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At first I thought he was wearing a headband but on closer inspection I realised it was a bandage.
"What the hell happened to you?" I asked.
He grimaced and for the first time I noticed a dark red stain that was spreading.
"I don't know" he replied weakly and fell to the floor.
It was so unfair. That evil little thing always got what I deserved. She ripped it right from my hands with her deceptive ways. Lies. They were all lies and I needed to find a way to get rid of her, no matter what it took.
I ran quickly down the lane hoping to get out of sight of the people on the boat. It was definitely him. How did he find me? He was peering out of the boat, searching each side of the canal for something or someone. Fear engulfed me.
Disregarded on the side on the road; it could barely lift its head.
Burning. I was burning. The stench of sizzling flesh consumed my senses until I couldn't breath any more. Where was the pain though? Was this hell? Was I dead?
When we heard the torturous screams upstairs my brother and I would make a fort. The soft material from our beds would block out the terrible cries from the brother we had never met.