Realized

A sigh of relief slipped his nostrils as he sat on his bed, he stretched his arms high in the air and yawned loudly, he had gone into so much stress today, following each and every order made by his younger brother. He was tired having him around bossy, he couldn't just wait to get rid of his evidence. Nathan tucked himself underneath the grey duvet, his fingers reached for the switch, with one click, the whole room went dark. Few minutes later he drifted off to sleep.

Like the light bulb switch, his eyelid flickered open as he found himself consumed by thick darkness. At first, he was perplexed, one minute he was in his room on his cosy bed, the next minute, he was in some weird dark place. As the darkness surrounded him, he could literally feel the thickness of his environment and for some weird reasons, it felt like strands of metallic threads crafted in such meticulous manner as if to trap someone in it. The darkness felt like prison.

There was an eldritch golden glow that emitted from his body, this golden light tore apart the personified darkness. Then, his instinct told him to move, to get out of there. As he moved his right foot, he realized that his snickers had been caught up in black goo. He sighed as he navigated his way with the help of his body glowing, he was sure to find an exit, that was if there were any.

Each step he took towards finding a way out, he realized that the goo was retracting, it began to rise taking its shape, elongating its goo's shape as it began to form three arms at its right side, then four arms with sharper and longer claws at the left side. Then the goo bubbled into a head, growing two large horns at each side of what seemed like it's head, it had distinct rounded red eye like that of a cyclone. Without fear, Nathan gripped the golden hilt if his sword l, he just discovered he had it in his hand the whole time.

The creature screamed as it beamed fire lasers from its eye with a smirk and confidence worn like a garment round his girdle, he tightened the grip of his hilt dodged the laser by driving to the other side, rolling before getting his stamina. He placed his right leg back while his left forward, crouching a little as if working out on your glutes with a dumbbell, he swung his sword right at the creature's hands. It let out a distorted scream as it charged at him in anger, roaring like a wounded lion. His sword came back to him, piercing the body of the creature behind, there was s symbol at the back of this creature, concentric circles, but he didn't take long to study it. He got another perfect swing of his golden sword, cutting its remaining hands. In annoyance, it grew another pairs of claws rapidly scratching his face.

With a loud gasp, Nathan's body jerked up from such dream, no, nightmare. He began to rub his eyes, as he tried controlling his speeding heartbeat.

"What a weird nightmare, you won't scare me." He sighed as he encouraged himself. "Wait a minute." He gasped, touching his cheek as he tried feeling any marks or cuts. He turned on the light, running straight to his mirror, he moved closer to the mirror as his tongue pushed his right cheek from inside his mouth. He ran his fingers through the smooth spot. He sighed in relief.

"Thank goodness, no bruise or any of the stuff." He yawned loudly. "Well, time to return to bed."

He slumped on his bed, before he closed his eyes, his alarm buzzed. "It's morning already?" He groaned. "Great, just great." He kissed his teeth with his lips before he sluggishly walked to go freshen up.

Getting dressed in his school uniform, he walked downstairs, strolled into the kitchen counter. There were Joe and Kristen, just like usual, into another phase of argument. Kristen was already in her uniform dress but her hair was still rough, making her look like some cabin girl that worked overnight. Joe had teased her with that and she took it off her head.

"Mum." Kristen shrieked, her voice not allowing her to shoutthe way he wanted to. She ran into the dinning where her mother was packing their lunch packs. "I can't take this anymore, you need to punish Joe, he is crossing his limits."

"Why would you want mum to punish me? Don't you know you will have to share in my punishment?" Joe continued to tease her.

"Damn you! I would surely prefer a female as my twin, not some kind of annoying thing who claims to be a handsome boy. I wondered why or how on earth you were able to make so much friends despite how ugly you are."

"Of course! I am not surprised, you consider everyone ugly when you don't like them. Words better than ugly to qualify them will be more appreciable and it will even make you look more intelligent even though you ain't." Joe smirked.

"Giddammit!" Kristen patted her forehead in frustration. "I don't even - even - whatchamacallit? Mum, did you know what Joe did?"

"You both should get ready, you won't be able to have breakfast today if your school bus arrive early. This argument will only make things worse."

"Forgerrit mum, Joe has done something terrible and you must punish him. He and one of his friends were teasing me because I haven't combed my hair, they both called me cabin girl... She called me filthy thing over the phone and Joe couldn't even shut her up, you need to ground him for several days and take his phone from him.'"

"Joe, did you say all of these to your sister? Did you and your friend insult her over the phone?"

Joe bit his lip, looking nervous as he itched his head. "Actually mom, Zoey was only pulling her legs, she didn't mean what she said." Joe defended.

"Joe might be saying the truth but why didn't he forbid Zoey from speaking I'll of your sister? That means that Joe wanted her sister to get insulted and as the eldest son of the family, I suggest that even if you don't ground him, you can take his phone for some time." Nathan declared. He found everything going on as an opportunity he should not misuse. If his mother take the phone from him, it would be easy for Nathan to get hold of the phone and deleted all of the evidence he had.

"Mum, do not listen to Nathan...I really didn't mean to get her angry, please don't take my phone." Joe pleaded.

"Give the phone to me Joe." Alicia stretched out her palm towards Joe. Nathan smiled at Kristen and she responded with a thumbs up. Reluctantly, Joe brought out his phone from his knicker's pocket his eyes became tearful as he dropped the phone on his mother's palm.

"This phone will be with me for four days and you should not mistakenly ask for it, otherwise, you will have to bear the come what may." Alicia stamped.

"Mum, I am not objecting your decision but can I say something?" Nimah steppdw forward. She gave Joe an assuring smile before returning her stare to Alicia.

"Go ahead my daughter." Alicia responded, making Kristen clench her fist angrily, she felt her mother doesn't act so nicely to her the way she did to a fake daughter.

"I had a discussion with How's geology teacher. His teacher won't be in school for some days so he will be conducting online lessons for his students. If you take Joe's phone from him, it will affect his education in some ways, please mum, I request you to give the phone to him." Nimah explained.

Joe was utterly surprised by Nimah's story, he knew nothing about what about what she was saying. He had no idea about his geology online classes and none of his friends told him about it. This made him suspect that Nimah cooked up the stories only to make his mother return the phone.

"Is this true Joe?"

Joe looked at Nimah and she nodded, sending her a beautiful smile. "Yes mom." He replied.

"You should have said that since, and remember, what you did today should not repeat itself, else I will not pardon you." Alicia handed over the phone to him.

"He is getting back his phone Nathan, we are not secure now." Kristen whispered to Nathan.

"I know that a lot is going through Joe's head now, he has many plans now and we need to be careful of him. As of now, we have to act as per his wish. As long as he still has the has the recording in his phone. He is behaving too clever these days, we have to get hold of his phone first." Nathan explained.

"Do not worry Nathan, he is my brother. I know how to make mum take his phone again." Kristen smirked.

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"This symbol? The concentric circles, why does he bear it?"