Oct 26, 2022 8:46:18 GMT
he grinned a little when his brother rolled his eyes and he looked back at the dishwasher. they all knew how to use it and he would use it, when he could find the energy to do more than sleep and do the rehab he needed to do, chores tired him and he hated it. he also knew that the one person who needed to step up was the one person not a part of this conversation and the one person that he doubted would hear it at the moment. they were all dropping the ball but none more than him. "it's the off switch i'm iffy on." he said, though the joke wasn't really there because he couldn't help but feel the trickle of guilt that his brothers words made him feel. he might have had a reason to not be pulling his fair weight with the housework but it didn't stop the guilt that the sink was full, the bins were overflowing and the washing was piling up despite some effort on his part to keep it from happening.
that didn't stop him from frowning a little when his two brothers went a little harder at each other and he shook his head a little, resenting being called a shit by his brother simply because he couldn't clean. "lay off derek. maybe some of us are trying as hard as we can and i'm sorry if it's not up to your standard." he said as he gripped his hand around the can of coke he had sitting in front of him. unwarranted, perhaps. unjustified, yeah sure. but he'd said it anyway because he hated the whole situation. his tirade to jace hadn't gone down well with either derek or jace so he simply rolled his eyes at his older brother. he couldn't help but jump when the glass smashed and he looked at jace, wondering what the fuck he'd done but he was gone before anyone could ask him.
"leave it." he said as he stood up carefully from the table to stop derek from getting the dust pan and broom. "one of us lazy shits will clean it up." he said as he glanced to the blood on the floor and the stairs where jace had vanished up. he also figured that derek was the best person to go after jace because mav wasn't about to chase after him. he didn't really know about link but he doubted jace would really like to see him considering how much they'd ribbed him. "you know you want to chase after him." he said as he grabbed a cloth to drop onto the floor so he could wipe up the blood as best he could with his foot. jace was also the only brother derek hadn't been ragging on the whole time mav had been in the kitchen, so a break from being told how crap he was being at the moment sounded like a few seconds of peace.
