Chapter 153

Hannah turns back into an angry puppy with no real venom in her words, and I can’t help but sit back and watch them both. It’s amusing in a weird way. Cute, somehow, because I have never seen Dane like this. He never took a big brother role with me, and although he did with Elisa sometimes, he was too aware I would break his balls if he bullied her like this, even if it was done affectionately.

“Delusional….. you know there’s medication and therapy for what you have.”

It’s weird to see mean Dane pipe up, except it's not him, not the meanness I knew because nothing he says to her holds malice or genuine dislike. Its bickering as siblings do and not like when we used to argue. Empty words, baseless insults, and half-hearted arguing.

With me, always there was an undertone, a tension. Like we were fighting stupidly because what we were really mad about wasn’t something we could admit to one another. Our insults were designed to make us unaware of each other's feelings, b