It is officially fall, everyone’s favorite part of the year. So comes the day that your parents have been talking about since the day they shipped their child off to college. At this time, every college is going on fall break so that means siblings come home after being separated from their family for one month.

That’s right; parents haven’t seen their child in a mere one month. Apparently, there’s so much to catch up on. As a result, you hear so much raucous at two in the morning when they finally arrive. Your parents act like it is Christmas morning, so they have to wake up the whole house and neighborhood to celebrate the homecoming of their favorite child.

You don’t even bother to wake up to greet your sibling because your whole house is basically a shrine to them, so it’s like they never left.

Your sibling acts like the world only revolves around them, as they trample up the stairs at 3am yelling that the “night is still young” even though you have to wake up to go to school in two hours.

It’s the next morning and you have to get ready to go to school but don’t you dare make any noise to wake up the sleeping beauty or else you’ll have a price to pay.

You get home from school and reach for your favorite snack, only to be deeply saddened when you see it is missing. As you sulk your way back to the couch, you see your sibling happily feasting on all your food. When you’re about to complain to your mom, you realize what a bad decision that is because you’ll get the old spiel “let them do what they want, they’re only home for a week.”

You give up and decide to do your laundry only to realize the washer and dryer are taken over by your sibling’s twenty loads of dirty laundry.

It’s finally dinnertime, meaning your sibling can’t steal the food away from your meal, but you get to the table and realize two things:

1. There is no place setting for you.
2. The meal your sibling requested is the only meal that you despise.

Therefore, you go to your room to think of all the ways you could possibly get your sibling to go back to college early.

When you finally emerge from your room to go meet your friends at Chipotle, you notice that the house is at its quietest since your sibling arrived.

When you go out to your “shared” car, you notice it is missing from your driveway. It’s not until a few hours later that it rolls up the driveway a few hours later decorated in stickers from their college. Perfect. Now you get to drive this car around Lansdale.

Finally, what you have been waiting for all week, the day your sibling is going back to college. The day is filled with tears from your parents and fake tears from you. You couldn’t be happier to watch them board their plane, as you won’t be left in the dust anymore.

But, this excitement is short lived because no matter how much your sibling annoys you, you realize you will in fact miss your partner in crime to laugh, gossip, and cuddle with. The only thing you have left to look forward to is Thanksgiving, where this cycle will be repeated.