Chapter 81

Chapter 81
“Such heavenly people remains so less.

Who still cherish your sparkle when the world strains.

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“You are known better by your character.

You are known better by your words.

No matter what actions you pulls on?

You will be known better by your wise words.

Max's sight was glued towards the annoyed yet angry elder when he let out a sigh and bluffed out afterwards. “It's rare to see him angry.”

Her shoulder dropped figure moved when Max led her towards the path which got them to garage as later that they entered inside from the gate which was attached with it from the outside. There, inside the garage, Danial’s car stood along with another familiar blue car which was being Marquis's only property remaining, his blue Skyline. Her eyes teared up when she stared his car with a heavy feeling held by her heart and her mind's every thought got replaced with just one. “I hope you're okay, Marquis.”

The garage was big enough but it was mostly filled with things that are related to mechanism. Another sigh that Max escaped as a debate was going on inside his mind when later that he popped out casually. “Wait here. I'll get you a pillow and a comforter.”

“No!” Yenail stopped him right away when he was about to take a step. “Just get me a pillow.”

“I am NOT listening to you.” Max sternly told her when he pointed his finger at her but his intentions were never being bad after knowing her story, it was just that she was being so stubborn as he further added. “Danial won't let me get inside if he'll see you like that.”

“But, I would be fine. Trust me.”

“WAIT....here. I'm just coming.” Max calmed himself down when he told her to stay.

“O-Okay.” She mumbled while standing at her spot.

Max left the place and get passed through another door which was connecting the garage and the house together. Whereas, she crouched down after supporting her back to the wall when she just stared the blue car in front of her.

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The man in his room was almost burning in rage as the promise that he made with his dead friend, was breaking apart when he wasn't seeing himself holding onto the things with his own hands when every time that he tries? Things messes up even more.

Louis crumpled up the bedsheets under him while holding the un-controlled anger inside himself as right after coming home, he doesn't even ate when he was waiting to have a delightful family dinner along with a new person also as after days that they would be having it. But his appetite got murdered in no time when he witnessed the disaster that was done by no one else but his own, pretty, elder yet a monstrous sister. He wanted to spat right at her face for truly pulling on such vicious yet dramatically ridiculous act towards such angel, but how could he fight that debate of respect before throwing even few of those ill-mannered comments at her elder sister as Louis's chest heaved when he punched the pillow beside him and groaned so madly that even a knock didn't counter his fired thoughts. 

The knob of the door turned and one of his elder made her way to the room when Leena asserted in her straight rough tone as she doesn't seemed bothered at all while facing Louis's back. “Louis, you didn't eat. Come and have something.”

“I don't want to.” Louis angrily growled in his reply, without even casting a glance towards her direction. “Leave me alone.”

“You are fighting with me? For that bit—” Leena scoffed but before she could even talk further ahead, she faced a bursting Louis first.

“FOR GOD'S SAKE!! STOP IT!!” Louis yelled at her and made her jump at her spot by his sudden outburst when he continued to yell at her. “Without even knowing her story. You are bashing her!!!”

After hearing the shouting that echoed the whole upper area of their house, his head twirled towards the direction when Danial softly spoke while he was handing over a pillow and a comforter to the other man in front of him. “Max, here. Give these to her and made sure that she's fine, okay?” Danial hurriedly admitted and later sprinted towards the stairs. “Go! I'll check on her more before sleeping.”

“You shouldn't even called an elder!! Because, you don't even know the rules of how to be one, Leena!” Louis's screams were roaring Danial’s ears when his feet were covering the stairs.

“How dare you talk to me like that? You brat!!!” Leena yelled back as she never stopped turning back to anyone, when she was being all ready to defend herself. “This was the day that I wanted to expel her out so early. She does the thing what we have never done before. SHE. MADE. US. FIGHT!!”

“It's your own actions, Leena. She has faced that beast.” Louis simply scoffed in his reply so greatly when he fired those words right at her face and later with his arms crossed that he argued back with accusation, as a bit of sarcasm that she could also smell in his tone. “She probably won't be bothered by your ass.”

Leena gasped over the language that the younger just spoke, when a mere piece of confidence that Louis gained from his new criminal friend and it could be seen in his bitter attitude.

“You!!” Leena grunted at his choice of words when her chest heaved with anger.

“Enough both of you!!!” Danial’s voice soon filled the room as he entered the place and wished to stop the quarrel among his two little children.

