A spark of life [BxB]

Chapter 15 - Trust and pain

A new chapter is here.

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Pete arrived in Chiang Rai just in time, his father picked him up at the airport. Their faces were completely swollen. Pete cried almost the whole flight and his father was probably on his way to the airport.

"We missed you, boy." He tightly hugged Pete and a quiet sob escaped his lips.

"I missed you too, pa."

"We need to hurry, mom will need help."

"You don't have to be strong in front of me, pa." Pete grabbed his father's shoulder and squeezed it a little to show him support. "Your mother died, it is completely normal to cry and be sad and all the things around. I am here for you."

"I know, son, but I need to be strong for your mother. She is not doing well, it almost seems to me that she starts to lose her mind slowly. She constantly cries, no matter what she is doing."

Pete could see how his father was troubled but the thing he heard troubled him even more. He cannot lose his mom too. It would be too much to handle for them. He needs to stay strong for both of them.

They arrived in front of the house where Pete spent his youth, memories of him and his grandparents flew across his mind and a smile appeared on his face.

"I am happy to be back, even though the occasion is what it is." Pete hummed and his father patted his back and walked towards the house that was strangely silent.

"Oh my boy." Pete's mom ran towards him from the back garden. "I missed you so much, look at you.. You are such a big man now. You have even bigger muscles now. You are exercising too much, aren't you?"

Pete noticed how skinny his mom was, how her hair were thin as a paper and how her eyes were sad, but he had no fucking idea what to do now, he simply gave her the tightest hug and felt how she started to cry, how the tears falling down from her eyes wetted his shirt, how her hands tightly held his shirt and refused to let go. Pete had no idea for how long they were standing like this, but he could feel his legs going numb.

"We should go inside." He quietly whispered and without hesitation he grabbed his mother and carried her inside, because she somehow fell asleep whilst holding him tight.

"Put her in your old room, she was sleeping there for the past nights."

"How long are you here?"

"This is the third day now."

"Seems that mom hasn't had proper sleep for a while."

"She was so worried about you too, how you were handling the death and stuff around the funeral. She was also worried that your seizures would come back and things like that."

Pete lowered his head down, trying to think it through. There was this question mark longing inside his head for a while, because he already knew that those are not seizures, but memories, yet he did not know if he can see the future or it was in his past.

"I will need to leave for a moment, please keep an eye on mom." Pete immediately stood up and walked towards the door, not giving any chance to his father to ask any questions.

Pete knew Chiang Rai pretty well and now he was honestly happy that nothing changed that much around. He walked for a while until he reached an almost abandoned alley, a small dark blue door was still there, as he tried to grab the knob, the doors opened itself.

"I was expecting you, Pete."

"I have a few questions."

"I know you have, but you already know the answer for them."