It's All Relative by J.M. Snyder

Author:J.M. Snyder [Snyder, J.M.]
Language: nld
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“You guys suck.”

Actually, I know how he feels, but I’m glad they’ve moved away from teasing

me and are onto him now. In a rare burst of sympathy, I tell my brother, “You

know we’re just playing around. If we didn’t like you, we wouldn’t bust on you

so bad.”

“Yeah we would,” Caitlin says.

Ray glares at me as if that’s my fault, too. “What?” I ask, standing. “I didn’t say it. How much milk is left?”

“You

didn’t

have to say it,” Ray mutters, and before I can say anything else, he

tips his head back and guzzles down what’s left in the carton.

Milk courses down the corners of his mouth like cum, trickles down his chin,

down his throat. He’s watching me stare at him, and I swear the corners of his

lips are pulled into a faint smile, he’s enjoying this. “There better be another carton in there,” I tell him, pissed. “Hell, Ray, I was being nice.”

“All gone,” he says, wiping his arm across his mouth. He is grinning, the

fucker.

A dozen scenes flit through my mind, me pinning him to the fridge, cram-

ming that damn carton down his throat … my hands curl into fists just picturing

the pain I could cause him. “That was damn rude,” I growl.

With a shrug, my brother crumples the carton up in his hands, splattering

milk on his shirt, his legs, the floor. I jump back to keep from getting sprayed.

“Ray! You fucking slob!” I punch him in the shoulder, hard. When he tries to hit

back, I pull a Caitlin and pop him again. “Clean this shit up.”

“Shut up,” he mutters, but he knows I’m right — if one of our aunts comes

in here, or our mom? And finds the floor sticky in front of the fridge, they’ll look

for someone to blame, and there are enough witnesses here that no matter what

excuse Ray tries to come up with, it won’t work. Hell, Caitlin’s likely to send

Trevor running to tattle just to be mean. Grabbing a hand towel from the

counter, Ray snaps it in my direction. “Leave me alone.”

“You drank all the milk,” I point out. I cross my arms defiantly in front of

my chest and look down at him as he wipes at the floor in quick, ineffectual

strokes. From this position I can see the beginnings of a bald spot on the top of

his head — I wonder if he knows about that? Receding in the front, falling out in

the back … if that happens to me, I’m shaving my head, even though Dan likes

my hair. He loves to tug at my bangs during sex, loves to brush the blonde

strands from my face and tuck them behind my ear. He might not go for the

Telly Savales look, though if I start balding like Ray … “I should make you walk

your lazy ass over to Grosso’s,” I grumble. “Drink all the goddamned milk.”

“It’s just up the street,” Ray huffs. “You want milk that bad, go get it your-

self.”

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