If there was one person who could have become a great actor and made the rest of us famous, it would have been Bec. Of the four of us siblings, she’s definitely the most melodramatic, by far the most intense, and she can actually act – I’ve seen her. Plus, being an actor would actually have given her an excuse to be the drama queen that she is. But she never pursued it.
While Josh looks more like me (or used to) and has the same flair for English (I’d say ‘language’ but his Mandarin makes all of us look like Chinese scholars), he’s a soppy romantic at heart, something not a single one of us three girls can lay claim to. I swear I don’t know where he got it from. He’s also developing quite the melodramatic streak so lacking in me and Jess, which makes him the next most obvious person to become an actor and make us all rich. Unfortunately, he’s not pursuing it either, because when you’re 14 years old, it really isn’t cool to want to be arty and emotional.
I love it when us siblings get together. I’m pretty sure it’s a sign of my advancing years, but I do miss them. Jess is in Melb so I catch up with her online when I can. Bec and Josh are here so I also, well, catch up with them when I can. We just do different stuff, obviously. Like last weekend, we spent a better part of the afternoon trawling IKEA in Bec’s wake – she wanted clothes hooks for the back of her door. I’d show you a more revealing photo of her, but she only got home at 5am less than 12 hours earlier and she didn’t bother painting her face before coming out into the world with Josh and I.
As you might have figured, Josh and I were bored. I mean, he was in the show kitchen pretending to cook for crying out loud! I love it when we get together because we’re so sarcastic and critical of each other without fear that the other person will take insult. We say things which are sometimes mean and true and sometimes just funny, but we say it freely. It’s a very weird way of bonding, I know. But I am yet to find anyone who does this bantering better than the four of us do.
