Hi Reddit I’m 24F and I need to know if I’m the jerk here. Sorry for bad grammar I ain’t good at writing. This happened last weekend at my family’s yearly bonfire out in the holler where we all live. It’s a tiny town, everybody’s broke, half the folks are on pills or worse, and my family’s no different. My twin cousins, Billy and Bobby (18M), are super strange and I kinda lost it on them. Here’s the story.

So we’re all out by the creek, got a big fire going, and everybody’s drinking cheap beer and eating hot dogs that taste like regret. Billy and Bobby show up late, looking like they ain’t showered in a month, wearing these crusty overalls with no shirts. They’re twins but they’re like mirror opposites. Billy’s loud and thinks he’s a ladies’ man, always bragging about girls he’s been with, except everybody knows he’s lying cause he’s awkward and smells like old ham. Bobby’s quiet, always mumbling about God not being real and how we’re all just dirt in the end. They’re both dumb as rocks, like they’d fail a test on how to breathe.

Anyway, Billy starts acting all alpha, strutting around the fire, telling everybody he hooked up with this girl from the gas station last week. He’s going into gross detail, saying stuff like how she couldn’t resist his charm and how he had her begging for more. Nobody believes him, cause last month he said the same thing about a waitress who wouldn’t even look at him. My aunt Tammy (their mom) is there, nodding like she’s proud, even though she’s so out of it she thinks Billy’s stories are about fishing. I’m sitting there with my little sister Jenny (15F), who’s giggling cause she’s too young to know Billy’s full of crap, and I’m getting mad cause it’s embarrassing.

Then Bobby starts in, and it’s worse. He’s sipping some nasty moonshine uncle Carl brought, and he’s staring at the fire like it’s talking to him. He says something like, the flames are proof there’s no heaven, cause everything burns to nothing in the end. Everybody’s confused, cause nobody asked, but Bobby keeps going, saying we’re all just animals fighting over scraps in a big pointless forest. It’s like he’s trying to write a poem, but he’s so bad at it I wanna laugh. My grandma, who’s super religious and half deaf, thinks he’s praying and starts clapping. I’m like, Bobby, shut up, nobody cares about your weird atheist stuff, but he just glares at me and says I’m too dumb to get it.

So the night’s getting worse, and Billy’s still acting like he’s king of the bonfire. He tries to hit on my cousin Lisa (20F), who’s engaged and way out of his league. Lisa’s clueless, just smiling cause she’s too nice, but Billy’s all up in her space, saying he could show her a real man. I’m cringing so hard my teeth hurt. Then he grabs a stick from the fire and starts waving it around like he’s some caveman warrior, except he almost sets Jenny’s hair on fire. Jenny screams, and Billy laughs like it’s a joke, but I’m done.

I stand up and yell at both of them. I call Billy a lying creep who’s never touched a girl in his life, and I tell Bobby his deep thoughts are just dumb rants that make everybody uncomfortable. I say they’re both embarrassing the family and they need to grow up or stay away from the bonfire forever. Everybody’s staring, and aunt Tammy starts crying, saying I’m bullying her boys. Grandma’s yelling about Jesus, Lisa’s hiding behind her fiance, and uncle Carl’s just laughing cause he’s drunk. Billy flips me off and says I’m jealous cause I ain’t got a man, and Bobby mutters something about how I’m proof life’s meaningless. They both storm off into the woods, and now half the family’s mad at me.

I feel bad cause maybe I was too harsh, but they were acting so stupid. AITA for yelling at my twin cousins like that? I just wanted the bonfire to be fun, not a mess of their nonsense.