Double-Household: The Clover-Curse

A mystery-man boards a double-household in Boston and delivers a Christmastime 'spell' for what's to become a gifted folk-tale for styx.

A very unusual modernized fable inspired by The Gift of the Magi. Enjoy, 

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There's a certain double-household in the United States, inhabited in Boston by two brothers (twins!) who moved to the East Coast (USA) from LA after graduating from UCLA.

The brothers, Mark and David, are both married and live with their respective wives in their double-household, two blondes (sisters!) and have one son each.

DAVID: Our house-blueprint 'clearly' designates that our residential territories are well-divided!

MARK: We live comfortably/happily with our two respective/divided families in equally-spaced home living in Boston.

Now, Boston (USA) is quite lovely in the snowy Christmas season, but in the first year of the double-household (David and Mark Satan), the Satan families are about the visited by a 'stranger' who may be part of a new underground group of Interpol-relations, doing very 'dark' James Bond work for F-IRA/FOH, making this first-Christmas rather...intriguing.

The 'stranger' is incidentally Amlan Satan, an Algerian-American 'covert' blood-diamond operationalist in Northern Ireland (United Kingdom) and British Columbia (North America) under the field-name Storm-Shadow (GI Joe). A graduate of Dartmouth, this real-life 'James Bond' is a man of extra-ordinary resourcefulness and cunning, though in appearance he may seem a bit odd, with crazy and muffled hairstyle and a softspoken talking-manner and of course his double-life secret, which the Satan family (David/Mark) are unaware of when they agree to take him into their single guest-room in their double-household in Boston after accepting his Boston classifieds-post about temporary holiday-season Boston leasing/living.

When Amlan Satan moves into the guest-room, the Satans (David/Mark) notice that he's always working late-at-night on his laptop, typing away, which they're unaware of is blood-diamond cyber-communications work linking to a new underground London-Belfast piracy-bridge ('Cobra') which he has only 2 months to detangle with a diagonal operations! Amlan Satan always keeps his door locked while typing all night long, and the Satan family (David/Mark) decide they want him to 'share' what he does so 'secretly' at night for the past 2 weeks, typing away! Amlan Satan ('Storm-Shadow') explains he can't really reveal his works but agrees to share with them a holiday-season 'magic-trick' showcase for the holiday-season, using the brothers' shared jewelry-box foldout case (which is shared by the Satan brothers' wives --- Pamela/Sheila). Amlan Satan folds out the jewelry-case and swaps some of the wives' jewelry in compartments they'd have to guess and when they find a crescendo of substituted jewelry and some left in original slots/openings, they cheer when they realize it's a nifty little hand-motion gem placements dance. They couldn't be more entertained by this 'stranger' who's a temporary resident-guest, and the sister-wives won't forget this Christmastime jewel-case magic showcase.

DAVID: Our wives were truly entertained by this special feat of nifty if simplified trickery!

MARK: We're certain this guy's some clever 'James Bond' doing some handy work for the American government (magician!).

Amlan Satan spends a 'tad' less time typing away late-at-night, suspecting the Satan family (David/Mark) have been suspicious of his 'double-life' and also decides to spend some 'quality-time' playing with their two sons, Damien/Edward. He gifts them very playful cereal-box toys and knick-knacks which he's been collecting in his 'suitcase' ever since he'd been a young man in Algeria/Amsterdam.

DAVID: Amlan, we'd like you to showcase a magic-act involving a 'coveted' Blu-ray film which we'll have to compete to win!

MARK: It'll be like the jewelry-case magic-trick you'd performed but with a special 'clover-cinema' diagonal (for us!).

AMLAN SATAN: I'll create a 'game' in which they'll compete for the Blu-ray of American Underdog (football) by distance(s).

The magic-game involves the Satan brothers having to compete with each other in a football video-game, a classic handheld game Amlan carries with him in his 'magic suitcase' and see which can score enough points to make the families feel like the Half-Time show of the LA Rams cheerleader(s) are actually/virtually cheering for them! The winner can claim the American Underdog Blu-ray cinema-copy which Amlan has lifted from WalMart and feel like it's their 'private' football cheer-detention.

The idea is to make the Satan brothers feel less 'competitive' about yearning for the Blu-ray movie Amlan's erected this household-fantasy game for them, and David/Mark quickly deduce this is no ordinary houseguest. In fact, they're right, and when Mark stumbles upon a cyber-blog online featuring what seems to be Amlan Satan (houseguest) himself disguised as a 'blood-diamond' vigilante with comments about pirate-economy in Northern Ireland (United Kingdom), they realize they're engaging with a rather 'mysterious' dog.

DAVID: I'm honestly 'relieved' now that this Satan (Amlan) is leaving us by Valentine's Day; it's been quite a drama for us.

MARK: I'm convinced this guy's linked to some rather deep-dish about the 'pizzas' of modern 'distance(s)' rapture.

AMLAN SATAN: It's time for me to get moving (Vancouver), but I'll remember this Satan-experience in Boston as one of certain diplomatic daydreams...and the 'stands' of household druidism (what a Christmas!).

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)