Torn Between Two Love Ch2

Chapter 2

Brother Alois was kidnapped the year my mother was carrying me. Soon after mother gave birth to me, she died from sadness. Father was searching for brother frantically so I was nursed by the maids. After a few years, Alois came back with a butler in black. Father died of a disease right after Alois came back. Everyone forgot about me. My brother found me locked in a closet, hiding from terror. He decided to take care of me since I was the last of his family. He was always nice to me but not the servants.

I was thinking of all these things while I pretended to be asleep. My eyes were closed and I focused on breathing heavily to make sure I looked sound asleep. I could tell it was morning already because my eyes weren't completely shut. Mornings annoyed me but I reluctantly opened my eyes after a few boring moments.

Alois was sitting at the edge of the bed with Claude dressing him up. He wore a dark blue vest with a red bow tie. He had his casual short black pants with knee high stockings and laced boots. Then he put on his favorite purple coat. He wore the same thing as yesterday just with a different colored vest. Alois saw that I had awoken and started to dress me up happily. He got me in a matching outfit except with a white coat with gold swirls framing it. I looked like a mini Alois but I could care less. I was going to help my brother get what he wanted.

I grabbed my yo-yo and we all went to Alois' study room. Brother slouched and laid his head on the table lazily. Claude was serving us tea quietly while I played with my yo-yo. What do I need to get Ciel? I looked at the yo-yo and tried lifting it up faster and tried doing cool tricks with it. I played with my yo-yo enough to do some basic tricks. That's when I figured out how to get Ciel. To get the yo-yo back in my hand, I need to pull it towards me. To get Ciel in my hand, I need to pull Ciel towards me. I admit it was a stupid coincidence but at least I have a plan.

"Brother! Could we have a ball?" I abrupt Claude's "important" lecture and made Alois spit out his steaming hot tea. He was pounding his chest while choking on the tea. Maybe I startled everyone.

"A ball? For what reason?" Alois tried reasoning with me. I couldn't tell him the reason why I wanted a ball. I wanted to surprise him when I caught Ciel.

"Let's make it a costume part! I know you love those!" I stared into his green eyes and made my sad begging face hoping he wouldn't mind it if I never gave him a reason why I wanted a ball. Claude glared at me, suspicious that I was up to something. Alois fell for my trap and happily agreed.

"Great idea!" Alois stood up from his chair and started dancing around, "Claude, prepare for a ball tonight! Invite everybody!"

"Yes. Invite EVERYBODY," I hoped I put enough stress on everybody so that Claude would invite the Phantomhive household. Brother started dancing again and Claude left with disgust. I think Claude thinks the Trancy family has issues, I shrugged not caring if he didn't like me or not.

"Olé!" Alois exclaimed with the last pose of his dance but then narrowed his eyes and glared viciously at me. I jumped at his angry and attempted to copy brother's dance with a few mistakes and ended up with my hands strangely waving in the air.

"Olé?" I imitated but found Alois on the floor rolling around. He laughed hysterically as he pointed to me. Yes, even I think my brother was pathetic. I sighed and continued to play with my yo-yo.

Brother kicked me out of the room because he needed to work and I took this chance to go to the library in this mansion. Father used to love literature and history that he fused two normal guest rooms and made it a library. It was dedicated to Alois but brother was too lazy to lift up a single book. I hopped on the rolling ladder that clung to the large wall of books. I searched the entire room picking out several books and throwing them on the enormous poop colored couch. I never really liked reading for fun or sitting on that couch. I jumped off from the tall ladder and flopped onto the couch. I took a notepad from a nearby table and started taking notes. When I opened the first book and I noticed the cracking sound of the binding folding and the smell of a new book. I guessed no one used this book before.

