Hi. Welcome back :). This is the second part of my sequel. Hope you enjoy.
Inside, Matt heard a lively conversation in the living room. He recognized the voices of his mum and dad and also his brothers' voice. His whole family was there. Casey closed the door and took his hand. It was shaking, but Casey escorted him in the living room. All laughers silenced. Suddenly, everyone was looking at the door, where Matt was standing. It felt like an eternity to him. Has this been a good idea? What was he thinking, just appearing at their doorstep? For a moment he wanted to just turn around and run the other way, to disappear again, but he didn´t. He looked at those very familiar faces, which were just staring at him. Matt couldn´t make out, if their faces were frozen, because they were happy, shocked or frightened. A feeling of uncertainty was spreading inside of him and he could feel it rushing through his body like a lightning bolt.
His mum broke the silence first and when Matt looked at her, she started crying. She ran towards him and hugged him. She squeezed so hard, it was almost impossible to breathe, but he had missed that. He had missed them all. "I thought you were dead. Where have you been all this time? Why didn´t you message me? I worried sick." Matt´s mum said with a shaky voice. These words were the relief that softened his doubts. They let go of each other. Matt felt the need to explain his recent actions, so they would understand why he had to leave. "After the events in downtown Seattle I needed time and space. I needed to do something for Andrew. One last thing." Matt answered.
His father walked towards Matt and grabbed his shoulder. "What happened in Seattle? It was all over the news, but we all couldn´t understand it." He said and looked at him questioningly. Matt swallowed. He knew that he had to tell them everything now, what happened to him and what he had done. Matt was searching for the right words to make his story more understandable. "I don´t really know, it happened so fast. Andrew was in the hospital and had a fit of rage or something. After blowing up half of the hospital, he wanted to kill his father by throwing him out of the window of his room. I couldn´t just let him die, so" there he stopped.
Matt looked to Casey, who was there with him that night. "...so, I flew up the building to catch him. No matter how he had treated Andrew, he is still my uncle." Everyone looked startled. Casey grabbed his hand again and smiled at him a bit. This gesture was what he needed in that moment. Matt remembered a situation, when he was cooking spaghetti with her before the events in Seattle. They were talking about his plans for the time after high school and which college to go to. Casey asked him, how he could handle so many things at once. Everything was so easy in the past. Inwardly he smiled. Back then, she had no idea what was going on, but now that Casey knew, he wished he could turn back time to undo all the wicked things.
"But how can you fly?" Matt´s mother asked after a while. "Actually I don´t know. You don´t need to be afraid of me. It´s still me. I haven´t changed." He replied in the hope that no one would see him as a danger. "Oh we know that." Matt´s mum said and hugged him again. In that moment Matt was so calm and happy that he completely forgot his surroundings. He felt at home again with the people he loves, no matter what. In the know, that the worst part of the story was still to come, he went on. "Well, after that, Andrew became angry at me for saving his dad, so he began to chase Casey and me. He lifted Casey´s car and dropped it onto the Space Needle. He pulled me out of the car and let Casey fall to the ground."
There he stopped and looked at Casey. She looked traumatized and scared. Matt turned to her "I am so sorry for what he did to you." He said. "It isn´t your fault and you saved me." She replied and tried to say it convincingly. "I wanted to stop him and tried to talk to him. I wanted to convince him to leave, so nobody else would get hurt. It turned out completely different and that attempt just blew up in my face, literally. We fought and" he took a pause. He was afraid to say it out loud. He was afraid of the reaction towards it. He really had to overcome himself. "I ended it. Right there I was. Everyone was so helpless. Andrew would have killed everyone there. I couldn´t let that happen."
Matt closed his eyes. Nobody said something. His little brother was just sitting in the corner of the room, silently. He looked at Matt, but didn´t dare to say something.