They Did Everything Together

When I was 13 or so, our parents were on a vacation and we were all staying at home with Grandma watching us. I must have stood up too fast and I fainted in the kitchen. Jim and Sam were in the living room and they heard me fall so they peeked in and saw the end of it. I got up quickly so they didn't have time to help. I had never fainted before in my life, so being a shitty teen I was like "no I'm fine nothing happened I'm good." Jim and Sam looked at each other incredulously and burst into laughter. I had braces and was clearly bleeding from the mouth from the fall but I still claimed nothing happened, because I was a proud little idiot, and I couldn't give them another reason to gang up on me, but it was over. They knew, and they saw I was ok, so they just laughed and laughed and made fun of my fainting episode for months. Even years later, when we were together, Jim would just say out of the blue "remember when Jack fainted?" to Sam, and they would lose it. Their laughs were perfect. Eventually I learned to give in and laugh too, because they would always win you over. No matter what.