It's midnight. Annie can't sleep because she keep worrying about her grandma, Aiko and Armin. Her head hurts again. But she really wants to know if she does have a childhood bestfriend. She keep questioning herself because of that. She's just hoping Armin is just fine because he just left her at the hospital earlier.
After took a shower, she's wearing her pajamas and lay on her bed. Alone. She feels lonely at the moment. She started crying. She's covering her face with her pillow. She's looking through her phone fir a moment. There's no goodnight wish from Armin. She didn't even get a text from him since he left the hospital without her. She started to cry harder. She decided to not to go to school tomorrow. Armin probably don't want to see yee face there. She fell asleep with her face full of tears.
Armin opened the door and sit next to Aiko. He smiles a little. Aiko smiles back and rubbing his head gently.
"Hey..grandma,"
"Armin, it's been a long time right?"
Armin look down and started crying. He slowly come closer to Aiko and hug her. His tears won't stop dripping. Aiko can feel his tears from her shoulder. The tears dripping on her cloth.
"I miss you.."
His sobbing makes Aiko started crying too. She keep rubbing Armin's head. Armin can feel the fingers gently rubbing his head.
"I miss you too, hunny.."
Armin releasing his hands from hugging Aiko and smiles at her. Aiko smiles back but her smile is sweeter. Armin suddenly look down again. Aiko exactly knows what does he want.
"Armin..I know you want to ask about how Annie forget you,"
Armin's eyes wide open. He look straight into Aiko's eyes and nodded. Aiko look away from Armin and staring the ceiling.
"Actually.."
FLASHBACK
"ANNIE, ANNIE WAKE UP!"
Annie slowly opened her eyes. She saw there's blood on her parent's head. She can feel a blood dripping from her head. She started to placed her hand on her head. With her hands shaking, she slowly look at her palm. Blood.
"ANNIE GET OUT OF THE CAR, COME ON,"
Mr. Leonhart started to carry Annie to get out of the car and slowly put her down to on the side of the road. He called an ambulance. But it was too late.
"ANNIE!!"
Annie turned back. She stands up. She don't know what is happening. Why, who are they. The girl started to grab Annie's arm and ran away from the crushed car which just bumped onto a tree.
"Who are you??"
BOOM
Annie's eyes wide opened. She heard an explosion from her back. The girl stopped running. Annie and the girl turned their head to take a look at the car. Fire. Annie started panicking. The girl cupping her mouth. She fastly grab Annie's arm and send her to her grandma's house.
A couple minutes later, she finally arrived in front of Aiko's house. She started knocking the door and look at the window if there's someone in the house. Aiko opened the door slowly and her forehead furrowed. She wondered what's happening.
"Mr and Mrs Leonhart..they are dead.."
Aiko's eyes wide opened. She started crying. The girl started to hug Aiko and rubbing her back softly.
"You remind me of someone.."
The girl nodded with a smile on her face. Aiko smiled back and hug her back.
"I'm glad you are doing just fine.."
"Uh- can you tell me why my head is bleeding and who are you,"
Aiko and the girl looked at Annie. Aiko crying harder. Annie speechless. She don't know what to do and she feels bad a bit but at the same time she thought Aiko were faking her crying so she can fall in her trap. She thought Aiko were a kidnapper same as the girl which were hugging her.
"A..Annie..what happened?..Why..you don't remember your own grandma?"
"How did you know my na-"
Annie kneeling suddenly. Aiko and the girl shocked. The girl started to walk towards Annie slowly and kneeling to make sure if she's fine.
"Annie?"
"AGGHHH!"
The girl's eyes glassy. Same as Aiko. Annie fainted on the girl's arms. Aiko started to call ambulance to take Annie to the hospital. The girl just staring at Annie. Speechless. She felt really bad for her. The saddest thing is, when she asked who is her.
A few minutes later, the doctors bring Annie to the hospital quickly. Aiko is still crying while the girl hugging her tightly.
"Do you want me to explain.."
Aiko and the girl set their foot to enter Aiko's house. They sit beside each other. The girl heavily breathing and told Aiko the story from A-Z.
"I just got back home from a store. And then I saw Annie with her parents. They all were bleeding. I grabbed Annie's hand to got away from the car because the car crushed onto a tree. Mr and Mrs Leonhart badly injured. They can't even walk excepted Mr Leonhart but he seems weak. After a couple seconds later. The car's on fire."
"Exp-"
"Yes. Exploded,"
Aiko can't take it anymore. She started to cry. It brokes the girl's heart to see her sobbing. She's old. She deserves to be happy. The girl gripping her skirt. She felt really bad because she can't do anything to make her happy again. Hopefully Annie doing just fine.