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I shrug nonchalantly ‘My Lord isn’t blessing ’s, so we’re even, aren’t we?’

He laughs, and I’ him because if I was, I know I’d see the sparkle in his eyes and the light fans at the corners ‘But she’s still blessing ives me a little tweak above my hipbone, and I perforain The silence settles, too I know hisbecause I can hear the, but I’ to We’re in a silent stand-off

He eventually sighs and starts circling tiny rings with his fingertips on each side of my bellybutton ‘His naives me his twin’s na for him to elaborate He needs to do this in his own tiement from me I know that he wantswillingly ‘You’re doing this on purpose, aren’t you?’ he asks He knows, so I re and falling with him ‘He idolised me He wanted to be ry, and I’ turned around to face hi up into green grief ‘I can’t do this on my own, baby Help me’

My instincts kick in and I push et my face in the crook of his neck ‘Were you not alike?’ I ask Twins must surely be alike

‘We were the furthest away froet In looks and personality’

‘He wasn’t a God?’ I ask quietly, thinking ly I didn’t mean it like that, but it would be the furthest away froenius’

‘How is that far away froet him by, I had my looks and I used them, as you well know Jake didn’t use his brain If he did, he wouldn’t be dead’

Oh? I take back all previous thoughts because now questions are popping into ht and centre, and I can’t hold theot hit by a car’

‘Hoould that be not using his brain?’

‘Because he was pissed when he staggered into the road’

Realisation in dawning, and it is dawning very fast I stepped into the road on Friday I was also drunk ‘Carmichael isn’t the only reason you don’t talk to your parents, is he?’ I ask

‘No, the fact I’ factor’ He says it with no e from him ‘Carmichael and The Manor came after and kind of put the nail in the coffin’