The Red Night

        

         An intimate couple deeply in love, seeming to not see or hear what goes around them… Shrouded by a thick cloud of happiness and delusions of making love in the darkness of the night. Mother and Father seem to have that type of air around them, a seemingly perfect couple in that perfect kind of fairy tale like world. 

That’s a lie. Every single bit of it. That happiness is all feigned. It is only one sided, with Father getting all the satisfaction of monopolizing everything. He likes playing things out in his head and wanting to "that" more and more with Mother, unable to control his desire. It’s filled to the brim with those polluted delusions because mother is the type of woman men dream of. That clear soft face and plump chest they’d desire. On the other hand, when I look at mother, her eyes show disgust whenever father puts his arms around her. It’s as if when he's near the atmosphere is completely terrible. It looks as if she detests the her of the past that decided to make love with this man and make her bear twin fruit. The looks she gives my twin brother and I are that of complete disgust giving the hint of "Why did I give birth to you? Just get lost somewhere and  DIE and never come back. You remind me too much of my mistakes in life.."

   My brother Kyouhei feigns ignorance, pretending not to see a single thing that goes on in this house. It irritates me a lot. It’s like he's like a gloomy ghost wandering around until he wants to do something. I know he sees it. I know he can he just doesn't want to face the freakin reality.

It seems you're just always weak and oh so delicate brother, and I have to be all positive and proactive just to cheer you up out of that depressing phase. Arrrghhh! You just drive me mad!

Well, I guess I can't call you that much of a weakling because I do know when my temper reaches the point of exploding, I run away with my reckless thinking. I always end up feeling utterly embarrassed and feel like completely avoiding home.

Kyouhei and I are identical twins. We seemingly have a so called "very close relationship". Tch! As if! I mean we do care and share platonic love towards one another but we annoy each other to the core despite the fact we’re always together. In reality, we can't stand one another. However, I do enjoy the times when we team up to do mischievous deeds around town. For example, I cry and pretend to have been separated from my parents while he steals money or candy from the store out of the cameras eyes. Then he splits the finds in half. Huh? Stealing being bad? Yeah whatever. Here, deceiving is nothing. It’s okay to do it as long as we don't get caught,, not like we're going to get in trouble anyway. We do other things like flip teenage girls skirts who are way too short and exposing  their panties to the guys they're talking to. We quickly dash off after seeing their face red with embarrassment and anger. Oh well~ Heheheheh~

Its not like thats bad I mean it’s their fault for wanting to wear such short skirts and flaunting them about. We’re just showing the consequences of what can happen and thats that :). Kyouhei and I find many alternatives to keep us distracted throughout the day, like when I see that my hair is starting to grow I just let him cut it. Which explains my extremely uneven hair at certain parts. He’s hopeless at cutting.

Whenever we walk in the town's allies and see animals, we would give them names like this black cat that we would often see and would at times hang around us. She was given the name luna. Seeing luna or things people do will spark a conversation between us. We hang out a lot and fool around a lot but we don't have a long conversation. It’s pretty obvious that he doesn't want to talk to me at all.

Man I feel like I'm a pain to everyone around me, like I annoy everyone. One day it just feels that I'll just be left behind in solitude. . . And such boring mundane days will follow for what will feel like an eternity. Putting my seemingly long and never ending thoughts to the side I look at the time, 8 o’clock.

"Kyouhei, time to go," I say

"Yeah I know. Gosh I'm not freaking blind I can see the time you know," he says in an annoyed tone.

"Well I don't know you seemed so into that ecchi manga you were reading,"I reply, pissed off at his reply.

"Shut up!!" he says running out of the house embarrassed of his secrets that I know. He knows I can easily reveal it, along with the embarrassing photos I have of him. Man, he really does act according to his pleasure. Such a pervert. I leave the house and walk with him to school taking long way through the dark allies to avoid the hateful eyes of the city. They see us as demons with our blood red eyes that seem to peer at a persons soul and make them shiver.

  I really can't stand school, it irritates me beyond belief. . .

"The demons are here."

"Why won't they just die already?"

"I hate them."

"They're disgusting."

The daily criticism annoys me to the point I feel like going crazy and beating them up and maybe just maybe kill them a little. . . Kyouhei just sits there looking down in silence back into that depressive silent mood of his, seems like I have to be all positive again.

"Just ignore them they're the real demons"I say.

" . .hm. ."

"Hm. . Wanna go and pull some tricks later?"

"Sure!" He finally says with happiness I'm his voice.

About time he cheered up.

*Later*

We come back from tricking several people and making them very angry to encounter mother on the floor holding her cheek. Shes looking at us glaring while crying big tears. So much hate in her eyes. Father looming over her with his hands balled up. She never stands up to his abuse so of course he thinks that surely he is allowed to keep doing this.

"nothing to see here, move on into your room, pay no heed"he tells us, staring at our mother.

We go to our room and Kyohei's right back up in his silent phase again just staring out the window.  I try talking to him about several subjects to start a conversation. Speaking behind him he maintains his silence. I start to get irritated by this and I could feel my face getting hot. Before I knew it, I was running away from the house, sick of every single little thing. It starts to rain. Raindrops fall on my face, coming down as cold as I could feel. Standing I'm the violent downpour washing away my tears and hot headed thinking. People staring at me as they pass, i keep my head down, I am bad at eye to eye contact and just want to hide. I went back home completely soaked and shivering.

"You should stop running off like that its really stupid you know," he says.

"Whatever pervert"

"Im not a pervert! Im just interested in..in the human body!" he says with more courage in his voice.

"Uh huh.."

He really is a big pervert. ..I lay down on the bed bored out of my mind on what I should do to entertain myself. The room is dark and cool with a tint of red being a light source from outside.

"It’s a red night.." he says looking out the window.

"Huh?" I look at him. What in the world is he talking about?

"Its nothing.."

"Okay..?"

I look at the door and hear mother and father arguing  I don't exactly hear what's going on because the tightly closed door makes their voices muffled. I continue looking at the door as they argue.

Bang! Bang!

Kyouhei and I jump up at the sudden gunshots and glance at each other with a worried look. What happened . . . Footsteps can be heard along with creaking of the old wooden floorboards.  The footsteps coming closer and closer to our door. . .

Fear starts to fill my heart and I get off the bed making my way to Kyouhei, looking at him. I can tell he's scared as well..

"Im sure will be fine. ." I say but not in a confident tone.

"Hm . ."

The door swings open powerfully. Mother being behind it bearing a bewitching smile, covered in Father's blood . . Her face is so twisted and distorted. . . Could it be that she snapped and lost her sanity..

She raises the gun pointing at my head. Im scared..! I can't move at all! Why does this have to be our fate?! I don't wanna die yet. . . Please, someone something stop her! In the end I do know these pleas won't do a thing . . I look at her straight in the eyes. . . She pulls the trigger and Kyouhei pushes me out of the way, his blood splattering everywhere. . . And his body goes limp on the floor. . . Why..? I don't understand, why would you do this. . . ? Big tears streaming down my cheeks… I'm in complete shock and I guess its finally my turn to be killed because I feel a burst of pain and my body falls back.  I now know what Kyouhei was talking about. . It is a red night, a blood red sky joined with the bleeding moon. . . Goodnight to this bloodied night. . .