The S.U.N. and The Peter Pan Project

Chapter 28

This is not what I expected at all…

“When I was seven, my nine year old older brother killed himself while trying to improve his tree climbing skills…”

Oh my god…

“The day after, my Dad being the crazy man he is, decided I had to save the family’s honor…So…” He forced himself to deep breathe slowly. “So he pretended I was the one who’d died and put my name on the family tombstone…” He took a huge sip of his coke.

“That’s how I became Matt…” He paused, deep in his thoughts. “Tim didn’t notice I was slightly smaller. What he did notice, though, was that I was a much better tree climber than my bro, and that I was actually a good fighter…” His laugh sounded fake as he added, “After all, he wasn’t helping Matt willingly, was he?” Our eyes locked, then and their darkness sent chills through my spine. “He was keeping a promise… A promise he’d made to you…” He took another long sip. “And I didn’t understand why before yesterday…” I narrowed my eyes at that.

What does he mean?!

“After I drove us to school, I gave one of each pill to a friend so that he could analyze them… A couple of hours later he came up to me with the results. The pills weren’t food complement at all but a drug. A fucking drug my dickhead of a father probably made just for us. Did I tell you that my Dad is a chemist?” He kept clenching and unclenching his fists angrily.  “The drug’s principle is simple. You give it to two people. Once they’ve taken it for a few days, they start being attracted to one another like magnets. The drug triggers some special hormonal release in their body that only the other recognizes or something…”

I knew my attraction wasn’t natural…

“As you stopped taking the pills, your attraction to me began to fade. Meanwhile I was genuinely growing attracted to you… “

I shook my head slowly still stunned at his revelation…

“This drug wasn’t meant for me, you know…” He whispered. “My Dad made a deal with your parents to pretend it was Matt you’d chosen…”

What does he mean?!

“My Dad wanted my brother to be in the Dream Team New Generation, as he calls it… That’s why he created the drug… Do you want to know the sickest part of it?”

Oh because that wasn’t sick enough already?!

“Do you know why he was so intent on you and I having sex so quickly?”

I shook my head again.

“Because he’s been drugging the food from the house with special vitamins that increase chances of a pregnancy…”

Wait, what?!!! I couldn’t believe a man had done that to his own son especially after having lost one already.

How could he force his son to play the part of his deceased brother?! How sick was that?!

Not only that but he went as far as creating a drug to fulfill his own craving for power… What if we’d had sex and I was pregnant and thus stuck with the double of my wrong betrothed?

God, the man is a mental case…

“So last night, after dutifully leading my team to the victory, I got drunk and I fucked my brother’s real linker…” His voice was so devoid of emotion, it was creepy.

“You weren’t meant to see it and I’m really sorry that you did… But this was my life size FUCK YOU to my Dad and I enjoyed every second of it…”