It was exactly seven, when we reached our destination. Thankfully, when we were on the Mag Lev, Brother Li had called his butler to send a driver at the station, so there was no need for me to book a cab to return to my house. When the car stopped in front of my house, I opened the door and stepped out. Brother Li said in an excited childish voice, “Today was fun. I hope we could go out to play more often. “ I nodded and said, “Well.. If you need, we can go out to play every Sunday. What do you say? “ He looked thoughtful and said with a radiant smile, “Yes. How could I not think of this?” Then he waved me goodbye and the car soon vanished at an intersection of the road.I pressed the doorbell and waited outside for the door to open. Soon, the door was opened by a figure wearing a pink nightdress. If I were an anime character, I would have suffered from nose bleed. The green hair was pulled up in a pony. While the pink night dress tightly hugged her figure. ‘God, I am such a pervert.

Tears streamed down my face. Mom was confused at first. She touched my face and asked, “Mike, why are you crying?” Seeing her now, it was like you won’t say that she was crying a moment ago. With a sniff I said, “Because I am weak, I cannot even live in peace. This world is very cruel. It needs sacrifice now and then. Why can’t we just have a world which is peaceful? “ She smiled and said , “If we can get everything we need in our life, then would it be called life? “ I looked at her with confused eyes. Seeing my dumb expression, she said with a kind smile while caressing my hair, “You know, Mike, life is just all about the difficulties. If you get all the ups and no downs, then you would get bored with such a life. Similarly, if you have all the downs but no ups, you would get bored again. So now do you understand? “ I nodded while pursuing my lips. She nodded at me, because she understands me better. She knew it I had something on my mind.With a frown I said, “Mom, why don’t the su

After lunch, Uncle Alex left in a hurry. He hasn’t spoken with mom about the sacrifice thing and all. Because if he were to say it, then mom might get worried. Since dad is strong, he shouldn’t have any problem to protect himself, right? So I asked him not to speak about this in front of mom. And for the first time, Uncle Alex didn’t argue with me about something, thankfully.We were talking in the living room. While talking, mom said about me releasing a song professionally. When Uncle Alex heard this, he laughed, like it was a joke. But when he saw no one was laughing except him. He looked at me weirdly and asked, “You.. You sing?” I nodded and asked, “Why? With my handsome face, don’t you think I can eat for free my entire life? “ Uncle Alex gave me a weird look, which was enough to make people understand his feeling. He still refused to believe that I can sing. So I walked upstairs and brought my laptop downstairs. I hadn’t taken the disc out of my laptop since the last time, so I

Uncle Alex had to return to their stronghold the next day. So he had to leave almost by evening. After hugging Celia, and crying for some time. He broke into the hug. Celia was a little depressed, because her dress was wet because of the snot. But she couldn’t complain to anyone. I forced myself not to laugh at this funny picture. Covering my mouth with the back of my hand, I tried to suppress my laughter. But this action couldn’t escape the eyes of Uncle Alex. He just glared at me.He then turned towards Celia and said, “Celia, if this smelly boy dares to trouble, you just call me. I will make sure that he won’t be able to trouble anyone. “ Celia snorted and said, “ Mike doesn’t trouble me. But you sure are troubling me. Can’t you just stop your runny nose? This was my new dress, and you spoilt it. “ Uncle Alex had a bitter smile on his face and wiped the snot with the help of a tissue paper.Shaking my head, I walked out to accompany Uncle Alex to the cab. Uncle Alex talked along th

Celia thought about how she had opened the door. She had to agree that with passaging time, her ability to control her powers has increased by leaps. Before she couldn’t control the nature. But today she could easily open the door with the help of the vines from outside. If Mike were to hear how she had opened the door, he would have smashed his head on the wall at how stupid he was. Unknown to all this, I walked back to the couch , hoping I could find mom. But mom wasn’t there. I called for her a few times and even looked for her in the house, but she wasn’t in the house. I guessed that she might have gone outside.It has been many days ,since she has gone out. The only time she had gone out was to buy groceries. And it has been days since she had gone out. I turned the TV on, and switched the channels to find something interesting, but where could I find such things?All the channels were about an actor’s affairs with a model, or super villain’s attacks. And I was in no mood to list