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"What do you mean you want to help me kill Francisco?" I ask Elijah.

"I will not repeat myself Elias." He tells me.

I start backing up, ready to run to one of my brothers because there is a killer in this fucking house.

"Before you run I still have some more information to tell you." He tells me and fuck my curious mind because I freeze.

"You see my uncle doesn't actually work here. None of my family does because I don't have anymore family. Not anymore. Francisco killed them. My parents were out at the bar one night and Francisco and Anya happen to be there as well. My dad got in the middle of them because he saw how he treated Anya and Francisco thought he was involved romantically with Anya. He found out his name, where he lived and broke into my house the next night and killed my parents and siblings in cold blood. I happened to be at my friend's house that night but when I came back I saw they all dead. In cold blood. I was 12, my brother was 16 and my sister was 8." He tells me.

"Okay sure you've got a pretty good sob story but I'm not going to kill him. You can do that yourself, you have the resources you don't need me." I tell him.

"Well you are correct, we have the resources, but I want to give you the closure you deserve. I want you to surprise him, imagine the person he raped and hid years ago came back and killed him. Now that's shock factor right?" He asks.

I mean yeah I would love to kill the bastard, but what would my brothers say?

"My brothers would find out I did it and I'm the one in trouble. If you didn't know there's cameras everywhere. There's very few spots in this house that the cameras can't see. And like you said, I can't leave the house without permission. How would I manage to get out, go kill him, clean up, and get back all without my brothers knowing? Between the security, the cameras, and oh I don't fucking know, the short hours of the night, how would I manage to do that? Huh?" I ask him.

"Because you wouldn't have to leave the house. You will be able to kill him here. There's a family meeting in a few weeks, Francisco will be there, I have a plan to help you kill him." He told me.

"What plan?" I ask him.

"Now I can't tell you that, you have to agree first." He told me.

There has to be a catch....why would they want me to kill him, they can kill him. What would my brothers think?...

"We have a plan to make sure none of your brothers find out. It will be easier if you kill him, rather than me or someone else, it would be more difficult. But if you kill him, well, nobody would know. We would make sure of it." He tells me.

I get to kill Francisco, no catch. All because it's easier for me to get away with it.

"You can think about it. You don't need to make this decision now. I'll give you 5 days. If you don't meet up with me I'll have your answer." Elijah tells me as he walks away.

I stand there in the back of the library going through our conversation.

I could finally kill him, make him feel half of what he did to me.

But what would my brothers think?

They would find out....right?

But Elijah has a plan for me to get away with it.

Would it work?

Will it be worth it?

What would my brothers think.

I mean shit they're Mafia bosses, they kill people all the time. They have to.

I rub my temples and walk back to my room.

I open the door to my room and go sit down at my desk. I grab my notebooks and write down what Elijah just told me.

I have the opportunity to kill him. The person who caused me so much pain, the person who was the reason for my pain. He hid me from my brothers for years. Hid me from my actual family. Let me live a lie.

I look over and see the shadow people forming, their eyes watching me.

"God just go away" I mutter to them while rubbing my temples. Like always they don't respond. They just watch....

"Stop looking at me fuckers." I tell them but like always, no response.

I grunt and try to ignore them, but I can feel them watching me. Suddenly I hear the whispers come back. I can't understand what they're saying but I can hear them.

"God shut up. You guys are so annoying." I get up off my desk and walk towards the shadow people.

"Go away. You're not even real" I tell them. But again, all they do is. Stare. At. Me.

"UGH GO AWAY" I tell them, raising my voice. But they don't do anything. They sit there and stare at me. Suddenly the whispers go away a feeling suddenly comes over me, it's heavy, like nothing matters.

I close my notebooks and put them under my desk. I don't need my brothers to know about these things.

I lay down in my bed and try to sleep, I toss and turn for God knows how long. Unable to fall asleep. Leo mentioned I might have insomnia, caused by my schizophrenia. I stare at my ceiling, not even thinking. Just staring, my brain is frozen.

It feels like just minutes but it has to be hours before I hear a knock on my door. And again, I don't even get a chance to saw anything before the door opens.

I seriously need to get a lock...

"Hey Elias, how did you sleep?" Leo asks me.

I just stare at him, not even moving.

"Elias hey can you focus on me?" He asks but again, my eyes don't move from the ceiling.

Leo grabs my face in his hands, "You didn't sleep did you?" He asks me.

I just stare at him, moving feels impossible right now.

"Okay well stay here, I'm going to get your medicine. I'm going to give you your sleeping medicine, I think it will help bring you out of this funk okay?" He tells me.

Again I don't move, it feels like my brain is frozen, my body feels like it's made of stone.

I don't know when my door opens but I see Leo and Santiago next to my bed. Leo has a needle. I want to freak out, I really do, but I can't. My brain is frozen.

"Okay Santiago I want you to hold his hand, this is his medicine, it will hopefully help bring him out of this funk." Leo tells Santiago.

I feel a hand grab mine and then a small pinch in my arm. A few moments later I feel tired, no. More than tired. I feel exhausted. My eyes are heavy and feel like they're glued shut.

