Today my parents went to a restaurant together for their wedding anniversary.
It's Friday afternoon, and while Malik, Laura, and Lisa are hanging out together, I have to watch over my little brother...
"Hey Alex! Come on, it's not funny anymore!"
Like always, Alexis is hiding from me. I must say he has a gift when it comes to hide-and-seek because I've been searching for the past 15 minutes...
"Hey bro... Do you really want to make me sad or something?"
At this point, I was begging him to show up—
until I heard sounds coming from the kitchen.
I rushed there as fast as i could.
"What the hell?"
The fridge was lying in the middle of the room.
"Did Alexis do that? But how?"
Before I even had time to sort my thoughts out—
CRASH.
Another loud noise.
This time from the living room.
I looked over to the direction from where the sound came from.
"You have to be kidding..."
Alexis was laughing.
And beside him...
the 55-inch TV was laying on the floor…
smashed into bits.
"Alex, no—no, no, no, no."
I rushed toward him.
"You did not—you did not do that!"
"There's no way you just did that!"
"Gihaha~"
Alexis looked very pleased with himself.
As for me...
I knew I was done for.
My brother, who I was trusted to take care of, had just broken my dad's 800-euro TV.
When I looked back at the kitchen, I saw a huge mess. Yogurt, food, and various other things that had been stored in the fridge were spilled all over the ground...
"The fucking fridge! Alex—the fucking fridge!"
"T-the fwidge!" he said with a triumphant smile.
This is going to be a long afternoon...
...
"Ahhh..."
I was done cleaning up the kitchen, but the fridge wouldn't turn on anymore. It had big dents in it, and the pipes were damaged.
Dad is going to give me an earful for this.
"Thank God Alexis is sleeping now..."
As for the TV, I didn't know what to do with it, so I just put it back in place.
"It's 9 p.m. They could be here at any time now..."
I heard laughter from behind the door.
At least my parents are in a good mood, this might make them more indulgent.
This was my father's voice. They were probably talking about their wedding, they always have lots of stories about it.
"Do you remember how drunk my dad was? Haha!"
I turned off all the lights—
and then...
Creeeeak...
It's them. I am fucked.
"Oh, why are all the lights off? Are the kids sleeping?" Said my mom
"Well, the day was surely long... we could make it longer if you want to..."
"Honey, come on! We're not alone anymore!"
I'm not a kid, but that's the kind of thing you usually don't want to hear, especially not from your parents.
By the way, they still didn't know I was there...
Click.
"Johan? What are you doing here?" They said in unison
"Oh—um, hello, Dad?"
I was doing my best to hide my dad's vision so he couldn't see his tv but it was too late.
"Johan. My TV... Did you break my TV?"
"W-well, no... actually, it was Alex!" I replied
"Johan. You're telling me that your two-month-old little brother put a hole through my 55-inch TV?"
As he said that he covered his face with his right hand and sighed.
I Knew he was doing his best to hold his anger in...
"Wait, I need to check something." She said
When I saw her walk to the kitchen
I Realized i had forgotten about something.
"JOHAN!"
"Haha..." I chuckled, knowing that I didn't have any hope of explaining myself now...
...
After ten long minutes of scolding my mom had a brilliant idea.
"Wait, Damian. Didn't you put a camera in the kitchen last week?" She said.
"Oh right!" He replied
"Let's check it."
"Check it? Why would i check it? Are you implying that Johan was not the one who did that?" He replied
My mother stare was scary its probably why he couldn't do anything else but to yield
"Fine, let's check it." He finnaly said
What happened next will probably change our lives forever, for the best or for the worst...
"H-honey, did you see that?"
On the video, alex crawled into the kitchen.
He stared at the fridge.
Then—
The fridge began to dent by itself.
And was violently knocked over.
Clack.
My dad hastly closed his laptop
"Nobody. And I mean absolutely nobody, can discover this."
"Damian, we need to do something!" Said my mom while looking at my dad
My dad was trying to reassure my mom by telling her that everything would be alright.
"Alex is smart-" I said
"-We have to make sure he understands that he can never do that again."
"Johan's right." Replied my dad
"Wait, but my parents will come over tomorrow!" Said
my mom
"What? Granny is coming?" I said.
I dont like my grandmother, i have very bad memories about her.
My mom and i were panicking while imaginating the worst scenarios possible.
"Enough." As my dad said this the whole room went silent.
...
"Tomorrow we will act as if nothing happened. There is no reason that anything would go wrong if we just act naturally." He added
I haven't seen my grandparents since my 6th birthday, tomorrow is definitely going to be a weird day...
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