“Johnny do you ever wonder…if we would be this close if we had grown up together?” Scott asked.

“Nope” Johnny replied.

“Why not?”

“Why, can’t change it.”

“I know but I always wanted a little brother. You, Johnny my boy, are not what I always imagined.” Scott smiled.

Johnny admitted, “Yeah I used to want an older brother. Someone who would protect me.”

“I would have…protected you.”

“I know.  But the bother I imagined wasn’t a gringo.”

“How could that be?”

“I was a kid how would I know that?”

Scott laughed and pulled his brother into a hug.
 

EJ 2011