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The sun started to rise, and its warm rays sneaked under the curtains to Wilbur’s dorm. The palace was in complete utter silence and the servants was just starting their morning routine cleaning the mansion. Meanwhile Wilbur was sleeping on his bed and his ears managed to hear footsteps coming closer to his door, he didn’t seem to bother at first until he felt a faint voice from the opposite end of the bed. What is that? That must be my mind acting up right? But then the realisation hit Wilbur and he remembered that his brother was still in the room after both of them abruptly fell asleep yesterday while chanting their song. Techno. Wilbur thought and at once woke up sitting upright in his bed. That fast moving caused a severe pain in his back, but he could careless cause he recognised those footsteps… they were his mother’s… and they were getting closer….
“TECHNO”
Wilbur shouted and Techno tossed his head from the bed as fast as the speed of the light
“WHAT?”
Techno shouted back but Wilbur gestured for him to lower his voice, and there was their mother’s footsteps noise filling the silence in the hallway, Techno looked at his brother in shock and whispered
“What should we do? Wilbur what should we do?”
Wilbur was honestly as terrified as Techno and couldn’t think of a single solution nor could Techno, but the footsteps stopped and the door knob was moving. The twins stared at each other and shook their heads trying to act fast until Wilbur gestured for Techno to hide under his bed or both of them would be doomed by disobeying their mother’s orders.
“Good morning Wilbur I see you are awake”
Wilbur started yawning and stretched his arms to avoid any fingers of suspicions that could be pointed at him.
“Yes mother I could barely sleep so no wonder I am awake”
“Well, you know you should give your body enough rest so it can heal”
A sight of poignance appeared on Kristin’s face and Wilbur couldn’t help but notice the grief within her heart he felt guilty responsible for his family’s misery but what could he really do? It wasn’t his choice to slowly die from this disease, Wilbur’s thoughts were interrupted by his mother resting her soft warm hands on his shoulders.
“It is going to be alright Wilby”
Her words soothed wil’s guilty heart and the tears that almost spilled from his eyes evaporated to be one with the air in the room. Even Techno who was crushed under the beds weight felt soothed out and forgot that he could be in trouble…
While Kristin was embracing her son singing a lullaby that both twins enjoyed Sophie came dashing from the hallway.
“Miss I- “
Sophie stared at the room but couldn’t find any trace of Techno she was afraid miss Elrod would find the boys together and both get grounded as well as her getting punished but Techno seemed to find his way out before their mother’s arrival or she thought so after all he wasn’t in his room so that’s why she dashed here to warn the kids but there was no reason to fear now.
“Yes Sophie?”
That sentence snapped Sophie back to reality and she fixed her gesture and directed her gaze at the floor then whispered
“a letter just arrived from Snow Chester, miss Ada and the family are coming to visit in two days”
That sentence struck like lightening into both the twins heart. Grandma no it can’t be no no no. traumatizing memories started pouring into young Wilbur’s head, he didn’t like their grandma not in the slightest she was and still is so cruel and harsh on him and as much as Wilbur wanted company this wasn’t what he asked for. Their grandmother Ada can be mean and cruel but her passive aggressiveness would have no match in the world’s entire history. She would always manage to find a way to guilt trip you and make people believe she was the victim of the story. Wilbur would describe her as “the definition of gaslight” and with his current condition Wilbur Elrod wouldn’t survive with her watching his every move, his every act, his every breath…
“Well, that’s splendid darling, let’s go inform the rest so we can prepare for their arrival”
Before she left the dorm Kristen pushed a gentle kiss on her son’s forehead and headed with Sophie to perform their daily jobs and most importantly to prepare for her mother’s arrival. The large spruce doors shut with a loud crash and Techno came out of his hiding place. Wilbur was motionless on his bed with his eyes wide open and his chest fluctuating up and down, Techno knew what gave Wilbur anxiety and he couldn’t blame him their grandmother Ada was one if not the evilest creatures on this plant, more mischievous than Satan himself. In an act of comfort Techno enclosed his brother weak fragile body and whispered
“It is fine wil we will get through this, YOU will get through this. Ada can’t hurt you, I won’t let her”