I gulp too many times before looking at my older brother, who is smiling at me while sitting on the sofa facing the front door of the house. I can’t think of a good way to get back at him, so I smile broadly and flip my hair .

"I’m old enough to know what’s right and wrong, and I have authority over my life. "You don’t have to watch me anymore," I replied, and he would have passed by dragging me back to my elder brother, then lying against the wall and gazing at my lips, and we swallowed at the same moment while feeling the movement of the...