It's been so long since I've been on this website! Hello again! And so long since I've posted anything! Well, I'm bulk uploading, so this is probably the last you'll see of me (since I don't remember what's written) xD
As for the characters, I don't own 'em. I just use 'em.
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Drace watched Noah turn back around and continue walking away. Basch walked up next to her, and she could see that he was hurt by his brother's silence.
"Basch, how close were you and your mother?"
Basch turned around, surprised to see her there. "Oh! Well, we weren't very close. Noah was closer to her."
Drace was shocked. The way Noah acted made it seem like Basch was the favorite.
"Basch? Noah has been acting like an idiot." Drace blurted out. She knew that if anyone could make Noah see sense, it would be his brother. "He seems to think that your mother hated him, and liked you a whole lot better. I tried to tell him that was stupid, and that your mother loved you both, but he doesn't seem to think it like that. He says I don't understand, but I honestly don't think he understands either!"
Drace started gasping for breath, realizing she had just yelled the entire thing in one breath. Basch just looked at her, not saying anything. He waited until she regained her composure before speaking.
"Noah has probably overheard our mother talking on the phone. She normally tells whoever's listening the bad qualities about either one of us. However, she does it to BOTH of us. Noah probably only ever listens to her complaining his bad qualities. But our mother always said that I wasn't as daring as him, nor as attentive. It never really bothered me, because I always knew how the conversation would end. She would say that we both have our bad qualities, but we also had our good, and together we were the perfect siblings, complementing each other nicely."
Drace looked off. It was one thing to complain about family in private, but to another person? She didn't understand how a mother could do that, and she could feel tears well up in her eyes. Noah only heard his bad qualities, and if Basch had only heard the bad parts, they would be equal in hatred toward each other. But Basch listened, and Noah didn't. The hatred was only one-sided.
She waited until she trusted herself to speak. "Will there be any reconciliation between the two of you?"
Basch sighed. "I will try, of course. But Noah is stubborn…and his temper only makes it worse."
He left Drace and walked off in the direction Noah went.