“I have to think of them,” he said. “Good man would,” I said. His grey eyes stared out at the lake. “Everything is going to change,” he said. “Yeah.” “I’m scared,” he said. “Yeah.” Something in his body language relaxed, and suddenly he was just my brother again. “I’m sorry,” he said. “That I got edgy. I … don’t like to talk vampire stuff with you.” “You’d rather pretend we were just normal brothers, with normal problems,” I said. “Wouldn’t you?” he asked. I squinted down at my feet for a while. “Maybe. But you can’t ignore things that are real just because they’re uncomfortable. I’ll sit on
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