I couldn't tell him...
He can't understand. I've tried to make him understand, I really did...
It was when we were playing hide and seek.
Echo hid somewhere and while I was counting as loudly as I can, mother called me.
She took me to my father's grave. The cemetary looked fresh and sunlight beamed through the horizon, unlike the terrible scene
"Leah...I'm sorry" she held her own hands tightly, her voice trembling and her eyes almost watering.
"You're not even an adult yet...and I put you through so much, you shouldn't have seen all this" She bent down to me and cupped my head. Her eyes were a beautiful red and more reddened by the enormouse tears she shed.
"It's going to get harder Leah. Your mother is coward. Please don't blame me..."She choked on her words, but forced them out.
"Your brother is suffering in his own way too dear. I want to tell you this now, if I never got the courage to say it again. Your brother...he..."
I held Echo in my arms, he was trembling more than usual. Looks like he's finally able to aknowledge it...or atleast he has caught onto it.
I knew you could do it.
"Leah...Riven...dissapeared?" His words carried cracked with it's weight, his eyes darted across the room, searching, for someone or something, a sign.
"Echo..." my voice trembled.
Keith brought a glass of water and handed it to me.
"Here. Drink this" I handed Echo the same water.
His hands trembled and he brought the water to his mouth half of it spilling to the ground due to the violent shaking and...
He went quite, his head resting against my chest, taking shallow breaths.
"Keith...please change his clothes...let him rest please" I looked up to the Keith, silent and composed but I was able to see it now.
The worry in his eyes.
He nodded.