Yliah rode the car at its full speed through the location which Khrysler gave. She couldn't understand why she was beating so fastly even though she really wants to know who's the culprit of Khrysler's missing car. Who in Earth it might be?
Yliah saw the familiar car and the car which she believed that it belongs to Khrysler. She didn't wasted the time to recognize the familiar car and automatically stopped he masked man who's holding a lightstick by blocking its path.
"Is it the stealer?" she asked Khrysler.
"I think so."
"Good. He must be very shy to show his goddamn face."
Yliah went outside and faced the masked man but she left Khrysler a few words.
"Don't go out here, ok? If you will, I'll kill you even if you're already a spirit."
Yliah take a stride to the man's location. She was confused why was the masked man didn't make a move and was only standing like a statue. Is it really the stealer?
"Hey, what do you think you're doing?" Yliah asked. The man didn't respond and instead, it just take a few steps back.
"I said.. WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?" Yliah asked once again clearly on the thought that the guy didn't heard her.
The man still didn't speak and continued to step back. Is this stealer afraid of Yliah? But though, is there a stealer that's afraid of a girl? A mere girl with no weapons?
"Listen, why did you steal this car? Who are you? Did you know the owner of this—"
Yliah was cutted off when the guy started lighting a fire on the lightstick and threw it in Khrysler's car. Her surroundings suddenly became a slow-motion and she witnessed how Khrysler's car started to burn slowly.
So that's why the stealer continued on stepping back just so he could get prepared to throw that darn lightstick? She didn't know it's part of his plan!
She felt unsteady. The fire started to expand. Looks like that stealer put some gasoline outside the car. She looked back at the stealer and saw it running away. She was about to chase for him but she remembers what Khrysler's said.
She ran through Khrysler's car. She tried to open the front door but it seems that it's locked inside. She saw a rock behind her so she picked it and destroyed the car's window— that made her way in.
'As soon as he'll burn everything in there, my soul won't get inside the paradise. I'll be wandering here in the land forever without anyone noticing me.'
She recalled what Khrysler said. He didn't mean the car. He meant some things that inside this car. But in all pf these things inside this car, which one should she get? She's not like Batman who can fly or Superman who can save it all. She should obviously pick one of it quickly!
She quickly opened the showcases of the car. But she didn't saw something there that will caught her attention. She glanced under the car's chairs and there, she noticed a briefcase.
Yliah wanted to find more important things than this briefcase but her eyes suddenly widened. The front door has caught by a fire now!
She turned around to go out through the back but it's also at fire. She felt really scared and afraid but she didn't want to die. She held the briefcase tightly and picked the darts she saw at the car together with the rock she used to get inside. She used the two of it to break the very front window of the car.
Her tears welled up. Just a lil' bit space before her clothes will really catch the fire. Together with a full strength and praying to God, Yliah successfully broke the window and made her way out. As soon as she jumped out, the car blowed up.
Yliah bumped her head in the near tree. She felt dizzy but what shocked her the most is the memories that slowly came back on her head.
'W-what did you say? W-were cousin, Dodong?'
'I'm not going back to Spain, Yliah.'
'I'm really crazy, Miyamizu. How can you stole my heart easily? Give it back. Little Khrysler's gone crazy. I don't know how to handle this feelings. Tell me, Yliah Miyamizu.. Do you want to run away with me in this cruel world? Let's build a new world for us together. Take my hand, and we'll both fly our wings together.'
'Can I be your star? I can't be a sky that you really adore but I can be a star that will guide your way into your dreams. Let's both dream and fly together, Yliah.'
'Khrysler, Yliah.. go home together okay? Be good cousins to each other.'
Yliah opened her eyes. It's still incomplete.. those memories.. it's still lacked.
But it was enough for her to realize something
Khrysler..
The guy whom she loves..
Khrysler was the kid she admired...
Khrysler was the kid who was always with Yaya Sonya...
Khrysler was her childhood friend..
Khrysler was Dodong..
And above all, Dodong was her cousin..
She stood up and forced her dizzy self to walk. She picked the darts behind her and stared at the stealer's car. Why is it still here? He should be gone away by now. Why the hell did he still remained and watch her getting something inside?
Yliah without a double thought— throw the darts into the car but it only hit the car's mirror. The stealer quickly drove fast away so that Yliah can't chase her. Yliah pressed her forehead. She may failed to see the face of that stealer, but she's sure she'll meet him someday.
"I got it- Khrysler?"
She couldn't see Khrysler inside the car. She suddenly felt uptight. What if this briefcase isn't the one which Khrysler refers to? What if he didn't really go to the paradise he was referring to?
She cried. Moaned. The thing she could only do to help Khrysler is to make him go to that paradise. She couldn't even afford to hear about him being a ghost, what's most if his soul couldn't live peacefully?
"What are you crying for? You're doing a good job."
Yliah held her tesrs when she heard someone behind her. She quickly turned around and started to cry again.
There he are.
"Don't you know how worry I was? I thought I brought the wrong one!" she proclaims. Khrysler just showed a reassuring smile and sat beside her.
