Hello all....here is the part 2 of chapter 26, I hope you like it. I had to rewrite this chapter multiple times...'coz I felt something was lacking (I still do...), So sorry for disappointments if any...but on the whole I still hope you'll like it.. see ya...

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Mew's apartment,

          GUILT..., Mew knew all too well of this emotions since he's been struggling with it since his parents death. All the sleepless nights, the tear stained pillows, the un-swallowable meals...everything kept rushing back to his present memory. But thankfully from years of practice he also found a way to build a dam and control them more efficiently from flooding his mind. Shaking his head to clear his misty eyes, he looked at Gulf and saw the exact same pain in his face...that broke Mew. His mind kept repeating Gulf's words 'killed his sister' but his heart showed it clear Gulf was in pain irrespective of what he might learn later Gulf needed him him now.  Mew gradually stepped towards gulf and touched his hand. Gulf at once collapsed on the ground sobbing while biting his lips to control his angry screams. Mew slowly kneel down next to him and caressed his back letting him cry... something he's used to doing from time to time for himself.

        About half an hour later, Mew had finally got Gulf to stop wailing his eyes out and made him sit on the couch, he handed him the glass of water settling next to him. "Gulf? you..." mew started but gulf suddenly held mews hand in a death grip startling him, "they were my family...Mew!" he said from his gritted teeth, Mew looked at Gulf stunned by the anger mixed pain in his voice..and also hearing gulf call his name for the first time. Gulf swallowed the invisible lump in his throat while his misty eyes fixed on Mew "...they were the only people who showed me care and concern after my mother..." another year escaped Gulf eye. Mew  momentarily glanced at Gulf hand holding his feeling the shiver in Gulf's hand shake. Mew understood that whatever had happened in their life, had and has been affecting Gulf more than he could've imagined. Though a part of him wanted to know about it, his compassion was bigger than his curiousness.

Gulf took a deep breath releasing Mew's wrist, but at once Mew held back Gulf's hand; Gulf looked at their hand and at Mew with a hint of smile. Gulf looked ahead "....it took us years for us to free ourselves from the people who brought us here...until then we had learnt all the wrong ways and jobs to survive in the city..." Gulf said with a guilt while Mew silently watched him. Mew could imagine his difficulties of surviving in this city without anyone to look over them...and the real part of him knew he would have turned if not his parents. Gulf's voice brought him back again, "Apart from my brother...i had the most wonderful sister and a best friend..." a small smile played on Gulf's face. "...we didn't care of anyone or anything else...just each other, but I wanted to give them the world" Mew smiled at Gulf's earnest words. Gulf's face slowly darkened "...and that's when met the arrogant bast**d...his name was Vincent Jarret...a complete stranger who very willingly helped us that time, he told us he needed help to start his own business and aybe in our own!" Mew had too many questions in his mind but stayed silent seeing how Gulf's rage slowly began to rise.

           "...he told us he was trafficked to city like us... desperate to have a better living we believed him until...he showed his true color to our sister..." Gulf gritted through his teeth. Mew felt a child sweep through his body, the emerging rage from Gulf's made him understand where he was getting and being protective of his sister himself, he could feel a hint of rage inside him. Gulf took a deep breath having a smug smile for a second, confusing Mew "...and we showed him... to never mess with our sister!" Gulf smiled looking at Mew with pride that slowly melted into a sorrowful look. As soon as Gulf started to feel the burn again, he closed his eyes reliving the fateful day.

*FB

Gulf and Mild sneered at Beam who visibly squirmed under Muk's glare, who slowly crossed her arms across her chest "What? you don't think we can do it??" Beam at once jumped backward raising his hand in defense. "Of course we can, Muk!...we will buy the bar...we'll sell more than just booze... Thai food too..." Beam exclaimed and looked at Mild and Gulf for help but they just stared in return. Muk with a hint of mischievous smile just started back at Beam, she slowly turned to her brothers with a genuine smile and kissed them bye before walking to the bar where she works. Beam let out a loud sigh and dropped his head, both smiled at him with a pitiful look "...Next time buddy! Off you go now!!" Mild tapped on Beam's back, who dragged his feet to the same bar as Muk. Gulf laughed as soon as Beam disappeared into the entrance door to the bar, "...God phi! when do you think he'll tell her??" he started while both of the brothers started to walk away. Mild sneered shaking his head "hmm... probably not even after their marriage!" he joked while both of them laughed being the witness to his failure to confess for the nth time in the past couple of years.

