the middle child

"hi my name is Shane Michael Aurelien from St. Lucia. Just your average introverted black man who grew up with their parents loving his siblings more than him"

"just incase i get sued by any of the people I'm gonna be talking about all names but mine will be changed. ok now that i got that out of the way lets get to the story."

"all my life growing up my parents always loved my meat headed big brother. no matter what their darling son did, in their eyes he could do no wrong. I'll start from our school years."

Grade School

"my big brother Zack was never good in school, always failed in every subject but still managed to always get my parents love and affection. oh how i loathe the prodigy son. while he was busy flunking his way through grade school i had to work twice as hard as he did to get good grades because i thought if i did better in school than he did then maybe just maybe my parents would praise me as much as they praise their darling prodigy son.....that did not go as i thought it would."

"See even though i got somewhat good grades my parents still weren't satisfied, which i understand i could've gotten a better grade than a C but come on man at least I'm not getting an F like my dumb brother. instead of praising me my mom tells me that I'm gonna become like my brother if i don't at least get an A. that made my blood boil. didn't help my self esteem at all after hearing that, made me wanna not try again at all and just say f it whatever grade i get is what i get no use in dwelling over it anymore since they don't give a rat's furry butt if i tried to do better or not. its bad enough i already got bullied in school, but not getting any support at home just made my self esteem plummet to the ground."

"now lets talk about my little sister. my dad cheated on my mom with some chick and then 9 months later the spawn of hell was born....my little sister Terisa, thus making me the middle child. now i love the brat don't get me wrong but boy oh boy does she know how to grind my gears. my dad absolutely adores this little brat and boasts about her continuously. he thinks she's the most perfect child, cute and smart...or as he called it a brain box. yet another reason my self esteem is literally non existent. no praise for the middle child i guess."

Highschool

"Highschool years were way worse than grade school, i already had zero friends growing up and when i got to highschool my social life was pretty bad. only person i had was my friend from grade school i followed around a lot....until he got tired of me and told me to get lost, leaving me to eat lunch on my own. meanwhile my brother and my cousin ended up going to the same school....lucky him -_-. anyway whiles i was trying my hardest to prove to my parents that i was not a complete failure and waste of space like zack, my brother was busy schmoozing all the women in school and once again ladies and gentlemen flunking his way through school and managed to graduate surprisingly regardless of the fact that he failed literally all classes."

"All throughout highschool i worked hard waiting for that special day when my parents would finally say their proud of me, sadly that day never came because darling boy still withheld all their affection and praise regardless of him being a total failure. i graduated a C student yet again because i gave up on studying, since my parents were never satisfied i decided its not worth trying because no matter how hard i try the middle child will never be acknowledged."