Chapter 3 Prologue
The figure ran towards Julian and was welcomed by a hug. The figure was a 1.40m tall little girl, with dark, blue hair and soft pink, lightblue eyes that were shining in Julian's presence. "Brothaa" the little girl called and Julian hugged her even tighter.
"What is it, Julia?", the girl was actually Julian's little sister. Julia looked up at Julian with big round eyes "You've been gone so long~. Even dad came home before you!" "I had many things to do in school and then I went to training" Julian said with a warm smile on his face. "But now I got a lot~ of time! So we can spend all of that together."
The sad but cute expression on Julia's face turned into a happy and cute expression "Yay, brothaa and I are going to spend time toghether!"
"Julia, Julian! Dinner is ready come on in!" a soft voice sounded from within the house. Julian picked Julia up and gave her a piggybag ride. They both went into the house and put off their shoes and jackets. Then they went into the kitchen.
Although the building was only about 80 square meters big it looked a lot bigger because of the lack of walls. On the left end corner of the house there was a winding stair going up to the second floor. On the second floor there were the bedrooms of the parents, Julia and Julian.
As they entered the kitchen, there was a man, whose face was covered by a newsletter. Aswell as a woman with dark, blue hair, that reached down her back, who was facing away from them. The woman, who was cooking, turned around and welcomed them both with a comforting smile.
They were a happy family with no problems. The father was happy with his family aswell.
"The food will be served in a second. Sit down and talk with your father a bit." "Okay, mom", Julian nodded lifted Julia above his head onto her chair before sitting down himself.
"How was school today?" the dad asked, not putting down the newspaper. "It's like always. Since I excel in my studies I can help out the different clubs as the school referant." "I see... Since we're already talking about clubs, how's the boxing going?"
"I've already beat the best of the club, so I think of leaving and spending some more time with Julia", he explained. "Done already? I think this is your personal record in completing a club", his dad was astonished. "It's mostly because of the experience from the previous martial arts clubs. But now I'm pretty much done with the various clubs I can enter."
"Congratiolations, you've always been exceeding in physical and psychological aspects. I'm sure your future wife will be happy!" Julian's father lowered his newspaper slightly to look at his son with a slight grin.
"Here's your food. Please eat it all up", his mother brought a big amount of various foods. Salat, pork, calf, chicken, freashly baked bread and rice.
Although his family was fairly poor, the current pizes for food also relatively cheap. But this kind of meal was still only eaten once a week.
The father put away his newspaper and waited for the mother to sit down. After she sat down, the family started eating soon the mother asked an, for Julian, embarrassing question. "Say, Julian, do you finally have a girlfriend?" "Mom! I thought we agreed to not talk about that!"
Although Julian is exceeding in looks, academics, sports, and other arts, he had never had a girlfriend. Many guys in his school had already a girlfriend, some of them even below his grade. So, although it could be said to be normal to not have a girlfriend at his age, he still felt a little embarrassed.
"Oh, come on hon~. I'm just worried that I won't see any of my grandchildren in this life", his mom said, dreaming about the day she would become a grandmother.
With a rosy face he kept arguing while eating. About an hour of eating and discussieng later, Julian and Julia went to get some sleep.
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Soon the sun rose again, laying it's light atop the snowy city. Julian awoke from his sleep as his alarm went off. He awoke in his room and was meeted with a round, smiling face resting on top of his chest. "Mom prepared our breakfast." Julia said, hugging him around the neck. He sat up and gave his arms a stretch, Julia still hanging around his neck. After putting Julia down and throwing her out to get dressed, he went downstairs. "Good moring sleepyhead." "Morning mom."
Julian sat down yawning, his hair still disheveled from his sleep.
After eating his breakfast he got ready to go to school and said his goodbyes to his family. Expecially to Julia who was always against him going away.
The schoolday went as normal, Julian only going to class because of tests. Afterwards he came back early, but was still greeted by his sisters smile and embrace.
You could say that his bond with his sister was stronger than that with their parents.
After that the days passed, until it was weekend and Julian went to the amusement park together with Julia. Their parent couldn't come with them because of a business trip.
They rode on the ferry wheel, the roller coaster, and won stuffed animals at games.
It was already late as a few hours had passed. The sun was no longer high in the sky, but half covered by the horizon. As the break of dawn approached, Julia and Julian made their way back to their house. Walking against the sinking sun Julian carried the sleeping Julia in his arms like a princess.
He looked down at Julia's sleeping face and couldn't help but smile — she looked so tired, but at the same time so cute.
As he arrived at their place he quietly opened the door, went upstairs and tucked Julia into her bed. Julian left the room and before he closed the door, he looked at her with a happy smile and left, going to his own room.
This kind of adventure continued on for the next weeks. Julia and Julian coming home from school and going somewhere fun or new.
Disneyland, Harry Potter land, the jumping park, laser tag, a mazerun and so on.
Soon spring came and the snow disappeared and the trees bloomed with green, pink and white colours. The days became longer and warmer and the nights shorter. With summer approaching and the days getting hotter and hotter. In a few weeks there would be the summer holidays and the two siblings could spend even more time together.
But as summer began to close in, an unpredictable event would also close in.
Julian and Julia had done a lot of fun things and they would go on a trip with their parents when the holidays would arrive.
Julian, Mike and some other friends were invited to a school event and a party of a friend. Although Julia was against it at first, he could talk her into letting him go without making a szene, by promising as many sweets as she could eat.
Soon, after the school event, it was time for Julian to attend the party. His father drove him to the location of the party. There a mansion stood, with people waiting in a queue to be let in by the bodyguards. Each of the people had their ID checked by the guards and were only let in, if they had reached a certain age and had their name written on a list, which one of the guards checked sequendly.
After getting out of the car and saying goodbye to his father, he got into the queue and waited until he got to the front of the line. There, his ID and name were checked before he could go into the building.
As he stepped through the door, load music sounded from the main room. There was a DJ, sound boxes and a light show. On the dance floor there were at least a hundred people dancing shoulder on shoulder.
He went to the next room on his left, there stood a bar and people ordering drinks. Alcoholic and not alcoholic. He saw another door next to the bar.
It was made of glass and he could easily see through. Outside there was a pool area with a jump board and a few seats. Even though it had yet to be summer, the temperatures were still warm. His weather app told him that it was at least 25°C outside.
He kept looking around for a few minutes before he memorised all the rooms, and what he could do there.
Julian had some fun alone, he went to the bar, drank a glass of non-alcoholic beer, went to check out the pool, and the girls, but got suddenly surprised from behind.
Mike had also just arrived and they partied until deep into the night with their friends. They drank a lot, danced a lot and threw themselves into the pool. They also went to an escaperoom event, within the mansion.
As they had fun a lot of time passed. And before they knew it, it was an hour past Midnight. Julian, knowing that he shouldn't come home too late, told Mike he would see him after the summer holidays and left. He didn't want to call his dad to pick him up, so he called an uber.
Shortly after he arrived back at the little "Village", paid the driver and walked the rest of the way back to his house.
There was noone at their door waiting for him this time.
He wasn't expecting Julia too be up so late, so he wasn't surprised about that, but he noticed something else.
His face went dark and a deep frown appeared. His steps quickened and his breath hastened.
The door stood wide open. The lights were out aswell.
Chapter 3 END Prologue