Luke is 15 but he always get mistook for a 8 or 10 year old, and just wishes he could look like his a teenager he is meant to be, and then there is his younger brother, who looks like a healthy 14 year old, but is only 11 and always is seen as the...
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I was waiting at the traffic lights standing next to my younger brother, than a random old lady said to me "aren't you going to hold your big brother's hand?" looking down at me, I sighed feeling a clench in my stomach when anyone says such things to me, and I just grabbed my little brother's hand not wanting to correct her, and just wanting to get across the road as fast as I can, with my brother saying to the woman "oh no Mis he is actually my big brother, I just look old for my age" but it never helps with people thinking it is some sort of weird joke.
But having gotten use to just letting strangers think I'm a 8/9 year old when I am actually 15, and how everyone thinks my little brother is 14/15 when he is actually 11, and how he is normally thought of as my big brother when I am with him.
He normally tries to stick up for me like right now with the woman nodding her head up and down to my brother while I know she does not believe us, but my brother normally keeps it up, saying when I asked him why he does? He just said, "i like being your younger brother" and that is all I got from him.
And well I don't blame her, my brother has had a ridiculously big growth spurts on and off all last two years and even before that we were the same size, but at least people could tell I was his older brother when we were the same size.
This the could not stop me from thinking that One off the most annoying things is, how I have to have his hand me downs, looking down at my body, seeing I am wearing bright green soccer shorts and a bright blue t-shirt what has stars printed on it and velcro skater trainers, what all belonged to my brother two years ago, and my jet black hair is long with it reaching my shoulders and unkept, with all of this just makes me look like a scruffy kid and not a neat clean teenager.
But my brother has short brown hair having it cut every 4 weeks, what keeps him looking smart and is one of the main things what makes him look older, and he is also wearing a buttoned up white shirt, perfect fitting jeans and converse's on his feet, what was all brought just for him by my parents, but when I ask for new clothes and a haircut saying all off my clothes and my hair make me look like a little kid, they just say they can't afford it, and they only buy my brother clothes because he needs them and I can just use them once a grow big enough.
Anyway, once we crossed the street, and finely made it to my group of friends who we are going paintballing with, for James one of my best friend's birthday parties, what he is sharing with his little 9 year old brother Timmy who is tuning 10 in a week, who was going to laser tag, what is at the same place.
The place was big and in an abandoned factory what look's really cool to play paintball in, I walked up to my friends saying hi to them, knowing them since I was 11, and with my brother giving a little wave and staying close to my side always being nervous around them, and he was asked to come as well knowing them as long as I have, having to look after him while I hung around with them in the past, and James being the nice guy he is, inviting him as well.
