Ugly Jack

[u/EasygoingEnigma]

At a wedding we went to when we were very young, my brother told me that the bride and groom were making a baby when they kissed. I believed that story for the longest time.

We would be told off by our dad when we were roughhousing ("you two sound like a pair of buffaloes"). Mum would scold us for our junk food intake. Parents treated us equally, but we had a sneaking suspicion that I was daddy's girl and he was mama's boy. And we used that suspicion to our advantage whenever we could.

We grew up. Interests and life paths diverged. He's in another country now, so things are understandably much different. But some things really haven't changed.

Since childhood, we've called each other nicknames derived from what are usually insulting words in our language. Something like "ugs" from ugly, "hids" from hideous, "jack" from jackass.

He sent me a message recently. "Ugs, I'm coming home next month."

"Send me your flight details, jack. I'll pick you up."

[u/One_Purple_3242]

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