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The House

Inizio finished washing up. Unlike his sister that went straight to his room to check it out, he walked right past it and went to go check on his sister. He found that her room door was left open, and inside, he found that her projector was on showing the brightness of the artificial stars. He walked inside of the room, and found that his sister was passed out on her bed, curled up and not covered. Seeing this, Inizio smiled at how carless she was. It was unbecoming of her, but just so like her too. Thankfully, he made sure to pick out a nice plush throw blanket that was purple, and had it placed inside her closet where all of her clothes are. He quietly opened the closet and took out the nice, soft, and purple blanket. He unfolded the blanket and draped it over her sleeping figure. Then, he kneeled down to her bed side, happily.

Inizio was grateful all of this was happening to them. He was grateful that he was able to watch his sister sleep peaceful in a place which she designed herself. He was glad that she was about to sleep in a stary room without having to worry about anything. He could only smile thinking about the future smiles and laughs she was going to have. He laughed imagining his sister with her friends. He could see the little annoyance his sister would have when her friends were playing little tricks on her. Inizio imagined so many things for her future that would do nothing but make her happy, and he couldn't stop the joy from reaching his face as he wished would be the same for his sister as time continued.

"Big brother...?" she called out, her soft soft and sleepy because she'd just woken up. Inizio brought his hand up and gently pet her head, "Go back to sleep."

"But, why are you here? Are you having trouble sleeping?"

Inizio shook his head, "No, I just wanted to check up on you."

"Alright," she said, falling asleep again, "Don't stay up late, okay..."

Srusti's voice dragged off as she drifted off back to sleep. She really was the cutest.

In the morning, because the two children didn't grow up with clocks, an alarm, or the visible sun, their sleep schedule was insanely erratic. They went to sleep when they felt like it and woke up when they felt like it. So, Aarth almost a day after he sent to kids to bed, he went to go check on the two of them. Quietly, he entered both of the kid's rooms and was surprised to see that both of them had slept through the day. Neither one seemed to have waken up from the sun that shinned through their windows, or the light footsteps of him entering the room. It was quite a surprise to see two people who really could sleep the day away. He could almost laugh at the two of them, but he couldn't. After all, he had work to do.

Aarth ended up closing the doors to the two kid's room and heading off to work. Ironically, five minutes after heading to work, the two children work up three minutes within each other. First, both looked outside their window and expected to see the sun shinning bright in the sky, but instead saw it's dimming light.

It was quite confusing since their senses of time didn't exist, but they quickly realized that they'd slept through the time of the sun, which both were quite sad about. However, it was their fault. They should've set an alarm or something to wake them up while the sun was out. At least, tomorrow they were going to see the bright sun again. For now, they decided to wash up and change their clothes. After, they would go through the fridge and explore the house together. That seemed to be able to entertain them enough until they were able to go back to sleep.

After going over the regular steps in hygiene, the two put on pajama's that were made of nice fabric by the lady from the tailor store. And some how, they managed to pick the set of matching pajamas perfectly, so they matched. It was a sibling telepathy and the closeness they had to each other that made it happen. But, they paid no mind to that and walked down stairs to look for something to eat in the kitchen. Hopefully, something good.

Coming down the stairs after a long nice sleep, gave the two kids an easier time looking around and noticing all of the details of the down stairs. They saw, at least in the living room, that everything was either gray, white, or black. A somewhat bland choice but also calming because of how simple it is. Rather then subconsciously causing anger, sadness, or happiness, people walking in weren't really effect by the colors because of how bland they are. Not only that, the colors were soothing to the eyes. they weren't unnecessarily bright nor unnecessarily dark. When put together, they were the perfect set of colors. Of course, none of that stopped Inizio or Srusti from painting their rooms in blue and purple aesthetics.

The two continued their walk to the kitchen where the design and color pallet was the same everywhere. There was only the shine of the fridge that managed to pull out of the monotone setting. But, there was nothing wrong with that. Actually, it made the thing easier to locate.

Opening the fridge was like opening the doors to a new world. There were all sorts of different foods. Some where ingredients, some were dishes. All of it was different, and all of it made the two of them confused.

See, they knew food had to be cooked before eating it but overcooked food didn't taste good. However, because they've only seen cooked food from a buffet restaurant, how were they supposed to tell the difference from raw food to cooked food. After all, all cooked food looks different. Something could be cooked but look raw, and some could be raw but look cooked. It was all so confusing about what they could eat without getting sick. They've never seen half of the stuff that was in there. Still, they started rummaging through the fridge, taking out the fruits and vegetables because they knew those could be eaten without being cooked. They placed everything they found on the white quartz countertop that was next to the fridge.

