Chapter 14: An Unknown Caller
"Kaboom!" Thunder struck and started to rain.
"Tut.. Tut.. Tut.. The number you have dialed is not available for the moment." Aya tried calling Raku but only answered by the telco operator. She's unable to stay relaxed, her feet tapping the floor while she continues to call Raku. Her heart beats faster than before, tears slowly coming out and she's biting her lips.
"Raku, please answer my calls!" "Shut up!" Aya scolded the tele operator, but it was not a real operator since it was just a recorded message.
"No… No… No… No… No!" Aya quickly stood up, took her bag and ran outside while the others were packing up their things. Her tears flowing out non stop, she is still hoping that the person involved inside the article is not Raku.
She desperately ran around in the rain and tried stopping a moving cab. Aya already lost her mind and started crossing the road without looking around.
Suddenly she was pulled back making her fall down. It was Patty who's pulling her.
"HONNNNNNNNNNN!!!" A bus was honking at her as she was about to be hit. Luckily Patty was there to save her.
"Whap!" Patty slaps Aya in the face.
"Calm down! Get a hold of yourself together!" Patty scolds Aya because of her careless running.
While the other girls are catching up to them.
"B-but R-Raku, I-I w-want…" Aya is stuttering, her face all red and wet with tears.
Patty hugged her and rubbed her back to make her calm. The others came with umbrellas and stood beside them watching.
"You are our leader, if your spirit is shattered. How about us? How can we move on with our investigation? We needed you strong, we needed you to calm and planned ahead. Not running blindly like this. We have a mission, we need to avenge our friend's death, and if your missing brother is related. We need to crush them completely before other people are involved." Patty makes a clear statement of their mission.
"I… I…" Aya wanted to say something.
"Ring… Ring…" Aya's phone is ringing.
"R-Raku?!" Aya quickly took out her phone.
It was an unknown number, not saved in her contact list.
"H-hello?" Aya carefully speaks.
"Hello there, is this Aya?" The unknown caller asked.
"Y-yeahh, it's me speaking. Who's this?" Aya asks to verify.
"I'm Raku's girlfriend." The unknown caller describes herself.
Hearing when the unknown caller introduced herself crushed Aya hearts into pieces. The guy that he loved and willing to give her all was already someone. She halted for a moment and was speechless.
"H-hello you there?! I wanted to tell you about Raku." The unknown caller states her intention of calling.
"Y-yeah what is it? Is Raku there?" Even heartbroken, when hearing about Raku it catches Aya's interest.
"He's not here, but he left a message for you."
But Aya felt something was wrong, back then Luna tried to pretend as his girlfriend too. But she has ill intentions towards Raku by carrying a gun. She will not fall into their trap anymore.
"Hold on, I'm in the toilet." Aya lied to the unknown caller.
"Psstt… Patty, track down this call." Aya instructs Patty to bypass the call and track the current location of the u known caller.
Patty connects the phone to the laptop via USB cable.
"Okay I'm ready to hear." Aya asks the unknown caller to continue.
"You see, he needs to go overseas to cover his friend's work. So he will not return home for a while. He said sorry for not calling or texting you, but it was so sudden and he just told me first because I'm his girlfriend and he l-love m-me." The unknown caller stuttered in the last sentence.
"Oh yeah, really?" Aya asked with a mad tone.
Patty nodded at Aya signaling she had found the unknown caller location.
"He left money for you to use, he said to check in his room, second drawer, red color. The key is hidden under a shampoo in his bathroom." The unknown caller gave Aya instructions.
"Uh-huh, okay." Aya responded by understanding her instruction.
"That's all, he said take care and look over mom for him. Bye." The last sentence really made Aya even more suspicious.
The unknown caller hung up.
"Where's her location?" Aya asks with a serious tone.
"Down the street, around your place." Patty replied to Aya's answer.
"Are you guys familiar with this modus operandi? It's like that whore before, so it must be related to 'Wild Romeo'. First, that whore came with a gun to my house looking for Raku. This time they said Raku left a message for me and that means they had Raku in their possession now. They threw the bicycle into the no man forest to destroy the evidence. What do they want with Raku, does he also investigate 'Wild Romeo' too?" Aya explains her assumption to the group.
"Yeah, your brother must be investigating alone and they found out he's been sticking his noses in so they sent that whore to find him and wanted to kill him. But now they got him already, who knows what will happen to your brother." Sam analyzes the situation and sounds logical to them.
"Not to mention your brother was also involved with the Misha case before." Ruko bump in their history.
"Yeah, it was connected. Lets go to the unknown caller location, we might find some lead." Aya concludes their finding and moves to the unknown caller location.
"(We will avenge you Misha, and Raku… I'll coming for you, try not to die before I'm arrive.)" Aya feels hope again after suspecting Raku was kidnapped by 'Wild Romeo' syndicate.
Right now Luna and Aya are searching for Raku whereabout and his death is still unknown to them.
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Back to 3 years ago, the true event where it all began.
"Morning Raku!" Aya flashed her bra at Raku to wake him up.
"Morning… Fwahhh… What a bright pink!" Raku wakes up finding Aya's breast right in front of his face.
"Mwahh. I'll be going to school now." Aya kissed Raku's cheeks and headed outside to school.
Raku stood up, stretched his body, rubbed his morning wood and went straight to the bathroom.
"(It's good to see Aya energetic for school.) Raku mutters in his thoughts while brushing his teeth.
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After a bath Raku went down for breakfast.
"Morning mom." Raku greets Tina who's sipping a coffee.
"Say, Aya has been more energetic than before. It's good to see that, what did you tell her?" Tina is curious about the Raku method.
"Nothing much, she is just uncomfortable because of her early stage of puberty." Raku replied while spreading butter on the bread.
"I see, that kid worries too much… She got that gift and complained to me everytime. Look at me, I'm nowhere near her. She got her father's genetics and she will thank him when she becomes an adult." Tina mutter with a jealousy tone
"Haha, she's just not ready." Raku bites his bread.
"You see, she's completely attached to you… Even though you're not her real brother… You know that you were taken in from an orphanage by her father." Tina mutters while pouring more coffee.
"Yeah, take me in while he's with you and ran away with another woman when you had Aya in your womb." Raku complained about his father.
"He has his own reasons…" Tina speaks in a heavy tone.
"I noticed that she's comfortable with you, even telling you about her puberty. Heck, I don't even know about it until you tell me."
"Maybe she has her own issue, she also kept it secret from me. I too just found out after a month." Raku sipping his coffee.
"Yeah... She has a strong heart, growing without a father and never asking about him and because of you she's in high enthusiasm again. I was so busy with work that I didn't have enough time for her." Tina looking inside her cup of coffee.
"No problem mom, I understand and Aya must understand too.."
Tina then put on a weak smile.