Wyatt & Austin — The Brothers Who Never Knew

You were just being you.”

I remembered.

I’d brought him a comic book and accidentally bought the wrong issue.

“I didn’t know who you were,” I whispered.

“You knew I was Austin.

That was enough then.”

I signed the affidavit with tears blurring the last line.

For the first time, the documents felt like a way of honoring our present rather than a prison built from the past.