The First Curse of Love
39. The Loss that Destroys

"When did you turn back? How is there no sound at all? Shouldn't you go home with Danny next week, should you?" Ray sneered as he looked at his younger sister who had just descended from the second floor.

Instead of directly answering Ray's question, Qiara just passed him and walked towards the refrigerator to pick up one big bottle of drink there. Qiara downed the bottle of mineral water to nearly half the toilet.

After hiding for two days, Qiara decided to come out of hiding. He had even prepared an answer just in case someone gave him the same question that Ray was asking him right now.

"It should go home with Danny. But my boss suddenly called me back." Alibi Qiara, trying to sound as calm as possible. "Oh, huh? Papa Mama hasn't called? Semalem said he wanted to go home this morning." Qiara was so aware she had not seen any signs of her parents' arrival.

Before Ray answered Qiara's question, his phone suddenly rang. An unknown number just called him. Ray was glued for a while. While Qiara, he walked to the dining table and took a piece of bread, occasionally glancing at her phone in case Danny had contacted her as well.

"Hello?"

"Is this true of brother Raynald Ghandy the son of Father Rama Ghandy and Mother Safita Andriani?" Asked someone from across there in a heavy-sounding voice. An uneasy feeling suddenly ambushed Ray's little heart.

"I–iya, myself," Ray replied slightly stuttering.

Hearing Ray's tone begin to change, Qiara immediately focused her attention on Ray. The kunyahan slowly. He doesn't care if Danny will call him or not.

Qiara had no idea what the next one was saying by someone who called Ray. But after Qiara could see one of Ray's hands falling down, his face suddenly pale with both eyes shaking.

"Don't you?" Call Qiara slowly. He then got up from the chair and walked over to Ray who was standing not far from the dining table.

Still with a cellphone stuck to his ear, Ray bowed weakly while closing his eyes, trying to dispel his tears that almost seeped, with one hope that he was currently dreaming.

"Good, Sir. My brother and I will be there soon." Replied Ray who a moment later immediately looked stiff. In his mind now, he still had Qiara that he had to strengthen. That's the only reason why now he has to be stronger.

Ray sighed long enough before he finally turned off his phone connection then looked at Qiara before him who was staring at him with a questioning look.

While holding tightness in his chest, Ray grabbed onto both shoulders Qiara was about to hug him. But Qiara, who automatically felt a bad feeling about her parents, swung her shoulders as a sign of rejection. Her tears slowly descended, and everything felt empty at once silent in a split second. Ray's face at that time, had told him clearly what was happening to their parents.

"Qi..." Lirih Ray's. This time he forcibly pulled Qiara's shoulder then hugged her firmly.

"Bang Ray, please don't say anything! Please don't say a word." Please Qiara while sobbing.

Ray again closed his eyes while gently stroking his sister's head.

That morning, a news that broke their hearts as a child came suddenly like a flash of lightning that smashed the universe. Both of their parents were pronounced dead in an accident on their way home.

Ray and Qiara both felt nothing, except hoping that what was happening at this moment would soon end up on their beds as a nightmare. But everything is real, with perfectly ordered wounds, leaving painful traces of memory in their heads, whenever the memory of today is stifled.

...****...

With a heavy heart Danny fulfilled Clarissa Hwang's request to accompany Pricilla until the girl could recover. During Pricilla's hospital stay, Danny faithfully takes care of all her needs with the help of Mia.

Danny even occasionally took Pricilla for a walk around the hospital to accompany him to breathe fresh air so as not to feel stuffy because it continues to be indoors.

"Now, sandwich your order." Said Danny who suddenly appeared beside Pricilla while sticking out a sandwich.

Pricilla, who was sitting in her wheelchair while waiting for Danny to buy a sandwich for her, turned to Danny. The two of them were enjoying the afternoon view in the spacious hospital garden.

"Thank you, Dann." Pricilla said while accepting Danny's sandwich.

Danny also fixed the knit sweater that Pricilla wore so that it could be more comfortable in his body. The sweet thing that Danny did, made it difficult for Pricilla to hold her smile.

"Dann, sorry, yes, I've disrupted your work, but you're busy, but I'm still here."

Danny smiled faintly, then sat down on his knees just below Pricilla, "now that you've recovered, I don't need to come here often, right?"

"Why are you here again? Malem later, right, I can go back to the hotel, hehehe." Reply to Pricilla which ends with a rarity.

The smile on Danny's face faded. Now, it was time for him to convey what he had to say to Pricilla.

