So, I got a phone call from my second littlest sister's middle school today, and got to hear about how she hadn't turned in an assignment that had been due for a while, and how it's going to be a zero if we don't find some way to get it in the gradebook, which closes on Friday, how this isn't like her, maybe she's overcommited/it's her friends/etc etc.
This isn't the first time she's done this, especially not in this past year. And the fact that she's lying to all of us about it is even more painful.
The thing that worries me more is that she was doing this last year, when she was diagnosed with depression at twelve. (I mean, Christ, the family's got a lovely history of depression and anxiety, but for it to hit that young?!) And I'm worried that it might be coming back and we might be missing it and she might not be talking to us about it.
I just wish I knew how to help her, she's the one out of my little sisters that I'm closest, too, really, and it hurts to see her like this.