PERIPLES
16. Missing Mother

My legs feel increasingly thin because it has been voluntarily strewn directly with the heat of the asphalt. My mind is too blind to just wear footwear.

I don't care about people looking at me. Maybe they think that I'm a wild girl who just got violent because of promiscuity. Or maybe there are also those who think that I am a girl who has just fought with mental hospital staff to force free. One thing they need to know, I don't care what's on their minds.

This tricked step of mine has lasted long enough, to many kilometers of distance. I don't feel tired of walking, I'm just tired of facing reality. Took me to a long bridge, underneath which was a river that I thought was quite swift when it came to swimming.

I stopped, staring blankly at the water-water that looked very calm. My cheeks feel stiff because of the remaining tears that have dried up. At least I want to breathe freely here, without seeing something that makes me feel even more sick.

"YYYYYYYYYY."

I screamed out loud, as if the people behind my body were having a disturbance in the function of the sense of hearing.

The face of the mother who was crying that night, and the treatment of the father who slapped me earlier twisted alternately in the mind.

Drop by drop of water has escaped my eyes. I turned around the body that was slowly starting to degenerate. I hugged my knees, and drowned my head in between. The extremely hot weather suddenly turned extremely cold. My body shivered, my chest felt very painful.

When my body was completely limp and was about to collapse, someone grabbed me. Hugged me very tightly, and rested my head on the chest of his field. The cry that was originally just a sobbing, now turned into a groan. I was crying so much. My body trembled, my hands drooped.

"Get out all your tears, if it can break your wounds, Vel."

I let go of her embrace. Looking at a man who was crouching in front of me. The same man, the man who was always there when I felt useless in the world.

His hands cupped my face. I wiped my tears, wiped the blood that had dried on my face, and rubbed my pink lips.

"Sick Vel? Come on share it with me. Slap me, punch me. Don't just worry about the pain. I also want to know what you are rasain now."

I nodded with tears growing. He pulled me back in his arms.

"Lo just needs to keep going. Took a pile of fatigue. Resist all bleeding-free pain. You can be angry, you can feel weak. But don't give up, let alone turn around. A few more steps you get to the word beautiful."

Slowly, my heart warms. The cold air that pierced my bones began to disappear. My sore feet are back. Narrow cry, slowly shrinking into a sob.

I took off her hug, "Kas. My mother is missing."

"We're looking together, aren't we?" He said it was as if he would actually accompany me to the end of the world until I found my mother.

Luke stroked my hair, then turned around and crouched down in front of me, "Let's go up."

My crying stopped, and I was still shaking. "Let's go Vella, we'll find Mommy."

He took my hand and took me in his carrier. It's not like this, not far from there Lukas parked his car. He put me down carefully, then turned to the trunk and returned with a yellow flip-flop.

Her hands painstakingly clothed her on my flushed legs. After that, Lukas took off his jacket and put it on to cover my body. Finally, he opened a bottle of mineral water for me. Without asking, he drove off his car, along with my already unwilling eyes to stay awake.

...***...

I felt something warm on my forehead. With still heavy eyes, I was forced to circulate the view in this unfamiliar place.

"Vella's."

I turned my head from where I was lying. There's Rena beside me. She held my hand and cried. I took her hand, and held her back.

"Lo why cry, Ren?"

"Lo still asks why I cry after seeing the state of you like gini?"

He smiled, "Bokap you're the one who makes you like this?" I'm still flinching.

"Last night I was injured. It was like Vel's dream, when Lukas came crashing lo with a very, very chaotic situation."

"Lo inget when you were a little sick and I followed sick? It's no different from Vel until now."

Ah come. I'm tired of crying, my tears are up in there. I could only bite my lower lip and tighten my grip as Rena got more and more excited.

"Do I need to report your bokap to my bokap to be immediately arrested?" I just remembered that Papa Rena is a cop.

"Rin? Can I ask for help?"

I changed my sleeping position to sit, "Mother is gone, Ren. Help me find my mother."

"Gue found out from Luke, Vel. But we wait until the mallem later, because the disappearance has not been up to twenty-four hours, right?"

I nodded, "But how did Lukas know I was there?"

Rena sighed, "Mahen who told Luke that he saw you walking like a madman. He did not dare nyamper lo because he was afraid that if the presence he even added lo situation getting worse. That's why he called Luke back then. Mahen knows that Luke likes you too."

My eyes are perfectly round. Two statements that surprised me. Mahen told Luke, and Luke had a taste for me. For whatever sake, I just thought that Luke was being nice to me just being a friend, nothing more.

"Lo know where it's from? Don't you make it up, Ren."

Once again Rena sighed, "Lo knows me not only for two days. And you should know that what I said was serious."

"Do you know where Luke likes me?"

"So you don't know if he likes the old rhyme?"

"Huh?"

"Do you know why Lukas broke up with Syifa?" I'm shaking.

"Because Luke didn't want to lie about his own feelings. When Mahen started hurting, he couldn't stay still. But on the other hand, he did not want Syifa's liver. That's why Luke chose to break up Syifa, and try to always be there for you."

I chuckled, "Lo, what the hell, Ren? Lo digress huh?"

"Vel, do you pretend to be unconscious or really stupid anyway? Where there may be a guy who is the same as a girl who is only considered a friend. I asked you, Mahen who used to be your girlfriend, did he admit what Lukas lakanin did to elo?" I shook my head, but still couldn't believe it.

"Luke loved you even before Mahen liked you, Vel."

All the words of Rena are still very difficult for me to understand. I don't deny that everything Rena says is true.

"Before Syifa, she wanted to deketin lo but you still have Reno's girlfriend who is different from that school. And after you break up, instead of looking around, suddenly you even become the same Mahen who just deket how many days doang."

I feel my head hurt again. How can it be this complicated. I thought to myself, is the pain I have received from Mahen in return because I've been hurting Luke's feelings all along? What about Syifa? Didn't he take revenge on me or Luke? It's a very long day. There are so many things I have to swallow bitterly.

Rena hugged me, rubbed my back. I didn't cry at all. My little brain was full to cope with the sadness I had today.

Rena took off her hug, "Why do you think this is the same lo, Vel? He's accusing you of making your mother disappear?"

I shook my head, "Even I don't care if you're missing, Ren."

"Keep why?"

"Dad wants to get married again. And you know who the woman we saw at the Annyeong Cafe at that time? She's Harris's mother, Ren."

That sentence was enough to make Rena very surprised, "Sister Harris was Kak Adnan? Who's the school's futsal team leader?"

I nodded, "So much worse, he told me I just wanted to send his revenge to my seat."

"meaning?"

"She may not accept cheating either. This morning he told me about family."

"But yes, Vel. Actually, if the reason is not reason. When he suddenly deketin lo dj school, but only the first time he met lo."

Also true. Why did Sister Harris choose me for her to approach, when my friends were much more interesting than me.

"So this is all because Harris repeated that son of a bitch?"

Rena and I looked. I found three men who walked up to us. They are Luke, David, and Mahen.

Especially after this?