Close To You 8

The Alcantara family were having breakfast together when Alicia's phone suddenly rings.

Alicia took her phone and answers the call. "Hello?"

Alicia went silent as if she is listening to the person on the other line.

"What?!" She blurted out after a while.

Dimitry, Yumi, and Yuhan turned their gazes on Alicia.

"Alright, alright, I'm coming now!" Alicia said and then she turns off her phone.

"Why?"

"What happened?" Dimitry asked.

"There is an emergency!"

"My mom was brought to the hospital, I have to go now!" Alicia said anxiously.

"Wait, can you drive?" Dimitry asked when he notices Alicia's shaking body.

"Honey, please calm down alright?" Dimitry tried to calm Alicia.

"Let me drive the car," He offered. He then looked at Yumi.

"Yumi, tell the Japhet to drop Yuhan in his school," Dimitry instructed Yumi.

"What?!" Yumi wanted to protest.

"Yumi, this is an emergency," Dimitry said.

"Take care of your brother!" He said and then they left.

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Yumi doesn't have a choice but to let Yuhan ride with her to school.

"We're here," Yumi said to Yuhan when they arrive at Yuhan's school.

Yuhan seems like he is having second thoughts to get off the car.

"Hey, we already arrive at your school!" Yumi said.

Just then, Yuhan slowly moves and gets off the car. He did not notice that he left his lunch box on his seat.

Yuhan entered the school gate, but he stopped when he saw the fat boy who looked a little older than him standing near the entrance with his friends.

Yuhan wanted to walk back to the car, but it was too late!

The fat boy and his friends have already seen him!

"Look, look, look!" The fat boy said with an evil smile on his face.

Yuhan stepped back.

"Hey, I can see that you're alone here!" The fat boy said.

"Why?"

"Did your homewrecker mother already left you?" The fat boy pouted his lips, teasing Yuhan to make him cry.

Yuhan balled his hand, he wanted to fight back, but he just couldn't!

Yuhan might be just five years old, but he can already understand what these little guys are talking about!

Sometimes, not only these little guys are talking about "what his mother did just to become rich!"

"Hey, son of a gold digger!" The fat boy shouted and his friends laugh!

Yumi automatically stopped in her track when she heard those words from a fat boy.

She is holding Yuhan's lunch box in her hand. The little rat forgot his lunch box, so, she came back to give it to him. But she did not expect to witness bullying!

Yumi knitted her brows.

The fat boy and his friends were bullying a younger kid!

Yumi couldn't see the bullied boy's face because he is standing with his back against her, but as she stared at the child's silhouette, she realized it was Yuhan!

Yumi saw the fat boy held Yuhan's collar, and her blood instantly boiled!

"Hey!" She yelled!

The boys stopped laughing when they heard someone yelled!

Their faces turned pale as they saw a girl walking closer and closer to them!

"What do you think you're doing huh?!"

"Bullying a kid who is younger than you guys?!" Yumi scolded the kids.

The kids looked scared at Yumi!

"Hey, fat boy!" Yumi glared at the fat boy.

"How dare you bully my brother?!"

"Do you want to die?!"

The children's eyes went wide opened when they heard Yumi's word!

Their faces turned even paler!

"Hey! Why are you still standing there!" Yumi yelled again.

"Grrr!" Yumi frightened the children which made them run away!

"Aish! How coward!"

"They're only brave when bullying the weak!" She mumbled as she twitched her mouth.

Yumi looked down at Yuhan, she froze when she saw his upset expression.

"Do they always bully you?" She asked Yuhan.

Yuhan slowly nodded his head.

"Hey!"

"Why you let them bully you?!"

"You're a boy, you should know how to defend your self!"

"You shouldn't let anyone treat you rudely!"

"Mother said, I should not cause trouble," Yuhan replied with his head lowered.

"What?!"

"She said not to cause trouble even if you were beaten up?!" Yumi said sarcastically.

