My Vampire Twin

Chapter 58 - Conplete?

Cyrus's POV 

Our widened as we all looked at the figure that stared at us with such intensity as we stared back at the person.

No one dared to speak up and break the silence. Mom was speechless as the other two was confused, not knowing if they should be concerned about the person that they've never seem before.

I cleared my throat and slowly stood up as the couch's leather puffed up, letting a small squeak that made all heads turn to me.

As his eyes made contact with mine, the intensity burned down as it was replaced with the nostalgia and longing that swirled in his eyes.

Placing a small smile, I walked towards him, placing one foot in front of the other and with every step, memories rushed back as if the events only happened yesterday.

We stood there in front of each other for a few seconds before an apologetic smile crept on his face. He pulled me into those man hugs which consists of doing some shit-ass handshake followed by the a few pats on the back.

"Welcome home, Caden." I sighed as he let out a chuckle and a grunt before pulling away.

If you all are wondering who Caden is, well, he's actually Aunt Casey and Uncle Aiden's son, you all get it right? The Ca in Casey and the Den in Aiden. He's also a few years younger than me and we got along so well before his parents sent him off abroad to study. He actually has a dream than just being a regular old vampire. He really wanted to help us but we insisted that he go achieve his dream and I'll achieve mine. He did promise us that he'll come right away whenever we needed any help.

"I came as soon as I can..." He breathed and threw another apologetic smile. "I didn't know you already got her back until Mom told me you lost her again." Pain shot through me as he failed to see it. It was like his sentence contained a dagger that literally stabbed me on the chest as his words floated on my head.

I didn't blame him. He was the type that ranted out everything that came on his mind, but whenever he did realize how his words affected others, he completely apologizes.

I sighed, shaking my head and thought of something to get my mind off of thinking how a failure I am.

"Do they know you're here?" I simply asked, hoping it would change the topic.

He shook his head. "I didn't even tell them that I would be coming home. Heck, I wanted to surprise them but when the plane landed all I could think of how you were holding up so the first thing that I did was to come straight to you." He chuckled, rubbing the back his neck as he got embarrassed by how sappy he got. He might rant about the first thing that he thinks of but he always rants out about how he felt. Being around him was like being around an open book. But this certain book shied away whenever he lets his emotions spill out.

"Thanks bro, I really appreciate it." I chuckled. "But you should probably head to them next, you know how Aunt Casey gets when you come home without heading to her first." We both laughed at how she ignored him for a day when he came visit us a few years back. He raided a flower shop and swept it clean by buying all the flowers and had it stuffed on his parents room. Personally, we had a garden maze full of flowers outside that you can pick any flower without having to pay rather than wasting all his damn money for the "thoughts", as his Mom said, and later on having the wilted flowers dumped in a decomposing pit.

He nodded and looked past me, waving to my Mother who was still frozen on her sit. "I'm home."

"Yeah you're home and as if Mom failed to notice you." I rolled my eyes and earned a light punch on my left arm causing me to laughed. "You still punch like a girl!"

He huffed and I could already see fumes coming out of his ears. "I went away to study. Not to build muscles!" He defended which only made him sound as girly as ever.

But to be honest, he took over his father's genes that made them look good without the need of a work out. But he still needed some of it though.

He stomped away fuming which left me laughing my ass off. I really needed that laugh.

"W-Who...was...t-t-that?" I turned my head to the where the voice came from and saw Astrid looking a bit...flushed?

Shoving the train of thoughts away, I smiled. "He's my cousin. Aunt Casey and Uncle Aiden's son." I said and walked towards my Mom again.

I stopped in front of my dazed Mother and waved a hand in front of her. Pulling her from her own little world.

When she was finally aware and back from reality she looked at me. "Did you say something dear?" She breathed.

"Caden's home." I informed her which made her laugh awkwardly.

"Yeah, I know." She simply said, making her look innocent which she really wasn't.

I chuckled and shook my head. "Why didn't you say anything to him then? You just sat there frozen without saying a word until he left. What happened?"

"I-I'm sorry..." She blinked and cupped her cheeks with her hands, shaking her head a few more times. "I was just thinking...thinking that what if Celina was here? Would we be a perfect family again? I mean yeah we were never perfect in the first place but...but what if we were, you know... Complete?"

I sighed and plopped down next to her. She lifted her head up and looked at me, seeing all of her emotions swirled in her eyes along with the color that I was always so fond of since I was a child.

"I've seen you two boys grow up. I've witnessed everything that happened in this house-- I mean palace, but you get my point!" She shook her head and continued.  "I wondered what it would be like if Celina grew up with you two? What would have happened back then? Will he still have the same future that we're having right now or would it be...different?"

With wide eyes, I was taken aback. Shock and guilt ran through me as I recalled every last moment when she turned into someone-- or rather something that I couldn't even imagine.

"Mom, I'm sorry..." That was all I could say. We already had an agreement that I could only blame myself if I failed to get her back. But how could I not blame myself for something that I failed at?

By the time I started on my apology, Shawn and Astrid had already left the room to give me and my Mom some privacy.

Taking her hand, I cupped her cheek and brushed the tears that lingered on it with my thumb.

"I promise you that we will get her back. And when we do, we'll start over again." I breathed.

She looked at me, searching my face for any emotion other than guilt. Until she shook her head.

I pulled her to my chest as she released her tears and sobs.

I'll fix all this.