"Athens used to show some weakness to the Spartans. Spartans thought to attack the weakened spot, only to be trapped in a surprise attack," I recited from the book. So if I want to lure Ciel over, I need to show my weak spot but then attack him? I thought about it for long minutes and it started to confuse me. I don't even know him and how he'd react to my weakness. I took the notepad and started to take notes furiously on whatever information I could learn from this book.

The first hour of my study passed by quickly when Claude entered the room.

"Lady Carissa, it's time for a snack and the Young Master would like to see you?" Claude had a questioned look on his face as he saw me studying.

"Bweph!" I shouted randomly and threw everything on the couch in the air. The papers floated and books slammed to the floor. I took the book about Athens and I hid it behind me.

"Oh is that so? Wonderful! I was just reading a story about the Black Death in the 1350's! Ah ha ha," I laughed nervously as I slammed the book in Claude's face, "I wonder what kinds of whole grain wheat foods they can make next!" I scrambled for the door and hoped Claude doesn't take in deep consideration of my awkward reaction. I squeezed my eyes shut and raced down the hallway to Alois' bedroom.

"Alois!" I screamed into his room and it echoed loudly. I forced my eyes to open and it focused on the picture. Alois was dressing up in a costume full of pink glitter without Claude's help. Does he want to surprise Claude?

"Oh, good timing. I wanted to show you the costume for the party!" brother jumped with so much excitement as he zipped up his costume. It looked strange with all the shining sequins on him. I stepped back a bit and looked at his whole body and realized what it was. I mentally face palmed at my brother's idiocy.

"Is that a pig costume?" I inquired with a cocked eyebrow. Alois put on a small pink pig nose and posed in his outfit.

"Amazing isn't it. Come on, dance with me!" and by dancing, he meant acting like a pig. He started to oink and got on all fours. I gawked at him and wanted to actually face palm myself. I may be sane but I am a Trancy sibling. I shrugged and got on all fours and starting copying Alois. I was having fun being a pig until Claude entered the room and pulled me up from the carpeted floor.

"Please don't be such a bad influence to your sister, young master," Claude warned Alois and ruined all the fun. I bit my bottom lip as Alois got up and his temper rose. Alois stripped of his outfit and revealed his skinny body.

"Why don't you try it?" I suggested and tried to smooth out the atmosphere but the air grew darker. I chuckled nervously and excused myself from the room. I don't want to know what was going to happen with those two. I'm getting so excited for the party that I forgot I don't have a costume myself? I ran to my room and panted while trying to go through my closet but there was nothing inside it except for clothes that looked like what I was already wearing. I raised my eyebrows and decided to make my own changes to what I was wearing instead. There wasn't time to buy anything.

I shoved my white jacket and vest off and threw it on the bed. I ripped the bow tie off and piled it up with the other clothes. I looked around the drawers for some long pants but unfortunately, there was none. I raced to Claude room secretly and opened the door. I hope he wouldn't catch me in here. The room was small but clean. Does Claude even use this room? There were no blankets on the bed and any chair or table in the room. I opened his closet with care, making sure there were no creaks. My eyes found a pair of black pants and I took it from the closet. I stuffed it down my white collared shirt and raced down the hallway. It felt like forever to get to my room. Since when was the hallway that long?

I heard footsteps coming towards my room and I started to have cold sweat. I couldn't tell anyone about my master plan, not until I finished it. I quickly wrote "DO NOT DISTURB" on a sheet of paper and opened my door. I found Claude with the three purple haired butlers behind him. I smiled weakly at them as I let the piece of paper fall to the ground. I shut the door as hard as I could and slid to the floor. When I heard silence in the hallway, I sighed and was relieved that I could finally finish my costume.

