Just Shatter My Heart Why Don't You - Tumblr Posts
jamesoncastello:
“Do I look like Ashton Kutcher?” Jaime asked, since the whole race topic had already been eluded too once, and because he hoped it would ease the tension. Things probably couldn’t get more worse, so maybe a little joke would help. Jaime forced out a small laugh, smile but a ghost tugging at his lips, hope still a small little flame in his chest. He’d dropped everything to come here for this man. If he needed to wait a bit for the surprise to wear off, that was fine, as long as Aiden would eventually get his shit together enough to realize that this was a good thing.
It was, right? Jaime’s brow furrowed in confusion. Did his mom lie? Did Aiden remember Priscilla? Their age difference wasn’t huge, and Jaime was pretty sure he’d remember having a brother, even if he was small… too many things weren’t adding up. Now it was Jameson who stared at Aiden with a baffled expression, and it grew more when his brother dropped down to sit on the cold pavement of the porch.
Following suit, because he honestly didn’t know what else to do, Jaime dropped down to the ground as well, pulling his knees together and resting his chin on top of them, arms wrapped around his shins. “Yeah, not one bit,” Jaime agreed to the statement about Priscilla. “She told me you were adopted. I didn’t… I didn’t even know either until awhile ago, I guess I’ve had time to adjust, but… it’s cool, right? I thought, maybe,” Jaime faltered. He’d come here to have a brother. Wasn’t that obvious? This was so foreign, this sense of uncertainty. It reminded him of the way he felt when Brook died. Just gone, leaving him with no plan and a pile of wasted dreams. Jaime hugged his legs tighter. “I just wanted to meet you.”
“No, no you don’t,” Aiden just stared at the other, not even sure how he would be able to string the words together. His half-brother looking like Ashton Kutcher was honestly the furthest thing from his mind. Jaime kept mentioning a she as if Aiden would suddenly know who this person Jaime was referring to.
Of course, Aiden had known he was adopted. He knew the whole story after an incident with a foster parent. Everything had come out into the open, the story of him being abandoned, being founded by his adoptive parents, getting adopted, and everything that fell in between those storylines.
“H - How would she know that I’m adopted?” Aiden was trying to piece everything together, but he just couldn’t figure it out. From what he knew, she had left him in a field, probably left him for dead to be honest. “Whoever she is - ,” Aiden spat out, “she left me in a field, she didn’t even care whether they found me dead or alive. It isn’t cool, Jameson. You got to stay. You don’t know what it feels like, what your mother did to me. Sure, genetics say that we share the same parent, but this woman means nothing to me. You don’t even know what I’ve been through.”
“I was perfectly happy in my life. I had my dream job, I met my dream girl, my best friend came back in town, I finally had a family again. Yeah, of course, you wanted to meet me because you didn’t have to experience what it was like to lose your parents at the same time when you were my child. My parents died in a car crash when I was a child. I grew up as an only child, and only person in this cold, harsh world. Maybe if your mother hadn’t left me in a field, maybe things would be different, maybe I would’ve been cool with having a brother. But when you grow up alone, you don’t know what it’s like to want a sibling because all you can do it fight for yourself. I had to make a life for myself when the two people who saved my life left. Your mother didn’t care about me. She’s clearly lying. Maybe she needs to get her facts straight because even my case worker never knew who left me in that field. Your mother ruined my life, my chance to have a happy ending.”
Aiden wasn’t the type of person who would just open up about his family or what he’s been through, but he figured this person needed to know. He wanted nothing to do with Jameson in this moment. This just turned his world upside down.