“She started it!!” Louis angrily pointed towards Leena when his glare was being another new thing for Leena to bear as later he also gritted his teeth. “You have everything, Leena. That's why you're being so proud of yourself. You don't know how it feels when you don't have a family.”

“Calm down.” Danial held his younger brother right away when he saw Louis lowering his head and sob a little after he delivered his words.

“I didn't want to mention this but...I guess, there's something else going on in your head, Louis.” Leena shook her head in disbelief when she doubted Louis without any further reason and her bitter mouth escaped few words for her younger brother, thinking as if it wasn't a big deal while doubting him for sure. While leaving both of the males in utter yet extreme shock afterwards. “What if you....fucked her out? You are being the only one visiting her room. So very oftenly.”

“GET LOST, LEENA!!!” After hearing her words, Louis yelled from top of his lungs when now at this moment, he was really willing to kill his elder sister for a big reason as he kept on screaming at her and she just watched him. “DON'T SHOW ME YOUR FACE THE NEXT MORNING!!!”

“Leena, leave.” Danial worriedly blew when he held a raging Louis by his chest and in a stern monotone that Danial later exerted. “You did great. Thank you. Now leave!”

“How can you even think about it!!!?” Louis's loud voice filled the room once again when he angrily started pushing Danial while his feet were forcing himself towards the afraid Leena who stood near the doorframe as she gulped after seeing his state. “You shouldn't be here in this house too.”

“Louis, stop!! Calm down.” Danial applied the opposite force when he was strongly holding him as later that his sight averted towards Leena. “Didn't you hear me?! You did enough! Now LEAVE.” Without even thinking much that she made a turn and exited the room in no time. “Hey! Hey! Hey! Calm down! Calm down!! She's okay.” Danial gently cupped his younger's face while Louis was breathing heavily when an assuring smile that Danial flashed right after few minutes. “She's fine. She's in the garage. Don't worry.”

After hearing the thing that she was being alright, Louis literally started coming to his senses when he went towards the bed and dropped his figure upon it. “I never thought that Leena will be thinking like that.”

“She's just an idiot. Don't listen to her.” Danial slightly chuckled but it didn't help in loosening the tight air around them both when Louis was still being mad. “All of us know what kind of a person that you are.”

Over his words, Louis just scoffed when he backed up and rested himself upon the bed's head behind him and turned his head aside as he mentioned further ahead afterwards, along with a shake in his head. “I'm not talking to Leena ever again.”

“Louis, that's not a way of solving matters.” Danial placed a hand over his shoulder when his words were soft vocalized. “Discuss it. You got to tell her everyth—”

“For how many times do I have to tell her?!!” Louis raised his voice once again at Danial but surely stopped himself from pulling out any more disrespecting words furthermore. “I tried everything. She just never listens to me. Also, I wasn't willing to talk to her like that but she just made me.”

“Just calm down, okay. You haven't eaten anything.” Danial politely handled everything when he softly spoke with his little teddy bear. “What would you like to eat? I'll bring you.”

“Nothing. I don't need anything.” With a dull voice holding his words that Louis stood up and went to his closet.

“Louis, don't do this. At least eat something.” Danial’s eyes were still focused onto his figure when he further asked him in a concerning tone and made sure that his words shouldn't sound heavy ones to the younger's heart. “Louis, can I ask you something?”

“Yes.” The depressing tone of Louis didn't change.

“Why are you being so protective to her?” As expected, Danial questioned anyway and Louis replied while holding his night clothes hung over Louis's one arm.

“Danial, to be honest? Marquis filled the space of Seth so quickly after Seth left this world. He was being the one who comforted me at that moment though I beat him like shit. Marquis didn't argue back nor that he complaint. He simply allowed me to let out my anger on him. My frustration. My sorrows. Everything that I was holding right there at that moment. You know how much that I loved Seth and even after getting beaten up like hell? He held me.”

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“I'm sorry for beating you like shit.” Louis sobbed.

“Sshh. Calm down. I'm not hurt. Who said I'm hurt, freak?” Marquis shushed him slightly though he still felt a sting in his lower lip while giggling. 

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A weak smile sculptured Louis's face while remembering the first interaction of his new friend with his own self when Louis's words literally left Danial speechless. “Dan, Marquis is so beautiful. By heart and by soul. He was even ready to kill himself but I stopped him.”

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“What the hell are you doing???” Louis almost screamed when he rambled at snatching the gun but it was still being in Marquis's hands. “Stop this nonsense! You brat!!! I can't hold your responsibilities much!”

