Loser

_"I can't do it, ok! I tried and failed, leave me alone!"_ "You can't say that, you only tried one time....don't just quit. View it as practice for the next interview."

_"You're making it worse! I'm not you. So just stop!"_ "She would have loved to have seen you finally succeed."

_"How can you do that to me? Bring *her* into it? Do you ever think about how hard it was for me to be the one who sucked at absolutely everything I tried? No! You were only concerned with how much better I would be if I were more like you!"_ Tears were forming now.

_"I understand that I'm just the jobless, loser brother, that you're the special one. I know she didn't love me - she loved you!"_ He had finally said it.

_"But at least with her around I had reason to try...to try to make her love me ."_ His life felt heavy with previously unspoken resentment. No need to say more, she was gone.

She had married the wrong brother - all three of them had known. He would spend the rest of his life hating his brother for her mistake.