Fragile Heart Chapter 19 - Meet Nicky

Chapter– Meet Nicky

“Hey!” I picked up her bag from the ground.
“I’m sorry,” Cian helped me.
But she didn’t seem care. She was still ensuring what just she heard. She froze.
“Y…you, Cian?”
“Yes, Ma’am.”
She was blurring now. And she couldn’t help it, she bursted out into Cian, and hugged him tight.
“It’s really you, Cian? You really home?” she even tighter.
Cian almost couldn’t believe with this expectation. Someone had waiting for him. Someone he didn’t know. ‘Who’s this lady?’
Till she finally let the hug off, and showed her tears. Tears of joy.
“Nicky had waiting for you, Cian. He had dreamed you will come. He knew you will come home!”
“Nicky?”
“Yea! He always dreamt about you. Every night. He missed you so much!”
Cian almost cried to hear this.
“Hai, Mrs. Fiennes,” two little girls greeted her as they passed.
“Oh, hi, Claudia, Suzie,” she smiled gently.
“Hi, Cian.”
Cian was surprised. But the call was not for him. It was for the little baby on the box as they played with the baby and cuddling him, till he chuckling so cute. Cian was shocked now.
“See you later, Mrs. Fiennes, bye Cian,” as they excused.
“See you, Claudia, Suzie.”
Cian was still in shock. So did I. ‘Mrs. Fiennes? Cian?’
But she gave him a smile. ‘Could it be?’
“I’m your brother’s wife. I’m Katherine, but you can call me Kate,” she took Cian’s hand. “And this is Cian, your nephew.”
Cian stunned. ‘Sister in law? Nephew?’ Cian with disbelieve, but it was real. And this baby has a same name with him.
“He has name same with me?” he looked to the baby who now smiling at him.
“Yeah, you brother named him same with you so he could remember on you. And he indeed has your face. You both are so likely,” with smiled.
Cian almost smiled, but also honored.
“Maybe we haven’t met before, but your brother always talked about you, and his love and his missed on you, make me could feel the same. I feel like I have loved you, Cian.”
“Thank you,” Cian smiled
Katherine smiled with taking her breath in relieved. “Nice to meet you, Cian, and…”” she turned to me.
Cian remembered, “Oh, I’m sorry, it’s Mr. Adams, Daniel Adams, my partner.”
I shook her hand.
“Nice to meet you, Mr. Adams.”
“Nice to meet you, too, Ma’am.”
She eas back to Cian.
“Nicky must be so overwhelmed you come home, Cian. That’s what he has waiting for.”
Cian just nodded.
“Please, come inside,” she opened the door.
I helped her carried her bag, while Cian still hesitates to come inside. I could feel his fear.
“Come, Cian, this is your home.”
But still it didn’t comfort him. He took a deep breath and braced himself before he came inside.
And when I got inside, I shivered myself. I could feel the sense of fearness and the misery. This is the house where Cian lived his hellish life.
Cian scanned the house. It hadn’t changed from when he left. Still have three chambers. A living room, where Cian always landed unconscious, one bed room who was belong to him, a Citchen on the back, and one stair to the attic, where he and Nicky used to sleep. Not forget, the small closet under the stair. Still same, but had been reconstruction, and clean.
Cian still stood where he was, and looked at the closet.
Till suddenly, right in front of him a boy laid on the floor. He was bad bruising on his butt and thigh. A big guy picked him and threw him to the closet then locked him, and he left. He came back with a big bag of rats. He threw the rats to closet and locked with the boy.
Cian watched in pale. He could hear the boy was trashing about, panicCing with the rats. But the man just laughing.
Cian approached the closet and tried to open it. It Unlocked. And there, the boy tried to cover his face and his body from their bites. He was terrified. If he could scream, he would scream as loud as he could. But he never dares to let his voice out again.
Cian closed his eyes, didn’t want to remember it.
I touched his shoulder gently, “You alright, Ci?”
“Yes, I’m fine.”
“Come,” I lead him to sit.
Kate could see Cian’s pale face. She knew the closet had been Cian’s nightmares. She could sense that. She then went to the Citchen.
Cian was still looking this house with discomfort, as Kate came with the tea. This house was still something he scared about.
“I know this house leaving bad memories for you, Cian, but Nicky didn’t want to sell it, even when your father died.”
Cian bit his lips. “Nicky never told me when he died.”
This shocked her, “He didn’t?”
Cian shook his head slightly.”
“Well, maybe, he didn’t want you to remember him again. He was so afraid to get you hurt again. He just wanted to cover you, Cian.”
“Yes, I know.”
Kate smiled, “Nicky kept insist to live here, so he could see your face. He sees you on this house. He didn’t want to leave you again.”
Cian only could smile. He was sure now, Nicky still love him. That’s the only matter for him.
“So where’s Nicky?” he shyly asked about his brother.
“Oh, probably still on the dock. Just wait a moment, he would come while I prepared for dinner. Why you don’t play with Cian.”
“Sure,” he looked to the baby who had on his box.
Cian approached him and picked him up. He smiled at him! Cian was overwhelmed!
I went to his side and looked at him. I held his hand; I could feel what he felt.
“You made it, Ci.”
“Yes, Daniel, I made it,” Cian sighed in full relieved.
*
Nicky still looked this sea. It had sunset, he started to doubt Cian was coming home. He thought him so fool to believe Cian would come. He probably had forgotten it. He forgot his hometown, and all his bad memories here. Cian wouldn’t come back.
He took a deep breath, and then walked home. ‘Whenever you would come, Ci, I’ll always wait for you here.’

Nicky walked home with smiling, as he imagined the happy Little Cian’s face at home waiting for him, not Cian’s pain pale face at the closet.
*
“He will come soon,” Kate made sure, “Hey, you sleeping,” she turned to the little Cian on his uncle’s lap. “Here; let me take him to his bed."
“He likes me,” Cian with proud
“Of course. He knows his uncle,” Kate teased him as he took the baby to his room, made Cian blushed and even proud.
“I home!” a warm shouted was heard from the door as opened. A big man was coming inside.
I looked at him and Cian. I swore Cian was frozen, and I could feel his heart beating. He froze as he saw the man before him. But not only him, this guy was too froze as he looked to Cian. Only on Cian, not on me.
“Nicky?” Kate made sure his husband was home. And she found his husband had stood in shock just before Cian.

TBC