Chapter 153 - Fear and Guilt

"You know, I never got to know what Christmas is. Or how fun it is. Is it as fun as people say? Or it varies from person to person? I never got to know about this." Irvyn spoke up on his own, when all he got was silence and a look of shock from Yvette. "All I had for Christmas is, a dark house, as usual, where my father was off somewhere to attend some business party, and my mother, who knows where. I thought things might change later, and hoped that things would become a lot happier when my little sister, Emily was born. I thought maybe I was the eldest, and that's why I had to be the mature one, the one who can be a reliable son, a reliable brother. But things weren't turned for the better, either. All it changed was another person to leave me behind, on that cold winter night, all alone, in that big house submerged in darkness."