11 Chapter 11- Acedia (1/2)

Lying in sofa lazily, a teen look at the remote control that lay on the table in front of him. Stretching his right hand slowly, he grabbed the remote control and was about to turn on the television when it suddenly fell from his grasp.

A frown appeared on his face as he stared at the remote control that fell half a meter away from him as he closed his eyes in contemplation.

Marie felt strange. 'I am only gone for two weeks, what happened to him?'

'His transformation was too much for me to handle!' She grabbed her hair as she was frustrated, thinking that Jack change was because of her.

She looks at Jack and thought that he was thinking of something. But after watching him for almost 10 minutes, she realized that.

'He was sleeping, dammit!'

The urge of smacking his head surface to her mind when she looks at him. But seeing the peaceful expression that Jack currently has, she stopped and bitterly smiled. 'Perhaps, this is good for him, Westly and his mom are mostly away from him. So I have to spoil him to make up for his parent's absence.'

Marie stroked his hair as she smiled. ”Auntie will protect you.”

When Jack felt someone touch, he woke up and lazily sat on the sofa as he stared at Marie in front of him. ”Why are you always disturbing my sleep?”

Marie was stunned, she didn't expect such a question, she felt that this Jack was too lazy and treat her as a stranger. ”Jack.”

”Are you Jack or someone else?” Marie musters her courage to ask this question.

Even if she was not together with her nephew for a long time, she knew his personality well, this Jack in front of him was a stranger to her. She doesn't feel a hint of the Jack in her memories, the thought that her nephew developed a dissociative identity disorder scared her. She encountered this type of situation in the past when she was still studying at her university, a friend of her also has multiple personalities.

(Dissociative identity disorder- Multiple Personality)

She developed that disorder due to bullying and abuses of her parents. The other her has a bad temper and violent tendencies, so when she thought that Jack experienced the same thing, Marie was nervous and afraid at the same time.

”Oh, quite smart, but you're not completely correct.” Jack lazily said.

”What do you mean?” She asked confused.

Jack closed his eyes as he said. ” You could say that while I possessed his other personality, I also own a soul that can devour him. In other words, I can replace him anytime I want, but I was lazy to do that.”

Marie's face turned pale. ”Are you an all...”

”Yes, I am;” Marie want to ask if he was an ally, but he stopped her from talking too much as he thought that it was a hassle to listen if he already read her mind.

”Are you.”

”Yes;” Jack answered as he already read her thought.

Marie's face was turning paler, as she didn't expect that he can read her mind.

”You don't have to worry, as I don't have the intention to erase our origins, even If I am lazy, I am not crazy enough to erase the existence that making us alive.” Jack stared at Marie with blue eyes.

Marie felt uncomfortable, as she feels nude in front of this person, but endured it as there still many questions she wanted to ask. ”Well basically, we have to thank that pill because of it, Jack obtained the power and turned to a God!”

”You don't believe me, right?” He stared at Marie with a deep gaze.