Okay. I'm sorry for making you either cry last chapter, or disappointing you at how crappy it came to be. I personally think it was dramatic. This chapter is too. Dramatic.

And since Argia's dead, I guess I could just say what her relationship with Dario is. I didn't give them much thought, to be honest. I saw them as two characters I was set to kill in the future. Which was hard. I got close to Argia.

The relationship between them lies in a one night stand, that gave them Dino. I might give that a chapter in the future. Idk. Lets just say it started from there to avoid complicated things.

hope you enjoy. Me don't own khr.

Chapter 14

Dino was obviously traumatized by the whole event.

He hadn't said a single word since, staring only at void nothingness for hours.

Romario was the most worried for my brother. I was, yeah, but I had a lot of shit coming. Most of them involved Dario.

He wasn't even affected by the whole fiasco. That much was clear. I had thought people would have serious doubts about it, that the Cavallone would see how much of a phony he was, but they didn't. They saw a leader who would always be a leader even in the darkest time of his life.

The problem was, without Argia to save me, his attempts at hurting me actually worked. I had two bruises in my arm to show that. One, I got hit by a vase. Two, a punch. Physical pain did nothing much to me, but it hurt.

I didn't want to dwell too much on what he'd do to get rid of me.

Argia's funeral wasn't a fun event.

Dino had broke down crying, calling out to the mother he had known all his life. I sat there. Staring at the crowd, wondering how many of them knew her as a mother. Or how it felt like to be her friend, or someone she grew up with.

Shamal had attended too, trying to look after me and Dino. Romario respected the man as well. Shamal asked him to take care of us. He told Romario that what my brother really needed was time, although he doubt Dino would ever forget this death.

"You okay, Princess?" He asked, sitting beside my small form. I was short for a six year old.

"Mmhmm." I replied. "Things are just gonna be different without mom. That's all."

He looked glad. "I'm happy you're not as bad as your brother."

"I wasn't that close with Argia." I told him. "I actually only started calling her mom last year. I don't know. I guess I was too fast for my age that I lost the values an ordinary kid should've had."

He nodded, taking in the fact.

"I bet you're closer to her than I ever was."

"Not really. I used to flirt with your mom. That usually ended up in a kick or a smash to the head."

"Mom never told me about her childhood."

"It wasn't much of a story. We met at high school. Lavina and I had been friends since elementary school. She even saved me when I tried to kill myself back at fourth grade. My dad died and I felt so depressed. Lavina jumped off to save me. We landed on a garbage truck, luckily. We used to be neighbors too. Then at highschool, we met Argia. Your mom was a badass blonde." He started.

"You could say lots of guys were after her. She was blonde, wore black, could kick ass, and everything a cool girl back then could be. I was after her too."

"All of a sudden, one morning, Lavina told me that they hung out, and that Argia was really nice. I scoffed then, but being fifteen and single, I was happy there was hope."

"So day after day, I courted her. Day after day, she kicked me hard to the ground. That made up our high school life."

"Then we graduated. She aspired to be an assassin, Lavina wanted to be a pianist and I somehow became a doctor."

"We never saw each other since."

"If you guys were fifteen then, how old are you now?"

"Thirty one."

"Holy crap. You are old." I commented, to which he rolled his eyes.

"I would've strangled you, Princess. If it wasn't her funeral."

"Then I'm lucky it was." My words were halfhearted.

"Will Dino-nii be okay?" I asked.

"He will be. He'll move on in a couple of months or so."

"It's hard for him, huh?"

"It's always hard to lose someone you love, specially a family member."

I nodded. Shamal rose up, preparing to leave. "I'll see you around, Princess"

"Ciao, Shamal."

I felt really bad for Shamal. He was alone now. His friends, both died of a disease, and he couldn't do anything at all for either of them. I didn't want to know how that feels.

I wondered how this world would act if I died. It was worse of a wonder how my old world was when I died. I barely remember anything from back then.

I wasn't even sure if I used to be a girl or a boy, if I was young or not, or if I had a family. Or friends.

I approached my brother. "Nii-san? Are you okay?"

I was startled at the glare he sent right at me.

"What do you think?" It wasn't just anger. There was hate.

"I think you're being stupid here, Nii," I told him. "There's nothing to be angry about. This whole shit is not the end of the world."

"Stupid? Me? What about you Cai? Mom's dead! She's way underground and you don't even feel sorry for her."

"Of course I don't. Wherever mom is, she's okay and happy because we're okay. Don't you dare say we should feel sorry for her because mom would've wanted us to stick together."

"How do you know that Cai?!" He shouted and Romario held him back. "Is she even important to you? Was she ever your mother?"

His words struck me hard. I had to repeat a mantra over and over again, telling myself that Dino was a kid, I wasn't, and that I should be patient with him.

"Dino, look. Argia was our mom. Mines as much as yours."

"Then why have you always called her Argia? Is this how you're gonna act when I die too? Like an awesome bitch who doesn't care about the world."

Ouch. That hurts.

"I care about Argia. And I call her Argia because I want to. Are family relationships so feeble that they can be judged by the way members call each other?"

"And there you are again. Acting smart. Saying smart words. I always hated that! You're supposed to be a kid. Go and play. I shouldn't even be arguing with you and your stupid mind."

"I know a lot more than you do, Dino. And trust me. When you reach a point of your life where you start seeing people suffer... I'm sure you'll know what I mean."

"How can I trust you, when all these years, all you ever did was correct me, and leave me. I never even felt like I was your brother!"

And that made me break.

"Well fuck you! All these years I tried my best to talk to a brother who acted like the boy he was. I tried to protect you when everything else was against you. I tried to be there as a teammate when you were losing. I did everything I fucking could Dino. And if all that effort means next to damn nothing to you, I might as well find myself a new brother."

That shitted him out too.

"Then look for one! I never asked for a sister and I definitely don't need one, anyway."

He walked out.

Romario tried to talk to me, patting my shoulder. "He didn't mean what he said, Miss."

"That doesn't change the fact he said it Romario. Dino might be a kid, but if that's the way he feels, then fine. I should've just done something better these past six years."

I stopped listening to him too.

"Miss. Forgive him at least..."

"Time will come, Romario. Hopefully."

I rushed past the people in the Cavallone mansion, because things had become too suffocating between me and the people I thought I had known.

I was at a loss for what to do next, or how to keep myself alive. It wasn't just matter of steering clear away from Dario anymore, or being my genius self.

I had to start from scratch and build myself up all over again.

I found myself wanting to scream, because I was angry. I was angry at Dino the most, and I found that odd because after so many years, I couldn't recall us ever raising voices at each other.

That's how things ended up after the funeral.

Dino came to my room a week later, Romario behind him. It was obvious he was being forced.

He wasn't meeting my eye the whole time. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean what I said and that's me just being a sorry excuse of a brother." He apologized.

Normally, I would tease him, how pathetic he was even at simple apologies. I chose not to. There was no trace of sincerity in both our words. We more or less became strangers.

"Yeah. It's okay now. Dino-nii."

And they left, leaving me to wonder what life was now, and what I was gonna to do change it because I refuse to live my life in crappy conditions as this.

I didn't care at all. I didn't care if the world would crash, break and burn that moment. I lost everything too fast.

I once again forgot to prepare myself for the worst.

And that's a mistake that could scar the most.