Last night at midnight I asked my brother to give my sister 10 hours.
I asked him to stay in hospital overnight so that she could sleep the night and he told me that he couldn’t do it for someone else.
Then I told him that I was jealous. Envious that she had listened to and heard him when he had something to say. No one had listened to me. She had done him a favour. Not by talking him home or by bringing him to the safe place that he was now in but simply by listening to him. Now he owed her a favour back and that favour should be for him to stay over night and still be there in the morning when she woke.
He agreed.
