I've been touching my lips for a while and I feel like they're peeling.
It only made me blush even more because mom might notice and ask questions.
What do I say? I just sighed I don't know why I have to like that kiss of him.
Kissing is only for people who have a relationship with each other like lovers or husband and wife, Raphael and I don't have a relationship so I think we did something wrong but I felt strange especially and every time I touched he kissed me and I liked that kiss even though I knew it was forbidden.
I just looked at the sunset and waited for mom.
I looked at Raphael hut and saw him also looking at the sea as if he was deep in thought.
It's just sad, I know he's trying to remember but he always has a headache.
Like earlier when we were in the river.
He suddenly stopped kissing me because his head suddenly hurt and apologized again and again.
'I want to remember so I won't be a mystery to you' that's what he said I just hugged him because I didn't know how to help him.
My chest heaved when he looked at me and he waved so I waved too.
Later I saw mom so I went out of the balcony.
"Mom!" I was happy to meet her but it also disappeared when I saw that mom seemed anxious.
"Serenity!" She hugged me tightly which surprised me.
Why does this make me feel like my heart will break when I see it?
"Mom loves you very much, remember that." I nodded at mom and just hugged her tightly.
"I love you too, mom." My tears fell without realizing it, I looked at Raphael who was just staring at us.
The way he smile a little everything will be fine.
We're here at home, I'm just sitting and looking at mom, I'm still nervous as if she wants to say something but she can't say it.
"Mom, what happened to you earlier in town?" I dared to ask, she stopped what she was doing and looked at me.
"Would you believe me if I revealed a secret to you?" I was nervous because of what my mother said, in the seventeen years I have been with my mother and grandmother, they have been my family and apart from that, we are no longer there and we have been living here on the island for a long time.
But why now that mom has a secret, it seems like I will gradually discover about my personality.
I heard Raphael knock so mom opened the door.
He entered from here, he was also anxious. what's going on I just asked myself.
"Do you have a problem son?" Mom asked him while sitting on the bamboo chair.
"I know who I am now, I remember everything." I didn't understand what Raphael said, but mom looked at him confused as if she understood what he said.
"What happened to you son, why did you get hit by a gun and that almost take your life that day?" Mom asked, her voice serious, I looked at him again.
I was nervous about what he might reveal.
He remembers himself, which means he will return to them and we will not see each other again.
I suddenly felt sad about that because my mother and I will be the only ones left on this island again.
"I am Rafael Endymion Leviste. And what happened to me was not an accident. There were people who tried to kill me." Mom and I were surprised when he said he looked at me so I bowed.
"I manage to survive on those killers. I was on the yacht and they were with me there but I didn't know that they would also harm me. I survived because I was able to kill one of them and the other one I confessed and found out if who did it. But the yacht exploded and luckily I jumped into the sea, and here I am, I survive." I thanked God because Raphael survived, and he found out who the person who tried to kill him was.
"Son, it's good that you survived those people." Mom said in fear, it's a good thing that he survived, I didn't know that there were such people.
They can kill others, a sinful thing that is against the eyes of people, especially in the eyes of God.
"Why are you here in this place, are you hiding something?" Raphael asked suddenly so I looked at Mom.
Hiding what?
I looked at Mom again.
"We are the only foreigners in this place. My mother passed away and when she was gone, we never returned to civilization." That's right, that's why my mother and I stayed here and there was no problem because no one visited us during the many years we stayed here.
"Serenity is not my real daughter nor the real daughter of my sister who died long time ago." Suddenly I looked at mom, when she said she was also looking at me and was close to crying even though I also felt nervous.
"What do you mean?" I yelled questions as she came to me and hugged me tightly. I felt like my heart was slowly being crushed by mom's revelation.
"Someone just gave her to us when she is still a baby, and we don't even know who is that person because she suddenly gone." My mom said with low voice, i tremble in what i heard to her and i feel like i am going to cry.
How did that happen all my life I never once thought that I was really my mother's daughter if she was really my mother but now that I know the truth it's like my heart is being squeezed hard by the pain but I can't feel any anger towards mom.
I stood up and then left without saying goodbye to them because I didn't know how to deal with the truth I just found out, I was hurt but I couldn't think of blaming my mother because she took care of me since I was a child.