5-26-08 Written & Copyrighted by... Short ending~
starlucid:
Wow! What a mess! Two babies and leaving home at the same time he has a lot on his plate he may want to start looking for a ....job.
xliikewoahx31:
aww the baby pics are soo cute! great update!!
AxelVal:
I'm glad you guys are enjoying this so much. The community on S2C doesn't seem to care as more than half the posts are chapters. I think Ive gotten three comments from over there.
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A timid little voice called out over the phone. “Andy?” I recognized my little brother right away. “Where are you?”
“You little dolt, I’m at Jahre’s! You called here, so where else would I be?” I said all this with laughter and sarcasm in my voice, but Myles didn’t laugh like he used to. “Why?” I suddenly became more serious.
“Can I come over?” his voice was quiet but I hadn’t the slightest idea of why.
“Sure. Does Dad know?”
“Mm-mm…” His negative answer confirmed the thought that popped into my head at the slight pause he had in answering.
“Alright. You want me to come get you?”
“Yeah.” I told him I’d be over soon and his voice became slightly more hopeful. I told Zwei where I was off to and he only nodded. Racing across town I still couldn’t get home fast enough.
Once I could see the door I began to slow down. Myles sat outside on my old suitcase, the one I’d left behind on my midnight flight. He jumped up as I got closer and rushed towards me, dragging the baggage behind him.
“Can you carry this?” he held out the handle to me and took it, more and more scared by the minute.
“What happened?” He only shook his head and hugged himself tightly, leaning against my side. For being just barely over three he was sturdy and very smart. Probably genius level once we get around to getting his IQ tested.
I couldn’t resist. Kneeling down I wrapped my arm around his shoulders and we walked across town back to Jahre and Zwei’s place. Though the older man gave me a glance once we walked in he shrugged a few seconds later, going back to the newspaper.
I led the little boy into what used to be Helene’s room. Her bed had lain in there, unused for almost a whole school year now and I figured it wouldn’t hurt to let the little guy have it. He immediately jumped up onto the huge double bed and found the center, sitting there cross-legged and staring at me.
“You want to tell me why you wanted to come here?”
“No…”
“OK then. But, Myles?” He raised his head again after lowering it at that first question. “Whatever it is. I probably went through it too.” I leaned over and kissed him on the forehead before telling him to go to sleep. After all, it was almost ten, way past his bedtime.
I allowed fifteen minutes to pass before I pulled the phone off the hook and dialed home. Mom never let a phone be put in their room, claiming to be able to hear the one in the main room just fine.
But despite that, either her hearing was going bad or they were doing something I didn’t care to know about, because the phone rang until the machine picked up.
The message I left wasn’t very complex. Just a few short and simple lines. If I can remember it went something along these lines: “I don’t care what you say, Myles wanted out. He called, I came and I picked him up. Simple enough, don’t come over to get him back.”
I know, not the best to say to get any closer to repair the rift between us all, but I didn’t care at that moment. If Myles really was putting up with what I did…recall one of the first nights in Corrin County I told you about? Well, that wasn’t the first blow exchanged between the matriarch and myself. And if she started so early with Myles who knew what could come next.
I was shocked we could support the whole household, but soon enough I learned about Zwei’s company. Turns out Mr. Windsor…wait…I never mentioned that was their last name did I? Sorry about that. Well anyway, Mr. Windsor here was the one who started up a factory that made the cribs we had for Rayen and the trip’s (the nickname Dad and I had for the triplets).
Every month he got a cut of the profits for what the company sold; everything from cribs to chairs to bed frames. It’s a surprising amount actually.
According to the li’l bro’s stories, despite Mom being harsh on him Dad was nice (as to be expected) and even his sisters were good enough. So it’s not like he was being ignored on all sides at least.
The little bugger bonded with Rayen faster than I expected. The girl absolutely loves her uncle! Since he didn’t go to school just yet he was always around to help feed his niece, and he loved helping me tuck her in before he went to bed.
Anyway, back to the night Myles came over. Jahre was sitting up with Rayen when I walked back into our room and I offered to take the girl from him. He shook his head and smiled, showing me that she was already asleep. Putting the little girl in her crib he climbed into bed and covered himself up.
I went over and hung over the side of Rayen’s crib for a second, smiling at the not-so-little-anymore-girl. I couldn’t stop myself from doing this every night. It was amazing how much she was growing very day.
Another year passed after that night before anything more exciting happened. And you can guess what that would be! Well, OK I admit graduating was fun, but Rayen’s first birthday, hello! And Myles’s too, can’t forget that li’l ankle biter.
Graduation though. Now that was a fun day. Nothing big, just Myles, Zwei, Rayen and Jahre gathered together and waited for me to get home from my ceremony before practically jumping on me as I walked in the door. We had a huge dinner and Zwei’s idea of a present was to give me tons of college pamphlets. Woo. At least no one got drunk!
That’s also the year we got to see Tobias for the first time since the hospital. I was shocked to see how much bigger he was than his half sister, but that should’ve been expected I guess.
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If anyone asks, Andy's wearing his 'nightshirt' because now/then he's a senior and knows the other, youngers are too afraid to make fun of him or something along those lines. Really it's just me being lazy and not realizing it until now.
I love that first one of Andy. He really looks confused.
babyblueheart:
Great update!! I love ur story!!
starlucid:
I'm confused does he keep his little brother?
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