Fargile Heart Chapter 3 – Mystery Revealed

Chapter 3 – Mystery Revealed

So William stayed in our room, keep watching his brother carefully, like he was expecting something.
And it happened!

Cian was twitching, tossing and whimpering in his sleep, just like what happened in his first night. I guessed this is what William had expected. Right away, William checked his forehead. There’s no warm, or hot body.
“Cian….?” he tried to waking him up.
But Cian didn’t hear. He kept tossing, and struggling.
William wrapped him up, “Shhsss, it’s okay, Cian, I’m here. Nobody is going to hurt you. You are safe, now. It’s okay, Ci, I’m here.”
“Nicky!” in his sleep.
William sighed in relieved, “Sorry, Ci, Nicky is not here. But I’m here. It’s okay, nobody’s going to hurt you,” he kept wrapping, wiping Cian’s forehead, and smoothed his hair, till Cian fell back to sleep.
I watched in mesmerised, as Cian stopped struggling. I know there was something worst had happened. William sighed in relieved as watched Cian in deep sleep.

“Tell me, Will. Now! I can’t wait till Cian are willing to tell me. I need to know it now! It must be so that bad.”
But he just starred at me.
“I’m his room mate, Will, I have to know it!” my voice raised up.
“Okay!” with lowering his voice. “Okay, I tell you. Cian would hate me for doing this.”
“I’ll talk to Cian.”
He just nodded.
“What happened, Will?”
“Bad childhood, Daniel.”
“What? What happened? Who did that to him?”
“His father.”
I stunned. “His father?” I don’t get it. “Mr. Sulliv_”
“No, Daniel. We’re not a real brother,” for made me shock.
“I know, it’s kind of shocked you, but Cian wasn’t my real brother. My mother has him when he was 10 years old. At that time we were still in Ireland.”
Okay, this is more stunned me.
“My mother found him on the street. He was badly bruised. Bleeding from open wheals on his back. His father who did that. He beat him everyday.”
“Why?”
“He took the blame of Cian’s mother’s dead. She died after bringing him to the world. And his father blamed it to Cian. That’s why, he beat the living daylights out of Cian since he was about 3 years old.”
I sighed hardly.
“His brother was trying so hard to free him from their father. He love Cian so much. So when he met us, he sees the chances of saving Cian. And he did it. He gave Cian to us as we moved to England. So here he is, with us.”
“And his brother’s name is Nicky Fiennes?” I guessed
“Yes. “
Okay, it cleared now. Who’s Nicky, and why Cian so happy of receiving the letter from him.
“Cian loves Nicky so much. He was the only safe place for him. The one who wouldn’t hurt him. Nicky was his rock, who kept him strong and alive from daily beaten.”
I went silent.
“When we first met Cian, it was a horrible sight. He was pale, skinny, scared, uneducated, full body bleed bruised, and not talking. He was so scared to talk, even to let the voice out, as his father would beat him even harder if he ever dare to cry or whimpered. And it was a long journey for us to make him want to talk again. Three years, we were finally made him invoice again. That’s why, mother sent a private tutor for him, to bring back his normal life. His trusted, his confident, and his knowledge. And I tell you, it wasn’t easy. And that’s why, this is a big effort for him to go to this school, and how much we worried about him. He had gone through hell, and we don’t want that happened again. We love Cian, me mother loves him very much, and he deserved to have a normal. Doesn’t he?”
I just nodded, ‘of course’. I couldn’t believe what just I heard. How bad Cian’s life. How Cian had suffered. No wondered, he was so clumsy and so scared. He really had been trough hell!
I watched him, how he slept in peace. There was a pain inside my heart to know how suffered he was.
“Thankfully, your mother found him.”
“No. I think he found us. And we glad we could safe him from that bastard. He was still in recovery. He such a good kid, I love him. I have seen him as my little brother that I never had.”
“Yeah,” there’s no doubt at all, as how they protecting him so much. And I think I have loved him too.
“And thank you for being his friends, Daniel. I hope you can understand why he is so introvert and so shy, he just don’t want anybody know about him, it still a trauma for him.”
“Yes, I can understand that.”
He nodded in little smile. “Well, I think I could leave him with you now, as you have know his past. Watch my bother, Daniel.”
“I will.” I don’t know why, but yes, I would love to watch him over, and taking a good care of him.
“Thank you. You’re such a good friend, Daniel.”
I just smiled.
William smiled back. Then he looked back his brother.
“Well I think he has settled now, we could go back to sleep till dawn.”
I looked the clock, ‘it has 3 am now’.
“Don’t worry, he’s alright.”
I just nodded, and laid on my bed while William laid beside Cian, watching him over. I watched them mesmerized. Nobody thought that they weren’t a brother! What a good big lad. I smiled, then tried to sleep.

TBC