all about the same thing, and all ended the same way with Tank storming out of wherever we were, and me cursing, calling him every name under the sun. During the five month sabbatical we took, which was mainly my doing because I refused to forgive him so easily that time, I thought about what I really knew about the man I’d come to call my best friend. In the end this was all I could come up with.
Tank, born Hunter Adams is thirty-five years old, just. He was born in Chicago Illinois where he grew up in the upper-class suburb of the Gold Coast, or Old Town depending on how elitist you are. His parents’ Daphne and Thomas have been married for forty years. His dad comes from ‘Old Money’, and being a third generation lawyer he’s only added to his family’s fortune over the years. Tank’s Grandpop, Peter, lives with his mom and dad, and has done so since his wife Loretta passed away almost a decade ago. It’s sad I didn’t get the chance to meet her, because from everything Tank and his brothers have told me she was an amazing woman a lot like my mom. As I said before, Tank has five brothers in total, (smoking hot brothers), and of the five he’s the second oldest, but by far the hottest in my eyes.
The oldest, Brody, followed in his father’s footsteps becoming a lawyer at the family firm. At thirty-seven he’s the only married one out of them, and on the couple of occasions I’ve seen Brody over the past two years his wife Charlotte hasn’t been with him. Sometimes I wonder whether they ever loved each other, or if it was a marriage of convenience. Brody never looks happy. He doesn’t talk about Charlotte. And they don’t have any children, which I know he desperately wants. The man is miserable half the time and he’s too good a man to spend the rest of his life that way.
Jasper the middle brother is only a year younger than Tank, so you’d think he would be all grown up by now. You’d think wrong. If there’s one thing I can say about Jas is that he’s a serial flirt and he doesn’t look to be slowing down any time soon, regardless that he’s hit his thirties now. He started his own IT security company when he was just out of college twelve years ago. ‘InterSec’ has become one of the leading IT security companies worldwide, specialising in early fraud detection. They, specifically Jas, developed a piece of software that manages and reports inconsistencies in the financial sector. Jas will give you the shirt off his back if he thought you needed it. He’s a sweetheart, and I’m glad I have him on my favourites list on my phone because without a doubt he’s been there for me every time I’ve needed an ear or a shoulder.
My favourite brother has to be Noah though. Noah has a gentle nature in general, but he has a fierce, determined, if not dogged side hiding not far beneath the surface. At thirty, Noah owns ‘Voyages’ an adventure sports business that he built it from the ground up, improving it in leaps and bounds over last nine years. He accessed his trust fund when he could at twenty-one deciding to use his passion for the great outdoors and turn it into something profitable. Most people don’t know this, but I’ve been doing his books for the last two years and I can attest that Noah has made far more than just his original investment back. He’s patient, considerate, and determined and exceeded his own expectations when it came to being in business for himself. We’re close, more than that we’re good friends that chat about anything and everything. Well except for the Tank thing, and that’s only because I’m scared Noah will take my side, like usual, and take that out on his brother.
Kai’s the second youngest, and can rival Tank with his complete and utter lack of communication skills. He’s twenty-seven-years-old for God’s sake and he still can’t manage to have a conversation that’s more than two sentences in length without looking like he’s
Jeff Benedict, Armen Keteyian