He follows me around the house.

He follows me wherever I go.

Desperate to live.

That'd be my brother, Kaushik.

He's dead now.

We should have known.

Ever since we found out my mother was pregnant with Kaushik, bad omens followed us. Mirrors were broken, my father lost his job and all my pets died. But we didn't know it was because of him. This tiny monster occupying my mother's womb.

My mother suffered extreme pains throughout her pregnancy that she wasn't supposed to get.

She bore...