Sitting in the principal's office in Midtown School's Elementary Education Division, Gaspar was more nervous than his first audition.In front of him was a serious Mediterranean old man wearing glasses, who was also the principal of the school.

The principal is holding a stack of papers that seem to be all complaints about his brother Adam.

Adam sat in the chair next to Gaspar, one of whom had a black eye socket, a tear at the corner of his mouth, and a Band-Aid on his nose that stood out against his dark skin.He seemed to be a regular visitor here, and he didn't seem nervous at all. He played with his fingers for a while, scratched his curly hair for a while, and looked at the certificate in the honor cabinet behind the principal for a while.Finally, Adam quietly looked at the elder brother beside him, and when he saw the cautious expression on Gaspar's face, he made a disdainful sound.

Seeing his younger brother's disrespectful behavior, Gaspar frowned tightly, and then stretched out his hand to hold down the restless Adam on the chair.

"Don't be like this Adam, you have to respect your principal," he taught, "God how I usually teach you."

Hearing Gaspar's words, Adam immediately let out another loud laugh.

"Teach me?" He said disdainfully, "You are busy making movies every day, and no one taught me at all."

Gaspar was stunned, he never thought Adam would say that.

"Adam!" He reprimanded dissatisfied.

Adam curled his lips, rolled his eyes, and lowered his head.

"Whatever," he said.

Attracted by the brothers, the headmaster looked first at Adam, then at Gaspar, with the look of an irresponsible parent.

That look made Gaspar very sad. He understood how busy he was with his work, so that he neglected his brothers and sisters in the past few years, but he was just trying to give them a better life and a better future for everyone.The decision was tough, but he had to.

The principal also knew about Gaspar's situation, and he shook his head helplessly.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Cook." The old headmaster took off his glasses and said, "In view of your brother Adam's situation, we must make the following decision—to expel him."

Gaspar looked at the headmaster in shock, and the headmaster nodded.

"No, no, I don't think it's necessary to be so strict." He begged, "Adam is a good boy, but some... some can't express it, it's all my fault, I don't have much time for them."

Adam tilted his head the other way, staring at the floor without saying a word.

"Please, don't fire him," Gaspar made his final plea.

However, this decision was not made by the headmaster alone. He handed the stack of complaint letters to Gaspar, and then sighed.

"I'm very sorry, Adam has been complained by students and parents too many times, we have given him enough opportunities, but he has no intention of repentance, just yesterday he hit another student." The principal said slowly He said, "And the parents of that classmate are outside the door, I think you need to apologize to them."

……

The principal's attitude was firm. Gaspar finally said nothing, and neither did Adam. They walked out of the principal's office, and it was recess now. There were a large number of students in the corridor. They all looked at Gasper and whispered at the same time.

You don't have to listen to know what they're talking about, Gaspar thought. It's nothing more than a comment about his celebrity, or about their brothers' different skin colors.

Just at the door, they met the family of the child who was beaten. It wasn't that Gasper was stereotyped, but the family's dress and temperament were too close to a white family in the traditional sense.

The father is tall, wearing a suit, like a senior office worker; the mother has short blond hair, wears a skirt, and wears slow jewelry around the neck and hands, and their child is a plump boy with paint on his face and two All around the eye is black.

"You must make this little bastard apologize to my son!" The mother said bitterly, "If the beating is not stopped now, he will have to go to prison for education in the future!"

The father didn't say a word, just stood aside with a sullen face, but his presence gave the lady aggressive confidence.

Gaspar felt the tension in his brother's shoulders and he pushed Adam behind him as hard as he could.

"You go back to the car first," he turned his head and said to Adam gently, "Krasic is waiting for you, go quickly."

Seeing that Gaspar wanted to let Adam go first, the lady stomped her feet vigorously and made a dissatisfied voice: "No! We want his apology, he is the one who hit someone, he must..."

Gaspar interrupted her: "I'll apologize on his behalf, but now, ma'am, I want my brother to get back in the car, can I?"

He said with a sullen face that they seemed frightened by him, and the man took two steps forward with vigilance and stood in front of the family.

Seeing that they were silent, Gaspar rubbed Adam's curly hair to comfort him, "Go back to the car." He said, "Be obedient."

Adam hesitated briefly, then turned and ran away.The corridor of the school was very long, and when he was about to reach the corner, he stopped suddenly, and then looked back to where his eldest brother and the family were.

He saw Gaspar bow down and apologize to the white man that the family hated for his innocent behavior.

Soon, Adam turned around, sniffed his nose twice, and continued running towards the car with red eyes.

……

Half an hour later they returned to the manor, Gaspar stopped Adam before he ran back to the room, they sat down in the hall, Gaspar looked at Adam seriously.

"We need to talk, Adam," he said. "You're a boy about to enter seventh grade. Time to grow up. You can't just hit someone, even if you're right."

"I was right!" Adam exploded when Gasper said this, "You have no idea what that little bitch said, he..."

"Hey!" Gaspar hurriedly interrupted Adam, his eyes widened, "What did I tell you? You can't swear at home!"

"Home?" Adam looked at his elder brother with complete disapproval, "Do you call this our home!?"

Today's Adam gave Gaspar too many 'surprises', he never knew that Adam hated living in the manor so much.Gaspar is a little lacking in confidence, but the conditions here are things he can't afford these past few years, and they need a guardian. If they don't live here, they will be forcibly separated.

