“I’m not a baby,” Ellie argues, shoving your hand away from her. “I don’t need you to take care of me all the time.”

She hates feeling useless. She’s always relied on you because you’re her older sibling, but she wants you to be able to rely on her, too. She wants to prove herself. Except you coddle her too much and she can’t.

“I’ll be fine, I promise,” she says. “It’s just a supply run.” She’s been insisting on going off by herself, despite you not wanting her to.