(of love or friendship) intimate and affectionate but not sexual."their relationship is purely platonic"
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Where would we be without him? I'll tell you where, nowhere. He's our provider our everything he's family. If anything ever happened to him we'd be lost, we'd fall in a deep pit of depression and just want nothing more then die with him right then and there. That's how much we care about him, that's how much we love him. We always got each others backs no matter what. We haven't known each other our whole lives and we're not family by blood, but hell we sure do act like it. We can read each other like an open book, and always know what's on the others mind. we're like triplets. we're inseparable. It was only nine years ago that we met him for the first time. Only nine years ago that we met Splendid for the first time.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It was a cold windy night in happy tree town and it was just day me and my twin brother Lifty were as helpless as ever, especially Lifty. In the past few days of being out here in the cold, Lifty has fell terribly ill and being the street rats we were, we had no food, money, ext.. I was afraid of losing my brother, my poor little brother, the only most important person in my crappy life, my meaning of living in this fucked up planet. WE had no one and if Lifty dies on me, I'll have no one. I'd just might as well go on and kill myself to die with him because the only reason I live is to take care of my little twin, to be there when he needs me most, to be there when he needs someone to rub his back soothingly telling him that everything's gana be okay in the most toughest pissed me off that I was here just watching my brother as he coughs and cry's, not able to do anything about it. I was only ten at the time so I couldn't really go out and find a job in a snap, I was 's where the stealing came be honest we don't like living off of other peoples money that spend half their day working their asses off only so that we come in and take it. But we do it because we HAVE to and that's how our parents did it to. That might give you a clue on why we're not with our parents. now, usually after your parents get taken away and your to young to get a job and live on your own, they send you to a horrid place know as a Foster home, RIGHT? Well I did not like that idea at all, not ONE BIT. My brother always said that it wouldn't be that bad and we'd still have a roof to live under. So why didn't I go to the Foster home when I got the chance to? BECAUSE. Because if we did take the chance, I knew that some family would come in and adopt one of us and eventually we'd separate. I don't know if what I did was selfish, but all I knew that I can never live without my only family, my only brother. I look down at Lifty who is curled up in a ball with newspaper besides me.
"Lifty,"
Lifty turns to look at me with those big beautiful green eyes, filled with nothing but sadness. I look down and bite my bottom lip, hesitating to tell him on what I've planned on doing. I gaze upon Lifty again, seeing that I still kept his attention.
"Ima go get what we need, what you need." Lifty instantly replaces that sad look with a horrified one.
"NO."
is all that comes out of his pale lips. Of course Lifty being my twin, he knew EXACTLY what I was thinking.
"Look Lifty, I don't like the idea of it either but- HOW ELSE ARE YOU GETTING CURED?"
Before I was able to walk off, Lifty was fast enough to sit up and grab my wrist. I look back and see Lifty facing down.
"P-Please don't," I open my mouth to say something but he continues on. "What if you get caught and the police takes you away like mom and dad!?" He's crying. "Then they take you to Juvenal and the only way I'd be able to see you is through some plastic separating us, then one day you get in some knife fight and you die?!- Then what?!" he harshly huffs because of him not stopping for breath while going on one of is 'rants'. I swear, sometimes I feel as if Lifty is suffering from paranoia or some shit. He makes anything seem more dangerous then it really is. I let out a frustrated sigh.
"Lifty, I don't want to risk losing you and waste time begging when I can get the money we need in a split second" Lifty lets go on his tight grip on my wrist, I look up at him and smile as a Thank you, he gets my gesture and smiles back. "Don't worry Lifty I'll come back" and with that I ran off.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After my 'business' was taken care of, I rushed to the nearest pharmacy for some Advil (or what ever you're suppose to fucking use for a cold and fever.) As I walk out I smile to myself. 'This was so worth the risk of getting caught stealing, now I can be relaxed again knowing that my lil bro aint dying on me TONIGHT'. As I get near our alley with the familiar dumpster we like to be next to, I hear voices. Surprised because no one really walks by here but us. I put my walking to a halt and stay behind the brick wall. I peer behind it and instantly my attention is captivated by a blue haired male about my age.
His attire is... unusual. He's wearing a mysterious red mask, along with a blue jumpsuit and white converse. But that's not the part of him that captivated my attention. He and my brother seemed to be getting along well because I can see smiles plastered on both there faces.
That smile...
Ba-Dump.
I can see the mysterious boy handing Lifty a paper bag with that smile of his and sparkling blue eyes filled with nothing but pure love and care.
Those eyes...
Ba-Dump.
Lifty looks in the bag delighted and takes out a chocolate chip cookie, and starts nibbling on it. It's not long before Lifty lets out a "MPH!" and I swear I saw hearts in his pupils. Seeing his reaction made me realize those cookies must be AMAZING because he literally shoves his head in the paper bag and stuffs himself with those sweets. The bluenette laughs sweetly at the sight.
That laugh..
Ba-Dump.
I don't know why, but everything about him is amazing. Usually when someone gets near here I threat them with the pocket knife (or gun) and tell them to fuck off, especially if they got near my twin but this guy.. I just feel different towards him. I had no intention on threatening or harming him in any way. I must've been standing there thinking deeply for to long because I suddenly feel someone poking my shoulder. As I'm still looking down I notice white converse. My eyes widen and my face feels warm all of a sudden.I don't look up.
"Shifty, right?" He said my name. I can feel my heart pounding in my chest. "hey," He tilts my head up. We're face to face. I feel as if my blood is boiling up inside me because I feel extremely hot, my heart is going crazy, I feel as if my heart will pound right out of my chest. He gives me a warm fuzzy feeling in my stomach I just can't explain. God damn it. What is he doing to me?he giggles "you're so adorable! I know we just met and all but I cant help it!" As if things weren't already worse enough, the unexpected hugged me.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "-and that's why we're here on our own." Lifty finishes. I turn to look at the boy in the red mask and see tears rolling down his cheeks.
Big Softy.
clearly me and him are opposites.
He's a caring hero and I'm a cold hearted criminal. Anyone says otherwise I'll punch them across the face, just because I'm a caring brother doesn't mean shit. I'm only nice to my family because I feel like it and want to be a good brother/son. Another example is I can jump this red mask guy and take all hes got, but I don't because i don't want to and Lifty likes him.I put my focus back to the conversation Lifty and his new found 'friend' are his name is Splendid. Learned that not long ago from lifty.
"-so why didn't you two just go to a Foster home when you had the chance?"
"I wanted to go but Shifty said we'd be better off on are own"
Yeah, bring me in the conversation will you?the blue head turns to look at me, a curious look on his face.
"Why is that Shifty?"
He cocks his head to the side making him look so is just a friendly though; I fined him cute.I look down embarrassed.
"B-Because.."
"Because?~"
"Because I didn't want for Lifty and I to separate."
Splendid thinks for a moment and suddenly replaced his thoughtful expression with a determined one."Move in with me, and I promise you I'll take care of you both and no longer need to worry of being separated."