Brothers aren't real

Chapter 15

Ainles pov
Candy man hasn't come back for days. At least I think it's days I can't really tell what Time it is. I haven't moved like he told me to but I'm very thirsty. I don't know how long I'll last without water. Maybe I could move just a little bit. I'm sure candy man would prefer me alive rather than dead. But if I move I would have disobeyed him and then he'd get mad. I don't like it when people are mad. What if he hurts me? No. I'll just stay out and wait for him to come back.

Dukes pov
Emory drags us into a small brick house next to the park which I hadn't even noticed was there. The door looks old and the hinges are half of so it opens easily. Then as we walk in I see Brocken stairs and two doorways. The whole house looks abandoned; the wallpaper is peeling of the walls, there's a level of grime everywhere and it smells of loudly fish.

Emory leads us to the door on the left and surprisingly there's a huge computer model and many camera screens. This looks very old like 50 years old. The computers are 30 inches back and have lines in the screens.

I never imagined Emory to be good at computing but he starts tapping away at what I think is a keyboard and something on one of the minuscule screens comes up; ainle was in the park alone. I could see him trying to get on the swings but he couldn't.

"Now watch this car right here" Emory points to another screen. A black cat comes into view an a man gets out. This better not be going where I think it's going. The man looks like he's in his 40s. He has a beard and short brown graying hair. I don't really get to see much more of him than that except his clothes.

The man moves onto the other screen and into the park. He makes a beeline over to ainle and starts talking,

"Do we have any audio?"

"No of course we don't, look at the tech there's hardly a computer let alone audio" we have no way of seeing there conversation but soon enough ainles following this guy into his car. Stupid stupid stupid kid. Was he never taught about stranger danger. I guess he never was seeing as his mum was such a bitch about everything.

"Did we get the number plate?"

"Yep; Y014 IDK" I turn around to look at Leo to find he's already gone. "Leo! Leo where did you go?!" Emory rushes out and I follow him quickly. Where the hell id he? Did he tell the police or dad? He's said he's wanted to do it all week but I didn't think he'd go through with it.

Emory throws open the door to our house. Thank god dads at work. Emory's already searching the house yelling Leo's name as I stand in the doorway expectantly. I hear a muffled 'yea' come from Leo's room and Emory and I rush up. We find him on his computer not looking away from the screen.

"I'm tracking the number plate"

"You can do that?"

"No but the cops can."

"Point taken. But do we really want to go to them. I mean we've kinda dig ourself a ho—-"

"Don't you dare say dad will be mad because we didn't tell him sooner or we've dug ourselfs a whole! There's a young kid who could be dead because we've been rubbing round like headless chickens hoping we'll be able to get dad not to hate us. We're so selfish you understand that!"

Leo never yelled. He was always calm and slightly manipulative when he wanted something but never mad. Both me and Emory flinched.

"We should probably tell the cops shouldn't we?"

"Yea. Yea we should. But won't dad be held accountable for not taking enough care of ainle? I mean he hasn't noticed him missing"

"He's been going on a load of dates with a new chick and he's had work. I'm sure they'll let it slide." We do have to call the police though. We can't do anything more from this point forward. I'm going to be eaten alive. I'm the eldest so I have to take full responsibility. This sucks I'm, ugh, dads gonna kill me. He's gonna kill us all. "Alright I'm going to call the police. Or should I call dad first?"

"Dad"

"Dad" they both replied.  Dad it is. Deal with the biggest problems first.

After 4 painful rings dad picked up.

"Hey kiddo, I'm just getting back now and was about to get a bit food, want anything?"

"Have you pulled over your car?"

"Yes I don't call and drive. At least until I get one of those fancy cars with the screen built in. Why what's up?"

"We haven't been all that honest with you. About ainle." Silence from the other end, "he went missing about 3 days ago and we were all so scared that he had run off again that we searched and searched for him for ages and ages and ages. We went through everyone's security footage and we found him about 5 minutes ago. He was t-taken dad. We're so sorry Im really sorry. Dad? Please answer me" he hung up. Shit. Do I call the police? Is dad doing that?

"Soo, how did he take the news? Is he gonna kill us?"

"Start re-writing your wills boys because we are gonna be murdered tonight. He's 100% gonna end our lives forever"

We all sit on the floor staring at the beige carpet. The door slams open even though it was already open. Dads raging face storms into the living room and his bulging eyes pierce our very souls. He doesn't say anything for about 10 long long long seconds before he exploded.

Hello I know I haven't updated in suck a long time but i juts list a bit of momentum. I'm still writing but it may be a little longer than usual.
Jay 🧡🦊