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Kaycee.
                          
Waking up to my phone going off I quickly answered it seeing my friend Justin call me. "Hello?" I smiled wide. "Justin?" I asked when he didn't respond. 
                          
"My step dad found out.." He sighed and it sounded like he'd been crying, making me frown. "My mom kicked me out, I was wondering if you could come sit at the park with me?" I looked at the time, it was two in the morning. Quincy would never let me out of this house, and I didn't want to sneak out but I didn't want Justin alone either.
                          
"Give me a second, I'll be there. Just stay there" I got out of bed and put a jogging suit on with my fur boots. He responded a simple okay, and hung up. Creeping out the room, I walked passed Quincy's room and froze when he was sitting on the floor crying. "Quincy? What's wrong? Where's Taelynn?" I asked him walking in, she'd usually sleep with him in case he had to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night.
                          
"Just leave me alone right now Kaycee" He sniffled and I sighed walking to him holding out my hand to help him up. "I can't walk, the shit hurt and don't nobody fucking understand. Y'all don't have to fucking baby me like I'm Quadir, Tyson or something. All I wanted to do was try to walk to the damn bathroom alone.. see I fucking failed right? Like I failed at everything else in life. The crash should of fucking took me out" Tears were streaming down his face and a lump formed in my throat. 
                          
"You don't mean that Quincy, what happened? It's okay not to get the hang of walking right now but you will and we're just here to help you not make you feel incapable of anything. You do so much for people, whose there for you huh? You have to let us be there. Me and Quadir need you. You're our hero, you saved the both of us and you take care of us, you always took care of me. You fed me days when we were starved, you gave me your portion of foods, when it didn't rain enough for both of us to drink you gave me the water Q. When it was too cold at nights you gave me your clothes just so I could be warm." I sat next to him. "You took care of Quadir because of the simple fact he's our brother, you paid for him to stay here. You're almost nineteen and would have custody of us soon, you're so young but you make sure everybody around you is good. You were going through so much and you still managed to be there for Taelynn. You're strong.  You never failed at anything, you're smart and as soon as winter come you'd be in college. I look up to you and if you give up then I'm giving up too" I told him pulling him into a big hug.
                          
"I hear you.... Thank you man." He sighed and wiped his face. "Could you go tell Taelynn to come here? She broke up with me I may have said some rude shit" He rubbed his hands down his face and I went and did as told. 
                          
Walking up the stairs I knocked on her door softly, before walking in seeing her sit on her bed with her head in her hands crying. "Fuck your brother okay, I don't care if he sent you up here. He's lucky I don't go break his other leg" She said without even looking at me. 
                          
"Well... I don't want to have to fight you but..." I saw her smile a little and sat next to her. "What's wrong?" I asked just to see if she would tell me. 
                          
"Girl. He's so damn stubborn and hard headed, I understand he's independent but that's what I'm here for. He complained about how I was never there for him before, and now that I check on his mental and physical health he says I'm doing too much and he doesn't need me. I don't know, if he feels that way then I don't need to be with him. He told me I acted like I was his mother, I just don't want him straining his leg before we could get to therapy tomorrow. I give up, he can do whatever he wants to do, I don't care." She shrugged and I had a headache. 
                          
"Okay I hear you, but has he ever gave up on you?" I asked. 
                          
"No but-"
                          
"No. You're so used to being babied you don't know what it's like to be him or go through what we did. Giving up is easy for us, it's sad but it is. We don't know how to treat genuine people, but Quincy does everything he can to make sure everyone around him is happy and doing good. You need to toughen up forreal, he can't always be the strong one and he doesn't need you to give up on him when he's giving up on himself. You're supposed to push him to do better, not run off and cry because he hurt your feelings. He needs you, his girlfriend to be there and push him when he's down. You're so sheltered and soft, be there for him, help him. Just like he has for you, I'm sure your not the easiest person to deal with but I know he never gave up on you" I tried to sound nice about it.