Three blind mice chapter 1

It was a stormy day but no rain yet,kiseop stood there staring at the gray sky waiting for a rain drop to fall.kiseop kiseop I saw dad come, inside”. His younger brother called to him. kiseop ran back inside their house where he met his two younger brothers. They weren’t his blood brothers they were adopted.kiseop​ was the oldest than, alexander came along  the second and Kevin was the youngest and the quietest as well. Kevin had ataraxia, Kevin sat in the corner of the living room crunched up in a ball (the place he usually sat).His bright green eyes had no reaction as his older brother’s; voice was faded as he called him. When the boys heard the door slam of their dad’s pick-up truck, the boys laid down, trying to pretend that they were asleep! The front door opened slowly as their father walked inside, they could hear the wooden floor creaking and coming closely to where they lay, alexander felt his father’s huge hand grab his shirt and he opened his eyes to see his father’s drunk bright face

and then he said “you guys thought that you guys could trick me like you guys were asleep huh?” their father said before he punched him in the face. His brothers jumped up to punch him! “Let go of him “Kiseop yelled out to his father, The boys fought their father as hard as they could, the dad grabbedKevin by his hair and through him across the room and landed on a bookshelf and books fell on his head but Kevin didn’t cry he never did, he just got back up with a bloody head and bit his dad’s right ear! At that moment Kevin couldn’t hear or see anything but white and  could see fear and anger in his brother’s eyes.alexander never saw that look before so it was scary to see his brother that way. kiseop grabbed his brother off of their dad leaving a tip of his ear bitten off. They stood there for a little while staring at their dad rolling back and forth holding his bloody ear.  Then kiseop grabbed his brother’s hands and they ran for miles in the rain by themselves. They stayed in the side of the road sleeping for a week with no food or water, with kevin unconscious the boys didn’t know what to do with themselves. A black pick-up truck stopped when the man in it saw the boys. The boys woke up when the man called them and pattedalexandera on the shoulder. “You guys hungry?” the man asked the boys, they didn’t answer him but their growling stomach told it all. So the man went back to his truck and got three Red apples and gave it to the boys. “So what are your names? He asked while the boys ate, kiseop stopped eating “my name iskiseop and I’m seven and that’s alexander and he’s five and that’s kevin and He’s three”.

The man looked at kevin who was still unconscious! The man picked kevin up and put him in the car and gave the boys a hand signal for the boys to come in the car as well. They drove for hours till they came to a dusty abandoned  dirt road, an old gray abandon apartment building that was far from anything stores, police station or other buildings, the only thing surrounding the building was jail gates with men carrying guns and walking back and forth! alexander was afraid and had started crying, kiseop wanted to cry but he didn’t he was trying to be strong. The man parked his truck next to other trucks and vanskiseop looked out the window and saw dirty kids walking with chains and white clothes  walking into a van, alexander kept crying but harder “be quit alexander! “ his brother said with a serious voice. The older man called some men over, one of them took kevin and three men grabbed alexander and kiseop, the boys tried to fight them off but they couldn’t and the men brought the brothers to two different parts of the building, the brothers never saw or heard of each other again.            1

It has been two years since kevin last saw his brothers, he was scared .He held the white cat tightly, the cat wasn’t his he was just watching the cat for a friend, kevin listened to the other kids that were playing and walking, those kids had been in this mad house their whole lives so they didn’t care much about what was happening. kevin couldn’t see his surroundings he only could hear and feel everything, because his eyes were wrapped up, he heard the cat that he was holding start crying in the cat way, he got up and touched the moldy brick walls which lead him to the closet that stored boxes of drugs of all sorts of kind, but kevin always hid in that closet when it was his turn. He gently put the cat down than slowly sat down .kevin could hear the sound of his group master calling him. kevin crunched into a ball only a few seconds later the closet door opened and kevin was caught! ‘Didn’t you hear me calling you boy?”Mr. Johnson the group master was standing there starring right at kevin, all the kids stood there trying to see what was going on. Mr. Johnson grabbed kevin by his arm and dragged him to a dark room he had been to that same room an abundant amount of times but he didn’t like it in that room. A tall chubby man stood next to a table that had bag with white powder, the man was high on drugs; he sniffed it up with a straw he stopped to turn around look at kevin. He scuffed and closed the door and the man kevin were in the room for thirty minutes before the door of the room had opened and bloody kevin came out slowly! He had cut marks all over his back and chest. Mr. Johnson walked up to him and held his hand, walked kevin to the room with all children and another man came with a first aid kit and got a wrap and wrapped kevin’s upper body around but kevin didn’t cry he just sat there ,  when the two men left he crunched  up in a ball again.

