You Are Not The Man I Use to Know

I ask myself, what changed him? Why did he move this way? Was he always like this?

I do have a bro I always looked up to; he was much older than me, studied outside the country, and I wanted to be like him because I felt he was accomplished. I love the way he talks and how he always takes me out to places he has been. I met some of his foreign friends and loved him.

As time went on, he brought his fiance to our home to introduce her to my parents, and immediately, the lady and I became friends because of how close I was to this bro. He wasn't my biological brother but he stayed with us, and my parents played some role in bringing him up.

Everything was good until I discovered a dark secret about him. The first time this happened was when I was away from home. His fiancée called me, and she told me something that happened, which I found hard to believe.

She claims he has been beating the hell out of her, and they are not even married yet. She came to my parent's place to explain what has been happening; my dad invited them both so they can talk about it. He became very violent and started threatening her right in front of my parents.

My dad got so angry; after a while, everything was settled, and he asked them both to go home and talk about it. On their way home, after driving a little far from our home, he asked her to get out of his car. She refused because they came together; he came down from the car, went to her seat, and pulled her out of the car.

She was crying on the road, and he zoomed off.

The long story short. He stopped visiting us and cut all ties with us. He started cheating on the lady with another woman and got her pregnant; he had to marry the pregnant woman.

The big brother I used to see, whom I used to look up to, changed within months, and he hasn't spoken to me in years.

I am glad that nice lady didn't end up with him. Now she's married with a beautiful baby girl.

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