Endless

cHaPtEr TwEnTy EiGhT

It has been one day since the arrival of the mysterious corpse. There have been no leads as to how it got there, and my mother made sure that none of the maids, gardeners and everyone else didn't show up today by offering them a vacation.

No one on the outside was allowed to know of this, there would be no visitors until this was all resolved.

It was a shame, I enjoyed spending time with the maids around here.

Claudia just talked to all her friends on her new and expensive phone so to her it didn't really matter. Although my mother warned her very clearly about not telling anyone about this, and when our mother warned us about something, we were more scared of her than the thing she was warning us about.

With the cleaning and gardening team gone temporarily, that meant we would have to do everything ourselves...I couldn't help but laugh as I imagined Claudia, the incompetent and spoilt one, do anything that required effort by herself.

My mother seemed to be getting more stressed. She tried to conceal it and act as cold and as calculating as ever on the outside, but nowadays it didn't seem like a personality trait of hers. It felt forced and unnatural.
Either way, I knew for a fact that we had to get rid of the corpse.

We had to find a place where we could hide it.

...

After yesterday's encounter with Alyssa, I couldn't sleep. I actually had been developing issues with my sleeping since Alyssa first came to be. I'm always afraid that she's...watching me. And that she could hurt me at any waken moment.

Then again, why hasn't she?

But these were questions for another time.

This situation with the corpse actually had me somewhat afraid. If people from the outside found out...we could be perceived as criminals. We could be sent to jail.

Then again this is kinda like jail, I thought to myself, chuckling a little.

I kept tossing and turning, no matter how much I tried closing my eyes I couldn't go to the realm of sleep. Oh well, I could just try and have fun while I c-

"Owen!"

I screamed in horror as I realised that someone was shouting at me from my door. Was it a monster trying to kill me? Was it Alyssa?

...Well, no. It was Claudia.

It certainly wasn't good but it could have been way worse.

"Mom is holding a meeting with both of us."

I just stared at her with a blank expression.

"Are you kidding me."

"Oh how I wish I was, dear brother. But seriously, get down here."

I just sighed and went along with it. I couldn't even be bothered with this anymore.

...

"My children. We, are in a crisis."

The three of us were sat down in the living room, with the corpse laying lifelessly on the table.

I knew that my mother wasn't handling this well. At all.

Want to know how I know this?

Well...she was drinking coffee.

She literally never drank coffee. She said it ruins clean teeth. Despite all this she loved the taste of it, yet she always denied herself of it. She always believed that pleasures in life need to be earned with hard work and effort, so she never rested or allow herself to indulge in treats even if she really needed it.