Life Without My Brothers

Ah, what a peaceful day. So calming, relaxing, and…quiet! Nothing can ruin such an amazing da-

“YOU STINK JOHNNY!!!”

Guess I spoke too soon…What could they possibly be arguing about now?!

“I STINK?! YOU’RE THE ONE WALKING AROUND SMELLING LIKE SWAMP ASS EVERYDAY. YOU DIDN'T EVEN BATHE LAST NIGHT!” John shouted at Clay, apparently there’s a nasty smell inside and everyone is accusing each other of being the culprit that stinks?

“EXCUSE YOU JERK! I BATHED THIS MORNING SO I OBVIOUSLY DON’T STINK. MAYBE IT’S FLOYD!!!” exclaimed Clay, accusing his brother Floyd of being the one that smells bad. Floyd is obviously offended so he claps back.

“UHM NO NO NO. YOU ALL KNOW I SHOWER DAILY! I NEVER MISS A DAY. EVER CARED TO QUESTION BRUCE HM???” Floyd asks, as he points to Bruce sitting on the couch, immediately pinning it on him.

Bruce gives Floyd a confused but also angry look, then HE goes off on all of them “THERE IS NO WAY IN ALL OF POP VILLAGE YOU THINK I’M THE ONE THAT SMELLS LIKE THAT?!” Bruce quickly stands up from where he was sitting and walks towards his brother 

“I PUT ON COLOGNE AND DEODORANT AFTER MY SHOWERS SO IT HAS TO BE EITHER YOU, JOHN, CLAY, OR BRANCH.” Floyd pushes Bruce back onto the couch, which instantly starts a fight between them. Both Floyd and Bruce starts pushing each other back and forth until John finally breaks it up 

“HEY HEY HEY! Calm down jeez, let’s all agree that it’s clay, alright?” 

Silence…

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WHAM!!!

A punch to the face from Clay starts up a giant fight between all of them. The fight between the brothers gets so loud that even their grandma Rosiepuff heard them and quickly ran into the room where they were to break up her grandkids from each other and scolds them.

“HEY STOP THIS IMMEDIATELY! WHAT ON EARTH IS GOIN’ ON IN HERE?! WHAT HAS GOTTEN INTO YA’LL???” shouted Rosiepuff, who is awfully upset at her grandchildren squabbling over something so stupid! 

“CLAY STARTED IT GRANDMA! HE SAID I STINK.” shouted John, pressing his finger hard on Clay's head. Clay slaps his brother’s hand and stands on a chair “YOU DO STINK YOU SWAMP MESS. I OBVIOUSLY DON'T SMELL LIKE THAT. ONE OF YALL SMELL BAD AND NO ONE WANTS TO COME FORWARD TO CONFESS.” all of his brothers tackle him off the chair and start fighting again…when will this end…?

Rosiepuff lifts her hands up “I give up.” and walks out the room, not feeling like breaking them up again. Hell breaks loose until John stops the fight with one sentence. 

“YOU GUYS ARE SO UNBEARABLE. I WISH I WASN'T IN THIS DUMB FAMILY ANYMORE!!” 

the room goes silent. Clay, Bruce, Floyd, and Branch stare at their brother with a confused, sad, but angry look. “OH REALLY? HUH? YOU DON'T WANT TO BE IN THIS FAMILY ANYMORE? THEN SO BE IT SMELLY BOY!!!” yelled Floyd, John storms out into his room and slams his door.

A couple hours go by and it’s nighttime, John lays on his stomach in his bed putting his head on his pillow, still very upset at his brothers, well, they’re all upset at each other and aren’t talking to one another. “Ugh I cannot STAND them anymore! I just want to spend one day, ONE DAY, without them, maybe even a week! ahh that would be a dream come true…”exclaimed John. He then hears his door creak open, thinking it’s one of his brothers “Get out of my room dude, I'm already pissed at you.” A hand suddenly runs his back softly. A calm, soothing voice whispers in his ear “It’s just me sweetheart, I was just checkin on ya.” John turns his head to see it was his grandma, he turns back, putting his head back and muffles “I assume you expect me to apologize to them huh..?” Rosiepuff still rubbing his back stops “ Not just you hun, all of you. I really need you all to try to get along and solve your problems without fighting and screaming, okay?” 

