A Cold Snap
12.
The boy is unnerved. I can see it in his face, and he's boxed in with this crazy little brat who's laughing his head off.
I'm trapped in a room with two boys both bigger than me and they can do anything and nobody's going to come and save me…
Well, now he knows how it feels.
Even if he's not the one I really want to understand how it feels.
'That was for my brother,' he says, finally.
Brother. Figures.
'Wish you were mine,' I say, and I mean it because I could've been saved by a hero then and I wouldn't have had to freeze.