The Wrong Brother
But I wasn’t about to admit it.
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The next few days had passed in a blur of awkward domestic routines. Breakfast again, lunch handled awkwardly because I didn’t know where anything was, and every small collision in the hall made my pulse skip. Adrian was always moving with purpose; I moved with chaos. And yet, our movements started to align accidentally. Passing in the hallway, our shoulders brushed. It was small, but enough to make me flinch, and I swear I saw a flicker in his eyes that wasn’t irritation.