XGreetings, I'm THEOrnithologist, and I'll be trying for the top boy! I'm partners with the lovely
Banana. for this contest

Yeah, Ike is awesome! You know, he tends to be a bit of a grumpy-grumps, but he's really not that bad. Ike and I have had a connection with each other ever since we were born. Its sort of a bond that was never meant to be broken... we understand each other, and sometimes we can even read each others minds! Not literally, of course, but... oh, you get the point! It works out well because Ike isn't really the one to talk, so I kinda speak his opinions for him. However occasionally I say something that I know he doesn't mean just to bug him... Ehem. Well, anyways, I couldn't imagine a world without Ike, and I mean it! He makes me feel at home, and that's something I can rely on.
Atticus sat on the top bunk of the bunk bed he shared with his twin. He allowed his legs to dangle off the edge of the bed, and hummed. His head shook as he did so, out of habit. Below, Ike was reading intently, never lifting his eyes from the ever-interesting words on the page. Atticus jumped off of his bed and landed on Ike's, causing it to shake and creak slightly. Ike didn't move.
"Hey!" Atticus said, prodding his brother's shoulder with his pointer finger.
"Hmm?" Ike replied. It was obvious he wasn't really listening at all.
"Whatcha reading?" Atticus asked.
Ike sighed and closed the book. "Well, if you're so interested, maybe I should tell you. It's this really cool Grim's fairy tale, about twelve brothers..."
Now it was Atticus not listening. He had rushed across the smooth, white carpet to the window, where a dragonfly hovered from the other side. He blinked. "What? Oh, sorry."
Ike rolled his eyes, but he was grinning. That child could never sit still, could he? Ike sighed again. "Atticus, perhaps you'd rather just go bug Phillip?"
"YEAH!" the twin replied eagerly. Out of everyone in the house, Phillip was by far the most fun for the twin boys to annoy, much to Phillip's disliking.
They rushed out of the door and down the hall, but once again Atticus got side-tracked.
"Atticus, it's just another moth. Come on now," Ike called, but as he turned he saw that for once, their wasn't a chance Atticus would budge. A moth lay in the palm of his hand, elegantly flapping its wings. It was speckled with black and white, and it looked quite at home in the palm of the little boy's hand.
"Let's name it Henry!"
Ike blinked. "Whoa whoa whoa, Atticus, that's a moth. They come into the house all the time, what makes you think we need to keep this one?"
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Just look at it, brother!" Atticus replied airily. "Look at it! C'mon, you know you want to keep him."
And so it was. Henry, the moth, in a little cage by the windowsill. His cage had all that a moth could want and more, courtesy of the twins.
One day, Ike had noticed that poor little Henry looked bored. He had observed that keeping a moth wasn't such a good idea, it was kinda cruel to keep him cooped up in the cage. When Atticus was distracted with a cream-colored teddy bear, Ike took Henry outside and released him into the wild. In less than two minutes, Atticus had rushed down, a hint of pale white underneath his fur. "Ike, what did you do!??!" he gaped, awestruck.
Ike kneeled down next to his brother and sighed. His eyes were locked on the now-free moth fluttering in the morning air. "You know what? It's probably for the best. Look how happy he is!"
Atticus gulped and stared up at Henry. He took a deep breath and nodded. His bland expression extended into a smile in an instant. "Yeah." he said, "Yeah! Besides, I don't need any moth when I have my twin brother!" he cheered, putting his arm around Ike. "You're the best friend I could ever have."