Time flies.
I grew up with the sounds of the Hendersons beating Kellan through our shared wall
Bat in my home? Nothing but love from my parents and grandparents.
By the time, I’d bloomed into a stricking, confident girl.
The military compound was a ways from school, Luna started catching rides with my dad most mornings
Soon she acted like we were besties, spilling all her secrets.
She’d whine about her parents‘ favoring her brother, then gush about boys.
“Hey, I’m into Mr. Smith’s son now,” she said one morning.
“He took the pilot exam. Can you get your dad to find out how he did?”
I blinked, surprised.
“Wait, last month you were all about Ethan Anderson. You dumped him already?”
Luna smirked, chin high.
“Mr. Anderson got killed on that secret op, remember? Ethan’s a single–parent kid now. Yeah, he’ll get benefits, but his future looks bleak I only dated him for connections. Those are gone. Time to pivot.”
I frowned.
“Ethan’s a good guy. This’ll crush him–he just lost his dad…”
Luna waved me off.
“C’mon, Mia–Easy for you to say.”
“If I had your parents, I wouldn’t need to climb the social ladder. You were born at the top.”
“You don’t know what it’s like in my shoes.”
Her shoes?
Please.
Compared to my first life–slaving away as a maid for Hendersons. She had it easy.
Yeah, her parents ignored her, but Kellan took all the hits. She never knew a day of real hardship.
“Trust me,” Luna said, “Ethan’ll end up just like Kellan. His mom’ll dump him, and he’ll do dirty works for some family.”
I sighed quietly.
Little did she know–Ethan would become a national hero someday.
For now, I was just glad he’d dodged this bulley of a gold–digger.
That night.
Mom and Dad had a heavy talk–Ethan’s mom had followed his dad to the grave.
Their voices cracked as they discussed taking Ethan in, tears in their eyes.
They asked my opinion hesitantly.
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I understood their hesitation.
Back then, the whole “boys over girls” mindset ran deep.
They feared I’d resent a new boy in our family.
In my past life, Luna had killed the idea of them taking Kellan in.
“We can’t let a hero’s son suffer alone!” I insisted.
“You can share all the love you give me with him. I’ll look out for him too!”
Ethan came over the next day.
I greeted him with a warm smile, calling him “brother” immediately.
When that bowl of steaming white rice was set in front of him, he couldn’t hold back the tears.
“Don’t cry, brother,” I said.
“I’ve got your back now. Nobody’s going to hurt you.”
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Only God knows what hell he’d faced during those three days at the orphanage.
He nodded, swiped at his tears, and shoveled the rice like he hadn’t eaten in weeks.
He looked just like Kellan had, fresh out of the orphanage in my past life.
But Kellan never deserved that warm meal.
Ethan? He more than did.
