9:00 PM 15th August
After Tristo fainted, Lytros dragged him to his bed and put a blanket over him, and let him sleep peacefully. She wanted to watch over him as he was sleeping. But she remembered how messy the whole house was. She heaved a deep sigh as she thought about cleaning the house.
Thinking about cleaning, her head felt dizzy and she felt like vomiting. Why wouldn't she? After all the whole house was showered with blood and human body parts. The inside of the house was relatively clean except for the fact that there were some blood stains on the floor. She could imagine why those stains were there. Also, there was the strong metallic scent of blood. Even if she could clean the blood stains and Tristo's clothes, she could do nothing about the smell. She got up and straightened her back before going out of Tristo's room. She looked concerned about Tristo while closing the door.
"Hmm... What time is it? What it's this late.!"Tristo shouted as soon as he woke up. As he was thinking why he was sleeping this long he remembered what happened earlier today. He still couldn't believe what he saw. Then he remembered his sister. He quickly got up from the bed and started calling for Lytros.
"Lytros! Lytros come here!"
"*****" There was a moment of silence.
Tristo was getting anxious. It was then...
"Why are you shouting? I'm here. Sweeping the floor, cleaning the mess you've made!"
Tristo made a sigh of relief after hearing his sister's voice. He didn't even realize that he was holding his breath all this time.
"Sorry! Just getting sure you're here.", Tristo said.
"Don't worry I'm not going anywhere.", replied Lytros.
After hearing that Tristo smiled faintly. Then he felt his body was itching for some reason. He then looked at himself in the mirror. What he saw is a totally normal-looking reflection of his body, he didn't find anything on his T-shirt or his face. But when he looked at his trouser he saw it was dyed in red from blood. Also, there was the metallic smell of blood all around him. Especially there was a foul stench coming out of his pants. So he went to take a shower.
He took his clothes off before entering the shower. He had quite a muscular body. His abs were packed with muscles befitting his delinquent status in high school. He had the body and face that could make any girl fall for him as soon as they saw him. And his son can be the envy of other boys. In short, his body was the definition of manliness.
After taking a shower he went straight to the living room. There he saw Lytros laying on the couch, resting after a stressful cleanup of the house. He could tell at a glance that she was exhausted. When he was about to shake her, he saw she had fallen asleep. He stared at her sleeping face for a few seconds, then he went to the kitchen to see if there was anything to eat. As he suspected there was nothing to eat. So he started to think about what to cook. He wanted to make something quick and tasty. After pondering for a while he decided to make pistachio pesto pasta.
At first, he poured water into a bowl and put the bowl on the stove. When the water heated up to the right temperature he put fettuccine in the water. Then he roasted pistachios in a frying pan. Then he put some parsley, salt, pepper, olive oil, and roasted pistachios in a blender and started to blend the mixer, after the blending was done he poured one-quarter cup of pasta water into the mixer. Then he started to blend again. After some time the sauce was done. He put the pasta and the sauce in a frying pan and started to mix them. Then he added some blanched asparagus without the heads of the asparagus. Then he added a dollop of ricotta and mixed them together all while cooking them.
He was so concentrated on cooking that he didn't even notice Lytros was in the kitchen and watching him cook. After the cooking was done then he noticed Lytros watching him. He was startled seeing her.
"This is my little brother! You cooked for me after seeing my exhausted face right?!"
"Nope. I was hungry. So I cooked this for myself", said Tristo.
"You little punk...!"
"Wait! Wait! I've made for you some too!"
Tristo shouted as he was strangled by Lytros. Their fighting went on for ten minutes. Their fight only ended when some growling sounds were heard. They both sat down at the table to eat. Lytros praised him for the food. As they were eating Tristo decided to tell her what happened to him today.
"Sister I should tell you what happened to me today."
Lytros was surprised to hear this out of nowhere. But showed interest in hearing his story.
After hearing Tristo's unbelievable but at the same time real explanation, Lytros was at a loss for words. She could not believe about time being stopped. But when she thought about how Tristo was nowhere to be found in the morning, she was forced to believe.
"Sister you know what happened outside right?"
"yeah... I was searching for you in the house when the rain started."
"Ok. I think more of these abnormal things are about to come. Maybe more absurd things will happen..."
"Tell me straight what you want to say."
" Think about It. If these things continue, things will go south pretty quickly. If governments around the world fail to find the cause of these situations, sooner or later people will start to riot. The social order will collapse. The governments might deploy the armed forces. But soon they will also fail to contain the situation. When that time comes the governments will collapse. It will be hell from then on. No one will stop killing people, stealing things to name a few."
"You read too much fiction. But I understand where are you coming from. So tell me your plan."
"Ok. First, we need to secure food specifically canned food, water, and other daily necessities. Then we need to buy clothes, first aid kits, medicines, toolboxes, batteries, lights, solar panels, and order necessary home appliances. Also, I think we should put metal cages on our house's windows, doors and other ventilation. On that topic, we should put barbed wires on the boundary wall of our house and we should buy reinforced doors."
"That's a lot of items but manageable. But the only problem is, the neighbors might get suspicious,Tristo" said Lytros after hearing Tristo.
"I think it will be ok because we are not the only ones thinking this way."
"Well, you have a point. After what happened today people will do these things."
"lastly.."
"There's more..." Lytros frowned.
"Yes, and this is the most important one. We need weapons for self-defense. The government might soon put a ban on selling firearms. So tomorrow first thing in the morning we should buy guns. Anything will do, side arms, semi-auto, auto, crossbows. Also, we need to buy a lot of knives, ammunition for the guns, and bolts for the crossbows."
" Hmm... that might be difficult. But we should at least try."
"We might face problems buying guns. But we should no problem buying crossbows and knives."
"Ok", replied Lytros.
They discussed other important things to do for a while. After finishing their meals Tristo sat down on the couch to watch TV. When he switched ON the TV he saw the news about the rain.
The anchor said that the rain fell all around the world and the governments were deploying armies in some countries where people started to wreck havoc on the streets. Tristo hit right on the money. What he told Lytros earlier was coming true. Thinking about the situation Tristo forgot all about the voice earlier today. He forgot the most important piece of the puzzle to solve all of these anomalies.