18 Chapter 17

Matt suddenly wakes up beside me, panting and sweating with brows that are pinched together and filled with worry and panic, looking around the room as if he's checking to see if whoever was scaring him in the dream is real and is here in the room with us. His eyes landed on me and he scooted closer while his lips trembled and he hugged me tightly. I wrapped my arms around him and shushed him by rubbing his back softly, up and down while he silently cries.

I waited for him to slowly calm down and I was supposed to part him away to wipe his tears but he shakes his head and held my shirt tightly. "Don't." I heard him whisper so I nodded and continued to rub his back.

"Can you tell me what you dreamt about, sapphire?" I asked him quietly in concern while he buries his face into the crook of my neck.

I get now why people call me his mother because I think I might be really treating him as a son rather than my little brother. He does the same to me, I think he looks up to me like I'm his mom and my mom is his grandma. He trusts me so well and isn't afraid of me.

"I-it's..." He shakily sighed and his hold of my shirt got tighter.

"Shhh...tell me when you're ready." I shushed him and he nodded while I heard him continuing to cry which made my heart break a lot.

After a while of his crying, he calmed down in my arms and he becomes heavier, that's when I hear his light snores so I placed him again on the bed beside me and I laid down beside him, watching over him while I looked at him in concern. "What's gotten into you, sweetie?" I whispered even though I know he won't answer meas he was fast asleep already.

I sighed and looked at the time. I don't think I'm going to sleep tonight. I wanted him to sleep peacefully now and thankfully, there aren't fireworks today because that shit is loud but it'll only make this harder for me to stay away and make sure that I'm here if he wakes up again and needs someone to comfort him, like a good mother would do to her child.

Morning came and I didn't sleep. My mom and dad, disturbed my staring at the T.V, watching horror movies that actually makes sense so I would be frightened and so I would know what to do in case any of that shit happens to me. I groaned and get up from the bed while stretching, my eyes are a few seconds to drop. Matt didn't wake up after that but he is always whimpering and he looked so scared.

I fixed my hair and opened the door with a glare at them and they immediately frowned while looking at each other then I remembered that I was supposed to be smiling but right now I don't fucking care. "What do you want?" I snapped at them with my groggy voice.

Mom's eyes squinted and she glared back at me, causing me to be taken back. "Watch your manners, please." Oh so she can, glare and frown? That's amazing so I don't need to smile now, right? But confusing as hell.

I almost rolled my eyes but only nodded. Dad smiled at me and goes inside the room, followed by mom. "How are you, Luna?" He asks with actually concern for me and I saw him examining my face to see how am I but he doesn't need to do that to see how fucked up I look.

"Dad, I feel like terrible so I think it's obvious that I look like a walking corpse." I said while walking over to the bed and sitting on the edge of it with a loud sigh while my fingers run through my hair, stressed about everything.

He chuckled so I snickered and smiled at him. Mom walks over to me and place a hand on my forehead. "You're burning, why don't you just sleep for today, honey?" She said while cupping my face and looking at me with worry.

How can they be like that? I mean I thought that they're being controlled too so why are they aren't acting all smiley and stuff? I am so close to having a break down but I didn't instead, I nodded and gulped.

"Wait-but I can't. Matt's not well too and he only trusts me so I can't leave him with you. I think when he wakes up he'll ask me endlessly to have fun and walk out of that he- uh, heavenly paradise...?" I stopped myself and they didn't look like they noticed what I almost slipped and only smiled at me.

Both of them looked at Matt and nodded. "Just make sure to take some medicine and eat a lot."

Dad walks over to us and kissed Matt on his forehead with a smile then he looks at me. "You're like his mom." He jokes with a stupid grin and mom laughed while I just nodded.

"I know."

They looked at me in shocked while they laughed and I shushed them. "He's sleeping!"

Dad pouts and I snorted at him. "Fine, we'll leave you now. Just eat okay and I'll leave you one of my credit cards in case you're short in money." He takes out his wallet and gets a card before handing it to me and I thanked him while he hugs me. "I don't think we'll be seeing much often here because you're kids and kids wants to be alone without their parents so make sure to enjoy and call us in case something happens to any of you." He kissed me on my forehead too and smiled at me before making their way out of the hotel room.

Mom smiled at me and waved goodbye before they closed the door and I sighed, a huge relief washing over me because I feel suffocated when I'm with them because I know they're controlled and one of them.

I looked at Matt and smiled at him before walking him up. "Sapphire...wake up."

He only hid his head into the thick blankets and waved me off. I laughed at him and tugged on the blankets. "Come on...I'll treat you anything you like for breakfast." No response. "Even candies..."

He peeked and I saw him smiling while looking at me. "Candies for breakfast?"

I laughed and shake my head. "I meant you can eat candies later after eating breakfast."

He rubbed his eyes and sat up on the bed while yawning. "Okay...then can we eat waffles for breakfast?"

"Anything you want, sapphire. Come." I walked over to the bed and picked him up. "You go shower while I prepare your clothes, okay?" He nodded and smiled at me.

He doesn't say anything about last night, I think he doesn't remember anything but it's better because I don't like to seem in that condition.

I left him inside the bathroom and closed the door but didn't locked it. "I'll help you there if you want! I'll prepare your things first!" I tell him while I began to pick out some clothes for him to wear and I looked outside the window to check how it looks outside so I can choose appropriate clothes for the weather.

"No need, Luna!" He shouted back and I laughed then I heard the water running so I proceeded to pick out clothes for the both of us while different thoughts runs inside my messy mind and repeatedly yawning.