Beep, beep, beep!

The clock is ringing, showing the time is 8.00 a.m.

My brother, Yatsuba Washirawa is 20 years old and he would always study until late at night to improve his scores in exams. So as a result, everyday he'll wake up late and I'll be the one who wakes him up.

"Yatsuba, breakfast is ready, come here and dig in!" I shouted from the bottom of the stairs trying to wake him up.

"What time is it now?" he asked curiously while tilting his head sloppily to look at the clock, "Hah! I'm late!! Why didn't you woke me up sooner!??" he yelled.

He ran out of his room and bumped to every wall while bringing his towel to take a bath downstairs.

"Hey you, what are you doing standing there like there is no school to go today" Yatsuba shouted while running towards me.

"Where do you want to go? Today's a day off remember?"

He stopped immediately and asked me to leave him alone because of how disappointed he was with what happened just now. I left him at the stairs and laughed a lot after seeing his reaction. 

"What did you think Yatsuba? Hurry and have some breakfast." I laughed.

Today, I've planned to go out with my friends and have some fun to release some stress through all of the words in the books and I think Yatsuba need it too sometimes, so I invited him.

"Yatsuba, do you want to hang out with me and my friends today? It's gonna be so much fun if you're there" I asked him while eating. 

"Will that help me get a perfect score in my next exam?" he asked with a somewhat serious voice. 

"Uh, I guess so. You can release your stress. " I reply slowly.

"Nah, I'm not stressed at all, thank you. I'll pass this time." He went to the bathroom.

I know the exams are important to him but, does that mean I'm not that important to him? I just want to hang out together with him like usual.

Since our parents passed away two years ago, Yatsuba changed. He would always study in his room, not even playing with me anymore.

Who am I to him?

I already tried to attract his attention towards me but, he couldn't see that. I cleaned the house, cook every meal and did everything but, he still couldn't see that. I'm disappointed.

I just want the old Yatsuba.

"See you later, Yatsuba." I wave at him before going out.

He stared at me like nothing happened, "Such an annoying brother." I mumbled. 

My name is Ibara Washirawa, I'm 10 years old and I am placed in the 1st class of my batch which is 3 A0. 3 A0 is the class of pride because the members of the class are all geniuses. Even though I'm in the top 10 in class, I've always been looked down by everyone in the class because of being friends with Odana, Mike, and Harsh. It's not fair because I believe that even though they don't excel in studying, they also have a lot of skills at other things.

Onada, Mike and Harsh are my childhood friends, we were together since kindergarten. But after entering middle school, we were separated because they were in the next class away from me. But that didn't stop us from still having recess and having so much fun together.

As a friend I want them to be successful too, so I made a free session for them to study with me at the library. So that they can recap what they had studied in class. But of course, when there is a group of boys sitting together, it's really difficult to be serious even only for a moment. Hahahaha. I hope that this happiness won't end and I'll fight for this important moment.

I've personally been grateful for having friends like them because they'll have a lot of fun time than others who spend their time with boring activities. With that, I realized that I can spend so much time with them and create a lot of sweet memories together. 

So today we've planned to go to the arcade and play some games there. This is my first time and I'm stunned with the environment. There's a lot of people, loud sounds everywhere. The arcade is so bright, even my eyes can hurt by the flash, but I still stand there and look at the light.

Harsh pulls my hand to a game called "Criminal Striker". There's two guns that connects with the arcade game. 

"Here, have a try with this game." Harsh passed me a gun.

"Wow, this is amazing, how do you even play this thing?" I asked with full amazement. 

"Just play like a soldier and don't die!"

"I can die?" with a nervous sweat I turned over to him. 

"I meant in the game, wow, I can't even believe that you're the top 10 in our batch! Hahahahaha!"

"Owh, I'll crush you in this game!"

We were there for the next 5 hours, I played a lot of games there. It was so amazing! There's a game that uses a motorcycle and not only that, but they also had a basketball game where it counts the points you scored. I spent a lot of my money in the arcade, but it's worth it. After all, I'm having lots of fun with my friends.

It's a beautiful day, and I want more of it! 

After the day I came out with my friend, I feel happy and get excited to go there again. Every weekend my friends and I get along together and having so much fun. I literally forgotten about my brother at that time and act like normal. One day I had invited by Onada to go to the old wrack house that are placed at the corner of our residential area. That house was dirty and nasty. There is a pond beside the house and the pond looks like a swap.

"What's wrong with this place? Why are you invited me to go here? What can we do here?" , ask me to Odama.

"Shhhh! They can here you.",reply Odama quietly.

"Who?", me asking nervously.

We're going near the house to see what is happening in there. Even there is no sound from the house but I'm still curious who is Odama talks about. There's something attracted my attention to go to the house and take some look of it.

"What is that?", ask me.

"Quite we will busted.", whisper Odama

We walked into the house, open the door slowly and continue stepping to every corner of that house. The floor was sticky and had a lot of brown leaves on it. What a disgusting. The house also has one aroma that can make me dizzy. The environment also dark enough to sleep. It's hard to make any movement in that house because we doesn't make any sound even our breath also must be control. This movement just like going to rob someone house but there is nothing to rob in this disgusting house.

"Who are you?", voice from our behind.

"Run I bara!!", shout Odama.

We run away from that voice and try to search any door for escape.There was to dark, my breath getting shorter, and all my muscles getting shrink. I don't think that I can save here.

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"Odama? Where are you?", I panicked.

Odama is missing, I don't what to do. I doesn't know what is going on int he house. What are we doing here? What are we searching for? This is a bad idea.

"Open the door!!", someone shout from outside.

I heard that's a lot of steps of people running. But I can't even know what is that. My body became weak every second in the house. The humidity of the house is different than outside and it makes me difficult in breathing. I started to crawl to find way out. My sight become blur and the oxygen become thinner. I can't feel my foot and that instantly bring me a difficulty to move, than I stuck where the last place I crawl. I try to find something, I grope trough on the floor. I try to make the trip valuable and I found something. I can feel that the material is made of metal and I grab it before I lost my whole energy.