xX~100 Eternal Moments~Xx
Set 3 – Aubade
34 – Seam
"Roxas, please tell me you're not going out in that." Thank goodness I stopped my brother before he could leave our dorm room.
"What's wrong with it?" He tugged one of the drawstrings on his favorite hoodie. Said article of clothing had been his favorite for over ten years, and it looked its age. There's a reason I hid it under my bed, but I must have forgotten to shove it back under there after I cleaned my room last night. "'S not like I'm going on a date or anything."
I wanted to laugh at my adorkable little brother. Well, he was only younger than me by thirteen minutes since we're twins, but he acts like he's thirteen years younger. "Did you even look in a mirror this morning?"
"Yeah…" He ran a hand through his messy spikes of hair that he somehow gets away with never brushing. My good hygiene still has yet to rub off on him. "So what's the problem?"
"It's faded so bad it looks pink instead of red, there's an ice cream stain on the back of it, the lettering's peeling off so it says 'Twil t To n' instead of 'Twilight Town,' and the seam is ripped on your right sleeve." I crossed my arms.
"…You can sew that back on, right?"
I tried to cover my laugh with a sigh. "Roxas, you really need to trash that thing. It's disgusting."
"But… Axel gave it to me when he went to college…" Roxas buried his hands in the sagging pocket of the ugly sweatshirt.
That was right, though, I'd forgotten about that. And now our brother Axel was far away with his job and here we were in the same college he went to, but still without him… Okay, maybe I could see why he wanted to keep that stretched-out, too-short old thing.
When I hugged Roxas, I could smell how gross it was. "You still can't go out in it. Someone will think you're homeless."
"But…" He sighed. "I still don't want you to throw it away."
I smiled and ruffled his hair. "Hey, you can still wear it around the dorm. As soon as I fix that seam."