“Sit down” I said, rubbing my eyes and then sanitising them. Nico sat down on the chair in front of me with his head lowered in shame. I dipped the gauze into the solution and tilted his head back up. Michele was sound asleep next to us on the dining room table. Hissing at the pain, I dabbed lightly onto the cuts on his face.
“Don’t be such a baby” I joked but his mouth hardly curved.
“I’m sorry” he finally said.
“For what?”
“I’m his big brother, I should have protected him better” he confessed. I rolled my eyes and slumped my shoulders.
“Don’t think like that. That’s how Michele became the way he was because of the guilt for your mother” I reminded him. He stayed quiet and it was silent for a few moments before I asked “What happened?”
Nico sighed deeply. “I was the last one to fo
