Salvatore laughs at Rami's face directly.
"Okay fine. I'll stop."
"Hmmp!! You always bully me." Rami complain as he put a strawberry wine in the glass and he proceed to sit right beside Salvatore.
Salvatore juts chuckled there again.
"So, how are you? It's been a long while until you came back here. I thought you already forgot about me."
"As if I'll forget you. I just got very busy.
"I'll really punch you if you do that for no reason."
Rami rolled his eyes at his friend's harsh voice.
"I really got busy. I promise."
"I believe you for now. So, how's your brothers?"
Rami sip on the wine glass while staring at the garden.
"As usual, they're still the same. Nothing new. I can still feel that they can't seem to treat me as someone close to them. I can still feel the distance in the way they treat me."
"Why do you still want to be there anyway? I've been offering you for a long time to just stay with me." Salvatore ask Rami with curiously. He knew Rami's pain while being there.
"Salvy, you know me. I want to be with them. Even if that's how they treat me. I still love them. And another thing, aside from treating me coldly, I'm not being mistreated there either."
"Even so. They're still hurting you."
Rami signed and reassured Salvatore, "I'm okay, I promise."
Salvatore looks at Rami directly, when he saw that Rami can't see him from eye to eye, he can't just refute whatever Rami says, "Okay fine. Just remember, I will be always be here for you."
"I know. I'm so glad you're here with me Salvy." Rami smiled.
"Anyway, I believe that the way they treated me, they don't mean it. I know they have the reason. I'll just wait for them to say it to me."
"Until when? Until they realized that they had hurt you badly? Your human too. You're not an immortal. You feel pain. You have a bottom line. Will you always tolerate them?" Salvatore said aggressively when he heard what Rami said. He even put down the wine in the table and stand there facing Rami while his hands were holding the both side of his waist.
"Salvy, please calm down. I know what I am doing. My tolerance to them will not measurable. Even you and your family, especially your brother. I love them okay. Also, as I said a while ago, they didn't maltreat me there, they just treated me coldly. I can manage that. At least as their step brother, they treated me good enough. I can't ask for more."
"But-----"
"They are also my only family left. At least, in them, I still have a family that I consider and I can say I really belong. Even though I'm not close to them." Rami interrupted Salvatore.
"Okay. I've lost. No matter what I say, you won't listen anyway." Salvatore said in defeat then he turned to pick his glass again and drinks in it.
Rami usher for Salvatore to sit again which Salvatore complies.
"Hahaha. you know me!!" Rami said triumphally.
After sitting, Salvatore leaned on the side of the sofa while he stares at Rami.
"I learned that you got hurt." Salvatore asks.
Rami look at Salvatore, uncertainty in his eyes. Deciding if he would tell the truth to Salvatore.