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Chapter 1

Sister! Sister! Hara sister! Shouted by the child from a distance with a nervous voice, when the child notices Hara setting under a coconut tree, she runs towards her hurriedly.

Hara, looking at her sister's crying expression, ran as fast as she could back home, as she knew exactly what the expression of her sister entails.

When Hara arrived at the front of their house, she heard a loud coughing from inside and a loud cry coming from one of her siblings. She immediately held her weakened mother, who had become pale due to her nonstop coughing. Her mother was coughing blood and about to pass out, putting her fourth sibling to the test.

"Leah, quick! Get the doctor." Hara said she was trying to stay calm and rational.

"Hic, ahm, brother Brit already went to the doctor's house, but wahhhh, sister, the doctor's house is so far from her whaaahh." Respond by a child while sobbing, thinking that they're going to lose their mother any minute now.

"Shush, it's alright, don't cry, Leah; mother was just coughing, and because mother coughed so strongly, she hurt her throat. All is fine; that always happens when a person is getting old, right, mother?". Hara said while looking at her weak mother while wearing an assurance smile to comfort the scared Leah. And her mother smiled and nodded in accordance with what Hara said, and the poor Leah wiped her tears and smiled innocently.

The doctor arrived, and this put Hara's siblings at ease as they observed the appearance of their mother coming back to life. The doctor said their mother wasn't in danger. The doctor gave Hara a list of the foods her mother can and cannot eat, the chores she cannot do, and an instruction about her mother's medicine.

Brit, the younger brother of Hara, who's only a year younger than her, is a capable and strong boy. Hara and Brit are the parent figures for their poor family. After their father died, he was swallowed by the sea, which caused her mother to be in despair and weak due to her illness that had gotten worse. Hara and Brit, at a young age, became the strong pillars of their family, and their only livelihood revolved around the sea.

"Hara, I just read the list that the doctor gave us. I will now go fishing in order for Mother to replenish some of her energy. We also need to have a big haul to buy Mother's medicine, and I bet Leah and Sian are hungry." He said calmly with positivity while getting his fishing tools.

However, Hara held Brit's arm to stop and said it in a low voice with a faint smile on her face.

"Give that to me, and I'll go. Just stay here and watch over Mother, as I know your body is tired from going to the doctor." She walks fast towards the boat and doesn't listen to Brit calling out to her.

As the oldest among them, Hara needs to be brave and wants to do everything she can for her mother and siblings, even though her inside feels like someone is crushing it. Her heart is painfully hurt, just like being hammered. She doesn't know where to go. Hara only wishes for two things: first, for her mother to be in good health and live longer in order for her siblings not to get sad, and lastly, for her brother and sisters to have a comfortable and easy life. Even though life is hard for them, whenever she sees her siblings innocently smile, it is plenty enough to continue in life.She believes having positive thoughts and views in life will bring something good.

Hara started rawling the boat toward the deepest part of the sea, when the sky suddenly fall asleep and a black blanket of clouds covered it and the sky started rumbling heavily and loudly, then a sudden downpour falling from the sky make Hara soak.

"What gotten to the weather? just earlier it was a good day, what cause this sudden change of behavior weather?". Wondered Hara asked, and it feels like the weather empathize Hara's emotions.

Hara decided to go back home as she can't no longer continue fishing due to the bad weather and the thunder are getting heaver and closer to her. But when she is about to turn around a huge lightning bolt hits her. When the lighting surges towards her, each image of her family passes through her mind. In the second, she mumbles, Please, my mother is still sick and my sisters are still too young, Brit is alone, saying this while a tear comes down from her eyes while looking straight into the light. A huge boom was heard...

An elegant silhouette of a lady sitting on a couch while staring at the world from its small window seems to be so deep in thought. She just stared there blankly, and a sweet, soothing voice came out of her lips when she suddenly talked to herself.

"Why do I find my life boring?

... Why should I always wear the mask of a witch? Why do I have to pretend? "The girl said lifelessly and in a weary tone while looking at the servants outside who are having fun talking with each other, comparing the others to herself, and wondering how they smile and laugh just talking to each other. How come they're always full of life~

The girl sat on the bench, anticipating her driver's arrival. Her driver had never been late before, which made her worry that something must have happened. Just then, her phone rang, and it was her driver. She could sense the urgency in his voice as he apologized profusely. He explained that there was an emergency at home and that he needed to attend to it. He assured her that Mrs. White was already aware of the situation and was coming to pick her up instead.

"I am very sorry, my lady. I can't accompany you today. There is an emergency at home that I need to attend. Mrs. White is already aware, and she is coming to fetch you," a man in a suit said.

As she doesn't like to wait, she walked and walked until she reached the main road, where she was waiting at a bus stop. Even though she's unfamiliar with this type of transportation as she hasn't experienced riding one before, now she thinks about what it feels like to ride one. With her entire life, she was taking care of herself. And in this moment, she realised she was ignorant. On the other side of the road, the cat was sitting just like her; it was meowing and meowing, and it felt like the cat was talking to her. For some weird reason, it makes her feel warm inside. She called the cat in a meow when the cat suddenly walked in her direction. She felt a little happiness as the cat continued to walk towards her, and it was already crossing the road, but in the distance, a big truck was driving so fast. And because the cat is so small it will not be seen by the driver, she shouted her lungs out to the cat to let it go back to its place. Instead, the cat ran towards her, as she did not know how to do it. She shouted to the truck driver, giving a hand signal to stop, but the truck was not showing any sign of slowing down, and she could hear that the truck was setting the music loudly. She ran towards the cat and hugged the cat tightly, and she continued to run to get on the other side of the road. And then the truck driver noticed the girl passing the road, but it was already too late when the truck driver moved the car wheels to the right side, thinking to crash in the pool to stop the truck as the truck's brakes were not working. However, the girl is going to the same destination as him, and instead of the pool, the girl crashes. In an instant, the girl was bathing in her own blood, and strangely, her eyes met mine. Witnessing it all happen in front of me gave me a shudder down my spine, and I suddenly opened my eyes.

Where is this place? The walls and ceiling are all white, and my surroundings full with flowers. This must be what they called the afterlife, I thought. But I heard the sound of a monitor beeping beside me and a person lying next to me. Oh, then I survived the lightning. I get up, and the person next to me moves; it seems she's already awake too. Good thing, as I want to ask her something.

"Hello! May I ask where this place is?"

As it is new to me, it is my first time seeing the room so white and clean, and this is the first time I saw these flowers that a thought occurred to me: I must be in heaven.

But the person lying next to me did not respond to my question. Did she come back to sleep? But I just saw her moving earlier; she must be awake. Even though it is hard for my body to move, I face the person next to me, but I am surprised, even though she has a cloth tied to her head and she looks pale. She is beautiful; it is my first time seeing someone so beautiful. Even the beauty in our village can't compare to her. She has big black eyes and straight, smooth back hair; her face is so small, she is like a doll; she is like a living doll. I only heard stories from them in the book, but I never thought someone could look something like that in real life. Anyway, what am I doing? I should be asking her, What if she thinks I'm weird by staring at her like that?

"Hmm, hi, sorry for staring for so long. I didn't mean to be rude. You just look so unbelievably beautiful, ahm. Anyway, I am asking where this plac..." Huh, what was that? I looked again in front of me. I was shocked as I realized it was a mirror in front of me, and my own reflection was staring back at me. But who? I muttered the word while looking at the image in the mirror.

"Who are you?"