"What did Mackey say?" I ask.

"That I'm the first kid in years that got this," Kyle says.

He shows me a slip. It reads that Kyle is on a stress holiday for a week.

"A week?" I ask.

"Yeah, I'll get so much lost sleep back!" Kyle says.

We walk into my house. We were meant to go to Kyle's but of course I had to get shit from here.

"Hey Kevin," I say.

My brother waves.

"I'll go get it real quick," I say.

I go into my room, looking everywhere for my math textbook. Finally finding it under the bed, against the wall. However, reaching it takes a lot more that I have and the book rips. I mean like the back rips in half. Well hey, I guess I still got it. And the back has nothing on it anyway, so.

"Anything else?" I ask.

I realize that I just said it out loud, take my book and go into Karen's room.

"Hey there. I'm at Kyle's, so, if you need me for something, you know where he lives," I say.

She nods and I close the door.

"How are you?" Kevin asks.

"I mean... a lot more relieved. I was scared I wouldn't get any sleep until summer," Kyle says.

I smile.

"Kenny talked about the fact he would get together with you when your mental health can handle it. Trust me, your mental health will never be enough to handle Kenny, nobody has enough mental health for that," Kevin says.

"Wait. Get together? With me?" Kyle asks.

"Did i stutter? But seriously, he has been telling me how he loves your eyes and hair and please, i beg of you, get him off me and Karen. We can't take any more," Kevin says.

"I'm sorry," Kyle says.

"Not your fault, it's Kenny's. But still. Please kiss him and start dating him or something. I swear to God, I cannot take any more speeches about how cool you are," Kevin says.

Son of a bitch. Wait. No. That would make me a son of a bitch as well... I have the same mom.

"Is this basically me getting the family blessing?" Kyle asks.

"Yes, although it's more the family begging," Kevin says.

I walk to them as if I heard nothing.

"I got my book," I say.

I show the ripped book.

"Oh shit. When did it rip?" Kyle asks.

"Just when I found it," I say.

Kevin sighs and pushes me towards Kyle.

"Holy shit!" I yell.

Kyle takes my hands just before my head smashes against the floor, helping me up more.

"You okay?" He asks.

"Other than the fact the cliché is killing me, I'm fine," I say.

"Is the brother pushing their brother against someone a cliché now?" Kyle asks.

"No, the bumping into the person you like cliché. It's one of the most used clichés actually," I say.

Kyle smiles and gets my chin. I'm not going to let him just-oh he kissed me already. Well, I was about to say I wouldn't let him just kiss me but I guess that one went to shit.

"I like you, a lot," Kyle says.

I technically could jump on him, he should be able to hold me up... but I don't want to surprise him like that.

"I'm gonna do something crazy. I'm gonna jump at you, catch my legs," I say.

"Thanks for the heads up," he says.

I do it and he, like I told him, catches me. I kiss him.

"You're so small!" He says.

"You're a giant!" I say.

"Am not! You're short!" He says.

"Dude, the average height for a man is half an inch shorter than me. I am not short," I say.

"Yes you are. Compared to me and Leo," he says.

"Shut up, I'm not well fed! That leads me to growing a lot longer than you!" I say.

"Oh but that's what Stan says. 'I'll grow 'till I'm 26'," he says.

"No it's not. Being basically malnourished and having trouble eating is different to having a gene that makes you grow for ages," I say.

"No it's not. I mean the process is different but the end result is exactly the same. How dare are you gonna be?" Kyle asks.

"6'0.5," I say.

"Three and a half inches shorter than me, fucker," Kyle says.

"Yeah I know. Stan is going to be what 6'3?" I ask.

"6'2," Kyle says.

"Fucking giant!" I say.

"We're all going to be 'fucking giant'. You do realize all of us are going to be over 6 feet and then Leo is there with 5'9, just barely not a part of the gang," Kyle says.

"I know. But right now, you're the only giant," I say.

"I know but not for long," Kyle says.

"How come?" I ask.

"You have good amounts of food now. You should start to grow, you know," Kyle says.

"Oh shit," I say.

"Right now you're over a head shorter than me," Kyle says.

"Cool. Do you know something?" I ask.

"What?" He asks.

"That you're still holding me," I say.

"Oh shit. I mean I realized but I just completely forgot. I'm not strong enough to not notice a humans weight on me as extra," Kyle says.

I get out of his arms, smiling at him.

"Lets go to my house then," Kyle says.

"To fuck?" I ask.

"I mean nobody is home until like six pm, so," Kyle says.

Kevin, at some point, has just left us to talk. Completely ditched us for Karen, I guess.

"I'm not coming back!" I yell, jokingly.

"Have fun in hell!" Kevin yells.

"Absolute. Hell is a cool place!" I say.

"It is a nice small village as well... right?" Kyle asks.

I sigh.

"I guess, I didn't know the village even existed," I say.

Kyle laughs at this, as if everyone knows about this 'hell'.

"I wanna get my child and just have fun with that," I say.