I took my white coat with gold swirls and stepped on it. I stomped and jumped on it and made sure it was thoroughly crinkled and dirty. I took scissors from my wooden desk full of art supplies and started making tiny slits so that it looked torn. I took the bow tie I had undone and some extra bows from my closet. My hands shook from excitement as I reached for some pins on the table and pinned one end of the tie to the black trousers. I measured my body and somehow, the length of the ribbon bow tie was enough to go around the front of my body to the back. I smiled and did the same thing to the other side of the black trousers. Now it looked like suspenders. I slid on the black pants and it was obviously too big for me. I had three pins left and I tried to make the waist match mine. After a moment of struggle, I finally got it. It felt itchy but I had to bear with it. I looked down at my feet and I knew the pant legs were too long. I bit my lip as I snipped away the bottom parts and make it look all ripped. I tucked it in the ends into my boots. I slapped on the suspenders but let the one on my left should hand loose on my waist. I picked up the now light brown and torn jacket and felt the weird feeling on my arms. I've never worn such ripped and common clothing before. It did feel weird seeing me as a dirty boy in my body mirror.

I looked carefully and forgot to do my hair! My hand quickly grabbed a bunch of hair ties and pins and I clumsily stuck them in my hair. I pulled over a hat uncle Arnold gave me because I said I wanted to be a guy. Who knew this would be the perfect reason to use it? My blonde bangs covered parts of my eyes and I looked like a child who came out of the trash can. Huh, good costume. I did compliment myself in the mirror. For the last step, I got my yo-yo and exited my room. I wanted to show Alois so badly what my outfit was. My yo-yo was rolling lightly on the marble floor and all I could hear was the spinning metal rod in the yo-yo and my boots loudly clanking on the floor. When I reached Alois' door, I started giggling wondering about his reaction. I pushed opened the door to find Alois dying from boredom on his bed.

"Alois," I whispered to him so I wouldn't scare him. His head jerked towards me and he almost fell off the bed.

"Who the hell are you?" he said and threw a pillow at me. My hat almost fell off but I dropped my yo-yo to save my identity.

"It's me! Carissa! You're sister?" I placed my hands on the bed and felt it slouch down at the pressure. Alois' face showed his aversion of me and threw another pillow at my direction. I blocked it off swiftly knowing he was going to do that.

"Like my sister is like that!" he yelled at me and got off the bed, "Claude! Get this person outside and away from my mansion!" Almost immediately, Alois' butler came and grabbed me by my arms. I wiggled, trying to get out of his grasp.

"Hey, are you seriously kicking your sister outside? Alois! Come on, you know it's me," I shouted back at him but I was ignored. Claude's grip on my arms tightened and I knew there were bruises threatening to appear right after he let go. I couldn't believe Claude didn't know it was me either. He's such a robot! I stopped trying to free myself because I knew it was useless. Claude shoved me out the large maple door and my hands came in contact with the stone stairs. It was cold and my hands hurt from the stinging cold. I looked up from the ground and realized I was outside. I was outside!

I slowly walked up to the grass in the front lawn and fell to my knees. I let my fingers run through the grass and felt the nice and soft green leaves on the grass. I picked up some dirt and let it run through my fingers. A smiled formed on my lips and I decided to climb a tree. Nature felt so exhilarating and fun. I felt so free. The bark on the tree supported me as I scraped the steep trunk to the branches. I sat down on a branch high up in the tree. The leaves, the bugs, the buds were all so pretty. Nothing felt so amazing than what I'm going through right now. I found a fork like branch in the tree I was in and decided to nap there for a while. I closed my eyes and focused on hearing everything little thing from insect wings to the leaves whistling.

The sound of horses and chatter woke me up. I was half asleep and remembered guests for the ball were starting to arrive. I peeked through all the leaves of the tree but my eyes were still fuzzy so I roughly rubbed it.

"Welcome to the Trancy household, Lord Phantomhive," a cold voice spoke and it pierced through the air. It sounded so hostile but the guest didn't mind. I was fully awake when I heard the word "Phantomhive" and leaned in closer to see what was happening. A faded grayish blue hair shone from the light inside the mansion indicated he was the Phantomhive guest. It was him! Ciel Phantomhive! Now I can finally put my plan into action, I thought and smirked.