Chapter 1 - Somnambulist

Author's note:

English is not my first language so if my grammar is wrong or some of the words, sentence, spelling are inapprociated kindly understand and educated me because I'm willing to learn more.

Third person's POV

Silence grew as the lights went off in someone's house while the stars continue to shine and the moon to bright. It was illumination that covers the night's darkness. Children in town are fast asleep during this period of time but for some reason a young boy named Sweven stays awake, gazing outside of the window with fear in his eyes. The door opened in Sweven's room and it was her mother to checked on him.

"Sweven" His mother called out.

"Mom I'm scared" Sweven said as he came closer to his mother dear and tenderly hug her. "What's wrong?" She asked while she caressed Sweven's soft hair onto her warm hands interpreting that everything that it's gonna be alright as long as she's with him. "There will be bad dreams Mom so I shouldn't fall asleep" He honestly muttered as he raised his head then gazed at his mother's face. "Nightmares can be very scary my dear but if you are brave enough to conquer it, you will fall into your sweet dreams." His mother replied.

"Mom can you sleep next to me just for tonight?" Sweven pleaded. He still couldn't reminisce his mother's saying and thought about something else that he couldn't forget. His mother nodded then tuckered him carefully on the bed, gave him a kiss on the cheek and stayed beside him, hugging him tightly as time passes and eventually felling into sleep. After hours of sleeping Sweven unconsciously got out from his bed, down to the stairs,opening the door quietly and leaving home without anyone noticing.

It was one o'clock am when Sabrina felt a huge gap next to her, she touches that empty space beside her and noticed there's no one laying down on the mattress causing her to woke up in fear. Realizing that her son is missing, She panicly got into her husband's room, called out his name and quickly shooked his shoulders off causing her husband to woke up. "Sabrina?!" He startled. "Wilbert I woke up and then his sudenly gone....we are beside each other but his suddenly went missing...I don't know what to do! Where are we gonna find him?!" She repeatedly uttered.

"Sabrina calm down who's gone?" He asked as he stand up from his bed. "Your son! Sweven!" Sabrina loudly replied.

Wilbert immediately called the police while Sabrina command the nanny to take care of her daughters and never leave them behind who are sleeping by that time. The neighbors heard the news so they lend a hand to help Sweven's parents. At midnight they held their flashlights in the dark to search for the young boy, every corner, every angle, every street and everywhere but they couldn't find him. "Wilbert it's been hours. Its almost dawn. When are the polices coming?" Sabrina frowned. Her hands are sweating and her body is shaking, she couldn't think straight because she's worried and in panic. She dearly loved his son well that's how a mother is.

"Sab that's--- that is---- Sweven!" Wilbert responded and run quickly towards his son whom he saw crossing the street.

The evenful situation was too sudden. He grabbed his son's right shoulder and saw two big lights ahead infront of them, it was a truck which was about to hit them so he did what fathers would dp tp protect their son and pushed his son with force away from the road. It all happened in front of the eyes of his wife which caused her to faint. While their son woke up from a sleepwalk, totally clueless until he vividly saw his father bleeding on the ground and his mother laying down. At that point he was confused as he just stand there on the same spot without moving his body then the neighbors, policemen and ambulance came. He began to realized everything and that realization help him grow but kept him tied.

ELEVEN YEARS LATER.

It was in the middle of morning when this chaotic situation happened, Sweven whose now all grown up ran as fast as he can with that gloomy expression on his face and while wearing his favorite outfit of the day, the blank pants, typical white t-shirt with a jacket on.

"Mayor you're going to die if you keep going!" Sweven said loudly to the mayor who's inside the limousine. His arms are wide opened infront of the car to stopped the mayor from killing people on a triple car crash incident on Santa Monica.

The Mayor's two bodyguard then came towards Sweven to hold his arms, dragging him away from the car but they couldn't because of Sweven's strength so they use force and got him from the side. Sweven won't just stopped so he think of something else that's when he tried to open the car's door, one is luckily unlocked. He quickly got inside and by chance the person sitted next to him is the mayor.

"What are you doing here! Get out from this car at once!" The mayor shouted angrily.

