The Twisted Hero

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one quarter of the people in front of me. They all started chanting the usual birthday song in unison, I stood on the stairs looking trying to locate Susan and Kelvin. After some minutes they were done with the song, the time was enough for me to locate Kelvin and Susan. The stood by the corner of the room, I smiled and waved at them, Susa

I didn’t break eye contact because her blue was always alluring to look at. “Let’s go outside, it’s very noisy here" Kelvin suggested. “Okay” I replied. “You two go first

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g foot in that house. From where I lay in the field, I could see the door of the small store, for the first time ever, it was wide open.

here was thick cobwebs in every corner of the room, then there was so many carton boxes sitting on the floor. Pointing the torchlight to the wall revealed th

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k of the picture, the name ‘Alexander’ was written. “What are you two doing here?” Said a very familiar from right behind us. I turned and flashed my phone’s torchlight on the person's face, it was Susan. She stood right behind us with her hands folded “Nothing" I replied and slid the picture back into the file. “Let’s get out of here" I said right after I dropped the picture right back into the box. “Take a look at this" Kelvin said Pointing at a framed picture hanging on the wall. I used my palm to wipe off the dust on the picture revealing the people in the picture. It was a family of five, the mother and father stood side by side while two kids, a boy and a girl stood side by side in front of the

or with his two palms rubbing on the other. He also had this smile on his face, it was like the smile of a clown, my father wasn’t the humorous type, he

n to the door and pressed on it, it locked. “You kids saw that too” My dad said with a smile on his face. The smile vanished from his face the moment he turned his back against us