Then, after taking everything out, they went through everything they thought were fruits and vegetables. There was cut up watermelon in a plastic container, strawberries, blueberries--they came to that conclusion because the fruit was blue. Then, there was a whole bunch of green stuff with one white tree looking thing that was probably a vegetable.

Looking at all of this, the two were sure that there was probably something in there that wasn't going to be good to eat health or taste wise, but it never hurt to try. Experiences are the best ways to learn, after all. So, the two kids first ate what they were sure wasn't going to kill them.

First, they went for the watermelon. But, if that was the case, they were going to have to go looking for forks.

"I'll find some," Srusti said because she was closer to the drawers.

"Okay."

Srusti opened drawer after drawer looking for the utensils. It took five drawers to find forks to eat with. She found them in the drawer that was right behind the dishwater which was right next to the two parted sink. A convenient place to put it seeing as forks, spoons, and butter knifes tend to be used more frequently then anything else. She took two forks out of the drawer then closed it. She walked back to her older brother who already opened the container with watermelon, and gave him one of the forks. Then, the two pierced two different pieces of watermelon with their forks and began their little fruit feast.

The watermelon was delicious. It was sweet but not so sweet that it reminded them of some kind of desert. Some of the pieces to too big to eat in one bite, so they ate some pieces with smaller bites causing some of the enclosed sweet water to drip down from the corner of their mouths and get all over their cheeks. They made it seriously obvious that they had eaten all of the watermelon. However, because of they had to split the container of sweet fruit and slept the entire day, they still didn't feel the fullness in their stomachs they had after eating at the buffet. So, they continued eating.

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Next, the two went to open the container of strawberries, but there was a problem there too. Neither of them wanted to eat the strawberries with their hands, which was needed because of the green leaves at the top.

"I'll cut them," Inizio said, but Srusti shook her head, "I can do it."

"No, you have to look for the knife and cutting board."

Srusti knew that her brother was just trying to keep her away from the act of cutting something, but she listened to him anyways since he was her big brother. It was natural for him to want to keep her away from the possibility of hurting herself, but if he ended up hurting himself, she would be on standby to immediately take care of him because she was his little sister.

Again, the little sister went looking through the draws and cabinets for different kitchen items. She found a knife on the counter in the little knife holder and the cutting bored in a slim cabinet that was right next to the dishwasher. Then, she delivered both items to her brother who had finished washing the strawberries and places the container on a red kitchen towel.

"Don't hurt yourself," Srusti said, watching her brother's every move as long as that knife stayed in his reach.

Inizio huffed out a smile, "If I do cut myself, I bet you wouldn't leave this big brother's side."

He wasn't wrong, but what did that have to do with the worry of him getting hurt? It made his sister furrow her brows because of the sudden switch in conversation topic.

"You wouldn't get chummy with any of the boys. You wouldn't get married."

Oh, never mind. Srusti's faucal expression went back to normal. She knew why the conversation topic switched. Her insanely ill brother enjoyed the thoughts of her bring tied to his side. He would be forever content if she was attached to him by the hip. He was just adding fuel to the flames of his sister complex, and knowing nothing she could do was going to change that, Srusti let her brother be. Unlike him being worried about her being approached by boys, Srusti was actually concerned for her brother's social life. She was sure that it wasn't going to go anywhere if all he talked about was his little sister. Honestly, people would, most likely, call him weird and start distancing themselves from him. All of that would cause a great strain to him making friends, and he would end up as the weird loner. That was a title Srusti didn't want her brother to have. Maybe, she thought, it's my time to start distancing. After all, he brother would have an easier time if he didn't have a sister complex. Or, at least, appear to not have one.

"Of course, I'm just joking!" Inizio said, smiling. "You can do whatever you feel like doing, as long as you don't get hurt."

Yeah, no. He wasn't. Srusti wondered why he even said that. Maybe, it was because it might scare her off. Though, at this point, she was used to him being overprotective. And, even if she was scared of him, there was no way she could leave. After all, there was no where for her to go. Her fear of being alone was worse than being scared of a single person. Besides, there was no reason as to why she could be scared. Her brother wouldn't hurt her nor would he lock her up, so it was all good. There was no reason for her to be worried about anything else besides her brother's social life. So, yeah, it was all good.

"I'm hungry," she said, getting her brother back on topic to cutting the fruit.

"Right, right. I'll get right to it," Inizio chuckled and started cutting the strawberries one after another until the plastic container was empty.

