Elliot Vane

Ch.1 My brother Elliot

      
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      The nights were the things that I appreciated most out of my life. I would stay up late scolding through Pinterest and reading film quotes which made me feel alive and important. As usual, I was staying up late when the heavy rain started falling and I could hear the sounds of thunder striking and drumming on the roof.

       While the rain sounded a bit lower, suddenly I heard the car horns. I walked out of my bed and went to the window to look outside. With the darkness of the whole neighborhood caused by a power outlet, I couldn't see clearly. But I can tell the color of it since the person inside switched his car lights on. It was a familiar small vintage navy blue car. I was sure that the person inside the car was no other than my older brother Elliot Vane who had been living independently on his own. His name Elliot means kindness, intelligence and dependability which is the opposite of mine Lila Vane.
     
       My brother was the type of person who younger brothers and sisters would want their older siblings to be like. He would often give me gifts at Christmas, my birthday and Big events. He would let me try out new hobbies like learning guitar, skating and camping etc...using his own money. He would always defend me when my parents scolded me for everything I do. Since he has money, a decent paying job,his own house and car, my parents rarely say anything to him.

      He was charming, sweet, kind, intelligent, and free-spirited. He was a role model for me. Someone who I admired and wanted to be.  The only person in my family who didn't discriminate against me and believe in my dreams of wanting to become a lawyer as someone who couldn't even talk back to her bullies. He would often take me on trips to various places. Thanks to him, I was able to have an extraordinary life even as a child.
         
     Although he sometimes would invite me to travel with him in unusual times. This time, it was quite surprising since it's already midnight.I waved at him and then my phone started ringing. I picked it up since I already knew it was from my brother.

     " Bored?" Elliot asked.
  
" Yeah, I can't sleep. What's wrong?" I replied.
 
    " Come with me, we will drive around" said Elliot.

     " Are you for real? Yes!! But I don't think mom's gonna allow us ".
 
    " It's alright, let's just go. Let's go on an adventure!!"

    " Wow! Cool!! But Wait a min. I'm gonna wear a coat."

      After I put on a coat, I went down stairs quietly step by step.
Unlocked the door slowly so as not to make any noises. Since the rain had stopped a while ago, I ran out towards my brother standing beside his car and looking out for me. He patted my head gently and said  " don't worry, we're gonna seize the day! Trust your brother"
       
       " Umm!!" I nodded with a big eye smile on my face looking up at him while hugging tightly on his waist. Almost an hour had passed, but I couldn't tell where he was going, feeling a bit uneasy with a long silence since he started the engine.

    My brother was lovable, but he had an adult aura that sometimes intimidated me. It made me hesitant to ask too many questions.I stayed silent for a while pushing down my urge to ask him where he was going. Then, we saw the sun starting to rise up, the orange-pink colour as if we were in the backrooms.

  The mountains lined up throughout the highway with no car passing by. Therefore,when I  lowered the car window, the cold breeze flew past my nose. My untied hair started floating like crazy causing me to rage.

   My brother gave me a rope to tie, I took it and tied all my hair up.I opened my mouth and asked " Elliot, where are you going?"
  
    " You'll see" Elliot replied with a smile looking straight to the road.
 
    " I think, we're gonna get in trouble. It's already about 4 a.m. Are you sure about this? It's unusual for us to go on a trip around this hour."
 
    " Mom's already given us permission. I texted her when you came out of the house. I'm going somewhere you always wanted to and I'm sure you're gonna like it."

          
      I sighed and "That's a relief, anyway! I'm excited!" I said that with a high pitched voice.As I got relaxed,I gradually closed my eyes and tried to fall asleep. I said with an eye closed " wake me up when we arrive". And a second later, " love you brother".

      " Love you too" Elliot replied.

 Another hour had passed since I fell asleep. I had a dream about my brother fading away into pieces in the gray world where nothing existed except him.

  Wheezing noises came from the back of the car as I slowly got conscious by my mysterious dream and the sound from the outside world.
  
    I looked at the right seat where my brother is nowhere to be found. I looked at the car mirror where I saw my brother doing something at the back of the car.
  
  " Ell...." I paused as I saw him taking the body out of the car. My heart raced fast as I tried to fake sleeping. I squinted through a barely open eye to watch what he was doing with it.
  
" Shit!!!" I jumped up a bit as I suddenly heard my brother's angry voice which is a rare occasion.Then the nosies made from the body wrapped in a plastic can be heard. My body tensed, my hands shaking and sweats dropping from my head.
   
     Certainly,it was a female voice struggling to voice properly as she was having difficulty breathing in that form.
My brother then took out a knife from somewhere and stabbed her again and again.
   
    I closed my eyes in fear of his face turning into a monster in the mirror.I could hear the suffering from her while I started tearing up.My body couldn't stop shaking as I calmed myself down not to make it obvious that I've been woken up.
 
  I couldn't believe what I was seeing , it was cold for me as I felt that it was more painful to see my brother murdering someone than her losing her life like that. I quickly rubbed the tears about to run down on my face.
 
    In a matter of time, he was right beside me trying to wake the engine. While he was doing so, I wondered if he knew that I woke up. My heart raced even faster as my thoughts fly south to north and back to back.

   Out of the blue, he stopped doing what he was doing. He came closer to my face as I could hear his loud breathing. He gazed at me for a minute as I tried hard to act like a mummy.
  
   I tried my best to not move an inch and normal. Although my hair is tied up, the sweats are already dropping non-stop from the back of my neck.  It looked like he believed that I was sleeping. He started driving.

  
   Since I was not sleeping at all,I didn't know what to do. As the cold air had cooled down my sweats, it became colder. He was driving faster than he was before almost as if he turned into someone completely. It was a horror out of a comedy for me. The biggest, scariest and disgusting event in my life to ever occurs. Or the worst is yet to come.

   But I surely wanted to die at that moment. I wished for a car crush to kill both me and my evil brother. Unfortunately, no car had passed by at all except my brother's car. The highway seems more lonely than what I expected it to be. I didn't want to believe the reality of my role model, my own brother, the person who I thought was the best human being in the whole world to be the heartless murder.
  
     My brain tried to cope with it by thinking that maybe that girl was a bad person who did something really bad to my brother. That's why I came to the conclusion that I must ask him openly to know the reason behind his actions.I decided to calm down and try to not think any further.

   

Wed,Oct 23, 2024.
Rose Adalet🚬✒️
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