Thomas Sanders Sides OneShots 4

Shadowed - Patton & Logan

2:05pm

AU
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Patton leaned on his window sill, staring down at the party going on downstairs with a blank expression. He saw his brother, Logan, standing next to his friends, celebrating his sixteenth birthday. It seemed everyone from their school was invited, getting drunk, probably doing drugs, dancing around and inside their pool.

Their parents didn't care. They were the ones to post the invitations to this stupid party. Patton would be happy for his brother, if it weren't for the fact everyone seemed to forget it was his birthday too. Earlier on, Logan blew out his candles on the cake baked specifically for him, Patton wondered if he had one, but when they cut and handed out the cake - Patton realised he didn't. His parents forgot.

He wanted to call himself selfish, but it was his birthday too!

Sighing out, he pulled his curtains closed and slumped onto his bed, staring at the white ceiling above. He wouldn't be too annoyed with this if it weren't for the fact it's happened before. Many, many times. Not exactly the same situation, but it seemed to their parents Logan was their only child while Patton just...lived there.

He wouldn't be surprised if they'd get rid of him if they could.

He was a disappointment to them, he could tell by the way they looked at him. When he was younger, he didn't care if Logan got most of the attention, he didn't care his brother won award after award, he was happy for him! Who wouldn't be? They were twins, brothers, siblings, they have a close bond, and should be over the moon for the others successes. So, Patton was never mad at his brother for this, until recently.

Three problems happened in this month that led up to Patton finally snapping.

First, at the beginning of that month, their parents found out Patton was bisexual. The brothers didn't think it would matter, they had never expressed their opinions on the LGBT community before, ever, but...when they saw their reactions they realised why they hadn't. Four hours was spent of Patton sitting on the couch, listening to his parents rant about their disliking to anyone who wasn't straight - how it was stupid, sinful, and it was just a phase.

Then, they told him he was begging for attention, and grounded him for a week because of it.

Of course he cried, he cried for a few nights straight, now his parents would never love him, but the more he thought about it, the more he realised they probably never did.

The second problem was about a test - Logan was too focused on a certain subject, he completely forgot about the test he was having in another one, and didn't study for it at all, while Patton did. He spent an entire week solely focused on that lesson, and when he got the results for the test the next day, he literally screamed in excitement. He got an A. His first ever A.

He wasn't the brightest student, but he wasn't dumb either, and getting an A was definitely possible for him if he felt more motivated to do more work at home, but while at home he felt free, and wanted to do literally anything else. It was normal for a teenager.

That day, when he got home, he found out Logan got a B. The smart student wasn't too down about it, it was a lesson he didn't particularly need in his future, so he brushed it too the side as nothing, but of course their parents took it as everything.

They practically verbally abused Patton for "showing off" the fact he got an A, and made him apologise to Logan because they felt if he bragged about his grade - even if he only mentioned it once - it would discourage Logan from trying his hardest next time. Logan explained many times he didn't care, and he was proud of his brother, but his parents weren't having it. They even tried to make up the excuse they mixed the grades, or the school got it wrong, they even phoned up multiple times.