Hello and welcome to a new Thursday Taster,
the day when awesome writers all over the blogosphere come together to
give you tasty bits of their last fiction. You can find the list here.
We start right where we left off last week.
"I'm not so smart
you know," Amy said.
I figured I wanted to
tell her. A part of me really wanted to yell at her for dragging me
into this but I had sorta dragged myself in wanting to play the super
hero when I knew what would happen. Maybe I wasn't too smart either
on this one. It could have turned out really bad. I didn't know if
Mike-nick and Jimmy were the type of guy who could understand "no"
when they heard it but I was glad I wouldn't have to find out.
"The only reason I
graduated high-school is because Alex was always explaining me
everything and letting me copy on his homework when he couldn't
bother," Amy said. "He is the smart one of the two. He is
the best one and I'm just my parents big disappointment. He could
always get whatever he wanted and I just had to pretend it was ok."
"What do you mean by
that?"
I had seen her shoes
closet, there was no way her parents had been flavoring Alex over
her, at least not with stuff.
"There was a
competition between us, always. I guess that's what happened with
siblings. My mother wanted a boy and she had Alex, I was just the
extra thing that came with. We always stayed in his room for bedtime
story and then I had to move back to mine. He could chose the program
on TV, he received all the praise. And then, there was the grad, he
is smarter than me obviously so I had no choice but to play best
second. Alex works so hard and I'm not, Alex is the best at math
because he is a boy, Alex is the best at language because he likes
book so much. So I thought, if I was top of my classes here, if I
could pull that of. I mean they already said that biology is way
easier than physics so I'm not going to get praised even if I'm
valedictorian but I thought if I could do that at least I wouldn't
have to believe them anymore, at least I wouldn't have to see myself
as a failure anymore because I could do something that my brother
couldn't do. And the truth is that I
don't know how to get there so when every one ran away from Tamara's
big plan on how to be top of the year, I stuck around. I mean I don't
know what I thought it was really it was just something I was
desperate for."
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