CHAPTER 4

Alyssa and I buried our parents at the backyard of our house after I had gained some strength. We sat quietly watching the place where we just buried our parents. I was very sad. I could not even tell them I'm back. They would not be there when I graduate. When I have my first child. If only I could turn back time. I would have come earlier. I felt the tears running down my face uncontrollably as my sister Alyssa comforted me.

She hugged me and she was as soft and warm as she was when we were kids. I cried harder tightening my arms around her. She did nothing but pat my back. "I should have come earlier Alyssa. I should have. It's all my fault that they are dead. I have been a useless son again haven't I?" I asked still crying. I couldn't believe that after a long time, I could still cry like this. "You aren't useless Danny. You saved me." I shook my head. "No Dana and Hazel did I would've lost you too. What would I do?" "Oh Danny cease crying. What do you expect me to do?" she shouted in my face shaking me. "How are you not sad Alyssa? I feel like I would be sad forever. I miss them so much. They died without seeing that I'm grown. They didn't even see my wife." I just continued to cry not realizing that I said something. "You are married Danny?" I sniffed nodding. The cry was under control now. "To who and when and how. Don't tell me it's that pathetic excuse of your girlfriend or ill murder you right here." "She broke up with me. I'm married to the daughter of the goddess of love." "Way to go Danny, that's a big catch. She is very cool." "And hot." "How did you two meet?"

"The day Tracy broke up with me, I went back to my hostel. I felt really dejected. I woke up the next day with someone beside me. She told me when she came I was sleeping so she slept. I got really frustrated then left her behind. I said some pretty bad things to her too. Her mother made me sign a blood oath to protect her daughter." "Do you love her?" That got me thinking, do I really love Dana? Or its just frustration. "I don't know. When I see her, I feel like she is the most beautiful creature on the planet earth. When I see her, my heart feels like popping out of my chest to embrace her. Her smile looks even brighter than the sun. But I don't know. It feels foreign to me." Alyssa was just smiling. She used the long sleeves of her dress to wipe my tears just like she use to do when we were little. "It's love brother, you are in love with her. I'm happy you found love."

"I missed you so much Alyssa." I wrapped my arms around her again. "You are the best little sister I would ever pray for." She tapped my back smoothly and whispered "I know I know little cry baby." She pushed me back then pointed her thumb at the house. "Let's go so I can see your wife." "Would you transform for me to see" I asked just like the little kid I felt like I am right now. She nodded giving me her beautiful smile. "Anything for the little brother." I frowned a little then punched her shoulder softly. "You are the little sister."

"No you are." She punched me back.

"No you." Arguing, we did not realize that we were in front of the door. She got annoyed and held my hair pulling it so hard that I felt my skull crack. I held her hair and pulled her hair when I heard a ladle hit the floor right beside me. We turned around slowly only to be met with Hazel standing with peanut butter in her face. Her mouth ajar and a ladle covered with peanut butter on the floor. She regained her posture and then asked, "What is going on here? Thank god Dana didn't see you like this, she would beat you black and blue with the ladle. Who told you that you could pull girls hair huh." I turned to see Alyssa and saw her smirk as she cried in pain. "Ouch Hazel he is pulling my hair." She left my hair then held my hands on her hair then started shouting. Hazel held my collar and then punched my abdomen.

"I told you no beating or pulling girls hair you dummy." I felt the air leave my lungs as she kept on punching me. Out of nowhere Dana held Hazel's face pushing her away from me. She shouted in Hazel's face, "what is wrong with you, you'd kill him." I held my knee panting.

"I didn't beat him to kill him, I did to give him body pains." She was about to pounce on hazel when I held her waist and took her away. She was throwing her hands in the air as I carried her to the kitchen. On the way to the kitchen, she shouted threats and cusses to Hazel. "Now now calm down. I'll be fine, I'm here, and I'm not dead. "She gave a smile and then stood up dusting her apron. "Dinner is ready my dear husband." she said walking to the stove. "Help me park it on the dining table. Hazel would do nothing but eat peanut butter." She looked ready to go back there and whoop here ass when she said the last part in anger. She seemed fine and I was happy that way waiting for the right moment to tell her how I felt. Her cheeks were a soft glow of pink. I helped her send the food to the dining hall. Yep it is a hall. Housed over fifty people. Just kidding. It's just a family dining room with just ten chairs around a long mahogany table. She had prepared a lot of foods. There was rice, she made pasta, roasted chicken, the shrimp looked yummy, and there was this thing that looked like roasted beef with source on it. I bet that was the only aroma that was calling up to me. With rumbling stomach I packed the foods on the table. I know my parents would have loved her. It brought tears to my eyes but I blinked it away. Wouldn't want Dana to stress out. Our emotions are felt by each other because of the bond. I hope she was too occupied to feel my sadness. I raised my head only to be met with her staring at me. I shook my head then smiled at her taking my seat at the head of the table with Dana on my right and Alyssa and hazel sitting on the first two chairs. They were sitting side by side, they seemed to be warming up to each other. Hazel threw a roll of pasta at Alyssa and she ate it. They seemed to be doing something more than warming up. They were feeding each other pasta. I couldn't help watching them. They seemed really happy. I turned to look at Dana. She took a fork, twirled the pasta around the fork and brought it to my lips to eat it. She nodded for me to take it. I smiled at her cute gesture then opened my mouth. She fed me and I fed her. I felt happy even with the sadness of the loss of my parents in my heart.

"So Danny you said little sister but I don't see anything little about Alyssa." Dana asked all of a sudden. "Oh I'm just a few minutes older than her."

"So you are twins." Hazel and Dana shouted together. They looked at each other and we all bust out laughing.

Alyssa asked. "so who is your mother hazel."

"My mother is the goddess of hate." She said shoving more food into her mouth so she doesn't answer any more questions. With that said we asked Alyssa to transform for us to see and she did. She made some hand gestures and formed her hands in a prayer form then she turned into a white witch. Hey eyes were two poles of lightening and her dress changed to a flowering one. She was levitating and had five swards hovering around her.

She could also change and design new clothes with a white flame power which she used after transforming. "I think I'm going to become a fashion designer." She said and we all laughed. Hazel joined her to do that changing clothes thing and they really enjoyed doing it.