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not come home

bag on my mattress, and then took a glance at my br

y," he said with a smal

turned to look a

ff the phone, and then shook his head. "I w

yes dropped on the multiple envelopes on my mattr

hese here?" I

d to be for you

though they were all from my pending bills. As

was to tell me that he was increasi

I hissed as I dr

nt and he had the gut to add to it

wrong, sis?"

never

rrow night too," he said and I tu

ant when they said that it was hard raising

ng the hardes

ou kid

I need to

urned to l

ea

usness and asked."Don't tell me.

st laughter, "

ing every night

oup of friends, sis,

still do tha

ay instruments and had always wished that he got one but

owed and buried his

for a while before I

t that Dominic wa

e said no was p

im one... maybe he was scared that if he

me away from home twelve years ago, I had vowed with ever

I would never be able to live with myself knowing that he w

ng anymore, and instead, I moved over to

an

erson who calls

es

o look at me. "You don't ne

om

bad group or something. I'm just with some friends,

t me, and just take c

eyes fluttering. I want to cry. How

nk y

for me. No one could have done it with this situation that we are in," he

t seventeen, when

ome with had grown quite a lot and that s

ere threatening to fall and the

he night, and God knows that he is my big

throom open, entered, and t

OWING DA

on the floor as I stared

g more than strength to not

n hours of working there, I went to my other part-time job which started at t

all. The strong smell of sweat and alcohol, the ove

never easy w

roaned till I finally reached my door and

it open, I dropped my bag on the

have ever been t

ng that I could sleep off, I forced myse

~

h my face towel before

chen to check if I could make dinner

the room, settled on my mattress, and then

p my fork and began to eat, bu

get when the room is em

efinitely do not feel l

movement, so I carefully laid my bowl of

, right?" I asked

e question I was

min

sed the door.

ed again and I tightene

room with me... then, I guess I would d

I was

e is i

room.

om the curtain and moved towards me, I felt my heart

ituation to shout.

the light and I saw his

n him befo

ow h

don't think I w

h

man from

cho from

y room. Staring at me l