My Brother's Best Friend

Chapter 18

Emilio's POV:

I wake up to the sound of my alarm going off, making me get up from my perfectly positioned comfortable self to turn it off.

Damn you, alarm.

I turn it off then turn around facing the window, but instead of finding the window in front of me, I find Luna. She was all curled up in a ball beside me with her hair all over her face. I smile at the fact that I woke up to this, an amazing soul right beside me. I gently move the hair that was covering her face revealing a peaceful Luna that has fallen into a very deep sleep, it looks like.

I check the time and it's only 8am, and it's a Sunday which means that tomorrow is the beginning of the last week in school. Which also means that next year is college. Which also means that I won't be seeing Luna around often.

God I hate overthinking in the morning.

I stay in my bed scrolling through my phone beside Luna who was still asleep then finally decide to give up my beautiful comfy bed and get up and head to the bathroom.

I enter the bathroom and look in the mirror and almost scream from the sight. My hair was sticking out from all angles and my face was just.. you don't wanna know. It must be because of the lack of sleep I've been getting lately. I water my hands and try to tame my hair with my hands and it works (yay). After that I just wash my face, my teeth blah blah all that stuff.

As you can tell I do not like to go into details in the morning.

I leave the bathroom and find Luna still sleeping, but her position has changed. This time, she wasn't all curled up. Her head is on my pillow- on my side of the bed- , her legs and arms all in different directions and her hair back on her face, covering it.

Wow, her and Rebeca have a lot in common I guess.

We're going to the hospital again today to see Dylan and Kaitlyn. Dylan hasn't left at all, he stayed the night with Kaitlyn. The doctor said that Kaitlyn might be discharged tomorrow morning, since she was already getting better. But I just don't get it. Why would her own family blame her for her own brother's death? She literally had nothing to do with it. As far as I know, Mason loved Kaitlyn the most and same with her. What happened the night Mason died? I certainly do not know. I don't think I want to know, but if it helps end the abusing for Kaitlyn, I'll be more than sure about discovering it.

I leave Luna in my room and go downstairs to prepare breakfast for both of us. I know Luna likes waffles, but she practically adores cupcakes. So, I'm gonna attempt to bake cupcakes for the first time in my life. Hopefully I don't fail miserably.

I start looking up for recipes on my IPad and watch videos on how to bake chocolate cupcakes. I lean my IPad against a wall on the counter and start to get out the ingredients and stuff I need. I follow the video step by step to make the batter, and I actually do well! I check how many minutes and how many degrees I need to get the cupcakes fully baked and ready then I place them in the oven with the given information.

"Now I wait," I say to myself as I feel very proud of this amazing accomplishment.

I sit down in the living room while scrolling through my phone, watching old videos from when Rebeca was seven and I was three. Mom had went through all the DVD players and recorded the videos off of the television. She sent it to both Rebeca and I last week and I keep watching them since then. In most of the videos, I see Dad appearing laughing at Rebeca and I's stupidity. We used to live in a very small house, we were a very happy family until Dad left us without saying a word. In these videos, Dad looked so happy along with Mom. Rebeca remembers him most, she says he was just like any other father and was extremely nice to Mom, so there was no way he was possibly hitting her. If he was, I would've remembered hearing stuff and Mom wouldn't stay silent about it. I guess we'll never know why he left us.