This Time, Don't Laugh While I'm Dying

Summary

My brother, Adrian Lupton, always says I'm the most boring person in the family.

That's because every time he plays a prank on me, I always end up in tears.

When he sticks chewing gum in my hair, I cry.

When he pulls my chair away just as I'm about to sit down, I fall and cry, too. It leaves me with a fractured tailbone, and I spend two months lying face down in bed.

But my parents always brush it off. They say he is just being playful and that I can't take a joke. And as his older sister, I'm supposed to be more understanding.

Eventually, I stop crying.