How I killed my mother

1st March, 2021: The sister

Alayna looked over her shoulders to see what her little sister was upto. Errum's hands were covered in blood.

She shrieked.

"Errum what the hell are you doing? Why do you have blood on your hands?"

She jumped in surprise and the knife in her hand dug deeper into her thumb. Blood oozed out and Alayna ran to call her mom.

As Saara entered the kitchen with the first aid box in her hand, Alayna looked at her little sister in wonder. Her trousers were covered in blood, her hand soaked in blood. Yet she sat there, looking surprised, as if she knew not what they were panicking about.

Mom scolded her for being careless as she applied dressing, but Alayna guessed mom didn't see what she saw. Just a few inches left to Errum, their cat Leo sat. In front of him, a dead mouse laid, turned inside out. She felt bile rise to her throat.

She thought the cat was up to hunting again. But it was Errum.

"Why did you kill a mouse and turn it inside out? That's gross!"

She shrugged.

"We dissected a frog in our lab today, at school. It was so cool, I just wanted to see what the inside of a mouse looks like."

"Cool? It's not cool Errum it's disgusting. Tell her, Mom."

"Sweetie, calm down. It's okay if she's curious, that's a good thing actually. Just be careful next time, is that okay?" She asked with a smile.

Mom was always this way with Errum. People complained being a middle child made their parents forget about them. Bullshit. Errum was treated better than anyone else in the house. Could be the fact that she was born after so many miscarriages. Or that she was more genius than all their IQs combined. To a point where she's slightly absurd. Whatever it was, it WORKED.

As Alayna rolled her eyes and went over to her table to get some work done, she noticed an email at her mailbox. No subject, username:coolkidatschool@gmail.com. Lifeless weirdos.

It read:

"Ayoo! It's me Brian. Chngd phone lost yo nmbr. Bruh y weren't u at schl 2day? Yo sis got a flu or sth???"

She rolled her eyes at the school hippie and then chuckled to herself as in how much he typed like a caveman.

"Alarm didn't go off today, I overslept. Why would my sister get a flu? XD"

Ting.

"Idk man. Prolly bcoz yo sis got B-? Ain't she got the brains of fuckin einstein or sth??? I th8 she was prolly sick or sth."

She frowned.

"I'm surprised you spelled Einstein right xD and wdym B-?? You know that's not possible, right? She's never missed straight As her entire life? Even when she broke her arm once??"

"Ikik. Thts y I woz sayin. It's all ovr da schl. Evry1 knows what yo sis did dis semester. Peeps got so many theories, iz gr8 entrtainmnt xD"

Confused, she went over to Errum in the next room. She sat there concentrating at the Rubik's cube at hand. What a fake. She probably matched it 500 times.

"You got a B-?? A B MINUS??"

She saw something in her eyes. Like she was lost in thoughts for a split second, completely off guard. But she quickly regained composure and rolled her eyes.

"If you want to prank me, you have to do better than that."

"You're the one whose pranking us, Errum. You DID get a B-, your teacher called!" Lie.

Errum always saw through Alayna's lies. There's no way she could pull this off.

She was unsettled once again, and quickly regained composure.

"I think there's some mistake."

What? She believed her? This isn't right. One look and she knows a person inside out. How come the fell for this?

"Why didn't you go to school today?"

"I overslept."

"How come we both overslept at the same day- oh heavens, you altered the clock didn't you? You really did get a B-? And you thought I wouldn't know?"

Errum looked at her, with pleading eyes. She never pleads.

"Leave me alone."

Not the usual angry scream. The silent plead. But-

Errum never pleads.

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