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everything was ready for today. Her golden boy was finally leaving this shitty town and heading into the big, ugly world. Christian expected India to be with him, even if he wasn ’ t in Gargle anymore. He only kept her as his trophy to show me that she chose him, but at the end of the day, he had sex with anything that would show him attention. He thought that I had no idea. After all, I was just his weird younger brother that everyone felt sorry for.
    From about age thirteen, I decided to be different and pull away from that perfect family they pretended to be. My mother was going through a bad phase, hadn ’ t been taking her meds, and Dad couldn ’ t be bothered to take time off from work to check on her. She kept trashing the house every once in a while. My perfect brother pretended that nothing was happening. Whatever! He made her go off her rocker. She verbally abused me, saying that I shouldn ’ t have been born and it was all my fault Dad didn ’ t want to be at home. From then on I pulled myself inside my own cocoon, staying away from him. My brother had the girl that I desired and the attention from the whole school.  
    The last night India came to see me, and we both dropped all pretences. We had been circling around each other for a long time. Mum had been running like crazy and Dad wasn ’ t planning to show at all. As usual, he was in one of those meetings. Christian had been walking around the house, pointing at the decorations. I was planning to go for a walk, just to avoid seeing him until later. I sort of got used to the fact that he always got what he wanted and most of the time I moved out of his way, but from tomorrow on this was going to be over.
    “ Olie, make yourself useful and grab me some plastic glasses from the garage, ” Mum ordered when I walked to the kitchen. Christian was using his iPhone, not doing much at all. I used to go through anger phases, but I quickly learnt that this wasn ’ t getting me anywhere, so instead of fighting with her, I obeyed. I wasn ’ t ready for a full-blown argument.
    For the rest of the afternoon I kept running around the house while Christian chilled in the living room, laughing at some reality TV show. Close to six, I was planning to sneak upstairs and change, but Christian caught me by the stairs. All the girls were crushing on him and he didn ’ t discourage them. He was a good-looking bloke after all, but I wanted him to have more respect for India.
    “ Hey, bro, ” he began, smirking, while I tried to pass him on the stairs. “ It ’ s going to be an epic party. ”
    I didn ’ t respond, measuring him up and down, wondering if I should tell him then. It pissed me off that he had that arrogant smile on his face, like he didn ’ t have to obey any rules.
    “ You should pick up some birds tonight, before all the good ones are taken. ”
    “ I ’ m fine, but I ’ m kind of busy, ” I said. He put his hand on my shoulder, narrowing his eyes on me with an irritated frown.
    “ Listen, I need a massive favour. Bryan and a few others are picking up some buzz, and I need you to give them a hand. ”
    We both were the same height, but he was built like a typical rugby player.  
    “ I ’ m busy. Why don ’ t you get it yourself? ” I asked, my muscles tensing . I wanted to drag his hand away from my shoulder, but he leaned over.
    “ Mum is going to pull some other shit for you to do if you keep hiding upstairs and I need to meet someone to sort some weed for later. Come on man, we should stick together. I ’ ll owe you one? ”
    People normally did what Christian wanted them to do and I had to keep him on a leash until this evening because of India. He didn ’ t have to sort anything out. He could have weed delivered to the house later. I wasn ’ t planning to go anywhere, but I knew that he would make me do it either way.
    “ Where are they? ”
    “ Here is the address. Bryan ’ s mate is getting quite a lot of stuff and I need