The Box and City Aquarium

I look at the box that's on my hand and suddenly Noah came out from his room.

"I heard Isabelle's voice. How could she came to our world?"

"What do you mean?"

He look at me and the box that I'm holding. Then he try to find someone who gave me the box but no one's there.

"Isabelle. She's Madam Francis daughter and they can't go to our world. But the girl's voice that I heard before, it's absolutely Isabelle's voice."

"Well, she gave me this box. . ."

"Open it."

I open the box then inside the box, there's a map, a piece of paper, a book and a letter. We both get into my room and sit on the couch. I take a look at the map, it's a map of my home country and there's a place that's being circled with a red ink. When I take a closer look, there's an arrow that points at a big mansion which is my house.

"This is my house. But why?"

Then I take the piece of paper and I read it,

- A hidden room in the attic. There's a door behind the abandoned canvas. Unveil the red curtain. The painting is behind the door. Your must not tell your parents about this.

After that I take the letter,

-- Dear, Sera. Please read everything that's in this box. I can send Isabelle only once in her lifetime to your world and I use that chance for this because this is important. You can go to the place that I've marked in the map anytime but make sure that you go to the attic through the paintings. No one will notice your presence if you use the painting. Ask Noah's help for that. Once you stand in front of the Demonic Painting, you have two choices, the first one is to reopen the Demonic World or destroy the painting for eternity. I can't tell you how to reopen the Demonic World because you're the only one who know the way but if you choose to destroy it, this book might help. But remember, every action has consequences. It's your task to find out the consequences. Ask Noah to make a room inside the Painting Dimension where you can hide the book. Make sure that this book safe and don't let anyone read the book or have it.

I put the letter on the table and I take the book from the box. It's a thick book and there's no title that can explain what's this book about. I open the book pages carefully but suddenly I stop and close the book.

"I will read it later, if I decided to destroy it. Noah, can you paint a room where I can keep this book?"

"Sure."

I take the book with me and head to Noah's room. Noah take one small canvas and he start to draw a safe. Once he's done, he touch it then he take my hand and together we put our hand inside the canvas. I open the safe and put the book inside then I close it and set the code. It's like a real life safe, I can press the number and once I decide the code, I press the * button and the painting suddenly move. I can see a word 'locked' form on the canvas then slowly disappear after a while.

"Wow. . ."

"Do you want to keep it or not?" ask Noah,

"Please keep it for me."

Noah take the painting and he walk upstairs then he place the painting near his bed. He walk downstairs afterwards and smile at me,

"It's safe. No one will ever know that there's something inside the safe painting."

"Thank you."

My phone suddenly ring and I answer it, it's from my mother.

"Yes mom?"

"We'll be there in 10 minutes, dear. Ask Noah to come with us, ok?"

"Sure. . "

She hung up the phone and this time it's Noah's phone that rings. He answer the phone and set it to speaker mode. I can hear my sister's voice,

"Hello big brother~!"

"Hello."

"Will you come with us today?"

"I have no schedule or anything today so, yeah. Sure."

"Yay~ You are part of the family now, I'm so happy! Anyway when will you ask sis to be your girlfriend?"

"Err. . . I don't know."

"That's too bad, just, ask her as soon as possible ok?"

Then she hung up the phone and I clench my fist, "I will punish her later."

"So, it's family day?" ask Noah.

"I guess so."

"Well, let me get dressed and tell me when they're here."

I walk back to my room and Snowie is standing at the connector door, meowing at me. I pick her up and take her to the kitchen. I put her down and put some food on her bowl and fill the other bowl with fresh water. I get dressed then I check on Snowie. She's sleeping on the kitchen floor. She's so cute, I pet her slowly so she won't wake up and I hear someone knock on the door.

I hear my mother's voice from the door, "Darling, open the door."

I walk to my door, open it and I see my mother and my sister but father is nowhere to be seen. Noah come out from his room and greet my mother politely. I ask my sister where's father and the answer is,

"He said that he needs to go somewhere and he can't join us today."

"I see."

I let them in but they refuse,

"No, we don't need to come in, just take your keys and let's go." said my mother.

I walk back into my room to take some keys while Noah's talking with my mother and my sister. I pet Snowie once again before finally I walk out then lock the door. We head to the lobby area and decide the place that my sister want to visit.

"The city aquarium!"

My sister loves marine life very much and then we decided to go to the city aquarium. We take the tram and after 20 minutes, we arrive at the city aquarium. I buy the ticket and we walk into the aquarium. I walk around the aquarium and sometimes I take a picture of the fishes. Noah follow me around and one time, we got separated from my mother and my sister. We head to the penguin area where there are so many penguins that's laying their eggs. Some of them are swimming around and some of them are playing with each other. I point at one of the penguin that's caring for each other,

"Look, Noah. They are so cute."

"Yes, they are."

Slowly Noah wrap his arms around my body from behind and rest his head on my head. I can feel my cheek flushed red. Then he move his face closer to my ear. His warm breath caressed my ear as he softly whisper to me,

"Do you want to us to be like that?"

Before I answer, I can hear my sister's voice, "What a lovey dovey couple."

Noah immediately let me go and it's a very awkward moment. I run to the bathroom and I bump into someone when running.

"Sorry."

"It's ok, Sera."

I stop running and look at the person that I bump into. The first thing that came into my mind is, what is this person doing here and how did this person know that I'm here?

"I have a question for you, where is my lovely twin and how did you escape from them, also what did you do to them? If you don't answer that, someone will harm your sister."

"Tom. . ."