If you can breathe without breathing, if you can sleep without sleeping...
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Lee Ngoh's hands were sweaty as he held the rusty gate of the mansion. The mansion was simply huge, like a whale compared to a hermit crab. He knew somehow that inside was his beloved wife-to-be, captured by his sister. No, correction. His very despicable sister. A brother-sister relationship that might just end today.
The Short Message he got went:' In a place our presence will always be.' He had lost his mind reading it. His first instinct was to search every part of his house. After a drastic search that included the manhole in the backyard, he finally calmed down and worked his way on paper and pen. At the eleventh hour, he figured it out.
It was an abandoned mansion that brought the siblings closer. When they were younger, Lee Ngoh was afraid of the dark,his peers,even tiny insects. Wei Seen was the total opposite. She was bold, furious, and independent. Despite being the younger sister, Wei Seen was the head of the family, the head of everything. Wei Seen loved Lee Ngoh and often helped him to overcome his fears. Her methods were bitter. Bitter. She forced Lee Ngoh to overcome his fears of spiders by forcing him to stay in a room full of spiders and some other creepy crawlies. Wei Seen told him to disturb the older kids just to overcome his fear of being bullied. He remember the day he was beaten blue-black by the bigger kids for stealing their lunch bags as directed by Wei Seen. He remembered, he remembered, he remembered everything.
To overcome his fear for the dark, Wei Seen played hide and seek with Lee Ngoh everyday at this mansion. As they grew older, they still came to this mansion. Lee Ngoh found the mansion very comforting. Wei Seen found it unique. They loved this mansion. Lee Ngoh vividly remembered how Wei Seen cried when they moved away. Lee Ngoh held Wei Seen's hand and looked into her eyes that day and said:'The mansion, in a place our presence will always be.'
To Be Continued
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