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Caleb stared at an unknown point of his bedroom's ceiling and all he could think about was how much Alex had screwed up with his life.
It was as if his sister always needed to be the center of attention. She always had to be the rebellious one and, at the same time, the one that was in the Honor Roll. She was the smartest, the most charismatic, and the one that people always liked the most.
And that was okay by him, because he had his friends, he had his guitar and he had parents who cared about him.
But of course, Alex had wanted more attention. And Caleb had learned at a young age that what Alex wanted, Alex got it.
So she picked a guard that wasn't even on the list the Chief had prepared for them, then she seduced her guard and finally pretended to be in love with her- only to get more attention and to make her siblings less important than her.
So you want attention, Alex? You're gonna have it. And the boy's fingers started typing on his laptop's keyboard.
After her conversation with Olivia, Alex had peacefully drifted into a very deep sleep. She didn't get much of it though, because a ringing cellphone woke the teenager up just after a little over an hour.
Alex rolled over the bed and with one opened eye she took the phone in her hands. "Hello?" She said before yawning and without checking the caller's ID.
"Tell me it isn't true. Tell me you do have codes and you wouldn't do that to me." Alex heard her older brother's voice and got confused.
"Phillip? What..."
He interrupted her. "Alex, are you or are you not seeing Olivia?"
Suddenly, the blonde's eyes opened wildly. "What? How do you know? Did Mom call you? She had no right to!" She cried out and then got ever more confused. "Wait. Why are you so mad?" She asked her brother.
Phillip blurted out a huff. "Really, Alex? You knew I liked her, and a lot. I told you I had plans for her for when I got out of college. Wife-style plans. You really had to convince her to join you into your sexuality's experimentation?" He sighed out his disappointment. "I thought you would at least respect me enough to don't go chase after her."
"First of all, you don't like her, you like what you think she might become someday and I tell you this: She'll never be what you want her to be, Phillip, never; second, she only went out with you to make me jealous; and last but most importantly, we love each other. So you know what? I don't care if mom told you because you'd had never understood it even if I was the one who explained it to you."
"Think what you want about me and my opinions Alex, but mom didn't tell me. Caleb tweeted about it like fifteen minutes ago." He explained.
"WHAT?"
The blonde closed her bedroom's door soundly and rushed into her younger brother's room just after hastily throwing her phone over her own bed and leaving the conversation with Phillip without even announcing it to him properly.
Caleb sat on the bed with his computer over his lap and his mind fuming when he saw Alex abruptly entering the room and, obviously, as angry at him as he was at her.
"Why on Earth would you do that, Caleb? You have no right to stick your head into things that are not of your damn business!" Alex yelled at him and used those words to let all her real anger out.
She didn't wait for an answer, she didn't need to. She simply needed to lay on her bed, cover herself with a warm comforter and have Olivia's arms around her, making her feel safe and in one piece.
But no, that wasn't happening.
So Alex simply turned around without looking at her younger brother and smashed his door closed.
"What was that?" Irene asked her husband with her eyes still wet from the conversation they were having.
"You have no right to stick your head into things that are not of your damn business!"
The couple heard their daughter's potent voice and hurried outside the master bedroom and to the hall.
Just as Irene and Thomas stepped into the hallway, Alex angrily closed Caleb's door.
"What's going on?" The Mayor asked his daughter and received an answer that wasn't very helpful.
"Ask your nosy son." And with that Alex hid herself into her bedroom once again.
Husband and wife exchanged looks and, without needing to say a word, they decided Thomas would be the one to speak with Alex meanwhile Irene talked with Caleb. But in the moment they were separating their paths, Thomas' cellphone rang.
"It's my publicist." He checked the ID and sighed heavily. His wife patted his shoulder.
"It's okay, you take the call and I'll start talking with Caleb." She said and he picked up the call reluctantly.
Irene walked towards Caleb's room but her husband's voice stopped and worried her.
"He did WHAT?"
She saw Thomas' expression and knew she had done right in not entering to the room yet. Irene continued hearing her husband's side of the conversation.
He sighed. "Can you delete it?... Damn!" Thomas complained. "Yes, it is true, well, sort of... No, not in that way but it is true... Okay, I'll call you back."
Thomas rubbed his temple and then looked up to his wife. "Caleb tweeted about Alex and Olivia's relationship." He told Irene and both of them ran to their youngest son's room.
Alex locked herself inside her bedroom and the first thing she heard when she entered was her cellphone ringing. "Oh, please Phillip, give me a break." She spoke alone as she walked towards her phone and checked the ID.
Fortunately, it wasn't her brother. "Alex! I just saw the tweet. Are you okay?" She listened to Maura's concerned voice at the other end.
"Peachy." The blonde replied ironically. "You know what? I don't care. It pisses me off but, whatever. If Caleb wants to make of his Twitter account a magazine about my life, then good for him. I don't have anything to hide, not anymore." She said proudly.
"Well, you know, preteens and teenagers are very vulnerable victims of the social networks. It is not uncommon that a third reveals data from the teens' private lives."
"You could at least knock." Caleb talked to his parents dryly and without taking his eyes off the computer's screen.
Irene walked towards his son and shut his laptop in a second. "What were you thinking?" She asked and placed her hand over her temple. "Wait. Don't answer that, I'll do it for you." She told him. "You weren't thinking! Not at all! Because if you…"
His mother's voice started fading in Caleb's mind. He was ignoring every single word she was saying. But it wasn't the first time he did this because, after all, if they ignored him he had the right to do the same, didn't he? So he had learned how to shut himself; how to concentrate in everything but what was surrounding him.
The mother-of-four kept talking and not being listened until her husband realized their son had used his mind to travel towards another world, at least for a while.
"Caleb." He said gently, recapturing his son's attention. "What is this really about?"
Thomas looked at Caleb with soft, fatherly eyes but the boy didn't give in. He'd worked too hard in building up a wall to let them destroy it so easily.
"What?" The preteen snapped. "So I made my sister angry, once. I didn't kill her, so stop talking as if I had made her life a living hell."
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