John nods his head in the pillow,( he definitely isn’t going to apologize- ) Rosiepuff gives him a kiss on the head and gets up to leave. Before she walks out she turns around to say “Goodnight Johnny, grandma loves you, so do your brothers.” She turns back and closes the door behind her. John starts punching his pillow and screams into it to let out all the anger “AGHHH I AM NOT GONNA APOLOGIZE FOR A DAMN THING! THEY ARE SO ANNOYING,  I JUST WANT THEM OUT OF MY LIFE!” He then begins to throw his things at the wall due to how deeply upset he was. John notices a slightly bright light outside his window, he looks out to see…

A SHOOTING STAR!

“Pssh, a shooting star? How dumb, I can’t believe people think they’re real!” John states. He pauses for a few seconds, maybe this is his chance to make a wish! But he doesn’t believe that it will come true because “wishes don’t come true”. He hesitates for a moment, but finally decides to make a wish. He looks outside and mumbles…

“I wish I lived a life without my brothers…” 

John yawns and shuts his curtains, heading off to bed. Once he is under the covers, he closes his eyes, and drifts off to sleep…

The Next Day (8AM) 

The birds are chirping, so peaceful and quiet. What a beautiful morning isn’t it? Let’s see what John thinks!

“Ughh i slept like a baby last night! Finally got some sleep without my annoying brothers waking me up.” John then gets out of bed to put on his robe, then heads out his room. Before he opens the door he stops and remembers he has to wake his brothers up for breakfast! “God damnit! I don’t want to wake them up again, they take forever to get out of bed!” 

(Says the one who takes forever to get out of bed)

John opens up his door and starts heading to the kitchen while calling out his brothers to come eat breakfast “BRUCE! CLAY! FLOYD! BABY BRANCH! COME AND EAT NOW!!!” No one responds, John doesn’t notice and keeps walking to the kitchen. Once he made it in there, he made himself some cereal and sat at the table. He realizes his brothers haven’t come out of their room, automatically assuming maybe they are all mad at him. He calls out again “GUYS I DON’T CARE HOW MAD YALL ARE AT ME! COME OUT AND EAT!” 

“Johnny? What’s the matter? Why are you shouting so early?” Asks Rosiepuff, who just came out from her room after hearing all the yelling. “I’m calling your annoying grandbabies to come and fix themselves breakfast!” a long pause emerges as Rosiepuff gives John a confused look. “Grandbabies? What grandbabies? You’re my only grandchild silly!” she responds as she continues to give him a soft noogie. John scratches his head and suddenly remembers the wish he made last night “so…i’m an only child?!” Rosiepuff pats his back gently “Of course you are sugar! You doin’ okay? You seem off this mornin’…”

John shakes his head and reassures his grandma that he’s okay “O-Oh yeah yeah i’m fine! I just didn’t get enough sleep. I’m gonna head back to bed now, cya later grandma!” and gives her a kiss on the cheek “Alright then sweet pea!” and they both head back to their rooms. Once John closes his door he immediately starts cheering “YESSSS! THE WISH ACTUALLY CAME TRUE! I-I DIDN’T THINK IT WAS REAL BUT IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED!” John is dancing and jumping in joy at the realization his wish came true! As he is celebrating, he slowly stops and scratches his chin 

“Wait…where ARE my brothers now that we are separated? Probably living a better life annoying each other instead of annoying me haha!” He continues dancing but the thought of his brothers still stuck with him, he stops dancing again and is considering looking for his “brothers”. “Hmm, I guess I could try to find them and see how they’re doing! Maybe the news? I mean, we’re always on there 24/7!” So John heads out of the room to check the news on his TV. 

“I bet they’re still doing pretty good by themselves!” He sits on a beanbag, grabs the remote from the coffee table and turns on the news to see that his brothers are doing…terrible? what?! It shocks John so much he jumps off of the beanbag, nearly falling forward “WHAT THE HELL?! THEY’RE DOING HORRIBLE! H-HOW COULD THIS BE? No no no, I must be imagining this…yeah that’s it!” He continues to watch the news, thinking that he must be hearing things wrong until…

“Brozone, the #1 best boyband turns into the #1 worst boyband in the world! Their music and lyrics made zero sense and not in sync at all, like something big was missing. What could have possibly happened that caused all of this?!” 

