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Prompt: Cal is jealous of Ethan over something

Cal had never really had anything to be jealous of with Ethan. He remembers being slightly jealous as a child at how clever Ethan was and how quickly he could pick things up. However the jealousy quickly left him when Ethan got bullied throughout most of his school years.

He did feel bad thinking about it but he always thought he had better luck than his brother. He was popular at school, good at sports, a socialite and he always got the girl (or girls in Cal's case). They were all the things he felt he had over his brother.

Not anymore though; how the tables had turned. Cal laid in his bed under crumpled sheets after kicking them with frustration. His brother had begun to increasingly annoy him over the passing weeks. It wasn't really any Ethan had purposely to annoy Cal either. Everything just seemed to be going right in Ethan's life and wrong in his.

Ethan had got himself a beautiful new girlfriend, an amazing new social life and a new found confidence in himself. He knew it was incredibly selfish of him to resent the fact his brother was really happy… But he was stuck in a pit of self pitying.

Ever since Taylor had conned him and he failed his FCEM exam. Cal honestly felt a little useless.

All he wanted to do was get a good nights sleep for once without anything preventing him from doing so. Usually it was his brain constantly nagging at him all night. However the last couple of nights had been Ethan and his new girlfriend Alex.

Ethan had only been seeing her for a couple of weeks but they seemed to have just gelled together so quickly. Their relationship was so natural and Cal could tell Ethan was pretty smitten with her as she was with him. He was so happy Ethan had fallen for someone; Cal genuinely thought she could be the one for Ethan… But at the same time he hated it. He hated that Ethan had found himself someone so special. He hated how loved up they were… He hated how much he missed Taylor seeing them both together.

Cal turned over restlessly to look at his alarm clock he pressed the snooze button and the number lit up. It was 1:42am and he was working in the morning. He was seriously exhausted there was no way he would survive his shift if he didn't sleep. He closed his eyes trying to ignore the noises coming from down the hall. He could hear the TV way too loud; a film or show playing that was obviously being ignored. Then there was the laughing and the muffled sound of talking.

He hated that he was sat in bed moping around trying to sleep when Ethan was having so much fun with someone he cared about.

All of a sudden there was a crash and the laughs intensified; growing louder by the second. Cal finally snapped… He'd seriously had enough. He threw his duvet off and onto his floor. Swinging the door open and storming out of his room and down the hall. When he came to the living room entrance he could see both Ethan and Alex laughing so hard that they were crying. He had no idea why it could have been due to the food splayed all over the floor. If this was any other time and Cal had been in a better mental state he probably would have ignored it and let Ethan have fun… But not today.

"Will you two shut the hell up? All I can hear is you two screeching. I'm working in the morning I need sleep ok?! Cal declared clearly very irritated. Ethan got up from where he was currently sat on the floor and walked over to his big brother. "Cal I'm sorry we didn't know we were being so loud" Ethan stated timidly. He'd had his fair share of fights with his brother and he didn't want now to be one of them. "Well you were ok; just shut up and let me sleep" he snapped before turning around to make the journey back to his bedroom.

Before he could get there though Ethan grabbed his arm and pulled him to face him. He could see Alex peering round the corner looking relatively awkward. All he could see on Ethan's face was concern and that angered him even more because he was fine… Wasn't he? Ethan looked Cal straight in the eyes and spoke deadly serious with a hint of annoyance. "Caleb what is wrong with you? This isn't you." Cal tried to pull away from Ethan but he was struggling to find he strength. Maybe there was something wrong with him Ethan was usually do much weaker.

"Nothing's wrong Ethan; now let me go." Cal demanded. "No not until you tell me what's up? I'm fed up of you moping around the place Caleb" Ethan's voice was nearing shouting and Ethan never shouted unless you really pushed him. Cal could see Alex edging nearer to both brothers knowing their arguments had a tendency of going a little too far.

In the heat of the moment Cal yanked his arm from Ethan's grip. Elbowing his brother in the face in the process. As soon as it happened Cal felt Ethan's grip loosen. He looked up at his brother to see blood pouring from his nose. He tried to get a proper look at Ethan's face trying to get him to look at him but Ethan pulled away.

This time Alex did intervene. She strode up to the brothers; pointing at Cal using the most the most demanding voice she could "You go cool down, okay." She waited giving him her speciality glare before he stalked back off to his room slamming his door behind him. She turned to Ethan, "And you… Come on let's get you sorted." She led Ethan to the dining room table and sat him down.

She pulled his blood stained hands off of his face. Blood still silently flowed from his nose. She grabbed a few tissues off the table and leant his head forward. She pinched his nose waiting for the bleeding to stop. She was impressed with herself that she hadn't panicked and knew what to do… Maybe Ethan's medical knowledge was rubbing off on her she thought. She removed the tissues after a couple of minutes to find the bleeding had stopped.

Alex looked at Ethan but he wasn't looking at her. He avoided all eye contact possible. She sighed and went to the sink wetting some paper towels to clean the blood off his face with. She pulled a chair up opposite him and started wiping the blood off. She could see Ethan wincing and when she got particularly close to his nose he let out a shaky breath.