Thankfully, Inizio didn't cut himself with the knife, and the two were able to enjoy the taste of strawberries in peace. Though, they were quite surprised by how the red berry fruit tasted. From the bright appearance of the fruit, and the ripeness, both of them expected to be drop dead sweet; however, it was nothing like that. All they got was a regular sweetness. They were ready to eat something that was as sweet as a chocolate bar--not like they ever had one--but it was nothing like that. Eating their first strawberry was like an anticlimactic ending to a movie or book, not like that's ever happened to them either. Either way, it was safe to say that they were a little let down, but that didn't mean they didn't enjoy the red berry fruit.

Unexpectedly, after they finished eating the strawberries, both of the two children felt full. It was most likely because of the large meal they ate a day ago. At least, that's the conclusion they both came to, so after putting everything away or in the sink, the two of them started exploring the house.

The place had the same color scheme everywhere through the first floor. At first, the two kids thought that the color scheme was chosen because of how neutral the colors were, but it seemed that the theme was chosen because Aarth favored it.

Exploring the house didn't take up as much energy as the two thought it would. Well, the please was small, so there wasn't much exploring to be done. Plus, they couldn't just to barging into the master bedroom, seeing as it was the private space of someone else. Still, everything in the house was fastinating. They saw a washer and dryer, multiple different cleaning products, and other common place items the they'd never seen before. But, none of that was enough for them to be tried, and want to go to sleep. So, the next thing on their list was to go school shopping online. Well, it wasn't like they had a card to pay for all of it, so they were just going to put everything they wanted into a virtual cart and come back to it later. And so, they went back to their rooms to grab their phones, and decided to stay upstairs in the empty den room space they'd yet to decorate.

Going online shopping was much more work then the two thought it would be. For one, each other them had to make an account using their phone number which neither of knew, so they had to look in their contacts to find each other's number. Then, they had to do a whole bunch of verification steps to stop hackers which was a really smart thing to do, but very tedious. After that, they had to login in again and confirm whether or not they were human. In which case, they weren't. Still, they passed this test with flying colors seeing as all they had to do was turn a picture to a certain angle. All in all, there were a lot of steps getting in the way of the kids starting their first online shopping journey.

But, there was one more thing. Exactly what materials did one need to attend school? Did the supplies correlate with the level of school they were going into? IF that was the case, they were going to have to figure that out as well. So, Srusti opened up a new tab to figure out the school grade ranges, while Inizio opened a tab to look at the necessary school supplies.

Currently, Srusti was 8 years old meaning that she fell in the elementary range, and since Inizio was two year older then her, he just barely fell in that range too. Click on a website for grade age rangers, Srusti found a more in-depth chart showing her that she was in second grade while her brother was in fourth. So, that would mean that they didn't really need a lot of things, and going through a website with examples of supplies need for second grade, Inizio found that some of the supplies didn't seem to be any different than household items. For example, his sister needed to begin boxes of tissue and disinfectant wipe which both of them found weird, but paid no mind. After all, they've never been to school before, how were they supposed to tell what was right?

However, for 4th grade it seemed that the number of supplies doubled as the grade number did. What replaced his sister's needs for sanitation items were binders, loose paper, and a protractor. That meant he was going to need a larger backpack then her.

Looking over the list of what the two of them needed, they found that the majority of the stuff on this list was better to get in person rather than online, so their online journey came to an abrupt end, leaving them, again, with nothing to do.

They thought about playing a card game like they did before, or they could play one of the board games they found stashed in one of the second floor closets. But, neither were really for that idea. They want to try something new. Something they've never done before, but where could they find something like that?

"There was that big screen downstairs," Inizio mentioned, "It probably turns on."

"Want to turn it on?" Srusti asked.

"Sure."

So, the two went back down the stairs to the first floor with their phones in hand. Immediately, going down the stairs, they saw the big screen they were curious about. The two ended up looking all around the screen for a power button, but they couldn't find one. They look at the side of the screen, the bottom, Inizio even lifted his sister up to check the top, but they found nothing. They were about to give up when Srusti stepped back and found a stick with a whole bunch of buttons on it. She found a red button that was an incomplete circle with a line sticking out from the top of it. Coming to the conclusion that it was the power button, she pressed it, and the large screen started lighting up.

Because of the sudden light, Inizio stepped back next to his sister, "What happened?"

Srusti showed her brother the stick in her hand, "I pressed the red button-"

All of a sudden both of the children started hearing voices. It was a conversation between two people that was happening on the screen. Now, this caught their attention. this big screen was a TV, and right now it was playing something that involved someone flying. It was interesting. The two ended up sitting on the couch only a few steps behind them while staring at the happenings on the TV. That was how they spent the next few hours until they fell asleep on the couch.