Trilay

Chapter Three

The car parked in front of a manor of a house. His new step-family was definitely rich was Ben's conclusion. It was strange for someone who his entire life had lived in an apartment to suddenly live in such a large house.

His mother, Arxiro and him stepped out of the car and took the luggage with them. They walked up to the front door and Arxiro scanned his finger before putting in a code to unlock the door.

"Leviyu should be home" Arxiro said as they step inside the house, "We're home!" he yelled. Just then one of the cutest kids Ben had ever seen came running down the stairs. "DAD!" the kid, Leviyu, yelled launching himself at Arxiro. "Guess what? Today I got a new song and it's so cool. I don't remember the name, but I can show you. Wait I will get it" Leviyu chattered away, so much so that before he could run up the stairs again, Arxiro had to cut him off and make him aware of the newest addition of family. "That's great! But look how's here"

"Ooohh HELLO! I been looking forward to this day, it's so nice that your finally here" Leviyu said excitedly, running towards Aliana to hug her. The two of them had been talking quite a lot and Leviyu had been very excited of the thought of having a mother again, as his birth mom passed away before he could remember. The four of them just said their greetings and got to talking when a butler dressed man came and said something discreetly to Arxiro.

"Turns out that the dinner is ready so we should take this to the dining room. I hope you're hungry, we have a lot of food to welcome you to Centealia and our family" Arxiro said as the butler disappeared into the background.

"You didn't have to.." Aliana started, but was interrupted, "but we wanted to, right Leviyu?" Arxiro said and Leviyu nodded franticly in agreement. Aliana smiled warmly that the father and son who were awfully similar to each other. "In that case, I for one is starving. What about you Ben?" The mother asked her son. Ben had been too preoccupied by all the new impressions, but now that he thought about it, his stomach was almost hurting from how hungry he was. "Me too, very much so" he answered. With that the four of them got seated be the table.

Arxiro checked his N. O. R. I. watch and said, "About Xirce. He just ended practice so he will be joining us in about an hour. We can just eat, he said he doesn't mind."

The others just nodded, and the dinner went by very pleasantly. Ben just loved the food and made sure to make that clear. Leviyu was talking to him about this sport called Trilay, that he had never heard of, but it was apparently the biggest sprot in this side of the world. How he missed it, he had no idea. An hour past by in no time and the clock reached half nine. The door could be heard open, then closed, followed by voices in the foyer. Then there were footsteps in the stairs that gradually disappeared. The same butler from before came into the dining room and said "Young master Xirce will be here shortly. He just has to shower and change before eating".

"Thank you Girano" Arxiro said to the butler, "could you ask them to bring out dessert? But set some dinner aside for Xirce."

"Of course, sir, right away" the butler, Girano, said with a bow before leaving.

'Young master', Ben almost cringed at the tittle. These people were richer than he initially thought, but then again, the culture was quite different too. It felt more formal in a way, he had noticed at the airport too. When driving through the city it seemed like people mostly kept to themselves and tried to respect others personal space. It was very different then the culture of the countryside in Arikan.

It didn't take long before a boy around 18 years stepped into to the dining room. He was tall, like almost two meters and looked even more like a carbon copy of Arxiro than Leviyu. It could just be one person, Xirce. He, like his father, was wearing a glove on his left hand. Though his wasn't black, but white though and it wasn't made out of leather.