She stroked his chin forcing him to make eye contact with her. "Hey I'm sorry… Come on Eth please talk to me." Ethan let a couple of tears fall from his eyes. Alex went straight in for a hug when she realised he was crying. "Babe what's wrong? You know Cal didn't mean to hurt you right… He is an idiot but not that much of one he's just upset" she chuckled rubbing his back comfortingly. "It's all my fault" Ethan choked out. She looked at him in disbelief, "Ethan this isn't your fault ok none of this, ok? It's that Taylor girls fault." Ethan let out another soft sob. "Please stop crying Ethan you know I get emotional I might cry too." She laughed.

A small smile appeared on Ethan's face. He didn't know how she had managed to make him smile when he felt terrible or how she read him like open book.

He groaned "I think the adrenaline of the argument has worn out… My nose really hurts." Alex took a good look at her boyfriends face. Although his nose didn't look deformed she could see it had swollen and was obviously very painful. A harsh bruise had bloomed on his nose and under both of his eyes. She grimaced, Ethan immediately knew it looked as worse as it felt. "Do you think it's broken?" She said hesitantly touching his nose. Ethan pulled his head away from her touch, "Ow… Maybe, well I hope not anyway. I'll see how it is in the morning."

Then Alex started laughing; Ethan was beyond confused. She was almost in tears laughing. "Alex stop… It's not funny… What are you laughing at?" He moaned. Alex managed to pull herself together wiping the tears off of her face. "Sorry Eth I was just thinking at least we're close to Halloween." She smirked at him. "Why?" Ethan questioned feeling utterly confused. "Well you know you've kind of already got the panda eyes sorted…" She trailed off laughing again. "Oh ha ha ha" he replied sarcastically; playfully punching her in the arm.

She pulled Ethan up and led him to the couch. Alex sat down letting Ethan lay his head on her lap as she stroked his hair.

Cal had never felt so guilty in his life. He had totally lost it earlier and it resulted in his brother getting hurt. He lay in bed staring at the ceiling blinking back the tears. He felt bad for being angry that Ethan was happy. He remembered all the bad things Ethan had been through in the past year or so and he so deserved a bit of happiness. Cal knew he was being selfish and he was letting his jealousy take over him. He was never going to sleep unless he apologised to his brother.

He reluctantly opened his door and made is way into the living room. He hung back in the doorway guiltily watching the scene in front of him. Watching someone comfort his little brother and look at him with all the love in the world. Alex could feel a presence behind her she turned round to see Cal looking at them.

"Hey, are you ok?" She asked. Cal sauntered over and flopped into the arm chair opposite. He sighed and turned to look at Alex and his sleeping brother; "No not really to be honest." Sympathy crept into her eyes, "I didn't think so… You know you could talked to either or both of us especially if we were irritating you."

Cal felt so bad again dumping all of his emotional baggage on Ethan's girlfriend. He couldn't imagine what she thought of him he'd only known her a couple of weeks. "You two would never irritate me… Really I just it reminded me too much of Taylor and I guess I'm still getting over it." He sighed. "But hey with great friends and the best brother ever I might just get through it." Alex smiled and looked down to Ethan who was stirring in his sleep. Cal looked at his brother adoringly and then with concern when he saw the state of his face. "Oh my god did I do that? Is he okay?" Cal questioned. "He'll be fine Cal, I'm sure. You didn't mean too and he wasn't sure if it was broken or not?" She replied.

Cal put his head in his hands. He felt like such a terrible brother… The worlds worst. When he lifted his head he glanced to the clock it was nearing 3:30am. "Hey Alex, you can go to bed I'll stay and watch Ethan." He noticed how her eyes has started to droop. "No really it's fine, you're working in the morning Cal." Cal wasn't taking no for an answer though he already felt bad at least he could do would to let his brothers girlfriend get some sleep. After Cal kept insisting she finally gave in. Cal helped manoeuvre his bother off of her lap.

Once Alex had left Cal tried to move his brother into a more comfortable position. He could hear Ethan was struggling to breathe out of his nose. He propped his little brother up with an extra pillow; only for him l wake up. "Cal what?" He looked up to his brother bleary eyed. Cal shushed him, "It's okay Eth, you can go backup sleep… I'm really sorry." Instead of rolling over and going back to sleep like Cal had expected. Ethan sat up staring straight at Cal.

Cal was pretty sure his brother was still half asleep. It wouldn't be the first time; Cal had, had conversations with his brother before only to realise Ethan was in fact asleep. Cal could never forget Ethan's tendency to sleep walk either. It was probably the reason Cal was an extremely light sleeper.

"Ethan what's wrong?" Cal asked talking like to him like a small child… The only way to get through to a half asleep Ethan. "My nose hurts, I'm tired Cal." Ethan slurred. "I'm so sorry Ethan; it'll be ok in the morning just get some sleep ok?" He helped his little brother lay down. He rubbed his brothers back. He felt he owed him it after almost certainly breaking Ethan's nose. He got up to head to bed only to feel a hand grasp his wrist. "Stay" Ethan whispered.

Despite having to be up early for work and it already being 4am. Cal was determined to stay with his brother if that's what he wanted him to do. He owed it to him after all. Ethan was his little brother and even though they didn't always show it they did love each other. They'd do anything for each other and right now that mean Cal sitting on the hard floor watching and protecting his brother while he slept.

Hope you enjoyed reading; let me know what you thought!

So this one's pretty long… It may be because this actually a genuine thing that happened this week. I changed it around a bit obviously but this was a genuine situation I found myself…. Awkward.

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