The Brother I Shouldn’t Want
That was all it took, just that one moment.
The message was short, too short, the kind that didn’t leave room for interpretation but still didn’t make sense. A breakup text. No explanation, no argument leading up to it, nothing that matched what we had. I read it once, then again, slower this time, like maybe I had misunderstood something, but the words didn’t change and the meaning stayed the same.
It didn’t sit right.
Not after last night.
Not after him.