"From the start..."
I pressed my lips, my chest growing heavy as I stared at the figure sitting opposite me. His face was different. His build was different... and everything about him felt different.
He was so different from the brother that I knew.
And that...
That shit hurt more than I expeted.
'Just how much has he gone through to be like this?'
"....You were always here. Watching over me."
I closed my eyes, feeling my chest tremble as a certain pain surfaced from deep within.
The more I thought about the situation and the struggle Noel had gone through, the more obvious it became to me how incompetent I was as an older brother.
I...
"I don't need your apology."
Noel's voice suddenly cut through the silence.
Staring at me, he sighed.
"You're always like this. You never change... But I'm glad you haven't changed."
He seemed a little relieved as he spoke.
