Kindergarten: Brothers in Grief

Cain Was Never Abel

I will speed things along to get the actual story in the first half of this chapter. LOL :3

WARNING: Major sad things ahead!!!

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Felix and Theodore Huxley were once normal twins, they were happy and they love each other like they should. But then one day, their father, the head of a company called 'AppleSoft', began put pressure on the two and started spoiling Felix for being the older twin and neglecting Ted for being the younger twin, their mother kept quiet about it by being threatened with a divorce.

In those three years, Felix became the angry, abusive, cold, and cruel five-year-old equivalent of a perfect businessman while Ted stayed more innocent and too naive to realize how much his brother truly changed. Until one very fateful day...

Felix came up with a plan to kill Ted by tricking him into killing a kid named Ozzy in order to be the sole heir of their company, and it was about to work with the help of the two new kids Nugget and Kid. Kid handed Felix Ms. Applegate's pointing stick to hit Ted with, "Oh, the teacher's pointing stick. Excellent choice, this'll do splendidly.", the ruder snob said before walking over to his brother, "Well, Teddy, it's time.", he continued calmly.

"Okay, I'm ready. ...But where's Ozzy?", Ted asked, making Felix scoff wickedly. "Oh, poor simple stupid Teddy. This isn't a grave for Ozzy. No, no, no... It's for you.", he told him, a dark smile appear on his face as he and Ted moved closer to the deep hole Nugget dug. "Wait, no. What? Felix, you can't! I did everything you said!", Ted pleaded, "And AppleSoft thanks you for your service.", Felix responded coldly. Felix whacked Ted hard enough with the stick that he fell into the hole and screamed, landing with a hard THUD.

"Now for the spiders.", Felix said to Kid, "What?", he responded. Kid thought Ted already suffered enough as he could already tell he shockingly survived that fall, but Felix clearly didn't think the same. "Drop the spider in the hole!", Felix snapped back, "Okay, okay...", Kid said, reluctantly dumping the spiders and the jar onto poor Ted.

A while after school, Felix went home after taking Nugget to a McDonald's to make up for the make-believe nugget factory he promised for the dirty deed, only to unexpectedly listen into a certain argument his parents were having in the living room.

"Simon, you bastard! I just got a call from the principal that Theodore disappeared at the school, you can't just except this! You're supposed to love and protect your children, not neglect them and treat their deaths as if nothing happened!", Mrs. Huxley shouted in anger, tears streaming down her face, "Watch your tongue, love. Felix might be home. In any case, my dear Elinor, Theodore wasn't business material with how you were spoiling him. I knew Felix would end up be the true heir to my throne, no need for that disappointment of a spare.", Mr. Huxley responded calmly, showing no emotions even. Felix's eyes widened at the horrid conversation. Felix had been calling Ted that for as long as his father 'cared'.

Elinor stomped her high-heel at that, "IS BUSINESS THE ONLY THING YOU ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT?! NO WONDER FELIX AND THEODORE DON'T HAVE FRIENDS!", she bellowed, Felix flinching as she normally doesn't yell so loud, "Temper, temper. I'm only teaching Felix what I learned at his age, Theodore was just in the way and needed to be taken care of.", Simon talked back. Has Felix's grandpa really been doing the same to his dad as he's done with him and Ted? 

"I was giving Ted what he deserved, you were spoiling Felix by giving him what you got instead of REAL affection. Your father was sick, and so are you. You were threatening me to keep quiet while you turned sweet little Felix into the horrible person you were turned into and left his brother to die off.", Elinor spat out, "That might be true, but it's good for the family business. Now how about you shut your mouth before I call a divorce, hmm?", Simon hissed back, proving that he really doesn't care at all. Felix gasped quietly in shock, he thought his father loved him.

The twisted man decided to go through the divorce as the enraged woman gave him a look that Felix knew said 'no', causing the boy to run all the way to him bedroom. "This... T-This has to be a joke. Father does love me, he just has... a funny way... of... showing it.", Felix said, slowly starting to realize the issue. Ted said that before about him, but it wasn't true for a long time.

He was lied to when his father said he loved him, just like he did with Ted to kill him. He then looked at the mirror and walked towards it, but it was almost like he was staring at another person, his peridot green eyes, neat blonde hair, and blue shirt with a red tie intimidating him slightly. At that same moment, his frozen little heart finally thawed out but then started to break in realization.

His whole family was messed up. He was blinded by the wealthy lies, it was finally clear to him. But now, as far as he's concerned, he didn't have a family left. His mother was now in the process of being thrown out, his father never loved him, and he just killed the only sibling he had. And he turn into something awful and terrifying to even himself alone. A horrible person, a liar, a murderer... A monster...

He slowly back away from the mirror feeling mortified as tears fell down his cheek, "Oh, god... No... No, no, no, no, no...", he mumbled before falling to his knees and looking at his shaking hands, "Teddy... What have I done?", he continued. He stared at Ted's empty bed across from his own and walked over to it, grabbing an old teddy bear his brother had since before they could walk. He walked back to his own bed and curled up into a ball while starting to sob, the bear squeezed tightly to his chest as his final faulty source of comfort.

What has he become? He was now the solo heir of his father's company, but at what cost? He didn't want that life anymore. He lost everyone who truly cared for him, now he was all alone by himself without even a single friend he could console with. All he wished for at the moment was for his brother to be with him longer, for him to see the signs before he changed, for him to take back the lies he set up before it was too late. He wished for people who could still care...

By sundown, he was still drowning in his sadness in his room. He stopped crying in a ball on his bed, but he was now sitting down on the floor thinking about a way to kill himself. Maybe he'll jump off the roof or overdose on medicine, or even hang himself by the neck? At this point, anything like those would be a lot better than living a life of pain, regret, misery, and shame. Suddenly, the door was opened by a damaged looking figure holding an ax who looked just like Felix except for the clothes and messy hair, snapping him out of his suicidal thoughts. "...T-Teddy?", Felix quietly spoke in both joy and fear.