"Hello there Adrianne," a voice from underneath the smoke that was coming out of the door. From all the smoke appeared a man with the same caramel skin as Adrianne, his hair was dyed purple and he was wearing a mesh top with high waisted black pants.
He flipped his hair and strutted towards the direction of where Adrianne was, completely ignoring Micael and Maria.
Adrianne looked at him with a scowl on her face, "What do you want?"
"Is that a proper way to welcome your elder brother?" He asked sounding offended with the way Adrianne just spoke to him.
"I don't care to welcomed you, now what exactly do you want?"
The man let out a scoff, then rolled his eyes. "Whatever, I am just here for a visit."
"A visit?"
"Yes, a visit."
"Why?"
"Why not. Why won't I not visit my dearest little sister," he reached out to touch Adrianne's hair, Adrianne swatted his hand away like a pesky bug.
"Did mom sent you?"
"Oh no, no, no, no. Sweetheart you do know that me and mama are not really on talking terms with one another..."
"I'm sorry to break up this family reunion, but who are you?" Micael asked and the man whipped his head so fast that Maria almost thought it would fly off his body.
"Oh dear, I didn't even notice your presence." He said it in such a mocking way that Micael almost felt like punching him in the face.
"Well since you are so curious to know who I am, I would tell you. My name is Salim Vicker, a man that can be anything and can be everywhere at once." He said in such a grandiose way that caused Adrianne to roll her eyes.
"Please don't mind him, he is my very annoying elder brother. And he is taking his leave right now," Adrianne said going to push him out of the door, which was just futile as he stood there like an unmovable force.
"Dearest sister, I shall not be leaving this house, for I came here to investigate something."
Adrianne still trying to push him out of the house said, "you can take your investigation else where."
"But it concerns you, child." It seems that hearing the word child tends to ruffle Adrianne's feathers as she stopped pushing him, and stood glaring at him, that if looks could kill he would be a dead man by now.
"What is it?" She asked folding her hands.
Meanwhile Maria and Micael just watched on with piqued interest at their sibling banters.
"I shall speak. But," he draw out the but. "Let me take a quick bath to freshen myself, my skin feels sticky and moist."
****
By evening time, Salim had eaten, taken a shower and wore very comfortable clothing.
Adrianne was already loosing her patience with him, they were all seated around the dining table, waiting for Salim to come and tell him (mostly Adrianne) the reason for his visit.
He came strutting into the dinning room, taking a seat next to Adrianne, he then opened his mouth and said: "What's for dinner darling?"
Adrianne left eye twitched in frustration. "There is no dinner tonight, now tell me the reason for your visit."
He placed his index finger and thumb on his chin and lifted his head as if considering if she was an important person to tell the reason why he came here in the first place.
After some seconds of thinking, he looked at Adrianne dead in the eye and mouthed, 'no.'
By this time Adrianne had had enough of his bullshit, she pushed back her chair which made a slight screeching sound, stood up and tried dragging her–very large–brother, out to the door. Which didn't work cause he didn't even move an inch.
"Listen Adrianne, I can't tell you what's happening due to what I am doing being top secret."
"You can top secret whatever it is that you are doing elsewhere. Now leave."
It was at that moment that Maria decided to get involved in the whole situation.
"Wait a minute Adrianne, maybe he has his reasons to not wanting to tell you about what his business is." Maria tried reasoning with Adrianne.
"That you very much, pretty Latin girl." He said.
"Wait, how did you know that I was Latin?"
"I have a power that can tell the nationality of somebody on first glance." He said shrugging his shoulders.
Maria said a simple 'oh' still surprised about everything that has happened this past few weeks. About the fact that supernatural beings existence that is.
"Well, Adrianne maybe you should listen to Maria, this time around. Just let him stay and do his thing." Micael added.
Adrianne looked at the both of them with uneasy eyes, then look at her brother, she walked closer to him and poked a finger at his chest, trying her best to sound menacing. "If you dare do anything stupid, I swear on great Grandma's grave, you would be dead."
Salim lifted his hand as a means of telling her that he was literally harmless. "I won't do anything that would bring any form of danger to you or anyone in this household."
Adrianne stalked off to the kitchen to make dinner for four people, by the time she was done cooking, she served it to them.
Salim took in the smell, "You cook just like Mama."
Adrianne rolled her eyes at his compliment, "Just eat you damn food."
Everybody digged in eating and discussing over the table with mostly Salim heading the discussions, before Maria knew it she realized that it was very late, and she couldn't head home anymore.
"You can sleep over for the night," Adrianne said. "I mean it's been a really long time since I had female companion."
Maria was wondering about her work the next day, and hos she would be able to leave from this place to the next place.
"You don't have to worry Maria, that would be taken care of by me, ok. Now come let me take you to the guest bedroom." Adrianne escorted her to the guest bedroom, and then she left and came back with some of her clothes to put on.
Maria held the clothes in her hands and told her thank a word of thanks. Adrianne brushed it off and told her that it's not a problem.
Then she left Maria so that she could rest for the night, Maria lay down on the oddly comfortable bed it didn't take long before she was knocked out by sleep. Snoring peacefully in a tranquil state.