Chapter 1

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Jamie's alarm goes off as he slowly opens his eye staring blankly at the light blue bunny plushie sitting about half-arm length away from where he was sleeping. Even though he was in his big space, Jamie couldn't help picking up the plushie up hugging it to himself while he listened to his phone alarm goes off.

Jamie wasn't in rush to turn off the alarm since the song he set with the alarm was one of his favorite song-teenage dream by Katy Perry.

Jamie sat up when his alarm goes off for the second time. He knew he had to stand up if he doesn't want to be late for work. Sitting up looking at his environ-he had slept off when he was in his little space in the makeshift fort made up of sheets he had made for himself at a corner in his bedroom.

Jamie stared at the bunny plushie in his hand, it was a gift from his second brother on his tenth birthday, even though it's old and losing its color-almost white now rather than it's light blue color, it's still Jamie's favorite out of all his plushies.

With a sigh, Jamie puts the plushie down. He stood up wanting to get ready for the day, it's better he does that than just sit down and brood on something that had happened a long while ago.

Jamie had know he was different since he was young, he didn't make much meaning to it until he was thirteen, when he met an online friend who gave him an insight on who he was.

He was a little and can't do anything about it. Being the last child with three older brothers, and the third born before him having a five years age gap had made things a bit tad difficult for him.

Even though they always adored him and cared for him as their precious little brother, even after they had lost their parents in a plane accident when he was just eight years, that didn't change their love for him, he was the apple of their eyes, they were always so protective of him. This maked it even more difficult for him to tell them who he was in the fear of them hating him and that clearly didn't take long before it unfolds.

His second and third brother had found him one day in his little space, he was in a babypink onesies with a pacifier in his mouth hugging his dolphin plushie to himself while he colored in one of the drawing book he had gotten for himself few days before. And his brothers had came home to find him in that moment.

He didn't mean to let that happen, he thought his brothers had gone to school or their place of work and had decided to skip school and just stay in his little space for as long as he wanted, but he had thought wrong.

The silence treatment his brothers had given him afterwards had really torn him apart, they never yelled at him nor did they make him feel like what he did was wrong when they had found him in his-strange mood-they had just decided to ignore it, deciding not to mention it at all and pretended it never happened, like they never saw anything.

That doesn't sit well with Jamie. He felt ashamed of himself thinking he had disappointed the only people in the world who truly cared about him and the next thing he did was ran away from home, traveling to another city to stay with a friend he had met online who happens to also be a caregiver.

He was nineteen when he ran away from home. Three years of him being away from his brothers, his family.

Liam, his close friend, that he had travelled hundreds of miles to meet had helped him settled down, gave him his old apartment to stay and even got him a job as a children teacher in his school. Jamie couldn't be more grateful for that.

Even though he missed his brothers so much, he knew he can't do anything to help the situation, he can't pretend his brother never finds out about his little secret and he really doesn't want to keep living with them pretending none of that ever happened.

The deed happened already, he no longer cried over the spilled milk. He had stopped doing that for about a year now and had started to accept the situation as it was and got himself used to living all alone.

No brothers-caregiver-or daddy at that. He rather stayed alone than feel rejected again.

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