Blood Is Thicker Than Water

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He looked at her and he raised his eyebrows before getting into the car, he was still grinning from the kiss between him and Ethan, and he desperately wanted to tell her about it. He shuts the car door and buckles his seat belt, but then he politely asked , "how was your date?" before he launched into his own, as he didn't want to be rude and suddenly just start talking about his own. He felt light, as though he was floating on air. But that was probably just because the night air had been cold, and the nerves from the kiss were still in his stomach. He almost couldn't stop himself from telling her straight away. He looked out of the window as they drove, they weren't so far away from their house.

 

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Alexandria nods and shrugs."it's wasn't bad. How was yours?You seem to be flying. "Alexandria said and smiled at her brother. She watched him as she slowly drove to there house. It had been a cold night and it was still kinda cold she put on the heart she wasn't ready to go home yet but she also was getting tired. Already, that seemed odd.she shook it off as she listened to her brother.


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"Mine? Oh it was..." He pauses for dramatic effect before raising his hands in the air dramatically, "he is great, he is so great Alex! We talked and we talked and, shit man it was great." He says and then goes quiet for a moment, again for dramatic effect, or was it? Maybe he was nervous about what his sister would say. He pushed the thought from his mind. "He kissed me. It was amazing." He says and he grins largely, before turning to look out of the window. He felt a text in his phone pocket, took it out to look, and saw it was from their mother, telling them to come home now. "Mom wants us back." He says, slightly less enthusiastic, before he text her back telling her they were already on their way.

 

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Alexandria nods."I am glad, that's good Thomas. I want you to be happy."Alexandria rolled her eye's. Her mother wanted them home. They were on their way. She parked the car and got out. Alexandria walked to the door and sighed as she opened it. "You rang?"She said to her mother.She wondered if she wanted something.


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Thomas walked in the house behind Alex and looked at their mother suspiciously, wondering what she wanted. Jennifer nodded her head and ushered them further into the hall before shutting the door behind them. "We want to talk to Thomas dear, alone if you don't mind." She says, and Thomas widens his eyes slightly before slouching, trying to look less noticeable. Jennifer looked at him, she had briefly mentioned that she wanted to talk to Thomas with Jamie there, as she didn't want to talk to him alone about what she had noticed. She hadn't told Jamie about his sexuality, but about what she had come to the conclusion was an eating disorder. She needed Jamie to help her with this. She told Thomas to go and wait in the living room, and he walked off nervously before sitting down on the soft couch. Jennifer turned to Alex. "Did you have a nice date dear," she asks, before turning and shouting for Jamie to come into the living room.

 

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Alexandria nods. She watched her mother And smiles "it was very nice.thank you."She says and smiles. She walked inti the living room with her brother. "I will be here If you are talking to Thomas."Alexandria said and sat next to her brother hugging him to let him know it was okay.


Jamie walked down to Jen."are both home?"He asked."his son was skinny and agreed with his wife. They needed to talk to there son.


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Jennifer nodded and frowned a little, she was dreading this talk in honesty because she was so sad that her child had an eating disorder. She didn't know what to do or where she had gone wrong. She walked into the living room and sat on the couch across from the one that Alex and Thomas were sat on. Thomas chewed on his nails nervously, looking down at the floor. Overheating slightly, Thomas pulled his grey sweater off his head and put it over the arm of the chair, left in his short sleeved blue shirt. His arms were skinny, and he his wrists boney. Jennifer looked at him and then at Alex. "I really think it would be better if you weren't in the room, Alex, it's quite a personal topic and we don't want to make Thomas uncomfortable..." Thomas looks up at his mother and then grabs Alex's arm, "No. No she can stay."

 

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Jamie sat next to his wife and looked at his twins."well okay then we actually have two things to talk about. Something your mom has noticed and something I want to ask about. Now Thomas. We need you to start talking to us about what is wrong. Do you think your fat? Why do you not eat. I mean look at you. Your skinny as hell and un healthy. I will have you put in rehab if you dont start eating. This is unhealthy and natural"Jamie says."if you dont trust us tell your sister. "He says


Alexandria sat next to her brother and kept an arm around him. She listened to her dad talk. He was right her brother had become unnaturally skinny and that was bad.