"Priss?"

"Don't do this kind of thing again, huh? I know your life hasn't been easy all along, but ending your life on purpose isn't the right thing to do. Your life is too precious for you to waste, Pris. So please, as hard or as painful as it may be you have to endure."

"Danny?"

"Don't leave the dream you've now so hard earned just because of me. Remember, anything you have gone through to get to this point. Don't do anything stupid, and most importantly, never destroy yourself just because of me. Honestly, it makes me sick."

Danny raised his face after he had previously twirled his ring around his ring finger with a huff. Pricilla actually knew what Danny was angry about at the time, but again, Pricilla wanted to keep pretending to be ignorant and being selfish. At least, this is the last attempt Pricilla can make to keep Danny by his side.

Danny sighed after conveying some of his heart to Pricilla. He said, "come in, yuk! The air is getting cold."

Danny then got up and immediately took a position behind Pricilla to be able to push his wheelchair.

...****...

"Papa... Mama.. don't stay in Qia!"

Qiara, who had been in the embrace of Celine and Windy, immediately broke away from her two best friends as soon as the coffins of her parents were inserted into the burrow and began to be buried. Qiara ran over crying sobbing, as Qiara was about to arrive among the crowd watching the meal, Arga swiftly held her back and tried to calm her down.

"Qi, you can't be like this. You're just gonna make it harder for Om and Auntie."

"Ga, Papa My mom is just sleeping, why are they buried? I have to wake them up, Ga! It's cold in there. I don't want them to be cold." The sobbing sound of Qiara sounded so heartbreaking, that it inevitably made the usually firm and powerful Arga now shed tears for the first time.

"Qi..."

Qiara sat in the grass crying out loud. His friends deliberately brought Qiara to a place far enough from the nutritional location of his parents so that Qiara did not see the procession directly. Since last night, Qiara had not stopped crying. This fact is still too difficult to be able to accept with a chest of air.

Throughout the night, Qiara even fell asleep beside the coffins of her parents. As soon as morning arrived and when she found that everything was not a dream, Qiara came back crying and melted in her grief.

"Qia..." Alisha sat down at Qiara's side and hugged her as tightly as she could. Not long after, Celine and Windy join forces with Alisha to embrace Qiara and give her strength together.

When Qiara could no longer bear all the pain when the coffins of his parents were finished being buried, he suddenly started unconscious and fainted in front of his friends. Ray, who knew about it, immediately ran over to Qiara and raised his sister's body.

And until the very last second, Danny had not appeared at all in the most devastating moments of Qiara's life.

Since receiving news of the deaths of Qiara's parents, Arga and the others continue to try to contact Danny, but Danny's phone is in a state of inactivity. That, of course, caused anger from Arga and the others.

When Windy can go straight home from Singapore after getting news of the deaths of Qiara's parents, then why can't Danny do it when he is even already a potential husband of Qiara? How could Danny feel at home turning off his phone for days without wanting to know Qiara's state?

"Damn! Danny, where the hell are you?" Rutuk Arga when once again he tried to contact Danny but still did not get any answers.

Celine, who kept watching Arga's movements, could only clench one of her hands with anger that had already erupted. Besides Qiara and Dean, Celine is the only one who knows about the events in Shanghai. So, of course Celine was feeling very furious now.

Celine then pulled her phone out of her pants pocket. He immediately found a name and immediately contacted her without thinking. After the third ring, the call is lifted.

"Hallo's? Who'sis this?" Greet a girl from the other end of the phone with a tone of voice that always sounded sickening in Celine's hearing.

Celine sighed. Then angrily said, "tell the same jerk next to you, if he has to go home soon, or at least tell him to activate his phone. If he didn't do it now, he'd be sorry for a lifetime."

"Celine?"

...****...

Ray entered Qiara's room while carrying a bowl of porridge and a glass of water. However Ray was astonished when he did not find Qiara in his room. Ray then placed the tray he was carrying on the nightstand. He this time walked towards the bathroom to check if Qiara was there or not.

"Dek, you're in the dalem, right?" Call Ray and knock on the bathroom door, but he doesn't get an answer.

Feeling something strange, Ray immediately opened the bathroom door that was not locked by Qiara. And how surprised Ray was when he saw Qiara lying in the bathroom sitting and leaning against the wall with fresh blood flowing between his legs.

A panicked-looking Ray immediately approached his sister, "QIARA!"

To Be Continued...^^^