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“Shocker,” Pan scoffed “All you’ve done over the past few years is keep everything to yourself”

“What are you talking about?”

“It’s like pulling teeth just to have a real conversation with you”

“Why, because I decided to stop ing in my own self-pity?”

“Why does it have to be about that?”

“Because life hasn’t been a fucking bed of roses for nore reality, it doesn’t exist I didn’t have the luxury People treat me like a pariah…it’s a fact, not an opinion Woular Especially, the vain ass bitches we deal with The tag-tea me a bone to h

ave you I got sick of living in your shadow So, yeah, I went internal You should’ve understood why”

“All I wanted was er”

“No, I turned into the man I needed to be to survive It wasn’t personal Can’t you see that? We couldn’t carry on the e once had, e’re night and day” Monster sighed and shook his head He’d no clue why his brother acted this way “Why didn’t you just ask me, man?”

“You were so fucking prickly, and it hurt to see you suffering and struggling and knoas the source of all your pain I tried to bring you out of it and show you a good time whenever I could But it was like you resented it”

“I resented you feeling like you had to throw e s I wanted and valued in life You’re still in playboy mode and I wanted more”

“And you found that now, I suppose?”

“Yeah, I did” Monster exhaled “I asked Symone to marry me and she said yes”

“Of course she did” Pan threw his hands up in the air “Now you two can couple down, shit out a few kids, and leave me in the dust”

“Did I say I was going to do that?” Monster barked