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As Good As It Gets

Author: Nkulie M
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Tristan's POV

The last couple of days have been nothing but amazing, coming here with my family was definitely a good idea, this trip has really brought us together, even my older brother had brought down his walls, he was sober for a change, which was good. I never thought that I would ever enjoy fishing, not like I do now. Our father have us a crash course in fishing yesterday, we didn't catch much but atleast we caught something, today he decided that he will be sitting by the lake and watch us catch fish, I hoped that would be all that he would do but I was wrong.

As usual, everything has to be a competition with my father, this day was supposed to be a fun day for me and my brothers and now we are in competition, whoever gets the biggest fish gets my father's vintage Aston Martin. It's a collector's item, one that he never drives, my brother's used to joke about who would get the car because all of us wanted it, now that we all have a c

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