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Ranella entered the mansion, limping and dragging her leg, her ankles were indeed sprained.
"What happened to you, my dear?" Nanny Esther asked, walking towards her and supporting her to the couch. Ranella sat on the couch with a smile on her face.
"Thanks," She said, still smiling.
"What happened to your leg?" Esther asked with concern etched on her face.
"I'm guessing she rode her bicycle to the comic store again and ended up falling off her bike," Cherry nonchalantly said as she stuffed in the cheesecakes.
That brat. " She's right, that's exactly what happened," I said, deciding to go with the brat's guess since it was half the truth anyway.
"I told you numerous times to be careful?" Esther said she crouched down to take a look at her leg and then her eyes lit up like flashlights, scanning thoroughly, that was her power, she had X-ray eyes, and she could see the inner organ of anything, the human organs or she could see through items, closed doors or anything else.
"It's just a sprain, it should be healed tomorrow," Esther said, carefully placing down her leg, going for the first aid kit, and then applying some ointments on her ankle.
"Thanks, Esther," I said and she nodded with a smile.
"Let me get you something to eat." She said and went over to the dining room. As soon as she was gone, my mind drifted again, and images of what happened a while ago flashed through my head, Liam's eyes looked angry and he yelled at her, but she could see the concern in his eyes.
'How is it that you're everywhere, why can't you just stay out of trouble?!' She recalled his voice in her head and it kept replaying over and over again.
Those words, it was as if deep down he was worried about her, or it could be because he was scared that he almost ran her over and then he would be in trouble.
Argh, why was he confusing her? She couldn't stop thinking and her head hurt. Esther came back with the cheesecakes and she collected them with a smile.
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Back at Hidden High hostel, Alex walked to their enclosure with hands formed into fists, he barged in and met VC lying on his bed with his phone in his hands, while Leo was lifting a dumbbell.
"Hey! Don't barge into the room like that, you almost gave me a heart attack," VC scolded, hiding away his phone which he was watching porn on.
"Where's Liam?" Alex asked and they simultaneously pointed up. Liam was at the rooftop again.
He dashed out and took the stairs to the rooftop, after climbing like a total of four stairs, he finally got to the rooftop, opening the doors with telekinesis. He saw Liam meditating with his eyes closed and his dark powers circling him like a tornado.
He placed two fingers on his temples and let out a groan, he sent psychic energy to Liam, attacking him mentally. Liam rasped in pain and then he held his head due to the extreme pain he felt. Despite that pain, Liam managed to get up on his feet, and with a casting gesture, he swung his hand, releasing a gush of black flame-like ball that hit Alex, throwing him off balance, and knocking him to the floor with a loud thud.
The pain Liam felt a while ago vanished and he stood upright with a sigh.
"What's this about brother?" He asked.
"You hurt her," Alex said, getting back up on his feet.
"Who?" Liam asked, feigning ignorance.
"Ranella!" Alex yelled.
" Ahh, so it's about her?" Liam said with a scoff, running his fingers through his hair.
"It's not about her, whatever misunderstanding you had with Father, you shouldn't take it out on clueless girls like Ranella!" Alex said, walking towards him.
"Then it is about her," Liam said again.
"I told you, It's not about her!!" He scolded, but there was no response from Liam.
"Look, just try to get your act together and talk to Father about whatever misunderstanding you guys have..."
"...Ralph and I have nothing to talk about!" Liam yelled, his darkness emanating from his body like a man on black flames while his eyes turned pitch black again.
"Ever since I was born, I have been the fucking dark horse of the family. I admit it was my fault Mom died, but I am a human with feelings too!"
"It's not my fault, I have darkness dwelling inside me, it's not my fault, I lost control of my powers and blew up the car on our 15th birthday!!" Liam said again and the pain was evident in his voice.
"It has always been you, Alex. Ever since we were fucking born, it has always been you, I tried so hard to hate you, but I couldn't. So far you were the only one who was there for me so I couldn't hate you!" Liam said, running his fingers through his hair.
"The reason Ralph called...was to ask about your well-being, I guess you know that, you read my mind," He said with a pained smile.
"Liam..."
"...You should try talking to him, so he can leave me the fuck alone!" Liam said and walked past him.
Alex sighed after Liam walked past him, he walked farther to the edge of the roof, taking in the sunset view. That was one thing he and his brother had in common, they both loved rooftops and sunset views.
Liam went back to the room, still fuming with anger and his darkness continued to swirl around him. He entered their room and slammed the door behind him, he caught VC masturbating but VC quickly covered up when he took sight of Liam. He was about to scold Liam like he did Alex, but kept shut after seeing Liam's swirling darkness, he dressed himself and took a step back trying to calm Liam down so his darkness wouldn't burst out of him and kill him.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, okay buddy, deep breaths," VC said with outstretched arms.
"Inhale and then exhale," VC said, trying to calm him down.
"Argh!!" Liam angrily yelled with clenched fists and the darkness gushed out of his body and shot at VC, due to his speed, he dodged it using fast reflex and it impaled the wall like a solidified spear, before dispersing.
"Dude!" VC said with eyes opened agape.
"You almost killed me," VC said, still not able to believe what just happened, he had thought of it but he didn't anticipate it.
"I'm sorry, and you might wanna get out now," Liam said, still clenching his fist and clenching his jaws. VC ran out at incredible speed and as soon as he closed the door behind him, he heard a loud boom, like an explosion and everything seemed to be okay, except for the dark smoke coming from under the door. He opened the door slowly and the sight he saw was the room was destroyed with Liam standing In the middle and breathing heavily as if he had just run a marathon. Well, he was used to it now so it didn't come as a shock to him, this wasn't the first time Liam had destroyed their room.