I smiled and turned to leave.
See? He would never stop caring about
Sarah.
<
But it didn’t matter who he cared for
anymore.
When the party was over, I was surprised to
see someone waiting for me.
When they saw my brother, everyone started
teasing,
“Oh! Your brother’s here to pick you up!”
“I wish I had a handsome CEO brother too…”
Amid the jeers, my brother walked toward me
with a dark expression.
Then, in front of everyone, he slapped me in
the face.
Everyone stopped laughing.
<
“Why did you hide from Sarah that you got
into MIT?”
My face was turned to the side, showing the
scar near my left eye.
“Getting into Stanford was the biggest
achievement in her life! Why would you try to
take the spotlight away from her?
“Her happiness was taken away from her
because of you. Can you even act like a good
older sister?
“She was starting to recover. But because of
you, her condition got worse. What kind of
sister are you? Do you even deserve to be her
sister?!”
My best friend frowned, trying to step
<
forward, but I grabbed her hand.
I raised my head and looked him in the eyes.
Then I smiled, before slapping him as hard as
I could.
My brother was stunned.
I said calmly,
“It’s not that I don’t deserve to be her sister,
it’s that you don’t deserve to be my brother.”
My brother’s eyebrows furrowed.
“But I was actually looking for you.
“Since you’re here, let’s just clear things up.”
<
I took out a card from my bag.
It was the bank card that my brother had
made for me.
The one that he had frozen when I was
exploring Colorado.
“There’s a total of $108,111.73.
“You gave me $500 allowance every month,
which totals $60,000 in 10 years. The house
was left to us by our parents, so I won’t
include the rent. I don’t usually eat at home,
the food costs are almost all inside the $500,
plus food for the two holidays in a year,
$1000 per meal, which is $20,000.
“As for clothes, I haven’t received many
decent clothes in the past 10 years. I’ve been
<
“The other miscellaneous costs should be at
least $20,000.
“Including my time, it totals $108,111.73. That should be enough.”
Then I put the card in my brother’s pocket.
Along with the document to terminate our
relationship.
“Thank you for everything over the years.”
My brother took the card and the document,
looking completely lost.
His hands and lips were trembling.
It finally dawned on him that all the money he
had given me for 10 years, was less than
1/10th of Sarah’s now.cor
<
And he tried to use a few hundred to force
me to go back to him.
And that I was the real sister.
I didn’t say anything and just left.
“Wait!”
My brother’s hand was shaking as he held the
card and the document to sever our
relationship.
“Claire, I’m wrong, you can hate me, but…
don’t do this…”
The document almost broke in his hand.
This was the first time he had ever been this
worried about me.
<
But he was the one who said he never wanted
me to call him brother again, wasn’t he?
Then his phone rang.
The familiar sound came from the phone,
“Brother…I feel terrible…come now…”
His hand was tightly gripping the phone, he
had never been this impatient with Sarah,
“Can’t you ask somebody else? Do I need to
be there for you to live? I’m not a doctor!
Why are you calling me for everything!”
Then he hung up.
I was surprised.
L
I had never seen him like that before.
“Claire…”
A man over six feet tall was talking like a
whiny little girl,
“I’m sorry… Come home… I’ll get your eye
treated… I’ll make up your birthday…
