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Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 7:08 pm
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Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 7:31 pm
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But Leo didn't care about that anymore. He crunched his cup, not caring about the beer that splashed all over him, and yanked his brother by the collar of his shirt with his free hand. "I won't accept that because I am the best!" he snarled in his brother's face. "I do my work on time, I handle the money we need, I paid for my choices in the past! And you? I've yet to see one thing you could do that I couldn't!" He shoved Zavier away from him, ignoring all the people that were beginning to crowd around them.
But even though a crowd formed, there were still plenty of partiers, such as Thomas and his friends. They laughed and wobbled, drunk blushes ablaze, while standing outside of the house. They talked to each other through slurred speech and spilled some of their beer everytime they moved, which was every other second. Thomas had finished laughing over a joke with one of his friends when another shouted out at him to gain his attention. He turned to the man before nodded and reaching into his pockets. Murmuring something about going to get beer, Thomas finally got out his car keys and sloppily made his way to his car.
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Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 7:51 pm
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Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 8:35 pm
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Leo clenched his jaw. "Just where the Hell are you running off to, pu$$y?" he yelled and stormed after his brother, wanting to knock the daylights out of the b_stard. The crowd followed him, eager to see the fight between the two indestructible people at school. Leo rolled up his sleeves and was about to charge after Zavier, his fury nearly turning his surroundings red, but something inside him screamed for him to stop. He wasn't sure if it was his feelings or something else, but when he saw the fast approaching lights, he obliged. Leo stopped in his tracks and tried to make out what the lights were, they were doing a serpentine he wasn't familiar with. The crowd noticed it too and murmured amongst themselves. As the lights got closer to Zavier, who didn't seem to notice the lights, Leo felt his eyes widen at the sudden realization of what it was. "It's a car!" someone in the crowd screamed. Leo's heart stopped. The lights were closer, he could make out the silhouette of the car behind the very lights, a large car, an SUV. The large car swerved to the right and got half of itself on the sidewalk, Zavier's body outline was at the middle of the seemingly murderous gaze of the car. "Zavier..." Leo breathed and stumbled forward; time seemed to slow down to relish such disaster. "Zavier!" Leo cried out and tried to run to him, to pull him out of the way like in the movies, but a few people in the crowd that recognized it as suicide lunged out and held him back. It took three of the strongest jocks to hold him back. "Zavier!!" Leo wailed in horror as he saw his brother fly back on impact from the car.
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Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 8:43 pm
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Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 9:12 pm
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Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 9:49 pm
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Leo, stained with blood, rode beside his brother, trying to be assured by the doctors and ambulance men that assured him Zavier would be fine. But how was he supposed to trust their words when his brother was covered in blood and barely breathing before him? The ambulance got to the hospital at good speed, but it still felt terribly slow to Leo. He watched helplessly as his brother was wheeled off straight into the Intensive Care Unit. How desperately he wanted to be by his side! Leo followed after, but staff members held him back each time he tried to get past the double doors. So forced into a waiting room, Leo sat near the end of one of the many rows of chairs, biting his thumbnail as his foot tapped the ground impatiently. With his free time, he finally managed to take in his surroundings. It was the basic hospital waiting room, white floors and walls that screamed bland and emotionless, purple chairs for guests to sit in, both hard yet plush, a small TV at the corner with a talkshow on talking about some recipe Leo was too worried to even think about, and a plastic plant around the chairs. This place was heavy with death and sadness, Leo feared his mourning would add to it.
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Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 6:21 pm
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Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 8:00 pm
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He didn't hesitate at all to see his brother. The room was starch white as the waiting room, it had the same cold, dense feel to it. There was a TV hanging off between the wall and the ceiling, pointed at Zavier with a news report playing despite him being in a coma. A curtain separated two beds, one empty and one... Leo pulled the curtain back and caught his breath at the sight of his brother; he was laid against his bed, deep in his coma-entranced sleep, there was a tube connected to his nose and a clamp on his finger. The heart monitor beeped soundly, but it sounded like the melody of dread to Leo as he gazed at perhaps his brother's lifeless body. "Oh Zavier..." he whispered and fell into the seat beside the bed. He could feel his waterfall of tears hesitate to break through his wall of pride, but now his pride didn't matter. It was his damn pride that got his brother like this! He didn't care if everyone saw him cry like the baby he was! "Zavier..." Leo began to cry and hang his head in sorrow. His hand reached out and felt out his brother's, it was cold and clammy. He brushed his thumb along his fingers before bringing it to his face, wishing for him to return the touch. But it wouldn't happen. As Leo sobbed and mourned his brother's state, he felt disgusted and ashamed with himself. He should've just accepted being the weaker of the two, that he wasn't perfect. Maybe then Zavier would... Leo stifled a loud cry. He didn't want to think as if Zavier was dead already. He wouldn't be able to handle it if the last thing his brother, whom he treasured dearly, heard would be how Leo hated him.
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Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 8:27 pm
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Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 8:50 pm
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Hearing someone enter at such a private moment, Leo was about to snap at the intruder to leave, but his words were caught in his mouth when the woman introduced herself as a psychiatrist. His blood drained from his face. He realized that this woman, Ann, was here to help him through this troubling time since he had never gone without Zavier for more than a few hours, but he also knew that if he were to dare give her the smallest hints of their deeper relationship, of the crimes they committed through passion, his world would end. "I.... Is now really a good time, Ms. Thorton?" Leo said softly, still clasping his brother's hand and not intending to let go of it for a good long time.
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Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 9:34 pm
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