"It's yours. My funeral will be tomorrow afternoon. Make sure to open it after that day." Khrysler aforesaid.
Yliah stared at the road and after doing that, she started the engine of her car.
"I remember something today." she said in between their way back.
"It turns out that you're that Prince Charming who save me at the Plaza, Dodong." Yliah bitterly laughed. She decided to ask Khrysler things before tomorrow.
"Yeah, Dada."
She paused breathing. How could this man answer her truthly? She want Khrysler to lie! She feel she couldn't believe things.
"Dodong.. The kid which Yaya Sonya looked after..."
Yliah breathe deep to inhale air. She needs an air to say the next words.
The words that was out in Yaya Sonya's mouth that day was still fresh in her mental state.
'That's the purse that Khrysler Eyed Burns gave you on your 18th birthday, Yliah. Your favorite purse. He treasured it. He really do.'
No wonder Yaya Sonya knows about Khrysler. 'Cause he's the only kid she treated as her own son.
"... Dodong.. son of Tita Hana.."
"H-hana Miyamizu... Daddy Hiro Miyamizu's sister.."
Yliah's eyes became watery. She faced Khrysler with those teary eyes. She'll not be embarrassed now. Now that she knows this guy was her cousin and her.. boyfriend.
"Yes, Dada. You're right." Khrysler's voice broke. Yliah was too stunned to witness him crying. It's the first time she saw him shedding tears. She couldn't be possibly imagining things right now just because she's tearing up will she?
"So that's it... That's why Yaya Sonya was mourning for someone.. That's why Yaya Sonya suddenly leave as a housemaid in Tita Hana's house.."
"After all, you're my cousin. How did we end up like this? I mean, you and me, how did we end up together? Does our parents know about our relationship? It's driving me crazy!"
Khrysler let Yliah let out the words she wanted to say before he spoke up. "Yes, we're cousin. And about your question, I can't answer you."
"Why? Why can't you answer me!? Didn't you showed up in front of me to let me remember anything?"
"Yes, I did that sweetheart, because that's what I've promised to you when I was alive. If ever you forgot about me, or if ever the time comes when you don't love me anymore, I'll try and try and try until you can remember my love again. So, shortly, I am saying that I came to you to remember me. Not to dig up our past, not to dig up about what kind of relationship we had before you became my girlfriend, and also, not to dig up what happened to us at the incident when we both get into a car crash."
Yliah understood the situation. But her mind wasn't. Why does he didn't want her to know about their past? Is it that bad? Why does he didn't want her to know what happened to them before his death? She's going crazy!
"You're curiousity might drive you to the truth. But sweetheart, don't you ever heard that Truth Hurts? It's not easy as Patintero, but its words are like knife that will directly stab your heart."
Yeah.. Khrysler was right. We live in a cruel world. We live in a world where words can be enough to either hurt or kill a person. If ever we could create another world where there'll be only love and peace!
Yliah went home with Khrysler following her. She just ditched her class.
"Oh, you're here?" she reacted after she saw her younger brother, Harrison. His hair's still wet. Looks like he went to take a bath. But at this time?
"By the way, where's your car? You left it again at your friend's house?" Harrison didn't speak again and just do a blunt nod. Yliah didn't catch a glimpse of his car in their parking lot so she asked out of curiosity. Well, she just shrugged her shoulders. Looks like Harrison isn't in the mood to speak.
She went upstairs but right after she reached her room, Harrison asked.
"Where did you get that scratches and bruises? Your uniform also looks dirty, you look like a firewoman."
"Please, Damuho? Just continue what you were doing there." she opened her room and slummed the door. She wanted to avoid his question. She wanted to open up to him about the situation but she couldn't
But wait a minute...
Something is wrong! Did she left something in the car? She was shock after realizing that Khrysler wasn't behind her. She was still holding its briefcase, why didn't he come right after her? Did he gets embarrassed entering a girl's room?
She turned her back to open the door but she was surprised after witnessing a big sign of a cross in the back of her door. She then realize the cross sign on her walls and the candles in her table.
She didn't felt scared and instead, she felt upset. Only one person would do these things since they're the only persons inside the house!
"You scumbag, Harri-!" Yliah grab her door knob to open the door. Her eyes then widened.
She's trapped! She got locked inside her room by her brother!
Why? Why did Harrison do these shit things? Things she really want to ask now!
"Harrison! Damuho! Harrison Miyamizu! Open the fvcking door!"
"Stay there, sis." she heard his voice outside her room.
"Harrison? Harrison! What the fvck? Why are you doing this!?"
The voice he heard outside her room was her brother's but of course, the tone got changed. A voice that he didn't ever heard from him. An outrageous voice. She didn't know but she felt in this moment, she didn't know the Harrison she was with for how many years.
But she only confirmed one thing.
Harrison knows something about Khrysler.
As soon as she thought of it, memories of them came back when she asked where's their childhood friend.
"He's in Spain. Why did you asked?"
Now she know Harrison lied at her all the time.
Who is really, Harrison?