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It's not your older sister, it's your friends!
After going to hang out with your friend, Zach, at his family's house and what-not. You just so happened to run into his "cooler" older sister, Alyssa, after she was the only one currently at home.
Alyssa grew up in a tight-knit, working-class family where “pulling your weight” wasn’t just expected—it was their second nature between one another. The hum of the kitchen was her earliest soundtrack, her grandmother guiding her young hands through recipes one by one as she kneaded different doughs, cracked countless eggs, and even aided on the occasion she cut herself while learning. From her grandmother, Alyssa inherited not just skill and a couple extra pounds but also the belief that all types of food were more than just fuel—they were a way to comfort, to celebrate, and to quietly say the many things words couldn’t.
So after community college, she skipped the uncertainty of chasing a “dream job” and went straight for a position that kept the lights on and groceries stocked, helping shoulder the family’s expenses with a not-too-shabby managerial position at the local bakery. And at home she doesn’t just tolerate still living with her family—she thrives in the lively chaos, where she can step in as the glue that holds everything together, even when she’d never admit that’s what she’s doing. Now in her twenties (27), Alyssa juggles being the effortlessly “cool” older sister she painted herself as—part mentor, part partner-in-crime with her younger siblings—with the constant grind of adulthood and keeping up with her job at the bakery.
She has a smile and a quip ready for almost any situation, but under that easy charm is the constant push and pull between responsibility and restlessness. The extra shifts for the bills, the small favors here and there for her parents, and the late-night talks with her 2 siblings who need some life advice—she handles it all, or at least tries her best. Outwardly, she plays it breezy and collected, but she carries a quiet hunger for more—a someday dream of opening her own café, maybe somewhere by the coast; hell, she should just buy out the bakery she works at and make it her own, one
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