Forever Siblings; come what may..

Chapter Twenty Three

"Don't Allie!" Ted shouts. "You all are beyond redemption," he adds. That's a lie, we are not beyond redemption. Are we?

Both Elex and Oris are foaming. The former is choking on the foam. If I know Ted well, just for the few days we have interacted, this might not end well.
He lifts Rene from the ground, makes her lie on the coach and kisses her on the forehead. Shit, where is he even getting the audacity to do that when my brothers are dying?

When his gaze locks with mine, a wave of sadness engulfs me. He just ordered Elex to choke to death and I am sure that is what is going to happen.
He sits his ass down beside Rene. His face is so plain, you would think everything is fine in this damn house.

"Ted."
His name drops out of my lips like a stone. I am hurt and I am loosing it although there seems to be nothing I can do to rectify this, asides begging.
"Please Ted."
I am literally getting down on my feet. An evil smile creases his cheeks, a good sign. When he lowers down his face, I feel his breathing from a far.

"She lost- it on- Oris." Ted's voice is shaky.

I open my mouth to say something but not even a single word forms on my lips. I can't breath...I love my family so much to take this. My legs are giving away to my weight but...wait a minute, I need to be strong for them.

We vowed to stick together, to fight for each other,to avenge for our mother and lastly to bring Father down. This is my time to do something. Problem is, I don't have these stupid super powers that I see in the rest. The only thing that I am good at is anything to do with computers, and most especially, that which deals with interfering with data. At this moment, that can't help anything so we are better of when finished.

Elex let's out a painful gasp. I think I hear him calling Oris' name. He is going.

"Ted, you ordered him to choke to death!" I snap at him. Who does that? Elex is my kid brother. He has been sweet all through. The only mistake he has done was to want to do away with Rene because, she of course, wanted to kill everyone. If you ask me, it was better for one of us to die on behalf of us all.

Ted groans sarcastically. He's such a sadist. He walks over to Elex and takes hold of his hand. I see him press it tightly and then he lets go. When he turns to look at me, his eyes are pale, very pale.
"There is nothing I can do."

Like seriously now? There is nothing Ted can do to save him yet he's the one who ordered his choking! Wonders will never cease.

"But Ted..." I begin but he cuts me short.
"I know Allie. I told him to choke to death but that has nothing to do with this...Thing is, he went against the vow. He was ready to kill her!" He says pointing at Rene.

Nothing is making sense. He was ready but he didn't.

"I don't get this Ted. You can't let him die." I am shouting now. I want to break someone's neck right now, right here.

"Calm down Allie. I need to tell you something." He attempts to take hold of my hand but I pull off. He ain't gonna act all concerned because he isn't.

"Speak." My emotions are all over the house now. I don't know what to think or do. Oris is no longer foaming, he's calm now. His chest is rising and falling slightly to the heartbeats. Elex, he is not fighting any longer for his life.

"The vow entailed not only fighting and protecting each other but also, never to ever kill one another. The pay for that would be death."
What! That's not what we said to it. "Rene started and Elex got in. They both can't live anymore. It was a serious shitty vow you got yourselves into. As for Oris, he's getting well, although seems Rene had gone far with him!"

Fuck! My stomach begins grumbling and I get all sweaty. I want this to be a lie, I want it to be a joke, I want it to be a dream. This can't be it. If it ends this way, we shall be loosers. Lost loosers indeed.

A gasp escapes through Ted's throat, then a tear drops. Shit, even the devil himself cries. This ascertains the whole painful truth, I am loosing my two siblings.

My legs give out and before I fall on the couch, Ted grabs me. I am in his arms, breathing shakily and I swear the hell is breaking loose before me. 

"I know it's hard... Not just for you but also for me!" He says direct into my ear. It's not hard for him. They are my siblings, the ones I swore to forever remain beside them. He doesn't even know the pain that I am going through.

I want to hold on to Elex as his spirit flies above the horizon to wherever it may be destined to...I want to cling on him and beg him not to leave...I still have very many stories to tell him...and  definitely some questions for him to answer.

I want to talk to Rene too... She is leaving me with too many unanswered questions... I want to hear her tell me what she did to the bodies, how she disposed them... I want to know how she got her powers, how she went into the underworld... I want to ask her to stay by me, she is my only sister. She taught me many things but there is one thing she never taught me- how to live without the love of my sister.

I want to tell them both to hung on for a little while- they are too young to go, just like that.

"Oh Rene, Elex - Oris...I don't know...Coy please come and help me out. They just can't go..." I am crying - no arm can comfort me. No one and nothing can take me out of this endless pain... An empty painful feeling cuts deeply through my throat and I can't swallow on saliva. I am choking...I am inconsolable.

Warm lips claim mine and I taste some real pain in them. What is happening? The strange taste of foreign lips snaps me out of my endless pain.

"Ted!" I warn.

"Shhh, let me kiss the hollowness away!" His lips claim mine again. It's a sweet feeling but it just can't calm me down. My two lovely siblings are no more. I don't know how to respond to him, that belonged to my late sister right in front of her dead body...

I pull myself away and...gosh, the pain overwhelms me. I slap him hard on his left cheek not because he just kissed me but for being so insensitive.

My lips let out a weak painful cry. I don't want to face tomorrow. There is no future without my siblings, I am letting go. I fall on the couch, next to Rene's breathless corpse. I take hold of her wrist and hold it tightly. She is slightly warm but...I will never talk to her again. Another loud cry escapes my lips at the thought of her last birthday... She should have prepared me.
Just then the main door flies open and...shit.

Father, what an opportunistic moron he is! Couldn't get worse that it is.