"Just sleep Elias, you'll feel better when you wake up." Is the last thing I hear before falling asleep.

Leo

It's 2pm and nobody has seen Elias today. I head up to Elias's room to check on him. I knock on the door before walking in and I see him in his bed, staring at the ceiling, unmoving.

"Hey Elias how did you sleep?" I as him.

No response.

His eyes don't even move over to me or the door, they just stare at the ceiling.

I walk over to his bed and sit down on the corner. "Hey Elias can you focus on me?" I ask him.

Again no response. I'm not even sure if he's understanding what I'm saying.

I grab his face in my hands and direct his eye line on me. "You didn't sleep did you?" I ask him. I see the bags under his eyes, and how heavy lidded his eyes are. I knew this was a symptom of his schizophrenia

He just stares at me. I read up on what this would feel like and the best way I can explain is the crash after someone who has Bipolar disorder went through a manic episode. Everything feels impossible, you don't feel anything yet you feel everything. The best way I can help him is getting him his sleeping medicine.

"Okay well stay here, I'm going to get your medicine. I'm going to give you your sleeping medicine, I think it will help bring you out of this funk okay?" I tell him as I walk out of the room.

I walk down into my medical room and grab a sedative and his schizophrenia medication. I crush them up and add them to the sedative. Then I walk backup to his room. I see Santiago hanging outside his door. We were all worried when he didn't come downstairs, especially after last nights dinner.

"He's unresponsive right now. He didn't sleep at all last night and is stuck in a funk okay? This sedative should help him get the sleep he needs and bring him out of it okay?" I tell Santiago.

"Okay, but I'm coming with you. Someone probably needs to stay with him until he wakes up." He tells me.

I just nod at him and open the door. Santiago immediately goes to his side and I pull my gloves on and sanitize my hands. "Okay Santiago I want you to hold his hand, this is his medicine, it will hopefully help bring him out of this funk." I tell him.

I watch as the sedative and his medicine make its way through him, his eyes get heavy and his blinking slows down. "Just sleep Elias, you'll feel better when you wake up." I tell him. I watch as his eyes close and his breathing evens out.

"Can you sty with him while I go and talk to Alvaro?" I ask him. Elias doesn't need to be alone when he wakes up.

"Yeah, we will be fine here." Santiago tells me while laying back on Elias's bed.

I walk out of Elias's room and towards Alvaro's office. We had cameras put in Elias's room a few weeks ago to see if he ever had any episodes while we weren't aware. Schizophrenics tend to hurt themselves more than other people when they're in the middle of an episode. We don't watch them just to watch them. They're there for his safety so we can see what he's going through, or what he might've done. Only Alvaro has access to his cameras, and like I mentioned we don't watch them whenever we want. It's only when we're worried or have suspicions of when he's going through an episode. Like right now I need to know what he's done, and how long he's been like this. Did he have another hallucination last night and we just didn't know? What happened?

I knock on the door and walk in. Alvaro looks at me with a questioning look.

"I need you to pull up the cameras from Elias's room. He didn't come down for breakfast or dinner and I know he didn't sleep last night. I need to know if he had another episode." I tell him.

Alvaro just nods and starts typing on his computer, a few minutes go by before he swivels his computer around and presses play, letting me watch the footage. It shows Elias getting to his room after dinner pulling out his notebooks and studying. He spends about 2 hours studying before putting everything away, and leaving.

"Where did he go?" I ask Alvaro.

"What do you mean where did he go?" Alvaro then turns the computer back to him typing some more before motioning for me to stand beside him.

"These are the hallway cameras. He left his room around 1 am." Alvaro says before pressing play. We follow Elias throughout the hallways, he stops by the stairs and looks down, he stands there for a few minutes before sprinting off and entering the library.

"Is there any sound?" I ask Alvaro.

"No, cameras are already dangerous, we have them protected but having sound could be detrimental." He says.

"Are there any cameras in the library?" I ask.

"No thats the older library, cameras where never put in there because nobody goes in there." Alvaro says.

Well shit. If he had a hallucination we can't see it.

We fast forward the footage and see Elias walk out, he looks shocked, and stuck in his head.

He walks back to his room and takes out his notebooks before writing again. He starts looking over in the corners, talking now and then before getting up and talking to the corner. He tries to hit it before he goes back to his desk, puts his notebooks away, and laying down in the same position I found him in.

"Okay so he definitely had a hallucination last night. Thats what caused the episode shock." I say before walking towards the door.

"Is Elias okay?" Alvaro asks me.

"He will be, we just have to wait and see how the sedative affects him." I tell him before walking out of the office and back to Elias's room.

I walk in and see Elias still asleep and Santiago passed out next to him.

I sit down on the chair in the corner of his room and wait for them both to wake up.

It wasn't long until I fell asleep myself.

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Another chapter down. Did we like the cliff hanger?

Anyways don't forget to comment/vote. I'll try and get another chapter out tomorrow but shit went down last night with me and my brother and I am not in the mood to write right now.

Lmk what y'all think.