She Brought Light || Guy's POV

Chapter 67: "That Was Just Low!"

Mason and I pull up in the driveway at the same time.

After greeting Mason, mom, Cole and Emily walk into the house while Mason and I hang back for a few minutes. He still looks angry and I can see he doesn't really want to be here right now, but our parents are supposed to be leaving today and we have no idea what's going to happen with this whole Henry thing.

I feel for him, I really do. Mason will literally take a bullet for his family, especially his siblings and when Lynn found out about the racing yesterday, it put them all in a weird place.

I wasn't here to witness her anger towards them, but just by looking at Veronica, Mason and Cole, I knew it was bad and I can see just how angry Mason is at his mother, but at the end of the day, she's still his mom and he will always love her no matter what.

I haven't known Mason that long, well at least not on a personal level, but he doesn't strike me as someone that forgives easily. From what I know about him, he needs time to work on forgiving people but he won't do that if he's still angry with you.

And honestly, I don't blame him because I'm the exact same.

Before walking into the house, Mason warns me that Lynn might not glance in my direction but I wasn't really aware how it would make me feel until I actually walked in and she flat out ignores me. It makes me feel like a disappointment.

Ben sits in the living room with Cole and Emily, the two little ones getting all excited as they tell him a story about the movie the two of them watched this morning. Despite the movie being Jumanji, Ben pretends he hasn't watched the movie before and listens intently as they tell him about it.

After greeting Ben, I slip out of the living room and into Matt's room to find him just laying there, staring at the white ceiling.

"You look fucking depressed." I joke. Matt looks over at me and chuckles softly. I walk further into the room and sit down on the edge of the bed. "I heard about what happened. I tried phoning you last night but your phone was off. Are you okay?"

"Yeah." Matt sighs, nodding his head but keeping his eyes on the ceiling. "I mean I always knew she would eventually find out, but I didn't think it would turn out the way it did, you know? Ben and Lynn are like second parents to me and I feel like such a huge disappointment." He breaths out and I can see the tears welling up in his eyes.

I have no idea what to say. It's easy trying to comfort Cole. He's only 7 years old, and sure the little guy is extremely smart for his age, but Matt knows how the real world works. It's unpredictable.

"It just makes wonder, if my parents were still alive would they have been disappointed in me too?" He asks and a tear falls from his left eye.

My chest clenches.

"Don't think like that, Matt. You aren't doing anything wrong. It's not like you race. You're just there to support us. They wouldn't be mad at you for wanting to support your friends." I remind him.

Matt can race. He came with me to the tracks one afternoon and since we were the only ones there, we had a friendly go. He's really good, but he would never get behind the wheel and take part in racing.

He's just there to support us.

"I know." He breaths out a shaky breath. "I just," He sighs, more tears escaping his eyes. "I miss them so much." When a sob escapes, I swear it feels like someone stabbed me in the chest. I move closer and hug him because I know exactly how he felt.

The difference between the two of us is that he lost both his parents while I still have my mom and my dad is in the coma.

Matt barely ever cries in front of people. I can literally count the amount of times his cried in front of me on my one hand, and each time he cries, I feel a part of me breaking because he is one of the strongest people I know.