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One thing first. I usually put it in an A/N for the first chapter but I forgot. But English is not my first language. My first language is Swedish. And then Norwegian for second as my mum is from Norway. Then comes English. I always do my best while writing. But if anyone see any misspelled words or weird, wrong or stupid kind of expressions. Please leave it in a review or send me a pm and I'll either explain while I use it, or try to do it better next time I write it. Please and thank you. Enjoy the chapter.

"Ethan."

I and Ethan took the bus home as mum and dad were working. Lily was with us too. And ever since I had told the new girl, Michelle that I didn't know Ethan earlier today. Lily wouldn't stop giving me that weird look, and Ethan wouldn't talk to me. Or even respond when I tried to talk to him.

"Ethan."

The road from the bus stop we got off at up to our house was short. And during that short time I did everything to catch up with Ethan while he kept on fastening his pace. While I too wanted to stick to Lily's side so I ended up shouting.

"Ethan please."

I didn't get caught up with him until our way over the living room where Ethan hurried to get up the stairs and to his room.

"Ethan. I'm sorry. I don't even know what I was do…"

"I know what you were doing." My brother finally answered me. "You told a lie- that will go on me. Because you as usual didn't care for how this will go on me. You care about you, Emma, and your reputation."

"I know…" I moaned. "But… I'll make it up to you. First thing tomorrow I'm going to go over to the new girl and tell her the truth about who you are. And I'll beat the crap out of anyone who tries to touch you. Only please… please just don't tell mum and dad about it. Please?"

Ethan hesitated. But when I leaned my head to the side and pouted. I knew there was no way he could tell me no- this always worked.

"Fine then. I won't. They would find a way to make it all worse anyway."

With that my little brother span on his heel and stomped up the stairs then slammed the door to his room after him so hard the house shook. I on the other hand could do nothing but sigh deeply and turn into the kitchen to pass it for my room. Lily followed me. But for once not even Lily seemed to know what to say and none of us said a word while I closed the door after us.

"Why did you say you didn't know him?"

"I don't know." I moaned and threw myself on my bed where I laid on my back and put my hands over my face. "I just don't know how I'm going to get out of this Lils." I lowered my hands again and stared into the ceiling. "Come on. Come up with something."

"You do know how to get out of this." Lily answered me. "You're my best friend Em. You always have been and I know everything about you. And now, I do know that you know how to get out of this. And there's only one way- you have to tell the truth."

Well I did know that. And maybe it shouldn't have been so hard.

At least I pretended it wasn't that hard. When I, during the evening picked out a sweatshirt for the morning. One that dad had bought for me ages ago but I had never really worn. Black with small, colorful dinosaurs- three guesses why I didn't wear it?

"Wow." Dad's smile when he saw me wearing that shirt just as I was about to leave for school in the morning should have been enough. "I think that's the first time you wear something I bought." Mum grimaced behind his back.

I didn't really feel like laughing.

"Hey." I met Lily in the doors at school as usual, then we walked together up to Michelle and Keena who stood by Michelle's locker and Keena pointed out the books she would need. "There's something I need to tell you about."

"Well." Michelle snorted and saw my shirt. "I need to tell you about too. If you ever wear that shirt again. We don't know each other. Not in a million years. Okay?"

I was hit off my feet and lost my words. For a few seconds I had forgotten all about what I was going to say about Ethan and who he was to me. Then before I had found my voice again Michelle had turned to Lily and Keena and started talking to them.

"Now look at this." She nodded to something and I barely wanted to know what. "That boy who was wearing a dinosaur shirt yesterday. Today he… ta-da. A shirt that says "little bro" If I saw my little brother wearing a shirt like that… Or what do you say? Have you got siblings? What would you say if they showed up to school in a shirt like that?"

"Yeah." Lily answered first and glared at me. While I mostly wanted to sink through the floor. "My sister Poppy is four. She has a shirt that says little sister. It's her favorite shirt. And if I walk with her when she wears it she tells everybody that I am her sister. She's so cute."

Michelle snorted again- she seemed to do that a lot. It was like… maybe she thought that when a little sibling was four years old it would be better than when they did it at Ethan's age. Because she was still glaring to him, smirking at the print of today's shirt.

I had forgotten all about the shirt though. All I could see was the hurt look in Ethan's eyes when he looked at me. Then for a second, I turned to the others to finally tell them who Ethan was- although I never really got the chance to.

"I have four older ones." Keena said while I barely got the time to open my mouth and breathe in. "Brothers. They have cool shirts too. I gave them to them, they prints says…"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Michelle interrupted Keena. "Well. I am an only child so at least I'm not at risk of any siblings making a fool out of me." She glanced back to Ethan and snorted again. "If I had a brother who showed up anywhere with that shirt I would die in embarrassment."

I turned to Ethan, who stood by his locker and looked back at me. I could have been standing a mile away- it wouldn't have been too far to see the look in his eyes and he could just as well hit me right in the face….

It would most likely hurt less anyway. So whatever Ethan would feel right now I couldn't even imagine.

"I'm sorry."

I whispered under my breath. And with that Ethan turned and walked away towards his classroom. I turned back to my friends and tried to act as if nothing was bothering me.

"Keena is…" The bell suddenly rang and we started making our way through the hallway towards our classroom. Then Keena started singing as she usually would and for the first time I noticed people were turning to watch her. "a pu…"

"And stop that goddamn singing."

Random fact

At first I didn't know if it was right that Ethan would be so hurt by Emma pretending not to know him. Then I started wondering what I would feel if my brother told his friends he didn't know me. Or even what he would feel if I told my friends I didn't know him for something. Nothing would make me more ashamed than knowing I had hurt my brother at least- and lied for that matter.