Sarah was confused and her granny's face flashed her several times. She became home sick and did not attend her classes for week. Lan was thinking about her and visited her house every day evening after the classes. Sarah's recovery was rapid due to Lan's visit each day. She got cured after a week. And it was the weekend Sarah was bored even Lan didn't came to see her for two days. so she decided to purchase some books to read. The lady who gave her space in her house also told to get some groceries.
She was staying in Boursia for nine months so she somehow familiar with the places. Sarah took the grocery list and some money to buy and started walking on the streets. It was a evening with red sky, chill air blew across the city. People all inside their house door shut.
The moon played hide and seek with the clouds.
The wrapped her scarf around her next because it was a month before winter. The street lights were lit. She heard few dogs fighting in the streets. She heard a little dog's cry.
She rushed to the spot immediately. She rescued the little puppy with bleeding tail. The puppy was very scared. It was in a pale golden yellow looked like a butter. She felt to name the dog. Sarah asked the puppy, "Shall I name u buttercup?". The puppy looked her beautiful face and felt safe with her. It responded by swinging its tail to and fro to the name.
Sarah liked that dog, she decided to take care of it. She bought the groceries told by her house lady and instead of buying books she bought medicines and food for that puppy.
She cleaned the puppy's wound in its fluffy tail, wrapped with medicine and dressed it.
She started to go to her classes the next week.
The puppy used to miss her when she went to her classes. Its wounds recovered and It grew well.
One day while Sarah and buttercup went to walking. Buttercup saw a black cat which tempted it a lot. Buttercup started chasing it wildly, Sarah was unable to control her. She went merely at its back.
The black cat took them to the witch like lady's house. Sarah tried to grab Buttercup but it doesn't listened her. She left the belt and stood outside the house starring at the haunted house. Buttercup ran into the house breaking its large wooden door. Sarah hoped that she will return soon and waited there. But it was an hour gone she didn't came out off the house.
She heard Buttercup's miserable cry. Sarah's heart pondered for her dog. She made her heart brave and went in to rescue her. She walked into the house shouting "buttercup! buttercup!, where are you?". She peaked into a room. The house was very dark.
She kept on shouting her dog's name aloud walking further. She found a candle and lighted it up with a match box near it. When she lighted the candle she saw a wall full of photo frames. The frames were dusted, she took her candle near them and blowed the dust and saw those pictures. She saw pictures of the witch like old lady when she was young along with her family. When she moved her candle in her right slowly blewing the dust on them. when she saw a picture, her heart beated faster sweat came from her forehead she was frightened a lot. And it was the picture of "Lan" with his family.
She's already collapsed a lot and this made her scare. Suddenly Buttercup came to her and they both went out of the house
She went to the house, her heart beat didn't became normal yet. She loosened her scarf around her. She felt heat in her chest and sweated a lot. She doesn't felt any emotions.
lot of questions arose in her mind but nothing found an answer. She can't think anything. She became sick. She didn't felt hunger at all. And she lied on the bed with her open eyes. She cannot sleep the whole night. Buttercup ran to her dropping her locket to her. She didn't felt happy when she saw that even. She thanked Buttercup and pressed the side of the locket to open. She looked at her granny's face.
Tears ran out of her beautiful sparkling eyes.
Yes she started to cry. She touched her granny's picture in the locket with her soft index finger's tip. She saw the picture opened dividing her granny's picture. She saw the picture of her parents in it. She started remembering the memories with the black cat.
Then she started questioning herself. "Who is Lan?, why he's with me as my friend ? and why his picture is there in that witch like lady's house? , Is he a ghost? . She don't understand what is happening in her life, why the black cat said that it's her mother, with tears in her face.