“Louis!! Stop!!! Someone will get killed!!!” Marquis screamed back when he struggled to get rid of his grip while annoyingly trying to push him away.

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Danial doesn't needed any more evidence after listening to those last words that Louis conveyed when the words that he told after, amazed the elder some more when Louis further declared. “Dan, that's why I'm trying dead hard to delete every relatable data and record of him, from every police station possible.”

“You cannot do that. That's seriously impossible and insane. It can risk your whole reputation. Maybe, I don't know. What if they expels you out?” Danial worriedly talked when his eyes were showing fear of losing his younger's job. “You gave so much in this, Louis.”

“But, Dan. If he can do the impossible by changing into a person that he never thought of being? Then, why can't I?” Louis argued back when his voice was being disturbing yet rageful.

“He's a man of power. Try to understand.”

“No, Dan! He's my true inspiration! Marquis helped me in knowing the people so well. His confidence has always been his power which I. Lacked. The. Most. He let me know people's real faces. He. Let. Me. Know. What one can do after knowing their worth.”

Danial could only sigh at Louis. “You need sleep. A good one.”

“I'll going to help him, Dan. No matter what.” Louis decided and ended the conversation as later that he got changed into his comfy clothes.

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The knob of the door turned when he entered the garage, just to check on the girl who was soundly sleeping over the floor when Danial’s heart sunk down deeper than the ocean itself, just when his eyes landed upon the angel. He truly believed now that angels do really exist, when a deep yet painful sting of guilt that he felt at the moment which ate him completely after he knelt down and caressed the head of the girl. 

“Yenail?” Danial blurted out quietly and a sigh that he left afterwards when he got no response while just her breaths were hitting his palm, as later that he lovingly caressed her hair once again and pulled over the comforter up to her shoulders when Yenail slept peacefully as it was already being two a.m. “I'm really sorry. Sleep well, angel.”

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The sun shone brighter than thousands of lights when the rays were tracing the face of the man who was present in the room, while he snuggled his face deeper in the fluffy pillow, in order to avoid the light that was ripping through his eyes. In the morning, the first sound that filled the room was Louis's groaning in annoyance when the knocks never bothered him. Ever.

“Wake up, booger!” Danial entered inside, wearing a suit that hid his masculine curves so well when he placed the tray that was dressed with some caramel coated waffles, a scoop of strawberry ice-cream and hot melted chocolate in a mug as being the elder brother who was mostly attached with his younger brother, he knew him so very well when the first thing to get his precious teddy bear's mood better, were being his favourite delights rightly to be served in the mornings, when Danial announced once again while repeating himself yet also, while he was buttoning up his sleeves. “Munchkin, you'll be late. Wake up!”

With his face dug in the pillow and while being under the blanket, the raspy heavy voice aired the whole room. “If Leena made those? I. AM. NOT. EATING.”

“C'mon, Louis. I made it.” Danial mentioned while fixing his tie when he watched himself into the mirror as later in his stern tone that he warned. “I want you to eat well.”

“I don't want to go to work today.” Louis made a turn and ruffled himself while being a complete blanket burrito.

“Booger, if you won't go? Than those files or records won't going to remove themselves.” Danial softly spoke while smiling towards his younger's stubbornness.

“I hate Seth for that. He gave me such a big responsibility.” Louis grunted in the pillow.

“C'mon, get up!” Danial cheered when later that he playfully smacked his young brother's butt cheek, from above the blanket. “Freak!! You're ice-cream's melting!!”

“Dan!! Ugh!!” Louis cuddled even more into his blanket when he simply earned a giggle from his elder but after hearing the last sentence, Louis kicked off the blanket immediately as later that he scooted over to the other side of the bed and reached the tray, while also cooing like a little kid. “Thanks, Dan!!”

“Never mention it, teddy bear.” Danial winked and let out another cheerful laugh when he approached his younger sibling and patted his head. “Just be calm. Okay?”

Louis silently nodded towards his command and spoke after few minutes. “Did she eat something?”

“Who?” Danial raised an eyebrow, unknowingly.

“Of course not Leena, Dan.” Louis passed him an annoying look.

“Huh. I didn't have a check on her, still. But she slept well last night. I guess.” A fake smile that Danial surely showed when he sighed, probably being unknown. “Max told me that she was being so quiet.”

“Don't you worry. We will be fine.” Louis assured him right away and earned a smile from his elder, when Danial made a stand and pecked his younger's forehead as he was being everything to these two people. More than being their elder brother? He was also being an image of honor in their eyes.

