002 Survive

The sound of birds and sunlight coming through the crack in ruby's window curtain built her ruby from her beautiful dream.

"Ah it's morning already"

With a sideways glance.

"You're awake, oh shit, I'm still ignored by staying in bed and even sleeping in the same bed with him every day but I still find it hard to see him.

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Ruby quickly wakes up and prepares food for both of them, and she lives every day. Woke up, he would prepare breakfast and clean up the east mension where the two of them lived, because there had never been any servants provided for them. But ruby's outgoing, industrious, cheerful nature seemed to cover a growing vacuum on the east side. So they always look clean and bright in their homes. They both lived peacefully in the north mension as if they were in isolation from the outside world.

Finishing up breakfast, ruby plans to follow aleska to her rehearsal. Aleska would practice every Sunday during school break, aleska would throw himself at martial arts and shoot. So that no kid at school would dare mess with her and that waiter hanging around them.

Because he was like a killing machine with all the skills that he had at 13 years of age and the icy demeanor he was giving everyone, his stare could make them feel like they were frozen instantly.

Ten - year - old ruby ran a tiny, confident run to follow aleska to her practice.

"Brother wanda?"

"Ah ruby, you want me to heart out?"

"What is brother doing here? You always see brother aleska practicing from a distance."

"I admire the brilliance and ingenuity of aleska bhai in the fight"

"But why do you always stand here watching brother aleska?"

"You know I'm so scared of my mom, she doesn't like me going near aleska, but do you know what scares me more?"

"What?"

"Of course your brother's cold, I follow him every day but he ACTS as if there's no one around him

Ruby am I curious about one thing?"

"What?"

"Have you never felt in the choking while being around aleska?"

"Of course he has, he's so cold and scary"

"But why do you keep following him around everyday?"

"Because it would be even scarier if I wasn't with him."

(because your mom is scarier. Inner ruby)

"Ahhh really?"

Wanda was confused at the thought of an answer from ruby.

Wanda, the second daughter of miss Amanda, she seems to be clinging to aleska. Even though aleska was her step-sister, wanda never paid any attention to it and always followed where aleska went, even though she was so scolded by her mother.

The sun's already high, the perturbed sweat on aleska's body from the morning of their special field shooting practice behind their menus, aleska was only 13 years old, but she had the same excellent marking-skill as any expert, in which wanda was always watching her stepbrother in practice because she was so admired aleska but only in the distance, as Amanda's mother often scolded her for talking to Alaska. But wanda seemed to never learn a lesson and peek around and even take part in training with Alaska, the cold Alaskan never noticed her so often.

Aleska finished her training, she immediately left for north zion, on her way back to her zion on the north side in seeing ruby running in her direction.

"Sister?"

Call ruby to aleska

"Brother have you finished your training?

I cooked you breakfast."

Aleska simply goes past the ruby and quickly goes to the shower, and aleska never stops and notices her surroundings. Every day aleska would go to school and practice martial arts, shooting at holidays.

And at night he would reside in their little library on the north side.

But ruby knows that aleska's silence protects her both at home and at school, proof that she's at home even though many of the servants see her from afar and mock her but none of the servants dare disturb her. They're just whispering whispers from afar.

"You see? He's so cocky just because he has a brother like a killing machine."

"Yes, brother and sister are the same, even though she killed her mother in childbirth."

Those are the words of the servants ruby used to hear as she passed through their zion.

She understood that no servant would dare harm her not as a child of their master but as they feared aleska, not even Amanda's own mistress would take such a rash step to harm them both.

And even at school, when some bad boy is there to bully him, then be ready to come home from school beaten up by aleska.

But when I go home and see ruby after school, she shows me it's not like anything happened and ACTS like she doesn't care

When tomorrow morning returns to school all the children who roughed him up yesterday will come to school in a terrible, beaten state.

And they didn't even dare go near him anymore. She and the other kids were wondering why that infamous brat seemed to be this morning shrinking in front of this beautiful ruby girl, and it's happened over and over again.

Until one day ruby came home weak and unenergetic because at school she was molested by several children in her class.

On the way back to zion, he saw someone he knew fighting.

"Isn't that the kid who messed me up this afternoon?"

Ruby's inner.

It was the boy who sewed her in the cafeteria earlier today when he only invited her out to eat but she didn't want to and so she threw her food to the other side of the table and left.

He saw who the young man was beating him up. it turned out to be aleska's brother, he was scared and confused as to why he was fighting with the unfamiliar young man who also happened to want to upset him earlier today in the cafeteria.

Ruby ran home right away and decided to wait for aleska at home, but she always seemed more rabid than usual.

Ruby was wondering if she would ask about what she'd seen after school or not.

Finally ruby just sits there and she intends to cause more trouble tomorrow and see if aleska defends her or if it just so happens that aleska has a problem with the young man.