Red Dress

Chapter 8

I never saw him after what happened last day. He vanish just like that or I our path didn't meet the way I want. Everytime we're eating our breakfast, lunch or dinner the chair beside is always empty then when I ask Mrs Pellirita where's brother Aldhruv is she always said that his busy immersing our company and the people who's asking for their help. Father cannot faced them because his terminator are already done, he is there just to guide Aldhruv but he cannot middle into the problems that my so called brother incertitude right now.

"Sympathy to those people who can't receive our little help." Mrs Pellirita start the conversation after she put the cup of tea in the table located in the balcony, seeing the beautiful view of tress with a little modern houses that you will feel like you are living in the Switzerland. As usual, this two lovely couple next to each other inseparable. Mr Pellirita left hand wrap into his wife waist holding it tightly as if there's someone would dare to steal mother to him.

"Mother?" I asked to get her attention.

" Yes sweetie, you want to say something."

"Care if I ask, why they cannot receive our little help?" I asked curiously when in fact it's easy to give them a help if we would want to. After all, we're the one that holding their protection so if we will say that we need them to get here they will get here without hesitating and asking why.

We will give them the things they need just like in my world wherein people that victim of typhoon or some climate damage would receive an ayuda.

"Sweetie, people that under ours is the one that could receive our help but those people aren't cannot even we want to, they have their own king and queen we cannot middle on it." she explain clearly trying to make me understand that not all the individual living in their world can have the help we're spreading of.

" They have a king and queen."

"Yes they have but that kind of emperor is cruel towards their people."

" Can we just adopt them and make them our people?"

" No, we can't sweetie. It will only lead to a war between to kingdom that left behind after how many years of battle." father but in still holding the waist of mother. He said it with his eyes glued into the face of mother as if his trying to memorize each edges of mother so that he couldn't forget it.

"War? what kind of war father?"

"You didn't know that? We already tell it to you and your brother remember?" he ask me confusedly. Stupid of me not to be care while asking. I should check first if the owner of this body already awared of those things but because of curiosity It didn't come up to my mind. How careless of me this is would be the death of me. Superintendence father looking at me deeply as if calculating me, sighting a mistake to me for him to trigger the intellection he already have inside his mind.

" Y-yes I-i alr-eady know it, I just forget it." hesitately I answer him avoiding his gaze but I end up catching the way mother look at me, she smile brightly as if she doesn't doubting me. Her smile signifying that I am her only daughter no matter what kind of changes she notice on me. I smile back at her feeling relief that there's someone out there that would still believe in me. It's not my reprehend that I end up controlling and having the body and life of their daughter. I am also a victim of destiny. Apart from, adequting it I also descendant that I'm proficiency living the life like this.

"Oh maybe, our little sweetie having a hard time in coping the recently happening lately?" mother save me from that unending gaze of father. It felt like his digging my whole being looking for evidence that I'm not their true daughter , looking for the thing that could tell to them that I am an impostor but sad to say this dress doing it works perfectly because they couldn't notice something wrong about me except for the behavior they always see in me.

"I don't know mother but lately I feel like I'm not in my usual self," I said pleadingly making them feel that I'm not feeling well those days.

"You should rest sweetie. Want me to take you to your room?" she said worriedly. She even offer me that way as if I have ill.

"No need mother. I can still handle myself. You must enjoy your tea with father." I said then a lay a second of sight to father afraid that he can read through those gaze. I get from my set, bowing my head slightly to show my gratitude and a way of leaving them alone. Even I'm already here in the stairs I could still feel the stare of father. He didn't let go of his actions stare until I reach my room. Gosh I feel like I'm floating in the clouds that I didn't feel my feet stepping on it. I don't have a pretension of what would happen next.

Voices coming into my ear. Calling my name. Shouting my name. Commanding me. I felt like a reality is already calling me. That was so fast, earlier I'm still thinking when this thing end but now I already felt that my whole being been called by the entity of the world. I open my eyes and yes this is the truth. I'm sleeping in stock room of this house wherein my room mate are those insects.

"Claire, what the hell!. Wake up, you have undone job to do!" someone from the outside of this room calling my name. This is the truth. The truth where I truly belong. The place where I made to until the death. Anticipated of the real world wherein cruelty is present. People that sadism is existing in my life. They are my standing mother and siblings that adopted me. In humanness are already waiting for me once I step my feet outside in this room. Good luck to my holy body and my 50% left life.