"You've been so distant lately. Is something going on?"

"Not much. I was just thinking...about what you said yesterday...about your sister and her view on the world?"

"Oh, we're talking about her now? That attention hog? I thought we finished this subject?"

"No, well, I just talked with her about your step-father-"

"Hmph, you mean that dickhead? He's got the two idiots fooled. I can't believe that they believe his little act."

"What's his 'act' then?"

"...He thinks he can just waltz into her lives and replace the father we had? Our real father? How could those two just accept him like that? Our father wouldn't want this! He wouldn't want to be replaced by someone like Dick!"

"His name is Richard."

"Your point?"

"Would your father want your mother to be sad about his death even after three years? It may have been a suicide, but from what you and your sister have told me about him, he loved your mother, to a point that he would die for her. And in a sense, he did."

"Whose side are you on?"

"Side? I don't have a side? I don't think that there are sides. Why are you so defensive?"

"Why are you so different?"

"What do you mean? I haven't changed at all."

"You have. You were so perfect then. But now you're-you're making inappropriate jokes, you've been hanging around that freak of a sister I have, you're not even supporting me, and-and-"

"What, my flaws have come out?"

"Yes."

"What's wrong with that?"

"You even sound just like her."

"So...what's this? Are you breaking up with me?"

"Well, if you want to take it that far..."

"If I didn't know better, I'd think that you actually want me to break up with you. Then I realize that I really don't know better."

"I don't know anymore either."

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I know, I know-1 MONTH?! 1 FREAKING MONTH AND I COULDN'T BE BOTHERED TO UPDATE?!

I'm sorry. I was feeling this story was getting a bit too-well, not very good, at any rate. But then I reread it over the weekend and I was like, these characters are too awkward for real life, but I'm just like that, so let's continue this shall we?

I wonder how many of you still have this in your library.

I'm betting...four.