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A HOUSE OF CARDS

I used to be happy. This village was my world, i couldn't imagine anything outside of it; no people, no animals, no trees existed outside of the village. Little did i know that my safe sheltered world was so delicate, so fragile, like a house of cards

And like a house of cards it all fell apart.

It started off with a small tremble, up there in the top so far away from the safe base that even I didn't notice it at first.

Ben.

Ben used to work in dad's diner as a bus boy, he used to let me into the kitchen and show me all kinds of cool machines. The eleven years old me liked Ben, he was nice and always had a piece of candy for me. And then puberty hit. He grew to an enormous size, his muscles bulging like a weight lifter and his moods were always changing from anger to gloominess and back again. He quit his job, and he became distant, preferring the woods than the village. One by one his friends left him until none remained, not even his girlfriend. Looking back that little quake that caused my house of cards to fall- seemed unrelated to me, simply a case of a self-exiled teenager.

And then two years later the first card fell, flattening the top of the pyramid.

Leon.

Leon, my cousin was very energetic, and he never stopped to think before he acted. I could always count on him to take me to adventures, he even introduced me to the art of the fist (as he called it), when my brother refused to teach me. He was a cheerful, fight loving person, until Ben infected him. He grew big and distant, he stopped getting into fights and whenever he was close to showing any glimpse of passion, he either left the room or Ben would take him away. Leon lost his individuality; he became Ben's shadowy image. Always following Ben around, Leon even began to imitate Ben's style, cutting his hair short and wearing ripped t-shirts and jeans even in winter's heart.

The second row fell soon after the first card.

Embry.

I didn't know Embry well, but- me, worshiping my brother as the smartest and most awesome being in the universe, sow no bad in Embry, my brothers choice for a best friend- until he fell to Ben's disease. The symptoms were the usual- a growths sprout into a big corpse that has no individuality or character traits. The days after he was viciously cut off from his best friend, shattered in me the perfect big brother image I had of him. He seemed so broken, so fragile that I too had troubles coping with the new reality. After the first card in the row to fall there was a period of time, were nothing moved, and then the whole row fell fast. The heartless Embry, took my brothers girlfriend. Yes, you heard right that bastard not only hurt my big bro in the worst way he could, but he even came back to stab him just in case Ivory wasn't in enough pain. So my brother was left to die bleeding from internal bleeding, his best friend and his girlfriend both turning their back at him. My betrayed brother turned all of his anger and hatred not at those who hurt him but at Ben himself. I thought it unfair but my brother still refused to think bad on his exfriends. In the end some of my brother's feelings seeped into me, and so I came to despise (with reason) Ben's cult.

For a while the house of cards seamed almost stable, but at the next collapse, the damage was so great, it was hard to recognize the house for what it is.

Half a year after Embry, my brother reached his sixteenth year. There were small changes in him, he began to grow bigger, and his body temperature was higher then usual. Ivory would joke around saying that he might have caught the virus from Embry, but in the end he would assure me that his growth is just natural, and that he will never join them. But I still feared the change. Despite his jokes and denial, the Ben cult started to keep an eye on him, every where he went they would watch him; they always followed him, no matter how hard I tried to protect my brother.

And then the day I feared the most came.

A/N I haven't been on fan-fiction for a year or so, recently I have received some reviews from a story I wrote (named Thoughts), and because of those reviews the desire to write was reignited in me.

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