Sam's words left Ryan even more furious, perhaps embarrassed because Sam was right.
Either way, he was losing control.
"Watch your mouth, Sam!" Ryan screamed. "When did I ever put the moves on Quinn?!"
However, before Sam could respond, Marvin barked at them sternly, "That's enough! How old do you think you are, arguing whenever you meet?! Sam—watch your words, that's your brother you're talking to."
Sam sneered in turn—he knew this would happen.
Ever since they were children, it was always his fault if he and Ryan ever argued.
He certainly remembered that one time he was having swimming practice in the garden's swimming pool, but Ryan told him to stop swimming that early in the morning because it affected his studies. Sam ignored him since he had a swimming competition coming up at school.
Ryan simply ran to his parents after that, and they stopped him from swimming just because it affected Ryan.
Sam tried to fight back, saying that he had a competition coming up, only for his parents to shoot him down saying that it was pointless since it was within the school and that Ryan's studies were more important.
Sam never swam at home ever since, and he had no idea if his parents ever noticed that.
But from the looks of things, they never did, and they were actually convinced that he actually did disturb Ryan. They never cared that Ryan just had to shut his windows to cut off any noise, not to mention that Sam was not making that much noise in the first place.
Sam certainly did not care now since he was used to it—be it in the past or present, their parents were convinced that anything Ryan did was right. After all, Ryan was the pride of the family while he was nothing and incapable of achieving anything, let alone deserved any praise.
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