E/O Word: Thanks

A/N: Yay, my first attempt at this challenge! 100 words is killer O.O xxD~


Years of clashing and shouting and angsting and shoving away help time and time again pass.

It's no wonder college is such a lifeline, the light at the end of the tunnel, something Sam wants with greater vigor every time a door slams between him and his father.

Seems Dean got lost somewhere in the middle.

So it's with a far-away look that Sam turns his phone in his hand, his first Christmas without his brother. Over and over again, mentally thinking about what he wants to say, should have said.

And with a small, sad smile he whispers, "Thanks."