Chapter 3

Deep in the night where crickets sound can be heard. A young girl's complexion is starting to pale. Laying on the wooden bed with two young boys beside her. She started twisting and turning. Her face is as white as a sheet of paper.

"Stop… hitting… zzZ..." Zeno whispered sleepily. He was still in dreamland when someone hit his face in a not so gentle manner.

"help…" The young girl unconsciously murmured.

Her body is sweating. Her lips are pale, completely different from its usual reddish color.

Seth got up as he noticed that something was wrong. He looked at the girl beside him. Her body was trembling as she talked in her sleep, weakly, "help… me…."

"Alex! Wake up! It's just a nightmare!" Seth paled as he saw her weak state. His heart throbbed in pain, hearing her soft and weak whimper.

"ALEX!!!" He couldn't help but shouted, worriedly.

Just a few hours ago, she was fine, smiling brightly like the sun as they play. But now… who would've thought that she'll be suffering like this…

"What's happening? Who stole my meat?! Alex, you meanie…! zzZ…" Zeno muttered, in his slumber, completely oblivious of the situation beside him.

Seth tries to shake Alex's shoulder, gently, hoping that she will eventually wake up from her nightmare.

"ZENO!!!" Realizing that it didn't work, he shouted at his twin, who was still sleeping soundly.

Getting no reaction from his twin, Seth threw his hard pillow on Zeno's drooling face, waking him up abruptly.

"Ouch! Who hit my perfect, beautiful, one of kind, pointed and gorgeous-looking nose!?"

He yelled, still in dazed as he rubs his red nose.

"ZENO, YOU BASTARD! GET UP! GO WAKE MAMA D NOW!!!"

Seth shouted at his brother, without even bothering how he broke his nose a while ago. Zeno, still in dazed, looked at his brother sleepily.

'What's happening…?' He thought, what Seth said was still registering in his mind, slowly…

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"Did you just cursed me?" Hearing his brother cursed for the first time, Zeno's face was full of surprise, his eyes wide open.

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"I.D.I.O.T ALEX IS IN DANGER!!! GO GET HELP NOW!!!!!" Seth roared at his twin.

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Zeno looked at Alex beside him and saw how pale her complexion is. His heart hammered loudly at the sight.

Without even blinking an eye, he jumped out of the bed and hurriedly left, shouting for help. Who knows how many times this poor fellow tripped while panicking like a mad man.

"Alex… hang in there." Seth whispered softly, his eyes was filled with an endless sea of anxiety. Seeing her like this was the hardest and scariest thing he had ever faced. For the first time in his life, he feels hopeless.

If his twin saw his face right now, how much emotion oozing out from him, he'll be shocked to death.

"help… pain… hurts…" Alex quietly sobbed. Her face shows how much she is suffering.

Seth kissed the back of her hand, hoping that it will let her know that someone is there beside her, always.

"it… hurts… can't… make… it…." She whimpered, twisting and shaking. Her head was turning from right to left.

"My child! What is happening!" mama D, entered the room with the village doctor and Zeno who is sweating coldly.

"Quickly! Heal her!" Mama D pleaded to the village doctor.

The village doctor, still stunned from the sudden awakening earlier, was greeted by the worried tone of the old woman.

"y-yes… yes…" He replied in dazed.

He checked the young girl's pulse, trying to find out what's going on. Feeling the normal palpitation of the girl's heart, doctor hesitantly said, "This… her pulse is normal… I-I don't feel anything wrong at all…"

"How could this be?!" The old woman yelled.

"Quickly! Wake her up!" The doctor suddenly exclaimed.

Seth and Zeno tried every method to wake her up, still it was to no avail. She couldn't wake up.

"hurts…" Alex cried painfully.

"Where? Where does it hurt?" Zeno worriedly asked. He was fully awake at this moment.

Sobbing, she said, "head… head… hurts…"

"Here…?" Zeno kissed the young girl's forehead, praying that it could lessen the pain. With his twin's action, Seth face darkened without him being aware of it.

"hurts…" Alex cried.

"mom… momma… *sobs*… I want momma…" Hearing this, the old woman couldn't help but cry at the pitiful plead of the young girl.

Delilah, Alex's mother was still not home for three consecutive Sundays already. The old woman, mama D, was worried so much. She hadn't been able to contact Delilah, her phone is not reachable.

Afraid that Alex might worry, mama D told her that her mother's not gonna' come home for a while because her work is getting busier and busier.

She didn't expect that until now, she still can't reach Delilah.

"This child…" She whispered softly to Alex, wiping her sweaty forehead.

Mama D didn't know that deep inside Alex, she was really worried and she misses her mother. Despite the fact that she never interacts much with her mother, just a sight of her makes Alex's heart at ease. She feels secured for some reason.

They had this connection as mother and daughter.

But now, she hadn't seen her mother in almost a month! This unconsciously triggered something in her. She's not used to it. When her mother promised that she'll come home, she always does all the time.

She trusts her words.

Suddenly, mama D approached her, telling her that her momma isn't going home because she's busy.

'Momma won't break her promise.' She thought.

Time passed and it's the 3rd Sunday. She hadn't seen a shadow of her mother yet. She began to worry but she hides it well, or so she thought.

She wants her momma...