Chapter 3
Gene~ Noll~ come to big sisters' arms.
Do you want some 'desserts'?
Big sisters loves the two of you veeery much!
Gene, my honey~
Noll, my love~
Ahh! P-please stop..ngh.. this! N-noll..!where is.. he?! Ahhh!
Ngg..!Ahhh! G-Gene,h-help me! It hurts..my whole body hurts!
Please! Please, d-don't put that thing in!
Don't let other women touch you besides us, okay, Gene, Noll?
Gene! Noll! Where are you?!
Don't touch us, you whores!
No, please, don't do this to us! Gene, honey, Noll, our love, stop this joke at once!
Noll, my love, please put that thing down at once!
Gene, stop your brother!
Good bye, big sisters~
See you in hell…sluts.
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No one's
Gene woke up with a start. There it was again. The nightmare that keeps hunting in their dreams. The past that they can't escape no matter how much they want to forget about. The past was already part of them, so as them being part of the disgusting past.
He told his self every single day that it's his fault. If only he didn't invite those innocent-turned-out-to-be floozies at their birthday, they would not experience those hideous tortures. But, things can't be changed. This change happened on a summer day. On the day of their 13th birthday.
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14 years ago
Summer
September, 17, 20XX
It is a beautiful summer. The cicadas are creaking, the birds were flying from post to another post. Everything is in good mood, except Eugene. And here he was, walking down their block because his LITTLE brother told- more like ordered or else the demon spawn, also known as his brother, will tell their Mum that he has a girlfriend, when he is just 12 years old- him to buy a freaking sketchbook, when someone called his name. He turned left. No one. He turned right. Still no one. Maybe it's just the heat of the summer that he is starting to hear things, but suddenly, something, or rather someone, hugged his neck from behind.
"what the fu-!", he was surprised when the stranger clasps its hand to his mouth.
"Eugene, didn't I always told you to stop cursing?" He turned around to look at the blond stranger.
"Oh, it's you, big sister Linette.." Gene sighed. The stranger, Linette, released the boy's mouth.
"Hey, you don't have to call me big sister. People will think that I'm already old. It's only a 6 years gap. And why is it that you sounded like you're disappointed?"
"Eh? Ah,no..It's just…"Gene started to fidget and Linette frowned at the young man's weird movement.
"Just what? Aren't we friends? Friends tell each other a secret."
"Well….I-I have a girlfriend! She's my first girlfriend. And..and I think she is already The One for me! My brother told me that I'm still young to think those kinds of things. Yeah right, as if he has the right to talk."
Eugene happily announced and continued his rambling about how he met this particular GIRL. This caused the young woman's frown to deepen.
"What about Noll? Does he have a girl he likes?"
'How did she know Noll? I haven't introduced Noll to them yet ,have I?' Gene thought but easily discarded it as the woman snap her fingers in front of Eugene's face to catch his attention.
"Ah, no, he doesn't have. But, I think that Dad will one day arrange a marriage for him. Why?"
'This is bad. I ,no, WE have to do something, or else the twins will be taken away from US.'
"Linette? Is there something wrong? You look like you want to kidnap someone. Just kidding!" Gene laughed at his joked for the blond woman.
"Oh, yes, I will kidnap someone." Linette murmured. Being unable to hear the blond's murmur, Gene just tilted his head to the left. The young man checked his wristwatch and saw that is already nearing his curfew.
"Linette, I have to go, or else Mum will know that I left the house without informing her."
"Wait! Does… does your Mum knows about me and Bridgette?"
Bridgette was Linette's older sister, though just a year apart.
"No. I haven't mentioned the two of you yet. Though, she wants to know and thank who sends those beautiful flowers to our house every month. Why, do you want me to come with me today?"
This caused the woman to inwardly panic.
"Oh ,no, don't do it!", Now, it was Gene's time to frown.
'She looks like she's panicking. I wonder why?'
'O-okay. I really have to go." However, just before he turned around to walk away, Linette caught the boy's arm.
"Yours and Noll's birthday are on the 19th,right?"