"Mayor let's go to prison" Sweven insisted but the mayor didn't listen to him and said "You lunatic crazy bastard! You came here to threatened me. Who are you to spoke that way to me!" The mayor was too old to kick Sweven outside from the car and just kept shouting nonsense. "Driver call the police now!" He command."The police, they don't need to come here. Let's go to them instead" Sweven said while the bodyguards are trying really hard to open the car's door because the driver won't just open it and the mayor won't go outside.

"I'm now calling them" The driver drawled like he couldn't careless about anything but picked up his phone. "Wait! Why didn't I think about this. Why aren't you opening the door so that my bodyguards can catch this lunatic?!" The mayor asked in panicked. "I once prolong Mister Smith's life, your driver right there so he actually believed me" Sweven answered in behalf of Smith. "You two are really going to prison! You lunatic death threatening me! And You driver causing this traffic!" The mayor warned while the people behind are throwing honk noise at them because of the huge traffic they are causing.

"Mister Smith are you done with the call?" Sweven didn't reply and just asked Smith. "Yeah I told them that the mayor is going to visit his police son" Smith replied with a smile. "You two are you with my bastard son?!" He accused them. "Mayor I know you're planning to kill the vice mayor with your own hands because of the coming election and I'm sure your son won't like it if he heard this news. That you're planning to kill the vice mayor this afternoon" Smith said.

"What are you talking about?! Are you accusing me!" The mayor denied while sweat on his body began to slowly fall.

"I'm your son's original driver but then think about it why I'm your driver now. Your son command me to keep an eye on you because of your criminal activities and you should be thankful to your son. He still won't arrested you for some reason." Smith having a long talk with the mayor got Sweven to spoke.

"Excuse me but Mister Smith and mayor stopped with the blabbering so that I can go to work early" He said.

"Okay young man! Now Mayor you do decide we're going on the police station or back to your mansion" Smith let the mayor choose.

"The meeti----"

"The meeting place where the vice mayor is. I said this earlier but you're actually going to die Mayor, you're too dumb that in my vision you couldn't kill the vice mayor. You stabbed him but not in his vital point and not so deep too so he run away with his car. You followed him and couldn't think straight that's why you crashed his car with your car implicating another car with a family on and another with lovers on" Sweven described on what he saw on his vision which makes the mayor to shuddered when he looked at Sweven he began to get scared.

"I'm going home" The mayor shortly said.

Sweven opened the door to get out from the car, he looked at the bodyguards while they looked at him with uncomfortableness. He then walked towards Smith who just opened the window.

"Mister Smith be careful you have such dangerous bosses" Sweven muttered.

"I've been with them for many years don't worry and what's up with the explanation?, you don't need to explain everything so that people would believed you" Smith said teasingly.

"I don't like long talks bye Mister Smith!" Sweven uttered as he walked away waving at Smith. Before he go to the cafe he expectedly stopped by on a sidewalk first then faced the road like his waiting for the lights to turn green so that he can walk acrossed the other street. He have alternate motive for doing this, his waiting for a thief who was chased by policemen in his vision and after one minute of waiting. He saw the thief running hurriedly to get away that's why he quickly pulled out wide his one leg backwards and tripped the man who later fell on the ground while he looked at him.

"You? Why did you do that?!" The thief asked. "If I didn't do that. THAT police man could have killed you by shooting you from behind multiple times" Sweven sarcastically pointed then added "Don't run away anymore. Go to prison and let your son be with his mother" as he left and crossed the other street. Well that was quick and I'm really going to be late, he said in his mind then run off from the street. Sweven went into the cafe then change to his work clothes and came into his boss office which is in the cafe too. A fancy office with lots of rubbish knick-nack and colorful paraphernalias. Madame Celine who is Sweven's boss and godmother is a black american woman and Sabrina's bestfriend since highschool. She is a fortune teller as well and know about Sweven's ability and actually believed on it.

"You're late" Madame Celine said while cleaning her new crystal ball which Sweven seemed to noticed. "I had to do something" He replied which Madame Celine exactly know what he is saying so she just insisted "Okay you can go back to work" but before Sweven left he asked about the crystal ball on Madame Celine's table out of curiosity. "What happened to the previous one" He asked. "Look behind you!" She suddenly pointed outside the opened door where her son is wiping the table who also works on the cafe and gets paid. "Jackson accidentally broke it again" Sweven then turned infront of her.

