Given how there are people who have been here for more than a year, I'm starting to think I might actually reach eighteen without going home.

[ And that'll be in a couple of years. But he's a little silent though. ]

It was pretty weird. [ No. Not weird. Weird is finding out your twin is older than you are now. It was downright disturbing... almost terrifying. ] He told me about what happened the day after... about how... how our father died the very next day. Everything was practically different after that.

[ There's no use sugarcoating it after all. Best way for one to come to grips with the situation. ]