-Six Years Ago-
~Song:
End of All Things- Panic at the Disco
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The Styles family was your picture perfect family. Everyone who saw them wanted there family to be like theirs. Anne was a beautiful lady with a kind and gentle soul. A handsom husband who had a very well paying job. If you looked at the two of them together you would be able to tell that they had been together for quite some time.
They had a gorgeous daughter named Gemma. If you saw her you would just know that she was a great person and had good grades in school. At the beautiful age of 13 she had just started blossoming and you could tell that she was turning out to be beautiful just like her parents.
And onto the boys. They had two beautiful 11 year old boys. Their names were Harry and Tristan. They were identical twins and if you did not know them you would not be able to tell them apart. With their matching straight brown hair and piercing green eyes along with their dimples, they were the talk of the town. When they were first born everyone in their small town wanted to catch a glimpse of the two beautiful boys.
This family was the model for everyone else to try and copy on the outside. But on the inside, this house was not as perfect as they seemed. If you looked close enough, you would be able to see that the little girl tended to stay in the shadows no matter how much people tried to pull her out of them.The mother had began getting wrinkles way before her time. She just always looked tired if you looked close enough.
The father was a kind man most of the time but he had his moments just like everyone else.He would break just like everyone else. He had to get it out, just like everyone else. But the way he did it was not like everyone else.
He took his problems out on the people around him because he knew that they would never, or could never, leave him by himself. It was never bad, but the fact that he even did it was bad enough. Everyone in that house knew what he was doing and tried to help him except for the youngest. Tristan. They may have been twins but Harry still acted older.
He shielded Tristan from the bad side of their father. And when Gemma and Anne realized what he was doing, they went along with it. See, they all knew how Tristan looked up to his father. He thought he was the greatest thing in the world. Tristan put his father on such a high pedestal that even when everyone in the house let something slip about what was really going on, he would erase it and continue to praise his father.
It was when the boys were 11 and Gemma was 13 that everything went wrong. It all started when their father, John, got fired from his job. Like any other family it created hardships in the family. John began to get angrier easier. He stopped caring. He started drinking more. He started getting more aggressive. Everyone continued to shield Tristan from everything, but it became much more difficult. John stopped caring about what his kids thought of him. That's what made it bad.
After a few months of this, John finally found a new job and got on track again. Everything seemed as though it was looking up until John got into a car accident and passed away.This threw the whole family into complete chaos.
Anne was a mess. Even though her husband did some unspeakable things, it was still her husband. She still loved him and she had lost him. She also had to learn to support a whole family by herself. She had to do everything by herself and try to grieve at the same time. Everyone thought she was doing a great job, but nobody got to see when she broke down. Nobody got to see how she cried herself to sleep while clutching her husbands pillow to her chest. Nobody saw how sometimes she wished that she had left with her husband into a better place. The only thing keeping her sane was her children and eventually she got better and no longer wished those things.
Gemma drew herself back into the shadows that she called home. She refused to come out no matter how much coaxing she had. She would sometimes go to her mother's room at night and see her crying. Most of the time she would go see what was the matter. But even though she was upset with her father for what he did, she had moments where she would sit outside her mother's room and silently cry while listening to her mother's sobs.
Harry on the other hand didn't stay cooped up. His coping ways were to throw himself into any activity that would keep him distracted from what was going on in his house. He became student body president, captain of multiple sports teams, and did charity work after school. Along with that he began getting involved with girls. Too many to count. He always treated them right though. He had promised himself he would never be like his father. Unlike everyone else in the house, he was not sad his father was gone. He despised the man. But what nobody knew was he was mostly just upset with himself for not being able to protect his mother. But he wouldn't dare tell anyone else that.
The worst of them all was Tristan. He had lost the one person in the world that he could look up too. He had lost his best friend. He stopped talking for awhile. He wouldn't talk to anyone. Not even his brother. He would only find comfort in his sister, and it even took him awhile to get to that point. He had to go to counseling because when he got older he began to get involved in drugs. He had tried self harm and even drowning himself in alcohol. But nothing worked. He was broken and nothing helped. Eventually he stopped doing all that when he realized how sad it made his mother and just went back to not talking to anyone. He became the quiet kid at school and even though he said he would stop the drugs he didn't. Every once and awhile he would drink until he would pass out and not remember anything. But the worst tragedy of it all was the relationship between the brothers. They grew apart to a point where they wouldn't talk to each other unless extremely necessary or they were fighting.
In just one year this perfect family had broken up and became a family that nobody even wanted to compare themselves to. But this story is about the twins. Nobody understood how it felt for them. Until a miracle started going to there school. But this miracle was in the form of a girl.
