Chapter 3. The Other Brother

That night I struggle to sleep in my bed and the nightmare came just like they always do.

Since my first nightmare I've never bothered to sleep in my pajamas, and that was how that night I went to bed in my working attire thinking it was too dark to change.

The same old excuse.

I was quick to hide under my blanket just like my usual coward self and then woke up with a panic attack. My heart was beating so fast and the deafening silence was suffocating me to the point that I was breathing heavily.

I tried to calm myself down, but I was teary and my hands were shaking. It was two in the morning, though I know it was too late to get back to the office. But I panicked looking at the dark corner of my room, and that's when I decide to grab my things and took a taxi back to the office.

"Mam, did you left something at the office?" the security guard asked as he saw me accessing my ID card to my office space.

"No, I