Aha!

Memories

*flashback*

I was about four years old.

He was only three.

We were at the playground.

He was never a normal kid, Thomas. He always wanted to be, but he couldn't.

I shouldn't have left him there alone.

I regret every second for doing so.

I left him on the playscape.

And he fell off.

He fell off when I was supposed to be watching him. It was my fault.

He fell, and he cracked his head open.

Blood went everywhere, thank god someone called 9-1-1.

He hated me after that. And, well, we were brothers. So I hated him back, I guess.

More things happened after that, worse things.

He pushed me off a trampoline when I was five. I broke my arm.

Mom and dad always tried to stop him, but they couldn't. He was really bad.

Then when I was seven, he "accidentally" hit me in the head with a basket ball, and I got a concussion.

I guess I just had to power through, I mean, he had problems. Bad BAD problems.

Even mom and dad said so.

But it only got worse after that.

Like, a lot worse.

And he was.... uh...sent away.

To one of those places. It killed me. And mom and dad. We didn't know what he would do there.

I wasn't allowed to visit him, but he didn't know that, and he thought I ditched him. It killed him. He loved me, no matter how much he thought he hated me. I was his brother.

But still, no matter how much he loved me, he hated me. Not just because I left him on the playscape, or because I never saw him. Because he was jealous of me. Jealous that I was normal. Jealous that I got attention. I could sing. I could act. He even told me he wished he was like me. Right before he was sent away. But he still was himself, and he couldn't handle being jealous without being mad.

He always said he would get me back...

"So, he found you, and your working for him?!"

Kevin gave the floor a guilty look.

I screamed. Loud. I wasn't hurt or anything, I just had to scream. All these years, I thought he would get over his problems. He would forgive me. But he never did.

"Why?!?!"

"Because... Mitch, he has weapons. He's not afraid to use them. I understand this means more than I know to you, but he's worse than he ever was. He's deadly"