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Author's Note: I do the best I can to spell check but English is my second language so please forgive any mistakes you might find that I missed.


Left Behind
By Chibinaoka


I saw him. I turned the corner and there he was, standing only a few feet away. It was almost like looking into a mirror; yet it wasn't like that at all. He's my brother, it's obvious. Our hair, our eyes, there the same. But we still have differences. His face. Although it's similar, I can still see something different. He's smiling. I guess he lived a happy life without our mother and only our father around.

Father. He's there too. Standing beside my brother there's my father. I know it's him, I can feel it. Even so, he's still a stranger to my eyes. My eyes, his eyes, there both the same. Just like my brother, I can also see something different. Both seem happy. They're happy without mom or me. Suddenly I'm angry. My hands clench themselves to form fists. Without thinking I step back just a few steps so that I'm hidden even more then before. Why? Why are they so happy while I have to be miserable? It's not completely true, I'm not miserable. But I do seem to have it harder. Actually, my mom has it harder then me.

My rage is gone now. Now I feel spite. How could he abandon mom? How could he abandon me? I wonder why he chose my brother instead of me? Did he see something in my brother that I didn't posses or that he though I didn't posses? What if I would have lived my brother's life? Now I'm confused. I'm not sure if I would have wanted it. I couldn't leave mom, she needs me.

Mom. He didn't just abandon me, he abandoned her too. Could my brother have taken care her as I did? Probably. After all, she's both our mom. I don't hate my brother. He's not the one responsible for all of this. My brother was just a child, innocent like I was. No it's my father who decided to leave. My mother and I where left behind by him.

"Why did you abandon us, dad?"

The words slip out of my mouth. I've been thinking them ever since I've been standing at this corner and my eyes saw him. Now I've finally said them. It's how I feel. I feel like my father abandoned mom and me. But I'm never going to do that to her. She's my mother and I love her. I'm never going to abandon her or my brother now that I know that he exists.

I turn around and start running towards my home.

The End

Author's Notes: I wrote this in response to word #50 at the '15minuteficlets' community on LiveJournal.