The internet is full of answers, but I cannot find a single one that tells me how to truly hurt a terrible person and get away with it. I slam my laptop shut and begin to walk in circles around my room. It is four in the morning on a Friday. I am already awake and my nerves are shot. Not because of the game today, but because of the demon's son in the room next to mine.
Why will my father not just make him leave?
What if I give Dad a reason to throw him out?
My foot smacks into the corner of my bed, and a wave of pain shoots up my leg. I hop on my other foot, glaring at the wall that stands between me and my stepbrother.
This is all his fault.
A noise drifts in from outside my room. I push my window open, and the pale light of the moon touches my face. There it is again. The clear sound of a guitar string. Anderson is playing his guitar without me. I sink down to the floor and pull my knees to my chest. Something in my chest aches.
He is cheating. This is a betrayal.
