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Nick isn’t that good anyway”. Unfortunately, Ella took it the wrong
way, and her anger doubled, “How can you say that about your
friend? Your best friend, for that matter”.

They were silent now, except for Ella’s sobs. Ella picked up
the dice and rolled it. She moved to another box with a card. It said:

“You can get Nick to be your boyfriend again, but in exchange,
there will be a punishment for your brother. Do you accept the
offer?”. In her anger toward her brother, Ella agreed to the offer.
Suddenly, Eric felt an invisible hand squeezing his right arm.
He yelled out loudly for help, but the hand kept squeezing until he
could feel his bone broke. Finally, the hand left, but he still felt the
pain and the blinding rage toward his sister. His fury sprang to life

as he cried out, “Why did you do this? I didn’t hurt you this much.
How could you do this to your own brother?” Then, as if realizing
something, Eric became even more angry. He shouted, “Do you
realize what you did? Basketball was my dream, and now I might
not get to play it anymore because of this”. Eric kept crying bitterly.
After a while, he said, “Everything was easy for you. Our parents
love only you. I have no idea why they even decided to adopt me.
They always ignored me. The only way for me to have any future is
to be a great basketball player. And now, you’ve ruined that too”.
Ella felt very guilty for hurting her brother, but now she started to get
angry again and said, “Nothing was easy for me. I had to work
very hard to get to where I am. As for our parents, I was the one
who convinced them to also adopt you, not just me, because you
were my brother and I thought we should stick together”. Eric
yelled at her, “I didn’t want to be in this family. I didn’t ask you to
do it, did I? I’ve never told you that I want to be adopted. You