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💗- a memory about a good deed they did
his sister was three years his elder. three years of experiences, three years of love. she was fourteen when she met heartbreak for the first time; the boy she had been dating kissed her best friend while the girl was out sick from school for a week. the rumors reached her on her first day back. she wept in the bathroom and told a teacher she wasn’t feeling well to go home early.
she never meant to confide in her kid brother as if it was some strange taboo; as if telling him of the sins of her classmates might hurt him in some way. but the child had insisted, knocking on her bedroom door and asking so kindly why she wouldn’t come out, why she was crying.
eventually, she had no choice but to let him in. her tears flowed anew when she told him of what had happened to her, her mortification when she had stepped foot in the school building and everyone knew but her.
kit took her hand, a frown on his face. he squeezed it.
“wait here. i’m going to get something.”
the boy scampered away, only to return with his piggy bank in his hands. he sat on the edge of her bed as he fumbled with the stopper in its belly to dig out the contents.
“i’m gonna buy you ice cream, i already asked mom to take us to the store. that’ll help you feel better, right?”
his sister wiped her tears and smiled fondly, told him he didn’t have to.
“i want to,” he insisted, a stubborn pout already finding its home on his lips. “a boy made you cry so i need to make you smile.”













