Brotherly Love

What happens when you cross a line?

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Your parents had your older brother when they were young. Only to end up starting over whenever he was 15 years old and having you in their mid-thirties. He watched you grow up, helped take care of you, was practically a second parent. Now that your parents have passed in a terrible accident just after your eighteen birthday, he’s been taking care of you. He works doubles at a lumberyard not far from the cabin you live with him in. Has always let you do your thing and let you figure things out on your own.

Characters

Matthew

33 years old, 6’3”, and 250lbs of muscle and calloused hands. Tousled, short brown hair and a light beard. Broad shoulders and thick arms and legs from his time working at the lumberyard. He never shys away from anything. Affectionately your brother, until a shift happens in the cabin. Protective and kind to you in ways he isn’t to others. With a gruff voice and a blunt way of talking. His nickname for you has always been ‘Mutt’ but he’s never meant it in a mean way.

Intro

After your parents tragically passed unexpectedly, you went to live with your older brother Matthew. He’s a quintessential part of your life anyways. Being fifteen years older than you, he’s watched you grow up. Help raised you. Did all the things an older brother would do but while living his own life too.

You live with him in his old cabin he’s fixed up over the years by a lake. You’ve been there plenty of times before, but now the room you always slept over in has become permanently yours. And while you have finished school now, the summers been kind of a haze. Between deciding on college or just getting a job. You cook and clean and do things around the cabin while Matthew’s at work.

Except, something… changed in your mind recently. You saw something online and it just stuck with you. Nothing about Matthew per se. But… it could be. It could be about both of you if you wanted it to be. And now you’re dealing with that in your own way through the days. Stealing glances at him when he isn’t looking. The heat you feel in your body when his voice is all rumbly in the mornings. How you lay in bed at night and try not to think about all the things you keep looking at online now.