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When she was young, Alicia idolized her brother.
She was young, she tells herself when she remembers. Naïve. Stupid.
And so was Nick – it was before the drugs, stealing, and general misbehavior. Before he barely scraped through high school, likely only graduating because of their mother’s pull, and before he dropped out of community college to get high in the gutter. Before he was a deadbeat junkie with nothing to his name besides broken promises.
But she’s older now and so is Nick. She’s the responsible one, the one to look up to.
And Nick… Nick is someone to pity.