Twisted

CHAPTER THREE 🌧️

    A few hours after the incident.
     
      The sky was dark, as dark as the night sky, the wind was buzzing, the sound of random objects could be heard from time to time, indicating the storm that was to come that evening.
        In the gigantic mansion of the Smiths, at the balcony closest and greatest view over the beautiful garden, Kayla stood up from her recliner, with the book she was reading in hand, kept the recliner in it's original position and went back into her room.
        While closing her balcony's door, she looked up at the dark clouds coming together at a great pace.
      She untied the rope of the curtains, letting it loose then walked towards her closet, opened it and moved her hanged clothes aside.
         Behind her hanged clothes is a flat button, hidden in such a way that one had to carefully pay attention to it in other to notice it. She pressed it, which slides open, revealing a thumb print and a coded bar.
      She pressed her thumb on it and inserted the 4-digit code.
       The wall of the closet moved upward, showing a long stair downward, leading to a dark secret room underneath, one that no one in the Smith mansion knew about apart from her, not even her parents.
      Walking down the stairs, inside the room, her fingers lightly moving along with the stairs railing, she thought while looking around the dark staircase with a small smile,
       'its dark, just like how my life used to be before'
            
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Flashback,
       Five-year-old Kayla woke up, climbed down from her queen size bed and walked to her bathroom.
       She's always liked being independent and doing things by her self, so she doesn't allow any maids to help her get ready.
      Coming out of the bathroom, with a pink fluffy rabbit robe on her, and a smaller pink towel wrapped around her now wet her, she made her way towards her closet.
     Looking around her closet, she settled for a casual wear, a white loose shirt with the power girls picture on and a black trousers with white paw print on.
       After drying her hair and wearing her clothes, she looked at her floor sized mirror, being satisfied with herself, she went out of her room.
       Walking down the stairs, greeting the maids and servants as she goes, she finally reached the large dining room. Beautifully furnished in black and white, with flower pots at each corner, marbled floor and a mahogany dark long table and chairs.
         "Good morning, Uncle Joe" she greeted the fifty-year-old butler with her milky baby voice.
       "Good morning, young mistress. How was your night?" Uncle Joe looked at her adorable self and gave her a gentle warm smile despite the wrinkles all over his face.
        "It was good!" She replied, then went to her seat, that was way taller than her height and carefully climbed up, so as not to make him have to help her out.
      Uncle Joe, being used to the ways of his young mistress, told one of the maids to bring breakfast.
       Soon after, breakfast was served and Kayla ate her food as usual, lonely and slowly.
     "Have mum and dad come back from work?" Kayla asked, looking up at Uncle Joe, hope almost oozing out of her blue ocean eyes.
       "Not yet, young mistress" Uncle Joe replied, looking away so as not to see the obvious disappointment on her face.
     "Oww, I thought they said they'll be back early in the morning today?" She asked, while playing around with her fork.
      "Yes, but they suddenly hard some extra work to take care of, so they'll be staying there longer, possibly a week or two at the shortest and a month if any unexpected turn of events happens"
     Uncle Joe replied guiltily, feeling sad with the fact that the young mistress is always left alone in this mansion.
     Furiously, Kayla dropped her fork on the table, stood up and yelled, looking her control,
     "Why don't they have time for me? Why do they always make way for their work but never for me? Why do they leave me here, alone in this mansion? You say it's all for me, that they are trying to make a bright future for me but why can't they also spend their time with me?"
       After saying that she rain away to her room, with tears streaming down her face, which had baby fat on it.
       Uncle Joe, the maids and other servant all sighed with a heavy heart, knowing how true the young mistress's words were.
             Kayla ran back into her room, closed the door, walked towards her bed, took the blanket and went to her closet, opened it, entered and used the blanket to wrap herself in such a way that only her small face could be seen, then closed the closet. Like she always did whenever she lost control of herself.
       Closing her eyes, she imagined a life with her parents by her side, them, playing together, laughing and having picnics together.
 
     .... Kayla".... "Kayla, where are you?"
   She heard her name being called out by someone, disturbing her now found peace and tranquility, but she was too depressed to check out who it was or go out.
        "Ok then, if you won't come out, then I'll look for you. This will be like playing hide and seek!" The voice yelled out excitedly ones more.
      Soon the sound of doors being opened and closed, small footsteps moving, and voices asking if she was there or not filled her room.
    Few minutes after, "huff...huff...huff...wow, huff ... Kayla, huff... When did, huff... You get huff... Really, huff... Good at hide and seek?"
     Jason, tired of looking around, plop down on her bed and asked.
     Then the closet door was suddenly pushed open.
     Kayla, in a better mood now after watching Jason rummage around her room trying to find her, came out.
     "Oww, there you are, hah I should have checked the closet " Jason said while laughing upon seeing her coming out.
    "Yeah, but it was fun seeing you destroy my room, hhh" Kayla replied while laughing and also plopped on her bed, next to Jason.
      "So what are you doing here? " Kayla asked when they had both settled down.
      "My parents went out, so I decided to visit you when I heard that yours weren't around too" Jason replied with a smile.
    Kayla looked at him and nodded after he answered.
     "I heard about what happened from Uncle Joe" Jason laying at his side, looking at her and said.
    Kayla glanced at him for a while and looked back at her ceiling, facing the chandelier on top of them.
       Jason, seeing her reaction said, "I'm not trying to judge you or find fault with what you did"
       Seeing her paying attention to him, he continued with a soft smile on his face,
        "Just know that, whenever you are feeling lonely, I'm just a call away from getting our families driver to come all they way here, and don't worry my parents also travel a lot, so it also gets lonely for me sometimes, but now, we can both be each other's comfort"
        After saying that, he stock his tongue out, closed one of his eyes and gave a little peace sign with his tiny fair toddler hands.
    Kayla, with her gaze fixed on him, as if trying to see if he's telling the truth or not, sighed to hide the smile that was gradually trying to break out upon seeing the honestly and sincerity in him.
      "Okay" she softly muttered.
      ******End of flashback.*****

     And he was right, after that day we became close friends, closer than we ever were, and we also became each other's comfort.
      Until that day, the day that ruined everything we built together.
     "Phew" shaking her head to get rid of those distracting thoughts, Kayla, finally reaching the bottom of the stairs, switch on the light by pulling a wall lantern to light up the dark surrounding.
        In the room, that was not large or small, was a wide canter at the wall side and a single desk and chair set in the middle of the room.
      Beside this few things were only a laptop, a headphone and a small reading lamp on the desk.
       Getting to the desk, Kayla booted the laptop and put on her headphone.
    When the light of the laptop filled the dimly lit room, she typed her password in and click on the dark web website.
      Seeing the one she's looking for, she clicked on it and a game surface appeared, the type that involves you to mix colours in a test tube.
       If it was someone who didn't know about it, they might think it was any order common game and log out. But this was all a farce to hide the organization that was behind it.
       The colours have a pattern, such that one wrong move and you will automatically be banned from logging into it again.
        After playing the game, the site changed, revealing a conversation layout for the members to communicate in.
         Today, there's going to be a meeting regarding the direction the organization is going to head towards.
          And that's the very conversation Kayla was waiting to listen to.