Alexander and I ate at a sushi restaurant near his University. It was kind of nice to hear my brother talk about his history class. I can tell he really enjoys the subject. Why doesn’t he major in it? Aren’t we supposed to follow our hearts? Why doesn’t he follow his? I know that he would rather be studying history than Engineering.

He gave me a list of books to read that are about Russia, China, Japan, and the Middle East, and India. He also gave some of his books to read. We could spend hours talking about history. It could be the mystery of the Louis’s curse of France, and whether or not the Knight’s Templar is still running in the underground. We were loud, and probably should have been wearing caps of tinfoil.

We drove back to his dorm, arguing who was better: The Greeks, or the Romans. I took up the position that the Greeks, and he took the Romans. We even argued through the night, to the dismay of his roommate who was trying to study accounting.

We finally fell asleep around one in the morning. I slept in my boxers, and kicked my covers off in my sleep, and rolled onto my brothers bed. He scooted over so we’d have room in a cramped twin bed.

I woke up at 7 am. I made some coffee with my brothers Keurig machine. I watched the joggers from the window. There were a lot of people that liked to jog in the morning. Not me. I will walk but it can’t be too hot or too cold. I don’t know how people run long distances either. I get winded from sprinting to the car, or running down the hallway to class, when I am late.

"Take a shower, Jeong." My brother said sleepily.

I looked at him, and sipped my coffee."In a minute." I replied. I sat on the window sill, and looked out into the distance. The play was today. I sipped my coffee some more, and swirled the remaining coffee around, before guzzling the rest.

I went into the bathroom, and took a shower. It was really tiny, and I am 5’1. I can’t imagine my 6’2 brother in here. I made do with the tiniest bathroom, and dried off, and looked at myself in the mirror. I tried to to picture myself as a college student. I hope I grow taller though. I wonder if I would follow my heart, or if I would let my brain get the better of me. I got dressed and stepped out of the bathroom. I sat on the air mattress, and looked at my phone. I had no new text messages. Alexander was up, and was texting someone. I felt the tingle of jealousy. At least he had friends that would text him in the morning.

I scrolled through twitter, and drank another cup of coffee, and waited for Alexander to get of the shower. I ate a cutie orange and scrolled more through twitter. I sent some snaps with the dog filter to Edward, and Sam.

Alexander finally got out of the shower. "About time. You’ve been in there for forty minutes. " I looked  at him a little annoyed.

"Shut up." He said combing his hair. " kinda fell asleep in the shower. "

"Only you, brother."

"Bi zuī, Xiao. " he said giving me a glare. Bi zuī is shut up in Chinese, I know small amounts of Chinese from my mother. Well, I know that and some curse words that she doesn’t like to curse in English.

We drove to the mall, and looked around. I bought some more skinny jeans, and some sunglasses, and some button downs. We had lunch at the food court. On our way to the food court, I wanted Chic-Fit-a, so I stood in line. I looked back to see where my brother was sitting, and some girl walked up, and kissed my brother on the lips. I was shook with my mouth agape. I shouldn’t be, but why would he keeps such a thing quiet? Why does he feel the need to hide things from me? I thought we had a special bond?

I ordered my food, and sat across from Alexander, and the girl that was sitting on his lap.

"Katie, this is my little brother, Jeong. " Alexander hugged her hips.

"Aww.. such a cutie. " She said as she ruffled my hair.

"It’s a pleasure." I said matter of factly, and ate my nuggets, and gave Alexander a glare that he didn’t even notice. The both of them were to busy lip locked to pay attention to their surroundings.

After about five minutes, they stopped.

" I’ll see you tonight. You’re picking me up, right?" Katie looked at Alexander with loving, it made me want to vomit, eyes.

"Yeah. Around 6 tonight." He replied, as they rubbed noses.

I tried to hold back my vomit noises that I desperately wanted to make. I thought we were going to the play, just me and Alexander. Now she, this Katie fiend, is going too? Who else did my brother invite? I was upset, but didn’t say anything. We drove back to his dorm in silence,  and I walked around outside.  Alexander said had to do a finishing touch to his paper for English before we were going to the play.

The play. The thing that only me and my brother were going to, has now been turned into this party of three. I didn’t like it, but what was I supposed to do? Whine and moan like Tai? It was better to keep silent, and maybe things would be okay. Also, a lot of people smoke in college. I had several people offer me a cigarette, as I walked around the dormitory. I turned each person down, which was like five times. Each time they would light up a cigarette, I could not take it, and move. Then another person would appear out of thin air, and do the same, and I would leave. I did this unit 3:36 pm, and went back to my brother’s dorm. I flopped on his bed, and closed my eyes.

This weekend isn’t going as planned. I just wanted to spend time alone with my brother, and hang out. I did not want anybody else to intrude on out time. I wish other people would just cease to be, so that I could have two whole days to hang with my brother, so I could reconnect with him. I want to get to know him better, since he has changed it seems so much in such little time being here at college.

Next Chapter: Chapter 12