Heart-wrenching. 

Heart-wrenching.

Tilting my head in the woman's direction, I saw her looking at my baby brother on my lap with a trace of a smile playing on the corner of her lips, however.

"Is the child yours?" Catching my gaze, she asked. Unnerved, upon hearing her, I was stuck for the first few seconds, but when the meaning struck me after a few movements, my breath hitched in my throat.

"N-no! He is my baby brother." I faltered at her abstract question but answered politely nonetheless. She smiled abashedly at me.

"Oh, sorry. I should have thought about it. You know, you both almost look alike, and that reason pretty much confused me," she said, catching me off guard. Knowing not how to reply, I nodded again meekly at her, smiling lightly. Showing it was all right. “You both have a great age difference.”

I nodded at her with another one of my soft smiles. “We do.”

When will the rain stop? It had been raining cats and dogs since I woke up. I mused, turning my head to stare out of the opened