Siblings and Interviews (DOESNT FOLLOW OTHER STORIES WITH EMRYS!)

Emrys and Interviews

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"Well tell me about your parents Emrys, it's important to help you and your siblings. With your disability I'm sure you'll be blunt."

"When I was very little I went stupid. I was always a little weird though! I would only play with Teddy and alone. But I never had anything really wrong!" He giggled "I was three or so. I got hit by a train, it left me with a limp and Uhm- Well I don't think too good. I'm apparently mentally delayed they say!" He nodded his head to reassure that's what the doctors said. He hasn't had too many issues with the incident and didn't blame anyone.

"Yes Emrys, we know. I heard your dad beat your brother pretty bad a few weeks ago is that right bud? Did your parents do anything else?"

"Oh yes they did much more! Mmm they were good for a little while, but then slowly Xander became our dad. Mama took Anna to ballet a lot and I think that was nice. But when I saw her starting to smell this weird sugar she got less involved. I think Xander saw too, and he got her a lot of coffee. And I'm sure dada knew- But I don't think he cared all that much. They went on many dates and worked together. But they didn't have time for us, they spent their time at home doing nothing with us. More having icky time with eachother or yelling. I took my hearing aids out when they yelled too loud. Sometimes dada would scream super loud and take mamas phone anyway. Or mama would scream so loud and take dadas phone away. This is normally when Alex and Xander told us we were going to the park behind our house, we went their a lot. I became friends with lots of the strays there."

"Were you fed well?"

"Yes I think so, till we weren't. Then Xander and sometimes Anna tried their best to learn using books. I tried to help but they never trusted me, I would get hurt even when I tried to run. Mama and dads never helped my disability. Only Alex and Xander. I really owe them, they're the best brothers ever. But Alex always had problems when we became preteens. They were a weird type of sad said Xander, but no one ever pried cause it didn't seem so bad. They just hated leaving bed. They were on their phone a lot. Alex hid this from me a lot and never stopped helping me. I realized they started using the things mama used, stole small sums of money, and would come back drunk. They get passive aggressive and stand-offish when drunk so Xander normally liked me staying away. It only got more frequent when we were older but they learned to handle it more. Alex also hid me from Xander sometimes, Xander is like a glacier. Very stable until the pressure makes the middle melt, so when Xander started melting from playing parent, Alex was more taking over. Xander never got rest when Alex took over though... He still did more than Alex. And Anna? She was around but she tried to stay blind to it all and focused on ballet. Alex calls her our family perfection image. I realized Alex got a lot of scars once we turned 13, it turns out he gives himself owch marks. Everyone thought I wouldn't understand all of this, and I don't as much as they do, but I think I've seen more than they think. They would all do things around me because they thought I wouldn't get it. But I caught on that it was bad or good. Usually bad. So when Alex gave themself owch marks, I knew it was cause they were sad. Very very sad. I tried to make them feel better and they seemed better till I realized they just pretended more and more. They started to not go to school, and so did Xander. Xander started to work under the counter. Which means he worked when he was too young, because mama and papa stopped giving us access to money. The fridge and pantry were empty. Mama and papa said that they did things under the surface, but it was just paying bills. When we all turned 15 Alex completely gave up. I learned they got touched badly by their boyfriends family member, it was such a bad time in their life it got blocked out. They started forgetting that they were even dating and even when reminded, would forget again. They would get drunk and/or high. Give themself owch marks a lot more. And then they gave us money, and belongings we wanted for a couple months. I now learned they tried to not exist anymore and that makes me really sad.. apparently mama and papa were mean to him. They used him to let out their anger. They had fights a lot and they would sometimes even get hurt. They never told Xander though, I'm sure they somewhat noticed. Anna did and blamed herself a lot, so she continued to focus on ballet even when it got toxic. Alex started feeling out of place and their gender dysphoria got worse. This was the year Alex wasn't part of anyones life besides his boyfriend and their friends. Parties were the only way they felt an escape. Xander again just dealt with playing parent, that year Alex got diagnosed with a few things. But they're called mental health disorders, there were many things the doctor wanted to give them but since our parents weren't there to give the doctor a yes, they couldn't get them. When Alex realized there was no medicine or therapy to help them, they started to try and fix themself. They didn't manage to, but they were stable enough to be part of our life again. All of the siblings welcomed them back with open arms and even when we told them we were were there, they never spoke to us about their thoughts too often. They still had their addictions and maybe they were worse. I wouldn't know. In a way Xander and Anna had addictions too. Xander had an addiction to doing a lot, and Anna had an addiction to staying away. We were all- Mm... We were all in separate boats tied to the same dock, alone but together at the same time. We continued to get older and we finally settled our dates. Dada almost got arrested because of truancy letters from Alex's school. Alex was going to quit school and pick up work like Xander. In a way Xander seemed sad- because I think he knew that Alex had to because their life was falling apart. And that they also couldn't handle it because their life was falling apart. Every major downfall in my parents lives would be projected onto Alex, and every biggg respon-respon— Mm! Responsibility! Was projected onto Xander. But they ended up getting in trouble because of the truancy letters regardless. This caused a huge fight between Xander and dada. Xander got kicked out, I joined him with Anna. Alex offered to stay awhile longer so the truancy letters would bring CPS... CPS never came when they needed to.. Alex ended up returning to us with 45 new scars that were caused by our dada using a whip as my mother laughed. We still don't know why they got punished that badly... But we're okay now!!!"

"Emrys."

"Yes mr?"

"Do you think you- you get more mature when speaking about this?"

"When I'm sad I think so, it's like a switch, but now the switch is flipped again because we aren't talking about it! Can I color now?"

"Have a ball, I'll leave now."