"Yep. And, oh, thanks for mentioning, Mum and Dad will held a small party at the house. So, you want to come? It will start at exactly 12:00 PM."
'Party, huh.' Linette thought.
"Oh, yes, we will be there. We will be there at exactly the clock strikes to 12 , and personally give you the best birthday GIFT that you will ever receive, Gene~" Upon hearing the word Gift, Gene started squeeling and hugged the woman's neck.
"Thanks, Linette! You really are the best! I love you!"
Linette caressed the boy's raven hair and sinisterly said,
"I love you, too, Eugene A.J Davis, my honey."
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Summer
September, 19 , 20XX
11:00 AM
Gene was standing and getting ready inside of his walk-in closet when someone hugged him from behind.
'They really love to hug me, do they?'
"Gene, honey, happy birthday!" The said boy turned around to smile and kissed his Mum's cheek.
"Thanks a bunch, Mum." A minute of silence was observed between them. His mum properly tying the necktie, when it was cut by his mum, Luella.
"Today is your first stage of entering the teenage years. Today is also the start of you being a responsible man in the society." , as Gene heard those words, he childishly pouted.
"Muuummm~ You talk as if we will be gone for a long time. Save those for the greeting of us later."
"But, I have a feeling that-"
"Yes, mother, save those as FOR Eugene's greeting later, and-."
Noll-Gene's little brother also known as the Demon's Spawn, though he would not tell it to anyone or his secret having a girlfriend will ACCIDENTALLY spread around the house- intervened their mother's response.
"Things like 'I have a feeling' are not true anyway, mother. They don't have any scientific basis." Noll slowly approached the duo and also kissed his mother.
Luella just chuckled at his youngers son's comment.
"And that's how Oliver E. C Davis, the Idiot Scientist, graced us with his ever witty comments." Gene sarcastically murmured, but Noll heard and glared at him.
"Stupid Medium." Noll teased.
"Idiot Scientist!" Gene refute back.
"Yes, you are a Stupid Medium."
"No, I'm not!"
"Yes, you are."
"No, I'm not!"
"No, I am."
"Yes, I am! Ah, no, I am, oh, no, you are, ah, whatever!" Gene, irritated, pulled his hair in frustration.
"Hence, that's how Eugene A.J Davis confirmed his self as a Stupid Medium."
Noll smirked at his brother's glare. Luella saw the entire scene and etched it in her memory. She knows that Noll likes to tease his brother. Such fact is true, but behind those teasing contains nothing of hatred but a feeling of brotherly love. She doesn't want to break this perfect scene, but she knows that all things have an ending, including this teasing contest or they can't get ready for the upcoming party.
"Boys, aren't you forgetting something?" the blond woman asked.
"No, mother, I am not forgetting that Gene is a Medium, and a stupid at that one." Noll answered without glancing back at his big brother.
"Mum! Noll is teasing me again!" Gene jabbed an index finger at his smirking brother's place.
"Noll, stop that, and Gene, go comb your hair again." Luella playfully scold her twins. But before Eugene could go to his dresser, and Noll to sit on the couch, Luella caught their respective arms, pulled them to her, and hugged them tightly.
"I love you, Eugene, Oliver. Just always remember that Mommy[1] and Daddy loves you with all their hearts. We may not be always there for you, but just remember that we will promise to protect you, with our body, soul and life."
Luella tried not to cry, however, she heard a small sob, and she knows who it was from.
No one said anything. Gene still continued to sob. Noll was silent, however, she knows that he is contemplating in his own way, and it is by sticking his face on the crook of her neck.
She will miss these times that she was alone with her twins. Her, watching the bickering twins, and them, acknowledging her presence by trying let her agree to one of them.
'I will miss these moments. Wait..why did I thought of something like that?'
Martin, standing at the door's frame, smiled. However, just like Luella, he can't help but think that something will happen. A bad one at that. Hope was there that his intuition this time is wrong. Hoping…and hoping.
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September, 19, 20XX
11:50 AM
Even though the party has not yet started, the mansion's front yard was full of the twins' classmates, family friends and kids their age.
