I Promise

His tears

-Pete-

When I open the door I was surprise when I see Vegas already on the floor, he’s facing the floor and hyperventilated, his tears were running like a stream. He’s calling my name while keep hitting his chest and I can see red liquid formed from his bandaged wound.

For a second I forget how to breathe I don’t know how Vegas were in that state. What I know is I need run to him. I almost spilling the food to the floor when running to him, as soon as I reach him and hugged him, my heart hurt so bad hearing his cried.

“Vegas!  ssshhh Vegas I’m here” I kneeing next to him and embrace him immediately “I’m here, your Pete is here” He looks like he’s in a trance and can’t hear me

“Pete don’t leave me! Pete, please don’t leave me!” he keep repeating this sentence while crying.

“Hey, I’m here! I’m here, I won’t leave you” this time I put both of my hands on his cheeks and force him to look at me

His eyes were unfocused, his breath was heavy, his brain seems like he can’t process that I was there with him. I feel my tears running down from my eyes. I feel like there’s an invisible nails stab directly into my heart looking at him. I feel the pain every time he called my name.

“Pete” called Vegas

“It’s me, I’m here” I kissed his forehead “I’ll never leave you”

Vegas starting to calm down, but his hands are gripping shirt tightly until it crippled but I don’t want to complain. I keep hugging him and caressing his back while giving soothing words.

After a while he seems calmed down, his breath become normal and I don’t hear his cried anymore. I decided to pull my body from him. My hands find their place on Vegas’s cheeks, my thumbs caressing his damp cheeks, wiping his tears.

“Pete, promise me you’ll never me”

I look into his eyes

“I might not say this to you yet, the day I leave the main family, I promised myself to never leave you and always by your side. Every time I tried to push you away from my mind, my heart keep reminding me of you, the more I said I hate you the more my heart screaming I miss you. That day I realized my feeling for you, I don’t hate you, I love you, I love you very much that I almost crazy. I’ll never leave you Vegas, you’re my soul, I can never live without you”

Vegas cried once again, this time his cried were accompanied with a relieve smile. His hands holding my hands that still caressing his cheeks.

“I love you too Pete, I love you more than anything in this world”

After saying love sentence for each other I help Vegas get back to his bed. He keeps holding my hand, it feels like he’ll break again if he let go of my hands.

“How do you feel?” I asked him

“My head hurts” said Vegas weakly

“Why were you crying on the floor like that?” I help him drink water from the glass on the lamp table beside the bed.

“I thought you leave me again, you took so much time just to take some food from the kitchen” Vegas pouting, he’s no longer Vegas from the minor family that scary and intimidating. He acts like a little boy, needier than Venice. Damn!  He looks cute. What’s wrong with me?

“I teach Macau how to make milk formula for Venice it’s not even 15 minutes” I told him “Where’s the scary and cunning Vegas I know, you used to be intimidate everyone. Now I just leave you for a second and you crying like a baby” I smile, trying to brightening the mood

“That Vegas will no longer exist; there are only Vegas who can’t live without his wife named Pete”

“Fuck, who said I’m your wife?!” I feel my cheeks getting hot. Shit I tried to tease him, but I’m the one who blushed

“Me, I just said your wife” he said with a poker face. Shit I love him.

“Whatever you need to eat cold food now, I’m too lazy to heat it up for you again” I pout

“Your love is warm enough to heat the food for me” what the fuck he’s talking about, did I give him a wrong pill this morning

“Did I give you a wrong pill this morning? You’re fucking cringy” I fucking embarrassed

Then I help him eat give him his medicine. He sleeps not long after take the medicine. I caressed his hair softly for a while and leave a butterfly kiss on his forehead before going down to take care of the plates and to eat lunch with Macau. Maybe he ate first since I spend almost 1 hour to take care of crying Vegas.

I went to his room and knocked but there’s no answer so I open the door slowly, and I saw him sitting on the sofa staring blankly at the wall, like his soul went somewhere else. When we’re at the hospital I always with him after he get back from school, we even sleep on Vegas room together, I always try to make conversation so he wouldn’t feel lonely. Now that we get back to this house it becomes harder for me to keep an eye on him since he has his own room. Venice is sleeping on the middle of Macau’s bed he makes a little crate to surround Venice with his pillows to make sure Venice didn’t fall.

I walk to him and call his name, still no answer. Then I put my hand of his shoulder, and then he came back to his sense.

“P’Pete! You surpised me” he said

“I knocked at your door and called you a couple of times, but you didn’t answer” I said

“Sorry” he said looking at the floor

“It’s okay, I see you make a fortress for Venice, thank you Macau if it weren’t for you I might lose my head now” I said jokingly

“Why Phi?” he smiled

“Your brother decided to act more needy than Venice” I tell him

“P’Vegas love P’pete so much” he stare at me with longing eyes.

“He loves me and you” I embrace him. I don’t want him to feel I took his brother from him. I know he might feel lonely since he and Vegas has been through a lot together, but now that Vegas still recovering he can’t pay attention to Macau and I want to be there for Macau.

“Macau, I might don’t have the right to say this to you but I want you to know that I’ll always be here for you, from that night up until now I always with you, right? Even in the future I will always be here. You can think of me as your second brother. I promised to take care of you, so if you feel like it, tell me what you think and feel. I’ll listen all of it, don’t keep it inside your head by yourself” I look in to his eyes. I want him to know that I’m sincerely want to take care of him.

“Yes Phi. Thank you for always be with me from that day” he said “I don’t know what I’m gonna do without you. Pa just passed away and P’ Vegas got into a car crash. That day I thought my life was over. Before you wake up and come to me I thought I will need to face all of this alone, but when you come to me and said P’Vegas will be okay, I felt relieved”

“Thank you for trusting me Macau” I smiled and rub his head “anytime you need someone to talk to, come to me, okay?

“Okay Phi”

“You’re not eating lunch yet right?”

“Not yet Phi, but I’m not hungry”

“Hungry or not you still need to eat”

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AN: Finally I update this story! I said I will update soon but I can’t do it, I’m really sorry for you guys who wait for this book (if there’s one). If you wait for this update I wish this chapter doesn’t make you disappoint after waiting for a long time. Like always tell me what you think about this chapter and I wish you like it!!