A/N: Ok I know some of this vocabulary wouldn't be used in the '30's so I'm telling you now that I don't care if they wouldn't have said it, it just fits. Bye!
Rafe quickly helped Danny unpack into his new room. Danny didn't have much. Two drawers of clothes, his model plane, and lots of pictures. He placed one picture on his nightstand and that was of his mother and father. Danny stood there for a minute, just looking at the picture as tears welled up in his eyes.
"Ya wanna go to the swim hole?" Rafe asked, his voice deeper then he had remembered. Rafe was now 17 and through what his parents galled "the main growing stage."
"Why not," Danny said.
The two ran down the stairs and out the back door. The warm summer day made it perfect for a swim. The humid air was filled with the smell of dried up plants and pollen, the heat of the sun had already taken its toll on the two young teenagers as they ran to the edge of the swim hole. But before Rafe could jump into the water Danny stopped him.
"Hold on a second," Danny said as he looked across the water to see Kirsten. "When did Kirsten become so—"
"Skinny?" Rafe cut in before Danny could finish.
"Yeah, Yeah, and when did she grow up?"
"Well she stopped eating so much and she ran a lot, and well ya know," He said motioning in the chest area. He was too embarrassed to say that about his little sister.
"Yeah, but she looks so different, ya know grown up I mean…"
"Dude," Rafe entered annoyed.
"…It's almost like she's a different person like she's…"
"Dude," Rafe said a little louder.
"…Taken a new body, I would even say that she would be—"
"Dude, that's my sister you're talkin' about!"
"Sorry," Danny said shaking it off.
"Well one thing you got right is she's a lot more grown up cuz she's been hanging with me instead of those immature 14-year-olds."
"Sure Rafe." Danny replied laughing.
The day Danny moved back he realized that things had changed. Kirsten wasn't the immature kid that she was when he had left. Nor was she his fat little neighbor. Now she was beautiful, hair grown out past her shoulders her eyes pure and blue. She had gotten taller, a bit shorter then Rafe and her personality was now sweet and more girl like.
Rafe and Danny swam across the water and pulled her in. She screamed as she hit the water and then hit them in revenge. But she was no match for the boys; they just pounced her dunking her a few times.
After that day Kirsten had been accepted into Rafe and Danny's strong bond, but deep down she knew there was no way she could reach the level that Rafe and Danny were on. She would only have the security of two older brothers.
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The hot miserable summer quickly turned into the cool fall harvest season with corn, pumpkin pie, and fall leaves. A harsh winter followed leaving damages to the barn. In the joyous spring that followed the barn was prepared. The world moved on creating new memories for everyone each day but none of these memories would be like the one Kirsten experienced that cold winter day when she was 15.
