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"It's not my fault that people mistake me for him. I had no choice," I replied, hoping the conversation would end there.
"Maybe if you fixed your attitude and that sense of superiority, people would prefer you more," Ethan remarked.
"Ethan," Mom warned.
"At least I'm not the irresponsible one who went around with different women," I shot back.
"Ian," Mom frowned.
"At least I know how to talk to people," Ethan uttered and put down his fork.
"At least I'm careful enough not to have anything that would ruin an engagement," I said.
He punched the table and stood upright. "Shut your hell hole up, little brother."
"Or what big brother?" I asked as I got up.
"Both of you stop it," Mom warned. "Ben?"
"I'm not doing anything," Ben defended himself.
"Outside," Ethan said.
"Ethan stop," Stacy pleaded.
"After you," I said as I unbuttoned the first three buttons of my shirt.
"Will you two stop!" Mom yelled.
"Leave them alone," Ben said.
"Ben…." Olivia called out to him.
"They're grown men," he said. "Let them sort this out between themselves."
Ethan rolled up his sleeves and made his way outside the house. I followed behind him.
"These kids," I could hear Mom's frustrated groan.
****
Outside we got ready to spar. The women and Ben had come outside to watch.
"You know, come to think of it, I have a lot of things to be pissed off with you," he said as he got ready. "First of all is how you try to look at me like I'm some kind of idiot."
"You make it too easy," I said with a mocking smile.
He smiled too, and then he moved. It was so fast that I didn't see it coming. The right hook almost made me stagger. I turned and went after him, landing him a punch across the face. But he took it easily and returned it with multiple jabs across my face, stomach, and chest, sending me to my knees.
"Jesus Christ, Ethan!" Stacy yelled.
"Come on little brother," he said. "Don't tell me you're so pathetic that stealing identities is all you can do to get a woman? Maybe I should teach you a thing or two after this. Your acting skills must be top notch if you were able to fool Natasha that easily."
I rushed him with a grapple and tackled him to the floor.
"Don't tell me anything about getting women!" I yelled, as I punched him. "What do you know?! Women flock to you. No matter how clumsy you are. No matter how foul your mouth is. No matter how easy you make everything look. Despite both of us looking exactly alike, do you know what kind of disappointed eyes they give me when they find out I'm not you?"
With each statement I made, I made an attack on his face. He was able to block them off.
