"The was this design that looked like a flower." Bia told her sister seriously.
"Where?!" Alek asked her sister the same question she asked her brother.
"I don't know?" Bia leaned back to her bed, trying her best to hide her confusion about what she saw.
"Oh, come on!" Alek complained at her sister and looked around the room covered in reflections. She didn't realise she had moved her hands and the 'flower' was no longer there to see.
Kai was worried about her to reply to his sister but, Bia came in help. Looked like Alek believed what Bia had said. The wings that were behind Alek's shadow was abnormal.
They had never seen anything like it in their lives and, they had not heard stories of it. It was beautiful and out of the world. It wasn't exactly fairy wings, but it was gigantic like it.
The wings width was wide as Alek's height and was separated into four sectors. The upper two were obviously bigger, while the lower ones were smaller than them. But even the smaller ones were the size of Alek's lower body.
Alek gave up looking for the flower reflection and told her siblings. "You guys are mean."
"Me?" Kai asked.
"Also, you." Alek talked with her lips being pointy and turned off the torch.
Kai sighed and gripped Bia's hand. He let go in a second before he got off the bed and went to the door.
Bia knew what Kai wanted to do and, she shifted her ears and eyes. Kai looked back and spoke in a low voice that Alek was unable to hear.
"Don't tell her. We'll tell dad and mum in the morning." Kai knew Bia was listening and hearing. After he said that, he opened the door and left with a goodnight to both his sisters.
"You got attitude." Alek told her sister when Kai left the room. She put away the book and her phone in the dark.
"Eh." Bia shrugged while lying on the bed. "Everyone got attitude."
"Aishh." Alek didn't like what her sister said but didn't say anything further and got in the bed.
Bia got in the as Alek and thought about what was the wings. She reminded herself again to ask her parents or her grandmother tomorrow, first thing in the morning. She eventually slept thinking.
As Bia's breathing became steady, Alek rose up from her bed. She had been knocked out for nearly an hour and, she slept for an hour. Thus, she didn't feel sleepy anymore like she always did every night around this hour.
Alek went back to bed and stared at the wall, let her mind wander. She was bored, and she didn't know how much time had passed. She took out her phone when she couldn't endure it anymore. The clock on the phone told her that it had only been an hour since Bia had slept.
She knew it was only an hour because she had checked the time when she showed Bia the reflections of light in the room.
Alek sighed deeply, disappointed. She thought maybe it was close to dawn already. Alek had used all her memories to think about and, she got nothing left at this point. She had no choice but to read books on her phone to make her forget about time.
She had been told not to read in the dark by her family and, she also didn't like reading in the complete dark but, this is a different situation. She didn't want to have bad eyesight but, what else could she do? Alek wasn't sleepy and had nothing to do other than counting sheep.
She lowered the brightness of the hone and started reading the book that she was reading before. The book that she didn't know she had.
Alek started getting sleepy after reading around fifty chapters and slept soundly. She had cried reading the book and, she didn't care if she slept like this, knowing her eyes would be puffy in the morning, letting know everyone that she cried at night.
She didn't check the time when she was reading, so she didn't realise it was already five in the morning. The sun rays were in the sky, but the thick curtains in the room didn't allow her to see the light. Or the light getting into the room.
Bia woke up an hour later and did her morning routine as always. She only checked if her sister is sleeping well or not and went out to help her mother in the kitchen.
"Morning, hon." Panacea greeted her daughter and continued to cook.
"Morning." Bia greeted back and immediately stood next to her.
Panacea wordlessly handed Bia what needed to be cooked and, Bia did in silence. Soon, Kai woke up and helped the women in the kitchen. Nobody tried to wake up Alek because they were reluctant. They felt responsible for wearing her out.
They occasionally called each other out for things like, give me that, take this but, other than that, they kept their silence. Robin broke the silence as he entered the room.
"Morning. Where is Alek?" He looked at his family's face. It was Sunday and, the preparation of breakfast took longer than usual. Normally, Alek would be awake by now.
Panacea looked at the clock in the living room. She then volunteered to wake up her daughter. She had slept enough.
She went to her daughters' room and knocked first. "Alek?" She opened the door as she called out her daughter's name and went to her bedside.
There, she saw her daughter sleeping on the bed weirdly. Alek's head was heading the left up of the corner while her feet were heading right down of the corner with a phone in her hand. The lion was suffocating between Alek's arms and, the blanket was removed halfway. Seeing her daughter like this made Panacea smile that Alek was safe and peacefully sleeping.
She poked on Alek's face to wake her up bu,t it didn't work as she had thought. Alek is a big sleeper and, she wouldn't wake up by just a poke. Panacea shook her shoulders and tried the method of making the mosquito sound to annoy Alek from her sleep, but didn't work again like the previous ones.
Bia came into her room to find her mother trying to wake up Alek. Her mother took too long and, she had come to check to see if everything was alright. Looked like she was having a hard time waking her up.
Bia placed her hand on Panacea as she took her place in exchange. Bia knew just how to wake her sister immediately and effectively.
She used her nails and made a contact with her sister's cheek. The touch was feather-light to make it feel like an insect was on her cheek.
Bia did that once and, Alek tried to brush off what was on her cheek by tapping her cheek with her hand. Seemed like she thought it was a mosquito, trying to drink her blood.
Bia withdrew her fingers before Alek could touch them. When Alek put her hand back, Bia took out her hand and put her fingers in her sister's ears. Good thing Alek was sleeping sideways.
Alek again tried to send the 'insect' off of her, but the insect kept on getting back in her ear. She slapped herself hard when she felt something wet enter her ear. She woke up with pain and a jump.
She looked around to see her sister and mother on the bed smiling at her.
"Good morning." They said in unison.
"Ohayo." Alek replied in Japanese, trying to understand the situation.
She soon felt the pain in her left cheek. "It hurts. Why does it hurt?" She asked the two of them in front of her as she cupped her cheek.
Panacea hid her laugh and, Bia answered. "You hit yourself. Hard."
"Why?" Alek asked as she had forgotten what she was doing in her sleep.
"Insect. Specifically, mosquito." Bia answered with a weird smile but Alek didn't care as she was concentrated on her cheek.
Alek nodded as she yawned and scratched her shoulders.
"Anyway, breakfast is ready so I want yo to come quickly." Panacea was able to not show her laugh and went out of the room. And Bia followed her mother.
Alek looked at her surroundings once again before she left the room to wash her face and get ready to eat.
She walked like a homo habilis to the dining room after washing her puffy face. She saw her family already eating.
"Morning." Alek said as she sat on her chair and stared at the food in front of her.
"Happy birthday, Alek." Her family said in unison and hugged her one after another. Bia was a little hesitant but she hugged her sister anyway. Alek thanked her family afterwards.
"So, how was your sleep?" Robin asked his daughter who sat next to him.
"Not bad." Alek answered and picked food on her plate. Just when she was about to put the food in her mouth, someone rang the bell of the house.
Alek went off to check whoever it was that interrupted her eating. She opened the door and saw figures she didn't expect.
"Alek!"
"Aunt Astraea?"
Her aunt hugged her tightly as soon as the door was opened.