I believe I was about in the 3rd grade or so. in and around that age I hung out with my cousins a lot. Especially since my first cousins just moved in across the alley. In my culture first cousins are considered close enough to be called brothers and sisters and I thats what grew up being taught. Whenever I'm playing with my cousins and anyone asks how we are related I'd always answer saying that we're brothers and sisters;I myself believed it. However, we are not born through the same parents; only through blood brothers.
Which is why they drew a pretty clear line that we are not siblings. Creating problems and blaming it on my siblings and I. There was a time they went to my mom and told her to stop us from going to their house. That we are eating up all their food. Especially the food their dad buys them once a week. When I found out that such thing had happened I was so mad. how can they go to my mom and tell a straight out lie like that. I've never even eaten fast food at their house. Of course that is not the only time they've lied and included my family in it. Their side of the family has a long history of skipping out on school and getting suspended. They forged fake excuse letters using my family's information and of course who gets in trouble; we do.
Thats' when I stopped calling them my brothers and sisters. If any relation needs to be given it'll be cousins and that's it. Betrayals in family cannot be mended back to how it was. A drawbridge will be the only thing that'll connect us together.
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