章 10: secret

Alora ran towards the washroom but didn't find Maya there.

She turned around only to find Sarah missing.

She ran towards their dining table and started calling out for them.

Suddenly the lights turned on and Sarah and Maya came from behind with a chocolate cake in their hands while singing the birthday theme song.

"Happy birthday to you."

"Happy birthday to you, Alora."

Alora pulled the cake out of their hand and put it on the dining table.

She hugged them and started crying.

"I thought something happened to you guys. Stop scaring me like that. Do you guys want to kill me cause of a heart attack," Alora said between her sobs.

"We will die before you, don't worry," Maya chuckled.

"Nah, the devil doesn't die early. You guys are safe. It's me for whom I am worried about," Alora said wiping off her tears.

Sarah and Maya shooked their heads at this. They knew that 'Nah, the devil doesn't die early. You guys are safe. It's me for whom I am worried about' is Alora's love language since birth.

She will never vocalize how much she loves you if she means it. She has always been like that.

"Let's cut the poor cake. It's been waiting for it's a distraction. Big of a masochist the cake is!" Sarah dramatically said.

Alora cut the cake after blowing out the 1 and 8-numbered candles.

She cut two pieces and took them in her both hands to feed both of her sisters with love but her sisters didn't seem to return the same love.

They both pushed her hands to her mouth.

"As the birthday girl, you should have the first bite," Sarah sweetly said.

"Yes, yes. We can't cheat you on your birthday. It's similar to a big sign," Maya furiously nodded her head.

Alora felt a little strange by this behavior of them but took a bite anyways.

The pieces came out of her mouth as soon as they entered.

"Yuck, from where did you buy it? It's undercooked," Alora said wiping off her lips.

The look of pure disgust couldn't be hidden from her face.

Sarah looked at Maya and Maya looked at Sarah.

"Umm, well, you see. We kind of tried to make a cake, for you of course," Sarah's hesitation made Alora suspicious.

Maya looked away.

"It's your first time baking a cake and you decided to use me as an experiment to see how it turned out. If it's edible or not," Alora said grabbing a spoon.

Sarah and Maya started running for their dear life and that's how the entire house filled up with giggles, even on a gloomy, rainy day.

"I surrender. I can't run any longer. I am hungry," Maya said huffing.

"Neither I can," Sarah said surrendering.

Alora suddenly remembered the ramen she put on the stove to boil. She quickly ran there.

Sarah and Maya followed her and luckily the ramen wasn't burning.

She quickly put down the boiled ramen and mixed the other ingredients.

As all of them love spicy food, she added extra spicy sauce. Before adding extra spicy sauce to Maya's ramen, she remembered that Maya is pregnant.

She didn't know if one can eat extra spicy food when they are pregnant or not.

She called out for Sarah and Maya who said that they visited the doctor today and the doctor said that Maya can eat spicy food but skipping super spicy is better.

Alora added medium spice to Maya's ramen.

She then made juices and all of them took them to the dining room.

They turned on the TV and started watching a movie while eating.

"Even though Alora can't cook very well but her ramen is really tasty. If you want to impress someone then just make them your ramen with kimchi. They will marry you in a second, I swear," Sarah said filling her mouth with more food.

Maya didn't even stop her eating for a second.

"Seems like she's too hungry," Alora said and Maya furiously nodded her head with her mouth full.

Sarah and Alora laughed at her childishness.

After eating, they decided to take a nap.

Alora opened her laptop to see new emails and she noticed that she got an order for a few new dresses.

"Seems like you need to rest after a few more hours. Let's get down on making new dresses. For a better future," she cheered herself up and started working on her new dresses.

Meanwhile, inside a luxurious room, a few people were arguing over something.

"This day isn't far away when people will find out about our little secret," a guy calmly said.

"How do you know this?" Another guy asked looking like he wants to kill the first guy.

"They have started working on this machine. It wouldn't take longer than a few more days to end up finishing the work," the same guy replied.

"But how? Our grandfather made sure that everyone who knows how to build that machine was killed before he died. There's no way these people can be back to live again," the angry guy said.

Everyone present there looked at him like he has grown two more heads.

"I think being angry made him lose his common sense. That's why wise people say to control our anger," a guy said.

"I think he has lost his mind. Otherwise, he won't have said something like that," another girl said.

"Are you sure that when God gave everyone brain, you weren't playing around and got your fair share of the brain?" Another guy lazily said.

"Can you guys shut up already? It's annoying. Even I am shocked after saying what I just said."

"It's ok. Few people are just born slow. You are not the only one," the same guy lazily roasted him again.

"I am elder than you. Pay respect."

"Will try to if you stop saying useless things."

"Sure, grandfather killed them but that doesn't mean that they were the only people who got the idea of making that machine. There are billions of other people on the earth," The first guy calmly said.

"What do we do now?"

"Go with the flow. We can't let them find out about our secret weapon, no matter what. Even if by that means, we have to play a whole new drama."

The younger guy looked at the calm-looking guy suspiciously.

"It has something to do with him, I am sure," he thought.