a family with no trust

What do you think? In a family of five, there are only two sides to take; one with the parents, the other with the siblings. Now the parents are parents, with obvious benefits. The siblings, well, have benefits of their own too, such as the unwritten rules that state that they'll look out for each other when they're in trouble with the parents.
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Now where do I stand?

Of course where possible I would want to be in everyone's good books, but knowing it isn't possible I prefer the siblings over the parents since we help each other sweep everything under the carpets. But now, I felt like what I've just done is like backstabbing the ones whose side I've been on for the longest time. Now being a kid myself I won't exactly be in my parent's good books all the time, but the thing is they have a special bias for kids mo matter how much kids hate them. On the other hand, once a kid hates a fellow kid its kinda hard to repair the damage.

So right now, I think I'm going to be alone in this war.
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But imagine the kid I supposedly backstabbed was a complete brat with an ego the size of an elephant (probably with similarly thick skin too), hasn't gotten out of that "as long as I'm fine with it why should you care" mindset, hasn't gotten around to even thinking of the greater good and everything done is purely in the interest of self-benefit... in short, hasn't bloody grown up even when the kid is at a stage where they should START HAVING/ALREADY HAS thoughts about responsibility.

Haha, and so it is true when they say "youth is wasted on the young". I'm not very old either, but I do think I've grown up a fair bit. Enough to know that I'm just another cog in the enormous clockwork and that if I don't play my part there are others depending on me who will fall.

"why shouldn't I play 5 fucking hours a day?"
"to help you get rid of that fucking attitude of yours."

Just because you think you're unstoppable, you think you can have every damn thing you want. It pisses me off so much to see such a selfish person and in trying to correct that I have to deal with such an unpleasant confrontation that I would prefer not to.

For fuck's sake, you're going to be 17, have a BRAIN. Holding your hand is not my fucking job, but you sure make everyone want to do so because you're going to shoot yourself in the foot by being the smartass that you are. You give everyone reason to doubt you - don't you ever think that you might wanna get rid of that? Did you ever stop to think that you might want to be able to safely indulge and be able to stop because you want to and not because you're going to get in trouble if you don't?

Even if it's playing by their rules, in the end realize that it's easier to get your way if you go their way. I thought you wanted the easy way out. You don't know how idiotic you're being. Sure sure, blab on about not wanting to cower under power, but you do it so you get ENOUGH power. That's how the cunning work in the world, and you, for all your pretense of supposedly having the upper hand, you know nothing about it. What a laugh.
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On the other hand though, I realize I'm such a hypocrite by trying to correct him. I was under the same scheme once, we were all comrades in arms. We siblings benefit from this pact. And now, this? What am I trying to prove? Why am I taking their side? Why am I only starting now to want to sound like the authoritative figure, for being such a pushover that I am?

What a laugh.
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But despite everything, I had some sense of control, some sense of restraint. You don't. And that's the difference between us that you simply don't see. From where I stand, it reminds me of the drug addicts you see on the street, desperately trying just about anything just to get that next stash of coke, or whatever your poison is.

Therefore - "when you're desperate, there's always a way."
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This entire mess is giving me a headache. I don't think we'll be on talking terms anytime soon. I'll try but I will will myself to not back down on the stand I've taken. Even if it means having you hate me. I am going to really try this time.