GoodReadChapter 132
“Dilly?!” | heard my brothers little voice, pullingfrom the past and into the present. | turned my body around
to see him standing in the doorway to the kitchen. A crayon rested in his right hand but soon hit the floor with a
very small sound as he dropped it and ran over to me,
I moved on instinct, and flew my arms out to embrace him, dropping down to my knees so | could hold him
closer, tears flowed out of us both as my hand rested on his little head. | held him tight, terrified that if | let him
go I'd never get him back. My little brother.
He had grown since we had last laid eyes on each other. He had changed so much except his face remained the
same, and his rosy checks were still always holding sform of heated hue which just made him seem all the
more adorable.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt*Freddie...” | whispered, while holding him as close as what was humanly possible. | never wanted to let go.
Maybe | could run away with him, we could get out of here once and for all | just knew we would get caught
though, it was better for him to stay as far away fromas possible. “Are you ok?”
Without thinking | made his body pull away from mine and looked at him stood in front of me. My hands went to
his cheeks, inspecting him for anything out of the ordinary, and gently wiped away his fallen tears with my
thumbs.
“I'm ok.” He wasn’t, he'd changed so much. Before | left he had that beautiful childish innocence to him,
because | had sheltered him as much as | could from learning just how bad the world was, but now, I could see
him checking over my shoulder, and fear was clouding his eyes, despite the glee he felt at seeing me, he also
looked atthe sway strangers did, like | was damaged.
| swear to God Id be out for blood if | found out he’d been hurt at any point in anyway. Why was he so
frightened?
*You've stayed out of trouble haven't you?” | tried to force my tears down, knowing | couldn't let him seelike
that, and sniffed while not taking my eyes off him. | shouldn't have cto see him, he won't understand why
I'll need to leave again. “You've kept your head down.”
*|'ve been ok, really, Richard has been looking after me.” My eyes widened at the boy in front ofand felt my
eyes begin to brim again, god when did | get like this, | never used to cry in front of people, and now here | was
doing nothing but. | turned to face Richard, Nicks dad and nodded at him as he too held his tears in. He would
never know how grateful | was for him. “Mommy's gone, isn’t she.”
Nicks dad nodded too in response to my unspoken appreciation while looking at the pair of us with nothing but
sympathy and sorrow on his face. | turned back to Freddie and smiled through my tears, I just felt nothing but
guilt while looking at him, so instead of reassuring him the way | should have done. Instead of being his shoulder
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmto cry on | broke down right in front of him, | should have been his support but instead he becmine.
“I'm... I'm sorry... I'm so sorry. It's my fault... | killed her. | killed her and now you're... you're...” | shook my head
while looking at my little brother. I'd let him down, | swore to my dad that | would protect him and my mont.
Instead | had killed my mom and left Freddie alone. | buried my face in my hands and sobbed still on my knees in
front of the little boy,
“Dilly...” | shook my head at him callingby my n| didn’t deserve his love or admiration... | deserved
everything the king had done and more, | was to blame, I'd killed our mom, I'd killed our dad, Freddie really did
deserve so much better than me. “You are a superhero!” What? “That's what everyone says, and | know it's
true.”
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