"The f*ck accidentally, you mean intentionally right?!" She frowned."Yeah basically" So he just agreed."Seriously?! But whatever! I wanted to asked you about something so maybe from now on can you can close the door" She command which Sweven immediately obeyed. "Exactly five years ago you saved this girl from kidnappers" Madame Celine showed the newspaper to Sweven then continue talking "People back then believed that you actually have visions of death but your mother wanted to protect you that's why she didn't admit to the public that you have those ability while you promise her that you will keep it a secret and never get involved in another life and death matter. For short what I'am really saying is please kept that promised especially the second one" She reminded him out of nowhere.

"You're not really updated in the news now adays did Jackson said something to you?" Sweven asked. "Jackson is your one and only friend that you can talked to so you already know right" She answered. "You guys are alike" Sweven said as he leave the office."Alike?! My son and I...... are definitely not!" Madame Celine whispered.

He went back to work serving coffee and desserts to different customers. The cafe was established by Madame Celine's father, it all started as a small cafe occupying twelve person on three tables until it grew customers and became a second floor wide cafe with french decoration. It is in business for 20 years now and still going strong despite many trials and rivals. Sweven has been working on the cafe for 3 years so that he can financially support himself in college. Some of the customer aren't pretty good at him and some really aren't since he was a child but of course he now felt empty through the years of humiliating and bullying.

"Can't you even smile?" The girl said then sniggered with her friends infront of her. "Can't you even brushed your teeth?" Sweven sighed as he served their order which is three Iced americano and donut."Brush my teeth?! Are you---" The girl was irritated."I was wrong you better washed your mouth than brushed your teeth" He cutted her words then left."OMG! Girl his totally telling the truth!" The girl's friend with curly blonde hair said while the tan short hair said "What's your toothpaste? I been wanting to asked you earlier."

After hours of working Sweven finished his shift, change to his clothes, locked his locker and was about to go home when Frost called him "Sweven!" came closer to him then pat his right shoulder. "I didn't get the chance to talk to you during lunch cuz you knew I'm busy calling my girlfriend" Jackson said. "Jackson Frost Gregory I knew" Sweven replied while he removes Frost hand on his shoulder. "We're still bestfriends right?" Jackson asked with a bit of hesitation.

"You're guilty because you said something about me to your mother right?" Sweven asked back as he carry his bag from the chair. "Maybe but my mother is a good person and really

care---","I knew, we're also still bestfriend" Sweven as usual not waiting for Jackson to finished his words. "Yeah but you also knew that girlfriend comes first before bestfriend" Jackson honestly said. "Don't fight with your mother" Sweven left an advised. "I won't but I'am not really trying to be white she's the one trying to be french!" Jackson blurted out of nowhere

"Simple problems can be solved by talking and understanding with each other" Sweven then walked out, got out from the cafe took a deep breathe and muttered "Thus two aren't trying to be French or white, they trying to be close with each other."

As Sweven rode the bike and slowly peddled something caught his attention, he gazes at the sky, the sunset was about to begin in any minute which reminded him of a scene on the way home. The cold breeze of the air felt joy, the lights that are blinking in the street seems familiar and the bridge he always crossed through was unusual. Sweven stopped bicycling in the middle of the bridge and thought something was off until one voice shouted at him, he then looked behind and saw the girl running towards him.

He just stared at the girl until she confidently ride the bike with him "Hey tall guy! You need to peddle now" The girl command him who is much more younger than him. Sweven obeyed her without thinking when he saw the men in suit running towards them while shouting at the girl. He hurridly peddled along with the girl who's hand are wrapped around his waist tightly. Instead of going to the left road to go home Sweven go to the right road and stopped infront of the greenhouse.

"Some of them are driving cars and motorcycle, they are going to catch me if they saw me!" The girl uttered as Sweven looked around and pulled her inside the greenhouse. They went behind the vegetables then sat down to hide while the sunset begin. Sweven couldn't see the sunset from outside but he could see it's fading light reflecting through the window.

TO BE CONTINUED.

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