"Why did you burn our house, our only house?" Merly cried. "Do you know how many properties we got in there?"
Beep Beep! Merly's phone ranged.
Man on the phone: "Merly, listen to me, is your brother there?"
It was our Father.
"Yes Dad, he's here!" Merly said as she rolled her eyes and gave me a ' You are in trouble ' look.
"Put it on a loud speaker. I'm sorry for putting you into this much trouble. I want you to know that I love you and I care for you.
But listen!"
Merly's heart was pounding fast, and Greg was anxious to know what he was to say.
"Some guys will come for you, but you must make sure you escape from them. But if you're unable to do so,..." Mr Bennett paused.
"Father, where are you?" Greg asked.
"I'm sorry but you can't see me anymore. I want you to forget about me completely and focus on your lives. Don't forgive me at all." He answered.
"Father, where are you!!" Greg cried out loudly.
"I'm sorry son. I... I.., Do you remember what I told you when you want to learn how to Create a VR game. If there's any problem, I want you to take action and find that man." He said.
"Does that really matter? where are you??" Greg shouted again but the call has ended.
Greg sat on the floor like a crazy person. His happiness had turned to sadness in a few minutes.
"What do will do now?" Merly said kneeling before Greg.
"That man, he really is crazy, why would he leave his children to live outside in a lonely world." Greg said.
"Is it not because of you, You burned the whole house down, where did you expect us to live. How do we cope as from now on?" Merly blamed Greg. And that was when Greg realized his mistake.
"I am really an idiot. A crazy idiot, a stupid idiot." He was cursing at himself while Merly was just weeping.
They went back to their house but it was all burnt. There were Newscaster and Journalist around with police and Security service roaming the neighbourhood.
The fire fighters did their part but it was all too late. The house was fully burnt to the ground.
After seeing what had become of their house, Greg and merly had suggested to leave the entire area.
They still have some money with them that could last them for a month, at most.
On the next day, they heard in a news that their father was imprisoned.
" A devastating news, as the well known and famous game creator Bennett Adam, was accused of stealing another person's idea and creation. He was sentenced to be imprisoned but on the way to the prison, he was assassinated by an unknown assassin. "The broadcaster said. As they heard this, they both started crying for the loss of their father.
" Also we learnt that the house of Mr Bennett was burnt to ashes last night, with his two children inside." The broadcaster comtinued. "What a pity on how the life of a famous and wealthy man ended up in that way."
Merly took a quick glance at Greg whose mouth was open widely.
"Did you hear that? does it mean no one would believe that we exist?!" Merly asked.
Greg sighed and nodded his head in regret.
"Let us leave it that way and focus on how to get out of this situation." Greg replied as he dust off the snow that was on him. It was really cold and they don't have any cardigan on. Their lips were frozen and the tears that rolls down their cheek were freezing in seconds.
They walked around searching for somewhere warm to hide in for the night but they were unlucky, until they got to a house. And a notice board with the writing, 'To Let' , was there.
They knocked at the door and the face of an old lady was revealed.
Good morning ma'am!" Greg said.
And she answered.
"Please, how may I help you guys?" she asked.
"Ma'am, it's cold outside and we don't have anywhere to go. Can you please give us some place to live in." Greg begged.
"You gotta pay me for the room. sixty dollars for a month." The old lady said snapping her fingers.
"Please ma'am, even if it is your basement." They were thinking that at least they will be out of the cold and snow.
"I ain't allowing strangers live in my house without paying me money." She was about to close the door but Greg pointed out twenty dollars to her.
"Please ma'am, this is the only money we got." Greg said.
"I'll accept it because I'm a kind lady. Come on in." She replied as she collect the money from his hands.
"Over there, that's your room." She pointed at the last room on the passageway. "Go clean up, I'll get the table ready for you two." She said.
After they were all cleaned up. They went into the dining room. The woman was seated and so they also sat down.
The lady served some things on their food and told them to eat, which they willingly did.
"So, what are your names and where are you from, what happened to you, where are your parents." she asked.
They told her their names but they didn't tell her what happened to them or why they had ended up in such place. No matter how hard she asked, they ensure that no one knew that they are the children of the famous game creator. The children that everyone believed to be dead.
Since then, the lady has been given out unreasonable and unworthy comments about their parents.
After Greg entered their room, he continue writing his letter and in a short while, he was done with it.
Before he could finish what he was doing, he notice that Merly was also asleep. Not wanting to disturb her, he decided to sleep by her side.
As he was making his way to the small bed they owned, he noticed that a bag was on the floor. It was the backpack he stole from the thieves.
He checked the inside of the bag and noticed something strange in a circular form. When he brought the thing out, he saw that it was some metal stuff that is circular in shape.
He ran his hands through it before letting go. And he went to sleep after.
Unknown to him that the metal stuff was lightening red.
In the middle of the night, the wind was howling loud, and cracks of snow could be heard. The streets were vacant of vehicles and people.
Everywhere was dark because the moons and stars are unseen and the electricity are down. The whole city is in a great darkness, and it is also cold and frozen.
Some strange small space-jets could be seen flying around the area. It was like it was locating a connection from somewhere. Until it got to the house where Greg and Merly were and stopped. The space-jets were four in total.
It landed on the floor and two figures could be seen getting out of a space-jet.
They entered into Greg's room through the window. The window was closed, but these figures break down the window glasses and entered.
They spotted something in an instant. It was the red shiny metal stuff that Greg had left on the floor.
These two figures looked at each other, ( it was a way they communicate among each other ) and brought out two other whitish blue shiny metal and they both pointed it towards the red shiny metal.
A blue light ray went from the shiny blue metal and it obfuscate the red shiny metal, turning it into a normal metal stuff.
After successfully doing this, one of the figures took the red metal with the backpack, while the other carried Greg and Merly.
And they were carried into the space-Jet and soon, they took off into the space.
After they left, the electricity came on back. And everywhere was bright with light.
*****
Greg opened his eyes and the first thing he saw was an Iron bar gate. He looked at his right, he saw a chair and a table and he saw himself on a little bed that could occupy only just a person. Several bowls with strange things like worms, maggots and insects could be seen.
Then he heard a beep beep tone.
"Where Am I?" Greg asked.