The Stranger in my room

Chapter 41

Aiden (pov)

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I was sitting in the hall on the couch while going through my phone when Alex called and told me that we have to stop Ryan from going to meet Jennie today and not only this, we have to convince him to come with us to club.

Ryan was already furious the whole day and now convincing him when he is in a bad mood is harder than solving  calculus.

I started running my mind to find the ways to convince him. It is really hard to make him do something when he clearly doesn't want it.

James wasn't home now, but I texted him the whole scenario so he will he home soon.

Actually I am really glad that Alex and Jennie are doing so much for Ryan. James and I wouldn't have been able to handle him alone in such situation. I am really glad that Ryan found a right girl for him. Jennie is really nice girl and I am sure he will be happy with her and she will take good care of him.

As being his younger brother, I have seen him going through a lot since childhood. Even if we are step brothers , he is more than a real brother for me. And I know he loves me even more than I do.
He has always been there to help me in school or wherever I needed him.

I still remember, I was 5 years old when dad brought me to his house where he lived with Ryan and his mother. Prior to that I used to live with my biological mother but suddenly one day dad sent me to another house where I met Ryan and my new mom.
I didn't see my biological mother after that day and now I don't even remember her face. I don't know what happend to her and I don't even had an idea if she is alive or dead. And the reason I never bothered about her was she wasn't very caring mother. There used to be a maids in our house who took care of me. My mother used to be an alcoholic.

As a five year old kid I was already deprived of a mother's love and then that transformation was too much for me. I was really scared when I was stuck with those unknown people but the way they loved me made me forget about my own mother. Ryan's mother was so kind hearted lady. She gave me love and affection like her own child and Ryan loved me like his own brother.

I still remember the day when it had been just one week after I shifted with them, I got sick due to some infection and I couldn't sleep, then Ryan's mother made me sleep on her lap. She didn't sleep the whole night because of me. Even my own mother had never done this for me.
And that day I realised that I have got a family now and this is my family. This is my mother and brother from now on.

When you get the kind of love, for which you have always craved, then the feeling of extreme ecstasy don't let you get off the cloud nine. I felt so overwhelmed by the kind of care I got from Ryan's mother. Even she wasn't my own mother but her kind nature never made me feel different. Ryan had always been like a shield for me. He always stood in front of me in every problem.

But when mom died, Ryan broke. I was only 8 years old at that time.
I don't know the reason behind her departure, but I have a doubt that something had happened and she didn't died natural death.

But after her death Ryan was like a cracked and ruptured droughted land. Who bears so many cracks appearing bruises on his heart which he couldn't even explain in words. He became like a lost soul.
His soul was full of heart aching crackes needed someone to quench it with love and affection again. I couldn't help him and it really killed me to see him that way. He went to deep ocean of depression from where it was really hard to pull him over. That ocean kept engulfing him deep his condition kept deteriorating day by day and all I could do was watch him suffer.
I wanted to help him but he didn't let me.