Prologue

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I always felt like I never belonged in my family. I've always felt so different. I don't even look like them. My parents and my brother have brown hair and brown eyes, but I'm blonde and blue eyed. No one ever thinks that Mike and I are brothers, which I guess is a good thing for me. My parents have compared us enough for the rest of the world.

I'm three years younger than Mike, so I'm known as "the annoying little brother" to all his friends. But all my friends think I'm cool 'cause we pull pranks on people and make stupid jokes. The only things Mike and I have in common is that we both like sports and we go to the same school, Glendale Prep. Other than that, we're totally different...besides the fact that we have the same parents.

Mike is in the high school, so I never see him during school hours. I'm 13, so I'm in my last year of middle school, finally. This year, all of my teachers had Mike. They were all pretty surprised to find out that I'm nowhere near as smart as he is. I may be in a "great" school, but I'm in average classes. I was diagnosed with dyslexia in kindergarten and my parents actually thought about putting me in public school. But as usual, they pushed me to be just like Mike. So, here I am; practically failing my classes and giving my parents more reasons to be more proud of my brother than me.

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