𝑅𝑜𝓂𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒𝓇 𝕭𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖐 𝕭𝖚𝖙𝖑𝖊𝖗 𝕱𝖆𝖓𝖋𝖎𝖈

ℭ𝔥𝔞𝔭𝔱𝔢𝔯 1

"Ｏｈ ｈｏｗ ｄｉｓｇｕｓｔｉｎｇ． Ａｌｌ ｔｈｉｓ ｄｉｓｇｕｉｓｉｎｇ，

Ｔｏ ｂｅｃｏｍｅ ｓｏｍｅｂｏｄｙ ｔｈａｔ'ｓ ｗｏｒｔｈ ｅｘｉｓｔｉｎｇ"

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"That man looks like a doctor!" Luka whispered towards his older brother, both of them hiding behind bushes near the trees. "Do you think he has medicine in that bag?" In the distance where the two were standing, there was a doctor with a duffel bag in hand while the other holding his wife's hand.

"Brilliant Luka! You distract the lady and I'll swipe that bag from that old bloke!" Alois then moves along the bushes, trying to get behind the couple as Luka gets out of the bush and starts to cry dramatically, grabbing the attention of the doctor and his wife.

"Oh my!-" The wife runs towards Luka, letting go of her husband's hand. "Are you alright young one?" Luka continues to cry, hiding his face in his knees to make it more convincing. The wife bends down to Luka's height and places a hand on his shoulder.

"I-I'm bleeding!" Luka croaks out, lying straight through his teeth, as he weakly lifts his head, looking at the woman. The wife turns to look at her husband, sharing a look.

"Alright." The doctor sighs but smiles, knowing that his wife is very compassionate for others. "Let me take a look boy." He makes his way to Luka, carefully setting down the duffel bag first before crouching down.

'Now is my chance.' Alois runs out from the bush, comes from behind the couple, and swipes the duffel bag off of the ground. "RUN LUKA!" Alois holds the bag tightly, running along the road. Luka wipes his tears and quickly pushes the wife away and runs after his brother.

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"-there's not much here." Alois briefly rummages into the duffel bag. Luka spots a glass jar filled with a musty green liquid. He inspects the jar a few inches from his face.

"Brother, do you think this is medicine?" Alois looks at his brother and reaches over to grab the jar. "I wonder if he'll do fine without it-I mean do you think he's going to die?"

"I doubt it. Besides, why do we care if he does, he's a stupid old man!" Alois slightly raises his voice causing someone in the corner to groan and curse. "Looks like someone up from their little nap." Alois gets up and walks over to the source of the noise. At the corners of the small room, there was a makeshift of clothes as a bed. A boy the same age as Alois sits up from the 'bed'.

"It was because you were so loud. Anyways were you guys successful in getting that-" The boy's sentence was abruptly cut off by a series of violent coughs, catching Alois's attention.

"Tommy!" Both Alois and the said boy's attention averted towards Luka. "Shouldn't we give him the medicine or he'll get worse?" Luka looks at Alois worryingly.

"Luka I'm fine-" The boy begins but gets cut off by Alois.

"You don't look like it, Thomas, your face is pale and you're thinner than a skeleton!"

"Ugh fine. Don't give me that look, Luka." Thomas grabs the glass jar from Alois's hands and twists the lid open and drinks it. His face contorts into one of disgust. "Blah this tastes like arse!"

Luka wipes his tears with his sleeve while Alois notices the perfect time to tease his brother. "How do you know what arse tastes like? Hm?"

"Oh shut up-At least I don't wet the bed every night!"

"DID NOT!" "DID TOO!" Luka giggles at the sight of his two brothers bickering.

Eventually, no real victor was declared in their small argument leaving both Thomas and Alois tire themselves out. Soon after, the three young brothers all tucked in for the night, falling into a deep slumber.

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