Two Brothers, Two Secrets, One Shocking Awakening to a World of Deception and Mystery When I woke the next morning, a wave of terror overtook me. It suddenly came, like an electric shock and froze me in place. My muscles turned to stone. Every pore of my body gushed sweat, and my legs began to tremble. My best friend Noah was dead. Not just him a woman was lying beside him. I held my breath and listened, but I couldn't hear a thing. The pounding of my own heart reverberated in my ears with such force I couldn't even hear my bedroom door open. The door was opened by a slim young man with short hair and extremely regular features. He was possibly the handsomest man I have ever seen in my life. But even more than his features, what caught my eye was his clothing. He wore a shirt of almost painful whiteness and a deep green necktie with a fine pattern. Not only was the necktie itself stylish, but it even had the perfect knot, every twist and dip exactly as one might see in a men's fashion magazine. His pants were dark gray, and he had worn black loafers. Everything looked brand new, as if he had just put it on for the first time a few minutes before. He was somewhat shorter than I. The hint of a smile played about his lips as if he had just heard a joke and was smiling now in the most natural way. I took a deep breath. Here I was in my room with two dead bodies. The air in the room was chilling and smelled of the dead body corpse. I began to explain the situation, but he gave his head a slight shake to signal that it was unnecessary for me to say anything. …but everything was about to change