In few hours at warehouse,

       Gulf somehow felt a little unsure of seeing all his recent "taken" goods in place, "...we should get rid of these soon phi...we can't have them in place for long!" he talked aloud so Mild who was standing a few feet away could hear him. Hearing no reply in return, he turned to see Mild looking at his phone confused and quickly call someone. But before he could walk up or ask him, his phone rang flashing an unknown number making him feel a strange fear at the pit of his stomach. He clicked the answer button and placed the phone to his ear without answering it vocally, after a few seconds of silence a laughter erupted giving Gulf chills down his spine. He recognized it...the laugh he hadn't heard for the past few months, "Classic K! did you miss me??" the voice jokingly asked making Gulf wanting to throw the phone on the wall. Gulf took a slow - deep breath, though he wanted to give a witty answer he didn't want to feed his play "What do you want?" he asked in a stern voice. Gulf turned towards Mild who finally turned towards Gulf from his phone and walked towards him when he recognized Gulf's hardened, angered face.

             "Snappy as always huh?...I just wanted to give you a heads-up on the farewell present I've prepared for you....you know...for the sake of our brief association..." The sly voice from the other side was feeding Gulf's anger even more while Mild watched concerned. But before Gulf could respond, the voice spoke again "... actually it turned out to be a present for me..." he paused a second confusing Gulf "...hearing your two favorite persons scream!" followed by laughter. It took a few moment, but Gulf froze in shock and looked at Mild with his fear-stricken eyes. Trembling from inside imaging the worst of things, Gulf spoke "Vince! whatt..." but it took him a minute to realize he had already cut the call. Mild shook Gulf seeing him tear up for the first time, "Kana, what happened?? what did he say??" Mild shook Gulf out of shock. Gulf looked at Mild, "Phi! M... Mu... Muk... Be... Beam..." he stuttered when Mild phone rang. Mild at once answered thinking it might be Muk/Beam whom he's been trying to reach for the past one hour, he answered the call "Beam??" and froze just like Gulf had, confirming his worst fear.

25minutes later,
Outside the city,

             Gulf and Mild hit the break in their car, jumped out and ran at once in tears; the long line of traffic made it hard for them to see anything upfront...except for the residue of smoke raising slowly up the sky. They finally saw the crowd and pushed through them upto the police tape. Their heart almost stopped at the site of the completely burned car at the corner of the road, Mild almost lost his balance feeling all his strength drained out. One of the cop trying to contain the crowd walked by Gulf asking them to back up, while Gulf stood frozen Mild frantically grabbed onto the officers arm "Off...  officers... we're searching for my sister and..." he stuttered. The officer interrupted Mild, "Wait wait...How old is your sister??" he asked to Mild whose eyes were still fixed on the debris.

           Gulf snapped out of his shock "She's 19...and..." but before Gulf could say more the officer interrupted them again "Well there no 19yrs old in the victim... ther..." a loud voice called the officer interrupting him. Another officer jogged towards them, "Sir, we just found two burnt bodies at the trunk of the car...it's a guy and a girl...looks like both of them were in their 20s..." the officer who heard the news turned towards Gulf and Mild whose faces had lost its color. Both the brother stood rooted to the place, unable to move or speak as their whole world crumbled to pieces in front of them. Having confirmed their identities, both Mild and Gulf walked up to see what was left of their family...only see a burnt silhouette of two people hugging each other.

*FB

Gulf cried remembering every detail of the day very clearly, "...he had destroyed our lives...in seconds..." Gulf sorrow slowly turned rage "... and that bastard ran out of the country before I could catch him...and his cunning father who actually planned his getaway...has been saying that his son went missing after...he's been after us since then thinking we might find him first ... " Gulf whispered through his gritted teeth. Gulf out his head down in defeat "...but I hope his father does find him... so I can kill him with my own hands..." Gulf spoke while Mew watched him in shock as if a part of his own heart had been ripped off. Batting out his tears, he looked at Gulf fearfully at vengeance he'd been holding in all these years. Despite all that, he could nearly imagine the agony Gulf must have gone and going through, he placed a hand on Gulf's shoulder trying to calm him.

