The Unloved Replacement
"If your father hadn't brought your brother back to keep me going, I don't think I would've lived long enough to see you again. You have to treat your brother well from now on. He'll never look down on you."
At the time, I had thought Caelum could not have sincerely hoped for me to return. He was the youngest in the family and the only son at the time. Aside from my dad, George Gomez, no one knew he was not their biological child, so he must have grown up surrounded by love. But now that the family's biological son had been found, his status had become awkward.
When I arrived home last night, I had not even seen him.
Linda had brought me to look for him, but he hid and refused to meet me.