instead of the other way around," she admitted, following Effy's lead toward the inlet. It wasn't always that way, there had been plenty of times when she felt like the older sister she was supposed to be, but Marshall had always been something of a caretaker. He'd held their family together plenty of times, which had to have sucked for him, but Kate could never find the energy for something like that. And it wasn't that she'd wanted her family to fall apart, but at fifteen, she hadn't ever been sure how to prevent it.
That was something it seemed like Marshall had always just known.
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Date: 2012-02-12 04:27 pm (UTC)"Except it always sort of felt like he was the one taking care of me instead of the other way around," she admitted, following Effy's lead toward the inlet. It wasn't always that way, there had been plenty of times when she felt like the older sister she was supposed to be, but Marshall had always been something of a caretaker. He'd held their family together plenty of times, which had to have sucked for him, but Kate could never find the energy for something like that. And it wasn't that she'd wanted her family to fall apart, but at fifteen, she hadn't ever been sure how to prevent it.
That was something it seemed like Marshall had always just known.