Boy Suspects Brother Knows Of His ‘Phased Plan’ To Take Over Entire Bedroom

“It’s all mine. I tried to beat him up and got the crap kicked out of me, but that only proves he cheated. All four times. “

Ramat HaSharon, July 30 – A local ten-year-old voiced concern today that his fourteen-year-old sibling and roommate may have discovered the younger lad’s scheme to displace the teen entirely, by gradual means.

Guy Harpaz moved into his younger brother Ohr’s room four years ago, after the birth of their youngest sister, an event that required the four children to shift their sleeping arrangements. Ohr disclosed to some of his friends that he intends to make life so unpleasant for Guy that the latter abandons the quarters wholesale, but knows that stating such goals outright will elicit more resolved resistance from his brother, and more importantly, disciplinary measures from their parents, Galit and Ron. Instead, the preteen professes a desire for an equitable disposition of the domestic space, all while taking steps to assert his dominance through the entire room. In recent weeks, however, Ohr has uncovered evidence that Guy might be aware of the plot.

“I’ve made sure to say conciliatory things whenever our parents are around,” explained Ohr. “But in private, like among my friends, I’m plain about my intentions: I want the whole room, which is mine. I was here first. I know he says he lived here before I was born and our parents forced him to move out, but that’s ancient history, and I think he was adopted anyway, so he has no rights to this place. When I was younger, mom and dad tolerated aggressive talk on my part, but it looks like they’ve grown tired of that, so I’ve had to tone down the rhetoric. But I haven’t changed my objective one bit. The big guy is a usurper and has to go.”

“I don’t care where he goes,” continued the fifth grader. “He doesn’t belong here. It’s all mine. I tried to beat him up and got the crap kicked out of me, but that only proves he cheated. All four times. He’s a weakling so he has to cheat. His friends were holding me down – yeah, that’s what happened. It would be the ultimate shame to give in to a loser such as him. No way I could accept that. So I’m just going to have to force him out to expiate the shame and avenge those earlier losses.”

Ohr has browbeaten friends into shunning his older brother, but as the latter matured those efforts became less and less effective, and now Ohr must face the reality of his struggle taking a back seat to other burning issues in the family and immediate social circle. The boy, however, refuses to relinquish his self-image as the ultimate victim of injustice whose cause trumps all others.

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