Gene and Noll, who was forced by a certain older twin, greeted the guests one by one.
Throughout the greeting Oliver kept at looking at his brother who keeps on looking around the yard, as if finding something, or rather someone. So, the younger of the two decided to approach the older one.
"Eugene, what's wrong? Are you looking for Erika? She called just now and said that she might be late."
"Huh? Oh, yes, I know. It's just that..I'm looking for those two. I wonder why they're late." Eugene started on nibbling his nails.
'He's nibbling his nails. Is he, perhaps, nervous? And of what or whom?"
Gene glanced at his brother. Upon seeing that he is looking at his way, he decided to tell what was on his mind since the before the night of their birthday.
"Noll, I think something's going to happen. A bad one. My heart is palpitating loudly against my chest. Please tell me that my brain is just playing tricks on me." Gene grabbed his brother's shoulder, as if to hold on for his life.
Noll, seeing the distressed look of his brother, started to comfort him by holding the shivering hand.
'When Gene says that something is wrong, something IS wrong." Is what he want to say,but….
"Gene, that's just your imagination. Nothing but an emotion extracted by your brain. I think that's what you called 'Suspension bridge effect'. You're taking an another emotion for the other because you were in a situation that you can't think clearly. Perhaps, your brain interpreted the excitement of once again seeing Erika into a nervous one because she's not here yet. Or, maybe you're just nervous because there are many people here that you don't know."
Along the explanation, Gene's eyes started to swell with tears. Touched that his brother is trying his best to comfort him in his own way.
"Oh, boy, I wonder why god gave me a brother like you." Gene's laughter was heard throughout the yard.
"I thought you're not a believer of god. Well, maybe he contemplated that a stupid Medium needs a capable Idiot Scientist." Noll smiled at that one.
"Ha! You admitted that you're an idiot scientist."
"Just this once, okay. Happy birthday, big brother."
"Little brother, Happy Birth-"
Unfortunately, Gene was cut when a waiter interrupted him.
"Sir, someone was calling you outside. Should I let them come in?"
"No, it's okay, I will go to them. Thanks, you may go now."
Gene turned to his brother.
"Noll, I will be out for a while. Will you be okay here?"
"No, I will come with you."
"Are you sure? Mother will surely come to find you."
"She is busy tending with the guests. A one, two or three sons disappearing will not bother her. Not now at the least." Noll simply joked.
"We don't have a third brother, you know"
At this, Noll faked a gasp.
"What? Then who was that pale faced kid who keeps on sleeping beside you every night then? "
"Noll! Don't joke like that! That's creepy."
Gene lightly tapped his brother's shoulder.
"I'm not joking, though."
Although that statement fell on deaf ears as they neared the front gate.
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September, 19, 20XX
12:00 PM
"I wonder where are the ones who called me."
PAK!
"Noll?"
Upon hearing a strange sound like a hard object hits another hard object, He then faced the other one when what he saw made his blood run cold. Noll was lying unconscious on the cold hard surface of the pavement, with a small puddle of blood pooling his form. He slowly registered the form of the assailant. None other than his older friend, Linette and her sister, Bridgette, who were both holding a wooden baseball bats on their respective hands.
"Hello, dearie~ Happy Birthday."
And the world became black around Eugene.
Annnddd!That's a wraaapp! Okay! Midterms are currently on the way, but since I'm not motivated to do anything since my friend told me that my crush has a crush on SOMEONE more beautiful than me( I am not beautiful anyway! Hmpf!) so I just continued this lovely work of mine! It's kinda hard to act like Oliver! OH! My bestfriend gave me a notebook with the twins as the design, I was like "I LOVE YOU!" anyways enough with the rant.. what are your thoughts? CONSTRUCTIVE criticisms are welcome! Haters gonna hate anyway! R AND R!
Noll:That hurts like hell.
Gene: Yeah, thank god that it's not metal bat.
Mai: I'm not there. It hurts
PsychoSomatic Delusion: It's okay dearies, pain pain go awaaayyyy~