Gaspar tried a few times before speaking, he rubbed the center of his eyebrows, "Listen..."

Unexpectedly, Adam interrupted Gaspar directly, "No!" He roared, "You just listen!"

The dark-skinned boy walked up to Gaspar angrily, then pointed at his nose and began to accuse him of his crimes.

"You've changed so much, Hollywood has changed you, why don't you understand! You've given us all this, these - big houses, gardens, expensive decorations, we don't need it! Me and Adina You don’t even need Carlisle!” He said impatiently, “What are you doing, you’re obsessed with the fame that Hollywood gives you, and you’re getting farther and farther away from us! You never care about how we are doing at school every day! "

"I'm not obsessed with fame at all," Gaspar couldn't believe that such words came out of Adam's mouth, "I was working hard, sleeping only 4 hours a day, and being hung on a mannequin for 3 days doing the same action , I'm just trying to give you the best!"

"We would rather not have the money you exchanged for happiness!"

"Happy? Do you think it was fun before I made the movie when I didn't even have enough to eat?"

"So now we are a happy family?"

"At least our lives are better."

"Why don't you understand that the richer you are, the less happy you are!" Adam yelled at him, "You've been so busy making money that you didn't even come back for Christmas!"

Gaspar felt guilty, it was true, and Adam was right.

"But I remember giving presents." He tried to justify himself with that.

"We don't need presents, we need big brother! You haven't come back for two Christmases!" Adam jumped up and grabbed him by the collar, "Do you know how we spent that day? Last year Adina and I went to prison | Prison visited mom, she's getting better, and she misses you the most. And you were busy picking out your Golden Globes dress! And Carliss, poor Carliss waited for you all night, yeah I carried her back to the room! Where were you at that time!"

At this time Adina came in, she was carrying a schoolbag, she looked like she had just finished school, she was stunned by the behavior of her two brothers.Adam pressed Gasper on the sofa and grabbed his collar as if he was going to punch him on the jaw, while Gasper used his forearm to block his chest and looked like he was about to push his brother away.

"What are you doing?" she demanded sharply. "Adam, let go of your brother's collar."

"No." Adam refused. He looked at his sister and said seriously: "I think he must understand his negligence - he doesn't even know that you are a gangster and being bullied."

"Wait..." Gaspar quickly looked at Adina in surprise, "Adina? Is what he said true? You were bullied."

Adina showed an embarrassing expression on her face. She avoided Gasper's eyes and walked upstairs quickly with her schoolbag.

"Don't drag me into your fights," she said. "I've solved my problems myself."

After she finished speaking, she slammed the door.

Gaspar thought he had used up a whole year of shock today, he blinked blankly, and maintained a stalemate with his brother.

"What happened?" he asked softly, but more like he was asking himself than Adam, "I did all this for us, what went wrong?"

"You still don't know." Adam's hysteria was gone, replaced by a sneer that didn't match his age, "Gaspar, you've always paid blindly, but you never asked us what we want."

After speaking, he let go of his elder brother's collar, grabbed his schoolbag, ran upstairs like Adina, and locked himself in the room.

Gaspar, whose eyes were shocked from the hairline, was left slumped on the sofa alone.

……

Is it true that as many people say, if you gain something, you must lose something? Gaspar gained money and fame, but lost the trust of his younger siblings.He doesn't know how things got to this point, whether it started with the grandeur of moving the family into Hodge, or if it had crept in from the moment he set foot in Hollywood.

Gaspar sat upright on the sofa, staring blankly in front of him.

He thought that everything would be better with the system, but there are always things that the system can't handle in the world, such as him and his family.

At this moment, Hodge appeared, and after half a year, he appeared in front of Gaspar again.

"Hi." Gaspar mechanically greeted Hodge, "Sorry, we bothered you."

Hodge didn't speak, he gave him a tissue.

"Leave it to me," he said, "I'll go and persuade him."

Gaspar sneered palely, neither agreed nor refused, but he predicted that Hodge would not succeed.

How could he be successful? Adam, that kid, doesn't know where he inherited his stubborn temper. Gasper, who has raised him for nearly ten years, can't do anything about it. What can Hodge do?

With Gasper's acquiescence, Hodge went upstairs, then knocked on Adam's door and walked in under Gasper's surprised eyes. Gasper stood up from the sofa and stared at the stairs.

5 minutes later, they came out.

To Gaspar's utter dumbfounded, Adam apologized to him.

"He beat the kid for no reason," Hodge said. "The boy insulted your family in the hallway and made rumors that you had a messy private life in Hollywood. Adam couldn't listen to it, so he beat the kid."

Gaspar rushed over and hugged his brother tightly, he kept apologizing and begging for forgiveness.

Ten seconds later, Adam finally hugged his brother, "I'm sorry Gaspar, I shouldn't say that about you." He also apologized, and then he said, "Can you come back this Christmas?"

Gasper's vocal cords temporarily lost their function, and he couldn't help but nod in response to his brother.

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The author has something to say:

Boots "A Xiao" baby nutrient solution~

Tsk, they are all children without fathers, but it's good to talk about it.

And, it's the last Christmas at Hodge Manor, so there might be some interesting stories going on.

They are not necessarily related to Hodge, but they must be the bloody plot that happened in this big house.

Will be on the scene - Gaspar's current boyfriend, inexplicable lover, rumored object, and his sand sculpture brother duo.

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