Stepbrother, Please Don't
“You’re my younger brother, right?”
“Yeah.”
Even at the sudden question, Samuel nodded without hesitation.
“I’m Gabriel’s younger brother, Samuel.”
Then Samuel said to me,
“Brother, you can’t get sick.”
“…You too, Samuel.”
“I hate it when brother is sick.”
“I also hate it when my younger brother is sick.”
At the conversation repeating like a loop, laughter eventually leaked out.
Samuel also lifted the corners of his mouth and giggled.
“What are we doing?”
“Right?”
At that small and innocent laughter, it felt like my vision cleared up.