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She was always second to him.
Until she learned where she was first.
She had spent her entire life standing one step behind him.
He was her best friend, her lifelong rival, and the boy who always seemed to reach the finish line first. The higher grades. The awards. The recognition. No matter how hard she tried, he was always there-just ahead of her.
But she never thought much of it.
Not until their parents fell in love.
Overnight, the boy she'd known all her life was given a new name.
Her brother.
She refuses to accept it-not because she hates him, but because she can't stand watching the relationship they built long before their parents met disappear beneath a label neither of them chose.
And when her mother decides that she should move into the same condominium as him, there is nowhere left for her to hide.
Under one roof, the rivalry she thought she had buried begins to resurface. Old insecurities turn into resentment, buried frustrations finally spill over, and the friendship that once felt effortless becomes something neither of them knows how to hold on to anymore.
Because he has always been the one she thought she had to beat.
And she has always believed that being second meant she was never enough.
But what if she had been looking at the wrong finish line all along?
What if being second to him never meant she was less?
And what if the place she had been searching for was never beside him-
but somewhere far more unexpected?
Because some relationships existed long before anyone tried to define them.
And sometimes, the person you spent your whole life trying to outrun is the very person who has been waiting for you at the finish line.
***
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