Oh Brother

Family Reunion

Matt

I desperately try not to die in the game I'm playing. My fingers are going manic on the keys.

"Jesus Matt, I've called your name like 9 times are you deaf?" Leo says, smacking the back of my head as he flops down next to me.

My character dies, I put the remote down next to me

"What?" I ask, annoyed

Leo's lying down on the couch on his phone.

"Mom said we're going soon, go tell Lucas." He says, not looking up from his phone.

I groan as I pull myself off the couch.

He sticks his foot out as I trip over it, landing on my feet again.

I glare at him.

Fuck.

He's noticed my eye. The bruises.

I quickly snap my head away from him.

"If he does that again, I'll beat him black and blue. You know that right?"

But you see.

That's the problem with Lucas in the first place

With Leo being the oldest, 19 and Lucas, 16, being born a couple of years after made him Leo's first brother. His first victim.

In more detail Leo did not have It easy.

The turning point of it all came when Lucas was 12 and Leo had only just turned 16. In a freak accident Lucas had ended up breaking his arm,

Allow me to explain briefly.

Lucas had accidentally told Mom something that she wasn't supposed to know. Once Leo found out he was furious, which led to him chasing Lucas around the house. As a desperate attempt to escape Leo's wrath, Lucas climbed up onto the roof. Leo followed, Lucas had made it to the edge of the roof, he was cornered. Without thinking Leo shoved him. Lucas fell onto his right arm, causing a clean break from the height of the fall and the impact. Leo watched, in shock from the roof. He knew that he had gone to far this time.

The strong fear of his older brother that Lucas had lived with for 12 years turned to sadness.
And shortly after,  that sadness turned to anger. After the incident Leo backed off for a little while, Lucas wasn't afraid of him anymore anyway it seemed. Lucas never talked much, but his actions always spoke louder. He let out his anger on me and Bailey whenever he had the chance.

"It's okay, it was my fault anyway I was... annoying him." I lie.

I'm done with the conversation. I make my way towards my room, our room.

Just act confident. Don't be scared of him.

I push the door open.

"W-we're going.. now." I say looking at the ground.

Lucas looks up from his phone, stares right at me, then goes back on his phone.

I take a breath,
I'll try again

"Lucas-."

He snaps up from the bed, grabbing his jacket from the ground. He storms past me as he collides his shoulder with mine making me fall backwards a little.

"I heard you the first time fuckrag." He sneers lowly. He walks out.

I take another deep breath.

I walk out of our room, shutting the door.

Bailey

"They're here, come downstairs."