        Gulf shook his head "I wish... I had never...met him or..." Gulf paused trying to control his emotions. "If...if only I didn't accept his help! P'Mild would still have sister... happily married to Beam..." Mew couldn't bare to see Gulf in such state, the past was eating him...something Mew's been familiar with. Wiping his own tears, Mew grabbed Gulf's clenched wrist and tugged on them to make Gulf face him. Mew cleared  his throat "Gulf! Listen to me...you are not to blame for any of this..." Mew's warm-honest voice and intense gaze held Gulf from crying again. Mew held Gulf's hand close to him "... don't do this to yourself... you're... you're not..." he tried to find the right words but couldn't.

            Helplessly Mew engulfed him into a firm hug, and without a second though Gulf fell into his shoulders sobbing uncontrollably. Mew closed his eyes and let Gulf pour our hos emotions in tears, while stroking his hand over his back. Every cell in Mew's body wanted to reassure Gulf...he almost smiled for wanting to place a kiss on his temple, just like he used to do for Becky when she was kid, to make her stop crying. But he knew, nothing he does might do any good at the moment, he slowly lowered his head on his shoulder placing his lips on them... and kissed him ever so lightly. He wasn't sure if that would have made any difference to Gulf, but to Mew it was promise he made to himself to always be there for him.... irrespective of his goals. 

later that night,

             Mew walked out of the his room with small quilt in his hand, he quietly walked to the couch where Gulf had fallen asleep exhausted from all the crying. He knelt down gazing at him, he swiped the last set of tears fro Gulf's cheeks before covering him with the quilt. The sudden warmth made Gulf toss, and Mew who thought he was having another nightmare instinctively rubbed his thumb between Gulf's eyes. But Gulf feeling the pressure on his forehead unconsciously grabbed Mew's hand and held it tight before falling into his deep slumber. Mew stayed in his place for few seconds thinking he right release his hand but seeing the peaceful face of an exhausted Gulf he slowly fell back settling himself on the ground. 

       A sad smile appeared on Mew's face thinking about the past few hours, he was scared for both the brothers and their gang. He couldn't blame Gulf for wanting to kill 'Vince' for what he did...but having a 24X7 mark on theirs head for a supposed misunderstanding by Vince's father, was driving Mew nuts. Exhausted from overthinking, Mew raised his head looking at the ceiling and smiled thinking of the time when he had to momentarily go through the same phase. His gaze moved from the ceiling to his parents portrait and withing seconds Mew welled-up remembering the before and aftermaths of their accident.  Mew sadly smiled looking at the picture and turned to Gulf, he carefully brought the hand that Gulf was holding to his lips and kissed it whispering something. He slowly got up from the floor and leaned in to kiss his forehead before standing up...with his hand still under Gulf's tight grip.

Next day morning,

Mew walked out of his room while buttoning his cuffs ready for work, "You know you can stay here right?" he asked looking at Gulf who had also gotten ready to leave with Mew. Gulf smiled "Thanks doc but...i need to get back!" he answered thinking of something unpleasant. Mew sadly watched Gulf without insisting him ore when both their phones on the coffee table, rang aloud separately alarming both. With a quick glance at each other, both dashed to attend their call. Mew reading Luke's name on  the screen and walked ahead answering his call, while Gulf answered the call rooted in his place "Phi?" he answered anxiously. Within seconds both their faces changed to surprise; Mew at once  searched around him, picked up the TV control and switched on the television.

      Gulf turned around to face the television with the serious look, watching the morning news flash. Both their eyes were glued to the news that reported about a body that was found near East river, and just as they showed the identity of the person both Mew and Gulf's jaws dropped. Mew couldn't believe what he was seeing, he had just seen Yin last night and seeing his dead body on the television was almost making him sick. Mew's head whipped towards Gulf at once in shock, and watched his shocked face turn into a stoic one. Gulf took a deep breath "He gets what he deserved!" in a nonchalant manner, with his eyes fixed to the screen and phone to his ear. Gulf glances at Mew before walking away from there talking to his brother, while Mew just looked on surprised by his reaction and turned back to the TV. Gulf soon cut the call and turned back to see Mew looking at the TV disturbed.

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I know...I know...it's probably a very confusing and frustrating to read tye chapter but I'm still hoping you would somewhat understand gulf brief back story, I just didn't want to drag it more...so I had to give it in brief (maybe some what chopped) version.

Again sorry for disappointments... Do let me know any suggestions or complaints for this chapter in the comments below.

Thank you and see ya'll at the next update

Take care and stay safe

Divi