It was twelve-fifty-nine at night and everything was still and quiet, alexander stopped to take a breath and looked around than kept running, after a long run alexander stopped again and touched his bleeding shoulder someone had shot at him, but the bullet only gazed his right arm he hissed at the cut,alexander started to run again but after a while he slowed down and dragged himself, than he saw black.alexander was just waking up and he was on the ground and it was lighter outside so it was morning and it was a little misty and his arm had stopped bleeding he slowly got up from the ground and walked for hours, all the way to the nearest police station. When the officer at the desk saw alexander walking in with a bloody shoulder and ripped clothes, he jumped out his seat and ran to alexander, and after a few hoursalexander was well taken care of and was telling what had happened at the apartment building he was taken to,  After the officer were done talking to alexander only the officer that was at the front desk was still in the room , he was a young cop with coco brown hair that was pushed back and light gray eyes he looked about twenty-two .“You have parents?”He asked

politely,alexander shook his head no, despite his father of course. “Family?” The officer asked; alexandershook his head no again! The young looking officer stared at the number tag that was tattooed on the right side of alexander’s neck “57189b” The officer read aloud “All the kids have one “alexander said crossing his arms. The young officer left the room then after a couple of minutes came back “let’s go home.”  The officer said with a little smirk on his face, alexander put a confused face on “I mean I will take care of you from now on, Intel we find your brothers “the young officer said slightly laughing then grabbedalexander’s hand and took him to a home in the suburbs where he met the officer’s wife and son “dongho” he was also adopted from Japan he was about kevin’s age. alexander stayed with them.

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The alarm rang “7:30” kiseop got up and turned off the alarm and went in the shower; ten minutes passed finally kiseop came out, only with black slim trousers and a under shirt “woof, woof” Cindy ran in the room,Cindy was white retriever, he found her on the streets ten years ago, She  kiseop’s face “slow down girl” kiseop smiled while petting Cindy. He put on his work shirt on in front of the mirror, when he saw his number tag he frowned again and closed his shirt. Before kiseop left he fed Cindy. kiseop was tall, handsome, smart, gentle, nice mannered, rich,  21 year old, black long flowing hair slicked back and hazel eyes, kiseop was perfect , any woman’s ideal man. kiseop only had one problem; He had a drinking problem, because every time he remembered his brothers and past he got sad and drinking was the only way to get his mind off of them.  kiseop worked making and designing clothes, shoes and accessories for men, women, and kids. “Good morning sir, coffee?”His secretary “Michelle” asked politely. “that would be nice” he said, kiseop sat down and got right to work, A painting caught his eye, He didn’t remember buying that painting or hanging it up, kiseop  stared at the marvelous master piece, The picture was a remake of himself “wow” kiseop said sticking his hand out “where did you get it?” kiseop said while sitting back down,Michelle fixed her glasses, she would usually do that when she’s about to make a big speech thatkiseop didn’t want to hear“ I got it customized from this famous artist, one of the youngest artist in the world one of the best too, but the only problem is he’s rude, I call and he just picks up the phone without saying anything, throughout the whole phone call he’s quite” Michelle rolls her eyes as if she had met him before. kiseop took a picture out of his pocket; he always kept that one picture in his pocket. “What’s that?” Michelle asked while putting on a new outfit on one of the models. kiseop smiled at the picture as if he were in love with it “copy this and send him the new copy, tell him to paint a bigger one o.k.?”kiseop passed the picture to Michelle, she smiled “who are these boys? kiseop ignored Michelle as if she wasn’t there Michelle walked outside the room and called the artist.

“Ding dong” the door bell rang “dongho it’s your brother come on” alexander’s mother shouted from down stairs. alexander was picking up dongho. dongho ran down the stairs with his travel bag as if he were going away forever “It’s just one week honey” his mother said glaring at his bag. “O.k. mom thanks love you” dongho said running into the car alexander smiled and waved goodbye to his parents from the car then drove away. “I finally get to see your apartment” dongho said with excitement. alexander smiled atdongho and rubbed his hair then went back to driving. dongho was confused alexander was usually the cool, excited brother “what’s the matter alex?” dongho asked worried that something must have happened to his older brother. alexander kept quite throughout the whole car ride, when they finally got to the apartment alexander shouted “I’m going to china” dongho jumped out of his seat “What... Why?” alexander laughed and got out of the car “I have to look for my brothers, so that we could live together”

