And this is an idea I've been toying with for a while. (And when it turns out to be true, I'll say I told you so. But in a nice way.)
::mascaraeyes::
xvii. judgement withheld
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Because we're in this together, you and me.
And at the time, when you're seven and he's six, it doesn't matter that you have two different mommies. It doesn't matter that you are half-siblings and that he's a year younger than you and sort of a dweeb. Because you're in this together. You pinky swore.
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Because balance and beauty can go together.
But this is a blatant lie, and you know that and he definitely knows that. But you pretend it's true and he pretends to believe you. Because he's got no choice - you are his big sister and he is your baby brother. And it doesn't matter if you are slipping towards beauty and he is desperately trying to steady his scale. Because you're in this together. You pinky swore.
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Because justice needs peace for it to work.
But neither of you have any faith in justice anymore, and you've both seen too much to believe in peace. So then he betrays you, or rather, you betray him. Because once you were brother and sister but now you are just the two sides of an imbalanced scale. And you're slipping off the edges and you realize that beauty can never be balance and justice can never be peace, but that won't change the fact that your last name is Nakamura and the only person you've ever betrayed besides yourself is your brother and he died because you didn't.
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Because, maybe, balance doesn't exist but it likes to pretend it does.