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Thomas looks from the floor, to his father, to his mother, then his sister, and then repeats that pattern a few times while listening to his father, after his father finishes speaking he bites his lip and, he feels tears welling up inside him, his heart hurts and he was desperate to keep himself from crying but he couldn't help it. He began to cry, letting the tears come out and he put his head in his hands and squeezed his eyes shut before wiping away his tears and sniffling, they were still coming, and he kept wiping them away, before looking back up at his father. "I-I... It's not- I don't-" He wiped his tears away again and took a shaky breath. "It's not just that I'm fat, I can't explain, I just-"


Jennifer looks from her son to Jamie and grabs Jamie's hand tightly, it was hard for her as well as for Thomas because she felt responsible for the fact that he was going so far downhill. "You can tell us Tommy."


Thomas relaxes his shoulders a little and looks at them both. "I don't know. I don't. I don't know what started it. Maybe it was the magazines, right? The whole... Well. You know the reasons that girls do this to themselves, right? They want to look like the models. Maybe that started it. You know, male model ideals and perfections and the ideal body and-" he takes a breath, "-But I don't know. Could have been that, could have been anything. But I can control this! I don't have an eating disorder and I am fine, I'm not ill. I can eat whenever I want I promise you." He says, squeezing his sisters hand tightly.

 

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Alexandria sighed and held hwr brother as he cried. She held his hand tightly. "Thomas you do have a disorder and if you don't start eating dad will stick you in a rehab. "Alexandria said softly. "Come on I can help you okay."She said gently to her brother. Alexandria watched him her eye's were saying it is okay.


Jamie walked over."son were all here for you we love you."He said and knelt next to his son.


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"No I- I- No. I don't want to go." He mumbles quietly and leans into his sister, burying his face in her shoulder for a moment. After a few seconds he moves and lets go of Alex, putting his head in his hands and taking a deep breath, thinking for a moment, thinking of a way around not eating but still being able to control his weight. "I will eat. Okay? I'll eat, I promise. Just don't send me away." By this point he was crying again, and Jennifer was crying too, she didn't say anything though, because she thought that Jamie was handling it well enough. Thomas took his head out of his hands and looked at his father, wiping the tears from his eyes.

 

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Alexandria held her brother and just kept him close."She sighed and leaned into him. Alexandria watched her parents. Her and her dad were very emotionally detached.She didn't cry but felt bad fir her brother .Jamie nods."as ling as you eat son."cime give ne a hug."He said to his son gently. He was not yelling ir being mean. He truly loved his family and just wanted the best for them


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Thomas moved off the couch and to his father, wrapping his arms around him and pulling him into a hug, he buried his face in his fathers chest and let more tears out, before pulling away from his father and taking shaky breaths as he sat back down. He felt bad for making this happen, his mother looked so sad and he didn't think he'd seen his father act like this for a long time. He didn't like it, it was weird. He felt guilty for making them worry about him so much. He wished he could just go back upstairs and sleep forever.


Jen looks at her husband and wipes away her own tears, before taking a short breath and smiling reassuringly at Thomas. She looks back at Jamie, "You said there was something else, honey." She reminds, she was curious as to what Jamie was going to talk about, whether it was about Alex or Thomas, and what it was.

 

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Jamie hugged his son tightly. He sighed and let Thomas go."you can go to bed I need to talk to your sister now.Do you want something to eat now?"He asked his son.


He looked at Alexandria with a shake of his head.She knew what was coming next. She always took the brunt end of his anger. Alexandria stood defiant. She had done nothing wrong.


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"I-No. Yes, I mean yes." He says, determined to at least pretend that he could get better for his father. Jennifer stands, "I'll sort out food for him, you talk to Alex." She says, she could always ask him about it later. She takes Tommy's hand and leads him out of the living room and into the kitchen. Thomas sits down at one of the kitchen stools and leans his head on the cool surface of the table, sighing. "What do you want to eat honey?" She asks him, she would honestly make anything, despite it being late at night. She wanted to see her son get better. Thomas looked up and at her, shrugging his shoulders, "I uh... Just something small... An apple?" He asks, and she nods her head before finding him an apple and giving it to him. "You have to start eating properly tomorrow, Thomas." She says authoritatively, before patting him on the shoulder, "take it upstairs and eat it, then get some rest, okay?" She says, before walking back into the living room.