“Just be careful. Okay?” Danial’s palms held Louis's face so gently when he almost sounded like their father who's always worried for their children as he surely had a resemblance.

“Thank you, Dan. I will be.” Louis hugged him tightly right on the moment, when he tightened his embrace furthermore and snuggled in his elder's chest. “Thank you so much for understanding it all. I don't know what would happen if I never had an elder brother like you.”

“I'll always be here, munchkin.” Danial giggled when he slightly rubbed his back while hugging him in return, when Louis cried a little onto his chest and the elder just softly spoke further ahead after breaking the hug. “Don't worry. Everything will be fine. Now be careful and....stay away from Leena until I come back. Okay?” Danial consoled him first and commanded afterwards, when he held his younger's tears stained delicate face and earned a low headed nod. “Eat well.” For the last time that he ruffled the younger's hair when they both shared a pair of happy chuckle as later he stood up and left the room.

After half an hour that Louis got himself refreshed and changed into his usual home clothes which were his loose baggy pants in black and a big oversized white shirt. His phone was blasting with calls and texts when he reminded himself again to scurry towards the police station for just one purpose nowadays and that was being nothing else but to throw out and remove every possible data yet records related to only one name. Marquis.

While one was converting from Satan to angel during the process? The other was being the angel, who was probably trying to remove every sin that the Satan has done, while sacrificing his own self somewhere and somehow.

Louis temporarily let the silent mode rule over his phone as it remained in his room when he decided to let it remain over there and went downstairs along with empty kitchen crockery in a tray which was being held by his hands.

“Louis! Come. Have breakfast with me.” Leena's poisonous vocals seemed so hard to inhale for him along with her presence when Louis didn't even respond to her while paying no attention for the whole day as he made sure that this point stays stuck at the back of his head when without even answering her back, Louis lazily put those empty dished tray over the counter aside the sink and headed for the living room while following an emotionless face. Leena noticed his behavior when she annoyingly followed him and entered the living room, where he was seated on the couch along with a dull body language yet expressions as she asked after knitting her brows and tapping her foot repeatedly on the floor, when her arms were also crossed as anger hinted her tone. “Why didn't you go to the police station today?”

“None of your business.” Louis's words were harsh yet straight and his tone came out rough when he doesn't even made any turn towards her direction while replying to her rudely.

“Is that even a way to talk with your elder?” Leena slightly raised her voice along with one of her eyebrow.

“Are you even being one?” Louis talked back with even bitterer attitude in his behavior when after moments, once again that he paid no attention at all.

“Louis!!”

“Just please get lost.” Louis scoffed afterwards when his sight was glued over the television in front of him.

He heard his elder sister stomping the ground and growling louder than ever when she left in moments after gaining enough disrespect. How could she be even fine with all that harshness yet, how can he simply forget the taunt that she threw right at him? Even after she ran at her room and shut the door after locking it from the other side, he doesn't cared as after making sure that she won't be coming out for hours, Louis switched off the television and headed for the kitchen.

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Her chin rested over her kneecaps when her hands were being around her legs while she was seated upon the comforter which prevented her clothes from mustering any dirt particles over them, when her empty and hollow eyes were fixed upon the blue car in front of her while she was thinking about its owner, a sigh that her dry lips just escaped. Suddenly, the turning of the door knob made her flinch when her eyes averted towards it and a tall figure entered along with a humble smile while holding a tray along with the food over it. It was ten thirty in the morning already and as if god heard her prayers, she was willing to have the breakfast but could not think about entering the hell by herself, without crossing the fire.

“I thought you might didn't have breakfast up till now.” Louis's soft vocals filled the silence of the garage as later that he knelt down beside her and placed the tray over the hard ground while passing her a healing smile.

“Thank you, Louis.” Yenail simply returned the favor while smiling back to him.

Louis bought the same breakfast for her that he had for himself few hours ago and Yenail's eyes lit up like a child spots a candy when she picked up a waffle and took a bite as like a heavenly feeling that she hummed afterwards. She took bite after bite when her empty growling stomach was being delighted with the treat. She even offered him too and they both later had the breakfast together while being in the rough area when their warm giggles filled the loneliness of the empty place. Suddenly her question took Louis's smiles away and he formed a questionable look after Yenail asked a thing so strange.

“Louis? What was Seth's luggage doing at my house?”

Louis went deadpanned.

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TBC