My Bodyguard Knows My Secret
• 24 Chapter 24 •

Lyra walked up to me and gave the ring to me, she started walking to get out of the river. But I immediately grabbed one of his arms and my gaze could not escape from the fry of the wound, I wondered to myself.

“Where did those injuries come from?” – Gumamku

Lyra just smiled, as if she understood what I was thinking.

“Sshttt! Pretend you don't see it. Later I get scolded lho” – He said

I fell silent, Lyra pulled my arm and invited me to go home as it was getting late. I agreed and we went home together until the road separated the two of us.

• _Flashback Off ___ •

I, who was innocent at the time, ignored the injuries and pretended I had never seen them, like what Lyra had told me.

The pain began to strike again, I threw down my body. I stared at the ceiling of this room, recalling some memories with Lyra made me shed tears.

“Why did I leave him?! Stupid me!” – Mumamku

My eyes are heavy, I want to sleep. I expressed tears that had soaked the mattress where I was lying down at the moment, I closed my eyes until I fell asleep on my own.

The next morning, I was surprised by Lyra's presence right in front of you. I just opened my eyes, and I was immediately presented with Lyra's face so close to mine. My reflexes sat down and Lyra moved straight away from me, her face looking agitated. What's wrong with her? I raised one of my eyebrows, confused by his behavior. His mouth was open and closed like a person talking, his hands moving as if explaining something. But I couldn't understand it because his voice didn't come out.

“Lyra, I can't understand what you mean. Speak!” – Say

“Ah, yes... L'm... Well, how do you talk about it? Alright Alvaro, I'm sorry” – Lyra said

“Because what are you apologizing to me?” – My question

“For... For yesterday, my words were very rude and... Try to see this!” – My answer

Lyra gave me a piece of a worn photo that was slightly burned at the end, a woman embracing two little children. They smiled happily, I could recognize their figure.

“Alvaro, I'm increasingly convinced that you are a friend I've forgotten from my past, I'm sorry. That woman is my mother and those two little children are us, please tell me what you remember about me in the past. Maybe it can start from how you think about my mother?” –

Well, maybe it's time to reminisce about our past. Starting with a sigh, I began to tell her about what I still remember today.

Lyra's mother is a very good mother, usually Lyra's mother will invite us to make cakes together because Lyra's mother is a cake seller. Although the results of making cakes are sometimes unsatisfactory, but we enjoy it.

Once upon a time, we were making a cake in the afternoon. In the midst of our excitement, suddenly there was the sound of broken glass from the living room. When we were kids, we were terrified and hid behind Lyra's mother's back. The scream started coming from the living room, but it disappeared as Lyra's mother put us in a headset. Our favorite song plays on our headsets, Lyra's mother smiles and takes us out the back door. After we were in the backyard, I took off the headset and stared at Lyra's mother who was smiling at us.

“Lyra's mother, what was that? Like there is a male voice inside home” – Tanyaku

“Lyra's father was hit by broken glass, therefore father screamed in pain” – Lyra's mother replied

Lyra's mother put the headset back in my ear, Lyra's father never showed me her figure and I never saw her father's stature. We continued walking until we arrived at a small park, usually we spend time playing here. We took off our headsets when Lyra's mother patted us on the shoulder from behind, we faced her and she squatted down in front of us.

“You two play here, mother who will finish making the cake. Don't go anywhere until mom comes back huh?” – Say Mother Lyra

We nodded in understanding, Lyra's mother took our headset and brought it home to the relatively simple Lyra home. We immediately played there until we were bored, the sun had sunk and Lyra's mother had not returned to pick us up. We started to get scared because it was just the two of us in this park, there was no one but the sound of crickets.

“Alvaro, where's mom? Lyra Scared” – Tanya Lyra

“Maybe soon mother will come, we must not be afraid! Gotta be brave!” – I replied out loud

Even if I say that, I'm actually scared too. But I tried to stay calm and brave because I was a boy, but Lyra instead shouted while pointing towards the black figure that was walking towards us. We immediately ran and hid in the arena game, I remember once when Lyra was a scared child. His hand never got out of my arm and kept hiding behind my back.

“Baa! Meet!”

We were screaming hysterically, the black figure we saw was Lyra's mother. He chuckled at us who were frightened, we were upset that we had been feared. Lyra's mother smiled and apologized to us, our annoyance instantly subsided when Lyra's mother gave us her homemade cake. We immediately ate the cake together, a smile from Lyra's mother never escaped her lips.

A mother's smile always gives me peace, but for the rest of the time I mis-focus on the bandage on Lyra's mother's left forehead. As I recall there were no bandages there before he left us in the park this afternoon, I saw Lyra pull her mother's shirt and make her look at her son.

“Mother, why does mommy's forehead have bandages? Mommy injured?” – Ask Lyra

“Only a small wound when making the cake earlier, mom is okay” – Replied Ibu Lyra

I thought I was the only one who noticed the wound covered by the bandage, it turned out that Lyra was also aware of her mother's slightly strange state in her appearance. The bandage was not very visible because it was covered with bangs, but our eyes could not lie. But in an instant, we ignored the wound on Lyra's mother's forehead. We immediately finished Lyra's mother's cake, and she drove me home. At home, I gave Lyra's mother's cake.