John Layton's Story:

A young 14 year old boy named Wiley Miagiro has a somewhat unfriendly relationship with his older brother Kwan Miagiro, and ignominiously teases him occasionally as most brothers do. Kwan begins to feel sorrowful for the unproductive life he leads(Which is what Wiley teases him about amongst other things), and after a while he notices vicious satanic flashes of anger within himself. Pretty soon he snaps, turning his countenance into that of an exploding hawaiian volcano; He deals a skull-shattering blow to his younger sibling, easily knocking him out, dragging him away to the back of the car where he quickly punches the gas to get the hell out of town. Kwan takes Wiley to a secluded area behind the El Cerrito hills, where he in turn gets to extract vengeance for his shame, ignominiously. He does all sorts of things to his disowned brother and both begin to slowly loose their minds. (An important note in the story is Kwan assumes an alternate identity named Humu; Humu does not harm Wiley, they sit and talk about how they liked it before their parents remarried and that it should just be themselves and their father in the Miagiro family. Wiley soon finds such great relief in Humu's presence he strongly begins to feel the same way.) Meanwhile, the other members of the Miagiro family are worried sick for their children because they believe their children were kidnaped. However, one family member and Kwan's other step sibling, Johnny Deep Miagiro, knew what had happened. He knew that police involvement would deteriorate the situation, so he decides to take matters into his own hands; not telling his parents, he goes to Kwan's hut in the woods and attempts to calm Kwan down and to get him help. Kwan will have none of it and turns on his only friend Johnny and begins to torture him too. Now with the Miagiro family suspecting all of their children to be kidnapped and taken elsewhere, no one will find them, and no one will hear their screams. So, Johnny and Wiley have to find a way to escape. All they had was Johnny's candy bar and Wiley's bottle of prozac pills which he took for depression. Wiley curses Johnny and blames him for not calling the police, and calls him a waste of life. Kwan found the pills in Wiley's pocket and started to take the drugs. One afternoon he overdoses himself and Johnny and Wiley take advantage of this and convince him the hut was burning down and that they must act quickly or he will no longer have anyone to torture. so he quickly unlocks the shackles on his two brothers; Wiley immediately sits on him, crushing him beneath 3 cheeseburgers a day. Johnny is able to escape and get help. The story ends with Humu alone behind bars with his brothers visiting him; Humu was telling Johnny he thought he was a good friend and he stops in mid-sentence to check from behind the bulletproof window to assure the room was free of spectators, and Johnny Deep finds a cold steel blade in his back, the last thing he sees is the sadistic expression on Kwan's face from behind the impassable wall of glass.