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C is for Comparison
As long as he could remember he'd been compared to his brother. Gene. The kinder, gentler brother.
They shared a face, and wild physic talents. He was a blunt power to his brother's medium. His perfect brother. His perfect medium brother. He knew what they said.
That while they shared a face if it wasn't for Gene he'd still be in that orphanage. He often wondered just how true that was. Would Martin and Luella had ever adopted him if it wasn't for the kinder twin?
His whole life he felt like he lived in the shadows.
That was ok with him. All he really needed was his brother. He was his tether. His other half. The only person who really ever got him. The rest he could have done with out.
It was nice, the money, prestige and education. The resources that being Oliver Davis afforded him were enjoyable, but he didn't need any of it the way he had needed Gene.
And then the idiot was killed. Stolen from him.
And it was like having his soul ripped from his body. Everyone looked at him. The surviving twin. And he wondered if they wished that he'd of died and Gene had lived.
They shared a face but were not the same. He would always be compared to his dead brother.
That was till she came into his life. She only ever knew him. Not Oliver and Gene, just Naru. She had no point of reference to compare him to. She didn't know he was the less desirable twin.
And he was certain that while he loved her she would never prefer his twin. Because she'd never know he existed.
Yet when he found out she did know about Gene...it felt like his heart had been cut out by the comparison. Why if you had two with the same face, same eyes but one with a good personality and the other not..
which would you choose?
She wouldn't choose him..not when she had his brother to compare him to.
He should have been immune to it. It had happened his whole life. Yet..
She was the one person he couldn't take the comparison from. She was supposed to be his alone.
Yet another lost to the comparison with Gene. But this one was the one that broke his already battered heart.