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dongho brought his bags in the apartment. “This is my home” alexander shouted excited, he was excited that he was going to try finding his brothers, but dongho wasn’t so excited as alexander was becausedongho didn’t like the idea that his older brother was leaving him for another family he didn’t know or ever met. “But you’re my big brother” he said whining alexander glared at him and frown instantly saying “you are not my real little brother, and I told not to ever call me your older brother.”Then sighed and walked away. dongho sat down on the couch and placed his head in his hands, alexander came back “I’m sorrydongho it’s just I haven’t seen my brothers in 12 years! And I promise I’ll come back and get you, Then we will all live together, promise” he said before going back to his room, alexander laid on his bed and stared at the roof than his electric guitar caught his eye. alexander sat up and got his guitar and started to play it as hard and loud as he wanted because he was too excited to care for his neighbor’s feelingsdongho came in the room and stared at his brother for awhile before joining him on the fun. The two boys played and had fun all night and for the whole week to be more precise.

“Mr. kevin mail” the mail man shouted from outside of the house, kevin came out and took the mail and closed the door. “Mr. kevin my sister’s birthday is next week and she is you’re number one fan and I would really like it if you would paint her and you together please.” kevin took a picture out of the envelope, a girl sitting in park showed her bright teeth to the camera. Rolled his eyes and placed the picture on a new canvas and got some paint and for an hour kevin stood their painting the girl and himself. kevin stared and then put the picture out to dry; kevin came out of the shower at 9:30 pm and went to his office and took the paintings that he had painted for his customers and read their name that’s what he usually did before he went to bed! At 2:00 a.m. woke up crying he had a nightmare he scrunched up in a ball and started to cry and by time breakfast came around kevin still sat up on his bed staring off and finally kevin packed all the customer’s paintings and sent them off to mail box.  kevin swung on the tire swing in his back yard when he got a phone call of a previous customer, it was the girl who asked to paint a picture of her boss,kevin didn’t like her much because he thought that she talked a bit too much, this time she wanted him to paint a picture of three boys. By time the conversation on the phone was over kevin had a tiny headache so he went to lie down till more mail came in a small envelope caught kevin’s eye, he opened up to see a surprising picture inside, kevin sat back on the living room wall and covered his mouth then touched the oldest boy’s smiling face then the other boy. For the first time in 16 years kevin smiled and laughed and cried at the same time!

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“Slow down Cindy” kiseop shouted to his pet dog as he went back to reading “Chinese for dummies.”    It hasbeen a week since he sent the picture to the artist and the painting that he ordered still wasn’t sent to him. kiseop  finally went home and at the front door there was a 55 inch flat box with an envelope with red wax sealing it closed. kiseop brought the package inside his home and opened the envelope first and it read “Hello customer the picture that I painted for you is a very important to me because they were my brothers, and I haven’t seen them for years and if you do see them please contact me at this number 1-534-679-1027 Thank you.”  kiseop put the letter down and bit his lower lip as he thought and finallykiseop  picked up the phone and called Michelle “I need a plane ticket to China by tomorrow, I going to be out of the office for awhile .“ Michelle groaned, “For how long? And when do I get a break?” kiseop smirked as if she was standing right in front of him “Two weeks and your break is when you get me that ticket.” Then he hung up and went to his room and packed his travel bag which he originally used for travelling around the world with his models, for the cat walk shows. By time 10:30 p.m. came around he was fast asleep and all his bags were packed and he ready to go to China.

“Mom, dad I need to tell you guys something” alexander said sitting his parents down on the family couch. “I’m going to China!” He said with the most excited voice. “Why?” his mother said jumping up, butalexander’s dad knew exactly why “you’re trying to find you’re brothers there right?” His father knew everything, his father continued “I say you are allowed to go, you’re a big now and you can go places without our permission”alexander jumped up “yes” he gave dongho a high five then ran and hugged his parents “Thank you, thank you” he shouted still hugging them “alexander is taking me too.” dongho said standing up. “Yeah” alexander said giving dongho another high five, his parents looked at each other and shrugged “you guys are big enough to get out of the house” they said pushing the boys upstairs. The boys packed & by night fall they were at the airport dongho yawned and laid his head on alexander’sshoulder “I don’t want to learn Chinese anymore” alexander sighed “We should be tourist that would be so cool right?” alexander nobbed then put the book back in his bag “this is going to be the co-“the speaker cut alexander off “the airplane departing to china will be leaving in 10 minute.” alexander and dongho ran on the airplane. “alexander hurry up.” dongho said buckling himself in “You want to help me?” alexandersaid back