Your older brother brought his friends around a lot, and they usually left you, his younger sibling, unbothered and not spoken to.

Recently, he invited a new friend over. While you were sitting in the living room, he approached you almost cautiously.

“You’re…his sibling, right? He’s busy with the others, and we were wondering if it was alright to sit out here with you.” He had a polite way of asking, leaving plenty of room for rejection. It appeared he wasn’t too fond of the crows your brother ran with.