But little me was wise to my older sister's tricks.
My sister did everything in her power to make me believe that septerday was a real word. She said it all the time to my mom, got my dad in on it and had her accomplice, Natalie make an Urban Dictionary entry for it.
Just saying the word around me didn't make me believe it, I was pretty paranoid anyway and my sister was always tricking me. But what really made me believe was the Urban Dictionary entry.
At the time I was really fuzzy on the Internet. For the longest time I thought the Internet was a place that you physically go. I also believed if you Google 'Google' you'd break the Internet. (thanks, dad...) I thoroughly believed at this time that if something's on the Internet then it must be true. So I didn't exactly know that Urban Dictionary wasn't the most reliable source...
Sister: Hey, Sarah! Read this! Septerday is in the dictionary!
Me: What?? No way!
Sister: Yeah, go look!
From that point on I started using Septerday EVERYWHERE. Talking, essays, I even think it was my cellphone signature at some point!
It wasn't until today when I found out the truth! My whole world came crashing down before my eyes! My whole life was a lie! I was simply buying fudge with my dad when he told me the awful truth.
Dad: Remember, that trick your sister played on you? Made up the word septerday... and had Natalie make an Urban Dictionary entry for it?
Me: SEPTERDAY ISN'T REAL!?!?!
Dad: Oh, you didn't know?
Me: NO!!!!!!!!
I was shocked and mad, I called up my sister up in an angry fit. I was screaming in the fudge store. All my dreams were crushed.
But you know what, readers? Let's make septerday a word! Use it everywhere! Call webster! Put it in stories! Let's make a new word!
