I stared at the ceiling, projecting my will onto it and failing once again, “test 10256, the ceiling has not yet moved” I said to myself, shifting my weight slightly, causing the dingy bed creak, I winced tearing my gaze away from the ceiling that still refused to yield to my all- consuming prowess “you shall one day surrender” I chuckled darkly in the silence of my room

  Either way, it was high time I started executing my master plan-” why are you laughing all by yourself in” a voice quipped from behind me, I screamed, swiftly rotating myself, my hands stretched out to hit whatever dark being had snuck up on me

  Only to be met with nothing but air, “could you please... stop that?” The voice rang out once again, this time a with little more familiarity in it this time “ohh it's you” I said as the tension in my back slowly left my body before quickly returning as I scowled and jumped backwards snarling “Why are you here heathen”

  “Oh is that how you treat your brother?” The voice answered, snickering “you left me to rot!” I shouted back into the darkness

  “I have a proposal for you” the voice said, suddenly moving closer to my face

  I schooled my expression, “What do you want?” And to that he answered with a smile

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  In the darkness, we stood in the passage, staring at the door at my front, “You ask for the impossible from me, brother!” I whispered in an exaggerated flair

  “And you have done the impossible time and time again” he answered “and what do I stand to gain from this?” I asked him “5 hours” he answered curtly, the smile on my face widened as I stretched my hand to shake his, he looked down at my hand, his frame towering over mine, he quickly nodded and shook my hand

  “Now I shall go over the plan once again,” he said as I nodded my head in compliance “Okay then your main objective is to sneak into the room to put on the Mi-Fi, but if you can relocate the entirety of the Mi-Fi that'll be better, the Mi-Fi is on the shelf at the top right side of the bed, mother could or may not be awake, you'd have to use your insight to figure out the rest”

  I frowned at the last statement, my mind constantly searching for ways I could get past the tight security. “You do have a way for me to get past this without alerting her, don't you?” I asked, slightly turning my head towards him “Yeah obviously we have managed to slightly open the door without alerting her, now the rest is up to you” he said turning away and disappearing into the corridor

  I tsked, turning my gaze back to the daunting task at my front, I prepped myself steeling my breathing and silently stalked towards the door, pulling the door open, the door swinging open without a creak , the curtain the last obstruction between me and the room, but instead of pulling the curtains to the side, I dropped onto my belly, crawling into the room “she most probably is currently on her bed “ I thought to myself “ and if I were to prepare for the scenario In which she's awake then she is probably on her phone at the moment, which means there's a high possibility that she wouldn't notice me on the floor as her bed is an elevated platform and she'd be laying down horizontally, her face facing away from the door” I continued as I practically slithered soundlessly into the room

  Upon entry into the room, the first thing that caught my eye was the flashing lights of her cell phone and he face directly staring at it “oh very good she's facing away from the shelf in which the Mi-fi lay prone, unable to contain my excitement I quickly changed my direction of travel, making my way towards the shelf and freezing at every sign of movement from the bed and soon enough I had finally gotten to the desk, excited I stretched my right hand to grasp the device, this was my first mistake, unable to maintain my balance, my arm waved, knocking one of the bottles off the shelf on which it was perched

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  I watched, slowly, horribly as the bottle tipped over and fell towards the floor, thinking as fast as I physically could I quickly dove under the bed, blending into the darkness, indistinguishable from the darkness that surrounded me, before the bottle landed with a clatter

  immediately I felt it, the shuffling on the bed, at first she called out the name of our cat “magrét is that you?” She asked, but when met met with no answer, she grudgingly turned her head towards the shelf from which the bottle fell from grumbling something under her breath, she slowly got up from her side of the bed stumbling loudly towards the desk

  Every one of her steps causing a lump in my throat and my heart to beat faster, I held my breath, as I prayed silently for my schemes not to be unraveled, her hand pregnantly reached out to search the floor for the fallen bottle on the floor, Amidst all her fumbling her hand moved under the bed, searching for the object that was directly at her feet

  My eyes widened with horror as her hand got closer and closer to my location, I tried to scramble away as fast as I could do so while being silent, alas, it wasn't fast enough

  At the moment that I had fully accepted my fate, a slight clang came from the direction to which the fallen bottle lay