Thomas looks down at his apple and bites into it, closing his eyes when he feels the food on his tongue, and he chewed the piece of apple in his mouth, while walking up the stairs to his room. He shut the door, and leaned against it, finally swallowing the piece of apple. He looked at the time and then sighed, he should go to sleep. Instead, he walked into the bathroom and threw the remainder of the hardly eaten apple into the bin, before turning around and walking out, going into his parents bedroom. He often did that, just to explore the house, and they had a picture of Thomas and Alex in there that he really liked. He picked up the framed picture and looked at it, before putting it back in his place and looking at his mothers dressing table. His hands wandered over some of the make-up that his mother had left out, and he looked in the mirror at himself for a moment, before picking up some of the items and examining them. He had no idea what they were, but he read little labels that told him he was currently holding a dark brown eyebrow pencil. He bit his lip, before pocketing the pencil and feeling guilt overwhelm him. He didn't know what he'd do with it, but he had the urge to take it. He walked back to his room like nothing had happened and shut the door, turning the main light off and turning on a small one on his bedside table so that a dim light filled the room.

 

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Alexandria and her father argue. Alexandria was yelling at the top of her lungs. She was telling her dad he was insane. Alexandria stormed upstairs he had accused her of sleeping with nick and liking her brother as more then a brother m then it went into her habits outside at night and on and on. She was tired of his crap why couldn't he be noce to her. Alexandria slammed her door and lay on her bed Alexandria screamed into her pillow and huffed.she just lay in bed annoyed. She wiped her eye's as she glared at her wall.


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Thomas took off his shirt and put it on an ever growing pile of dirty laundry on the floor, then pulled off his boots and jeans, throwing them on his pile too. He was stood in the middle of his room shirtless, with nothing on but his boxers and a pair of odd socks. He walked over to his mirror, the eyebrow pencil in hand, and looked at it, then at himself. He had a jittery feeling in his stomach, like he knew he shouldn't be doing this. He leaned his face in closer to the mirror and was about to begin trying to draw over his eyebrows, when he heard his mother walking up the stairs and going to bed. Panicking, he dropped the pencil and ran over to the door, pulling a small table in front of the door so no one could open it. With that done, he felt a little safer, and walked back over to the mirror, picking up the pencil and leaning in close again, he began to draw over his eyebrows, until they stood out more, and he leaned back and looked at himself. Well what'ya know, he thought to himself. He actually liked how they looked.

 

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Alexandria lay in ved and turned on her tv. She pushed her hair back and turned the volume up.she was pissed off and would sneak out again tonight, but then again. She didn't want to be sent away from her brother. She folded her arms and slouch on her b edm she heard footsteps in the hall. She hoped to god it wasn't her father. Because round two would being punching her father in the face.


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Thomas spent another moment admiring how his eyebrows looked before realising that if his father caught him with makeup on he would probably kill him, and so he grabbed a tissue and poured some water onto it, rubbing the eyebrows away. He put the tissue in the bin, and hid the eyebrow pencil in his drawer, hoping he could use it again at some point, and also hoping that his mother wouldn't miss it too much. Maybe he'd raid her or her sisters makeup boxes and see what else they had. No, that's stupid, he thinks to himself, but then smiles a little. He moves the small table back to its original place and then walks over to his crumpled pyjamas, pulling on his baggy shirt and bottoms, before climbing into bed and turning off the light, he thought about all of the events of the night. Certainly something. It took him a while to get to sleep, but it eventually came, and he slept through to morning peacefully.

 

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(Time skip)


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(Yeah )

 

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(Where to)


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(Next day )

 

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(Okay)


The next morning Alexandria was woken by her father."you must get up and get ready. We are going to church."He said."now get up get dressed." He said. Alexandria rolled over annoyed. She had fallen asleep. She went and got dressed, and went to wait downstairs m Jamie went to wake his son."Thomas wake up son time for church. "He said and walked away to get ready.


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Thomas grumbled a little, rubbing the sleep from his eyes and sitting upright. He really didn't want to go to church. He hated Sundays for that reason specifically. He moved out of the bed and walked over to his dresser, pulling out a grey button up shirt and a different and darker grey sweater. He pulled them on, then pulled on a pair of blue jeans before slipping on his shoes that Jen had bought him specifically for church. He walks over to his mirror and quickly sorts out his hair, before letting his eyes linger on the place where he had hidden the eyebrow pencil. He wished that he could wear it. He didn't know why it appealed to him so much. Shrugging it off, he walked downstairs to wait.


Jennifer looked around her dressing table, frowning. She had on all her make-up, a neutral lipstick and a light blue eyeshadow, but she couldn't find her eyebrow pencil. She turned to Jamie who had come in the room to get ready. "Have you seen my eyebrow pencil?" she asks, "I could have sworn it was right here." She had no idea that Thomas had taken it, why would she even suspect that?