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My brother stood on the balcony, tightly gripping the wine glass in his hand. I had no
idea what was on his mind.
Irene walked over and hugged my brother. “Darling, I truly love you.”
He gently patted Irene’s head. “Irene, soon we can get married. My dad will be back in a few days.”
I was shocked; my dad was actually coming back. I found myself feeling a strange sense of anticipation. If my dad knew I was dead, how would he react? Would he be sad? I thought about it and decided he probably wouldn’t be. We hadn’t had any contact for five years. Maybe he had already forgotten about his daughter. Perhaps in his heart, when my mom passed away, only his son remained.
Irene left. My brother’s gaze followed her retreating figure, then drifted to the swimming pool ahead, lost in thought. I drifted to the edge of the pool and stirred the water with my transparent hand. The pool, once my nightmare, seemed less terrifying now that I was dead.
A year ago, on Irene’s birthday, my brother threw her a birthday party at home. I had desperately tried to shrink into a corner and hide my presence. But Irene still found me. She brought me to the edge of the pool, saying she had something to tell me. I kept my distance, wary of her intentions. She deliberately spoke loudly and showed me wedding dress pictures, asking me to choose one. I didn’t respond. She then started crying, asking why I wouldn’t let her be with my brother, claiming they were truly in love. Then she pulled me into the pool with her. She had positioned herself so that from behind, it looked like I had pushed her after an argument.
When my brother heard that Irene had fallen into the water, he immediately jumped in to save her. I, however, couldn’t swim. I was choking on water, unable to speak. I wanted to ask him, “Brother, do you really not remember that I can’t swim?”
When I was five, my brother took me to play by the river, and I accidentally fell in. I nearly drowned. A kind passerby pulled me out. When we got home, my brother was punished by our mom, made to kneel for hours. I couldn’t believe he had forgotten.
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I thrashed desperately in the water, my vision growing blurrier. The suffocating feeling of water filling my nose and mouth, and the burning pain in my lungs, were the sources of my nightly nightmares. I could never forget it.
Finally, the butler couldn’t bear it any longer. He said that if I wasn’t rescued soon, I would die. By the time I was pulled out, I had already passed out from asphyxiation. I was just a hair’s breadth away from death. When I woke up, I had the most severe episode of my illness yet. But my brother was convinced I was faking it. To him, I was just a mischievous, deceitful clown.
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That time, I stayed in the hospital for a long while.
My brother came to see me once.
He gave me a scornful look.
He asked if I admitted my mistake, saying that if I hadn’t pushed Irene into the water, I wouldn’t have ended up like this. This was all my own doing.
Luckily, his Irene was unharmed; otherwise, he would have made me pay dearly.
He also said that having a sister like me was the worst luck he could have in a thousand years.
He wondered what terrible things he must have done to deserve a sister like me.
His words felt like the claws of a demon, squeezing my heart so tightly that I could barely breathe.
Maybe it was because I was sick, and my body was in immense pain.
Maybe it was because of the fever, and my head was pounding incessantly.
Very soon, in my eyes, my brother’s image transformed into a monstrous figure, baring its teeth and claws, ready to swallow me whole.
I couldn’t take it anymore and, for the first time, I yelled back at him.
“I told you! It was Irene who pulled me into the water! Why don’t you believe me?!”
“Do you think I want to be your sister?! I wish I had never been born! I’d rather not have a brother like you!”
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