"Yes," Yuhan replied.

"They already have a trouble maker Young Miss, so, I should not add to it," Yuhan continued.

"What~?!" Yumi's voice raised.

"She said that?!"

Yuhan lowered his head, "No," He replied.

"I just heard it from the bodyguards, and besides, what those boys saying was true,"

Yumi froze when she heard Yuhan's word.

She looked at him with confusion.

Yuhan lifted his head and looked at Yumi, "That is why you hate her, don't you?"

"Because you thought that she snatches father away from your mom,"

Yumi felt like she's going to choke!

She's surprised!

'Is he really a five-year-old boy?!'

'He talks like he is not!'

"H-Hey, Yuhan,"

"Who taught you to talk like that, huh?!"

"You shouldn't be saying words like that!" Yumi scolded Yuhan.

It is so inappropriate for a kid to say those words!

"I heard auntie Ange (Angeli), and mom talk about it," Yuhan continued to speak.

"That is also the reason why you don't like me,"

Yumi can see the loneliness on Yuhan's eyes, she doesn't know why, but she felt like someone clutched her heart, seeing the loneliness on Yuhan's eyes and it made her realized something!

She is no different from those boys who bullied Yuhan!

She is mean to him too!

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At night,

Yumi froze for a moment when she saw Alicia in the balcony while drinking red wine while looking at the moonlight.

Alicia turned her head when she noticed someone standing behind her.

"Hey, Yumi," Alicia greeted Yumi in a faint voice.

Yumi took a step forward.

"Would you like some wine?" Alicia asked.

"No," Yumi replied, "I am not here to have a long chat with you," She added.

Alicia smiled bitterly, "I know," She mumbled.

"But I am here to tell you my concern about Yuhan," Yumi spoke again.

Alicia turned her head at Yumi, "What about him?" she asked worriedly.

"How much do you know about Yuhan's daily life at school?" Yumi asked back.

Alicia pulled her gaze, she took another sip of red wine.

"What I know is, he is doing great at school," She said.

"But you don't know that he is bullied by bigger children," Yumi said.

"What?" Alicia blurted out.

"As you see Alicia, your son is bearing the consequence of snatching a married man," Yumi said as she tilted her body to face Alicia.

Alicia was silent for a moment.

"He was a son of a homewrecker and a gold digger,"

"That is what he always heard at school," Yumi added.

Alicia tightened her grip on her wine glass.

"I have already told you what I have to, there's no reason for me to stay longer," Yumi turned to leave, but her footsteps came to a stop when Alicia suddenly spoke.

"Yumi, I did not snatch your father from your mother," Alicia said.

"Your father and I never had an affair when your mother is still alive." She added.

Yumi turned her head to Alicia, " And you expect me to believe that?" She asked sarcastically.

"Yes, I know, you won't believe me," Alicia said.

"But, your father never betrayed your mother,"

"How dare you lie without blinking an eye?!" Yumi was triggered!

"My mother took her own life because she can't bear seeing my father being with another woman almost every day!"

"You said he did not betray my mother?"

"Where was he when my mother waited for him to come home every night?!"

"I can hear her crying every night because my father is treating her coldly!"

"He barely comes home, because he is busy doing miracles with his secretary who is also his mistress!"

*Slap!*

Yumi automatically touched her numb cheek with her eyes wide opened!

Alicia looked at her shaking hand.

She couldn't believe what she had done!

She had just slapped Yumi!

Yumi glared at Alicia as she clenched her teeth, "See?" She raised her brows.

"You are showing your true color now!" She said and then she left the balcony and headed to her bedroom.

Alicia dropped her wine glass as she slowly sat down on the chair, she felt weak!

She didn't mean to slap Yumi!

It's just that, she can't bear those insults that came from her mouth!

It was too much!

She didn't do anything wrong!

If only Yumi knows why her father treated her mother coldly if only she knows that her mother was the one who betrayed her father!