  I slowly turned my head towards the direction the sound had come from “YES! yes yes yes!!” I screamed in my head, her advance had been stopped by her foot bumping into the bottle

  A gasp left me as her hand withdrew from its pursuit, slowly and fumbly grabbing the bottle and placing it back to its spot on the desk before heading back, murmuring something about demons or something

  For the next few minutes I lay rigidly where I was, flinching at every creak and groan of the bed until it finally stopped, I l stayed there for a couple more minutes just to make sure I'd be safe if I left here “okay here I go” I thought as I silently crawled my way out from under the bed, soon my head was peeking out from under the bed, I quickly searched the perimeter, upon finding out it was clear I quickly but soundlessly dragged myself out from under the bed, staring at my mission objective right at my front, I decided that I would only put it on, fearing that taking it might leave too much evidence that I was the perpetrator of the heist, fully satisfied with my performance I finally after what felt like a decade crawled out the room, a triumphant grin on my face

  As soon as I got out, I quickly got up, dusting myself off any dirt which may have stuck until my clothes “Hmm I might need to have a bath” I said to myself

  “You've been needing one for a few days” a voice suddenly answered from behind me, a string of gibberish left my mouth as I forced myself not to scream

  “I'm done,” I said with gritted teeth “A pleasure doing Business with you” he answered as I stomped back into my room

  “As long as he honours his contract” I whispered before returning to willing the ceiling to buckle and drop hopefully killing me in the process

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  “ALL OF YOU DOWN HERE NOW!” a voice loudly rang out forcing me out of my torpor, “whaa?” I groggily muttered as my thoughts sleepily booted, but it wasn't long before another earth-shaking shout doused my sleepiness in cold water, hastily snapping out of my sleepy state, my memories quickly came rushing back, a quick shiver travelled up my spine “don't tell me that didn't have a plan to deal with the aftermath” I thought, shocked at the apparent stupidity “either ways, there's no way to implicate me” I thought, calming my racing heartbeat

  After completely calming down, I headed down the stairs unsurprisingly. What awaited me there was the visage of my fuming mother and my two elder brothers, on their knees. “ Now, which one of you two has the bright idea to ... finish half of the MONTHLY PLAN! In a single night huh?” She asked, a mask of anger clouding her face, “Oh, that much?” I thought, cringing internally, I continued my journey until my footsteps rang out in the parlor, her head quickly snapping towards my direction, her mask quickly melting as she recognized who it was “Awnn honey, sorry for waking you, your brothers just need a little bit of DISCIPLINE, you can go back to sleep”

  A massive breath left me as I nodded groggily, acting as though I was still sleepy

  I turned back, heading back up the stairs, trying my best to hide my relief, taking a quick look at the scene I was leaving behind. My heart slowed to a crawl, I saw it clearly, “they blame me? Googlyboblies!” “If I were to leave now, they probably wouldn't hold up their end of the bargain”

  “There's only one way to deal with this” I thought, exasperated

  “Mom?” I said as timidly as I possibly could “yeah honey?” She answered me, taking her attention off my fuming brothers “are you talking about the Wi-Fi?” I asked her, slowly lowering my voice near the end “yes?” Her confused answer came through “I-I I I think I'm .th-the one that u,u,u, used it?” I answered channeling as much guilt as I could into my voice

  “What do you mean honey?” She said, kneeling to reach my height, I flinched back “ I-I mean, I just wanted to search for something on your laptop, but it was showing me something about updates, so I let it do…..” I kept my head down after the last statement, feigning guilt “ohh sweetie, don't worry, it's not your fault, but next time ask me when you want to use the Wi-Fi yeah?” She said, wrapping her hands round my body, from where I was I shot a look at the faces of my brothers and all I saw there was gratitude and shock,I allowed a small grin to split my face before I made it disappear, replacing it with a solemn expression

  After a few minutes of hugging I we were finally allowed to head back to our rooms

  And in the darkness of the passageway, I walked feeling the gazes of the ones in the dark, I open my eyes, I close it,but I will always see the colours, they are almost ethereal but everywhere but that wasn't what was on my mind “ can't they see it? Are they just so..fickle?, Mom told me not to lie but lying has done nothing but made things better for me, so….why?-