Forced To Be With Him 24/7

Chapter 61

Is there a law I can only have one brother in my life? Oliver comes along and Avery goes? I don't think so. Jackson comes, Harry leaves. It just sounds like a really sick game.

I don't think the fog inside my head has lifted, only eased from the adrenaline pumping, clearing my mind.

I want to sleep and never wake up. My body can't stand any of this. Not anymore.

"Avery!" I scream this time. My voice is so high pitched and heartfelt, I get the chills by it.

The blonde haired stupid silly boy sits in the tub, blood still coming out his nostrils. Who would do this? For some fucking money?

I am looking for a sign. Any sign at all that he is alive. He has to be. The fog clears up with the panic rising in my throat, suffocating me and I remember to check his pulse.

My fingers goes to his blood stained neck and I feel for it. I don't get anything at first but then I check his wrists. I think I feel something. It might be my own pulse but I don't care. Tears run down my cheeks as I take my phone out and dial 911.

After I give our address and hang up, the world blurs in front of my eyes. I can hear my inner self yelling at me. Yelling at me to get up and do something. Get a towel and stop the bleeding.

Which one? I ask myself. Blood is coming from his head, his nose, his lips, his knuckles, there seems to be a slit across his chest. What have they done to him?

I fall to the side of the floor even though I am inside a pool of blood. My hands get lost in his blood as I cry.

Someone seeing this from the outside would name this as screeching or even screaming but its me crying.

I lost my parents, I can't loose my brother. He is all that I have. He is stupid, he is inattentive, he is irresponsible but he is my brother and that means more to me than anything.

Maybe we have different dads, maybe we are totally different people but he is the only brother I have known my whole life. He has been by my side since the moment I opened my eyes for the first time.

He thought me how to ride a bike, how to fish, how to run fast, how to swim and how to drive.

As I stand there, my hands on my chest, crying like never before, I remember the summer of 01.

I was five years old.

"Wanna go hiking across the river and skip some rocks?" Avery asks me, a ridiculous haircut and superman clothes finishing his gap toothed look.

"Yeah!" I say as he gets ahold of my hand and we start skipping down the street. We are at Philly, Oliver is sleeping.

We reach the river, holding hands the whole way. We start walking and I fall into the water.

"I'm coming for you Lex!" He yells and jumps into the water behind me. The depth of the water is barely five feet but my small and fragile five year old body can't manage to keep myself above water.

"Hold me!" He yells as I struggle against the current. I start crying as I hold Avery as tight as I can. He is older than me, much taller and he gets both of us out of the water.

He lays me down on the rocks beside the water and gets up. He is so strong.

"Don't cry sissy. I will always protect you." He says, holding my tiny hand with his.

"I love you Avery." I say and he smiles, hugging me.

I snap back into reality. Avery is bleeding out beside me. Suddenly a lightning strikes in my mind and I leap out into the air.