"Everything used to be so perfect three years ago, my family, my home, everything. I..."

I could see a lot of hesitation in him. He was reluctant to talk about his family, i wanted to know about him but not like that, not when he looked very uncomfortable opening up to me.

"You don't have to _to tell me anything if you are not ready Wave." I said to him in all honesty.

"No!" He stood up and walked over to the window. " I'm not uncomfortable Sky, I really want to tell you everything. I want to_i what to let you in."

He took a long breath and stared out of the window.

" This house wasn't always lonely." He said with a distant look in his eyes. " It used to be full of life, a home that I had once cherished, a home full of love and happiness." He sighed.

He walked over to his desk, took out a picture and came to sit next to me on his bed. The picture was like the first one I had seen earlier but this one wasn't smudged.

He pointed to the middle aged man. "This is my _" he swallowed. " my father."

The resemblance between his father and him was uncanny. They shared the same hair color, eyes, face and almost the same height.

" He used to be my best friend, we could do almost everything together. He would come to my football games and cheer for me even if I didn't perform well."

He then showed me his mom and his elder brother Nathim, who was only a year order than him. His mom and brother were both blondes.

"We were so happy when we took this picture. It was my sixteen birthday party, the last birthday I celebrated with my family."

I could see how happy they all looked in the picture. Even Wave who never smiled had a huge grin on his face.

" Days later my mom became very ill. We took her to the hospital and found out that she had cancer and it was in the last stages."

" I was so devastated upon hearing this, I couldn't sleep for days, but Nathim took it must worse. He was the closest to our mother and I could see how much the news of her illness affected him."

" Mom started her treatment but the situation wasn't getting any better, She was later admitted into the hospital and started chemotherapy."

" And my father." He laughed sadly.

" My father became a completely different man, he went out on business trips more and was never there for any of mom's treatment."

" It was always Nathim and I taking care of her. She became so depressed, she was sick and her once loving husband wasn't there to take care of her."

" I tried calling to ask him when he would be back to see mom but he always made excuses about having a lot of work and would find time to visit. I thought that maybe he just didn't want to see mom in her helpless state but that was bullshit."

" That was a shitty thing to do, why would he abondon her when she needed him the most." I grimly said."

Tears started furiously streaming from Wave's eyes. It hurt me so much seeing him in that state, i embraced him and told him it was okay if he didn't continue but he decided against it.

"My mom's once golden hair was cut, her perfect body became frail and her usually tanned skin became so pale."

I gave him a pitied look.

" Nathim and I skipped school more just to be with
Her. She tried persuading us multiple times not to always visit her and focused more on school but we never listened."

" Nathim who used to be  always cheerful and cracking jokes became distant and emotionless. Mom told me to help cheer him up but it never worked. He wasn't himself anyone, he lost interest in everything and wanted nothing more but to be near mom."

"A month later, she died. I couldn't believe it, I cried so hard my eyes became swollen. But Nathim never shedded a tear, his face was so unreadable I couldn't fathom what he was thinking."

"I'm sorry." I altered and he just nodded his head to asure me that he was fine.

"I went over to him and hugged him but he pushed me away.... he pushed me away and ran out of mom's hospital room. I ran after him and found him at the rooftop crying. He turned around and looked at me. Too many emotions flashed in his eyes, pain, hurt, sadness, regret, hate, helplessness, I couldn't decipher which one."

"He looked at me hard and said,

' tell him that I hate him so much and I'll never forgive him for neglecting mom. He was the reason she died today.'

"And then he jumped off the seventh floor of the hospital building. It happened so fast, my brother committed suicide right in front of my eyes and I couldn't do anything about it."

"I hate myself so much for not being able to save him. He was my best friend, my idol, my only brother and I let him die in front of me. It hurts so much Sky, it hurts."

Wave broke down, my heart ached for him,  I held him even tighter and let him cry because he needed to let it all out.

"I'm here for you Wave , I won't ever leave you because I love you so much." I internally said to myself.

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