The television shuts off abruptly, with the sound of the remote hitting the floor. John slowly gets up from the beanbag again, his jaw dropped and eyes wide open. “Oh. My. Troll. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK HAPPENED TO MY BABY BROS?!” He runs back to his room to find his extra copies of their music are still there, except something is different. John isn’t on any of the covers, and his brothers look quite gloomy? Awkward? “Even the covers changed. Maybe the music is still good! The people on TV are just overreacting!” He loads up one of the songs into his optical disc drive and begins to listen to it. As he is listening to the song he notices how off beat the instrumental is and how his “brothers” vocals are not in sync or timed with each other. 

“Jeez! This song is TERRIBLE! Well, it’s just one song, maybe the other ones are better.” He takes out the disc and inserts another one, but before he does that he looks at the cover out of curiosity and sees that they all look so out of place and it seems like they are faking their smiles as well. This very much concerns John “Ugh, this cover makes me feel so uncomfortable, why are they smiling like that…?” He takes another listen to the music and immediately throws the headphones off his head.

"WHAT THE HECK IS THIS?! THEY SOUND TERRIBLE! M-Maybe the Christmas album is better! I mean it IS our number one Christmas special!" He searches for the album and sees that his "brothers" are fake smiling again, as if they aren't happy to be there or in the spirit. It makes him tear up a bit but he still puts in the disc to listen to some of the songs and to no one's surprise ...IT IS TERRIBLE! "AGHHH NO WAY! THIS IS OUR BEST ALBUM TOO, HOW CAN YOU SOUND SO OUT OF THE SPIRIT AND STILL SAY YOU LOVE CHRISTMAS IN THE SONG? IT SEEMS SO SARCASTIC!"

He stops listening to the songs before he goes crazy and looks at the rest of the covers instead. All of his "brothers" look like they don't want to be there at all! forced and fake smiles across every single cover! Their poses are slouchy and tired looking, as if they aren't even trying to look appealing. It makes John Dory tear up a bit "My poor baby bros...Well, maybe they're just joking! No way it has gotten this bad, they are just making a big joke out of our music is all..." He wipes away his tears and looks out of his window "Now I wonder how they're doing without me...All of our music is terrible, off beat and not in sync! Fake smiles throughout the covers...I wish I could see how they're doing right now." John lays down on his bed to take a nap, but before he closes his eyes he says "Maybe sleeping will take my mind off of all this." And drifts off to sleep.

The Next Day (12PM)

Seems like John took more than just a nap, he went into hibernation and slept from 8AM to 12PM THE NEXT DAY! I bet he had some amazing sleep, let's see what he thinks!

"YAAAAAAWN ugh...man that was some good sleep! It felt like I slept for an entire day!" John stretches and looks at his clock to see it's 12pm. He realizes he DID sleep for an entire day! "WOAH! Looks like that feeling was right...I guess it's time to get up now, I might as well fix me a sna-" Before John could finish what he was saying, he heard some loud noises, sounds like yelling? But it's only him and rosiepuff...did someone break in?! "What is all that yelling? IS SOMEONE BREAKING IN?! GRANDMAAAAAA!" He falls trying to rush out of bed and runs straight to where the yelling was coming from to find it was his....his brothers? "Wait, I thought the wish came true! Maybe it was all a bad dream, thank goodness. HEY GUYS DID YA MISS ME?"

John runs towards Bruce to give him a big hug but falls to the floor. He gets up again and tries to hug his "brother" again, assuming he just dodged him, but he falls to the floor again. "OKAY BRUCE I GET YOU'RE STILL MAD AT ME, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU GET TO AVOID ME!" He says as he stands up once again, putting his hand on Bruce's shoulder, but his hand goes through him instead. It scares John "Wh-what the hell..? Am I going crazy or did that just happen? Bruce? hello??" He waves his hand in front of Bruce but walks through it and storms out the door. "That was weird...Am I a ghost or something? What's wrong with Bruce??? He sees his baby brother Branch crying in his high chair and walks up to him to pick him up "Oh poor baby Branch, don't cry! Your big brother is here!" He tries to pick up his brother but his hands go through him as well! "WHAT THE?! NO NO NO! THIS ISN'T ACTUALLY HAPPENING.I'M NOT ACTUALLY A GHOST!"

John desperately tries picking his baby brother up but to no avail. He starts to panic when he comes to the realization that his "brothers" cannot see nor hear him at all. "Please let this be a nightmare, please let this be a nightmare...!" He begs and begs as the sounds of his "brothers" screaming and crying engulf him. But, this is what he wanted right? He wished to see how his "brothers" are doing and how they are without him. Do you think he'll regret it? We'll see as we take a deep dive to show John how they REALLY are without him.