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Any Other Way by akire [Reviews - 0] 
Some days, I wanted to be anyone but him - his older brother. Yeah, that one, the freak with the fangs and fur. We share a surname, a home, parents, but for what he looks like he is always the one alone in the spotlight. It took me years to learn that I couldn't compete, not again him, not against that. It was a whole other league. But by then, it had become habit, anyway - the rounds of football training and science club, the high grades and the honours roll. It was easier to stay in the groove than kick up a fuss. What would that prove? He no longer comes into my room, sniffling at the ache the needles have left in his arm after yet another round of bloodwork and scans. I just leave my latest copy of Rolling Stones or whatever on his bed, and go back to my homework with the door open. I still get that viciously happy grin he reserves just for me when we sit down to dinner. Our little secret. It’d be easy to resent him for how strange he is. But he's my brother, and I can't imagine him any other way. |
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