Chapter 1

[Year 2021]

It's already noon when Yliah woke up. She pressed her forehead because of dizziness. She only remembered that she went to a bar last night. How did she get home? She forgot what happened after she got really soaked.

"Good morning," he greeted his younger brother, Harrison Miyamizu. 16 years old and had nothing to do with life but only facing his phone all day long.

"It's already noon, bitch," his brother sarcastically said. This is the stupidest attitude he don't want from his brother. Couldn't he just be sweet to his eldest sister? She was envious of the other siblings who loves and respects each other. When will that happen between them? She rather get a caring younger brother in next life.

"Where's Mom and Dad?" asked Yliah while eating.

"Don't you remember anything?" Yliah arched her eyebrows.

"What are you saying? And one thing, what's with your sarcasm today? Did you eat something bad?"

"Bitch, you went here yesterday on your own. You're drunk. You were blabbing about nonsense things. You were talking about someone who was with you. Someone named Khrysler,"

The rice on Yliah's mouth fall when she suddenly opened her mouth from the shock. That's when she remembers what happened last night.

She got drunk at the bar. She's so bored so she chose to go back home but she stopped her car at the University of Santa Ines. She begged Mang Anton (the Guard) to open the gate since she left her purse in the STEM Department. When she park her car at the parking lot, someone came and aggressively kissed her.

"Sweetheart, where did you go? Khrysler misses you,"

Yliah blushed and looked away when Harrison raised his one eyebrow at her face. She clearly remember the word that Khrysler said to her at the parking lot of the university. His voice is a bit harsh but she couldn't understand why the feeling is euphoria, where in fact, that's still the first time they met.

"You're as red as a tomato now, Yliah Miyamizu," Harrison caught her in a hook. She couldn't hide anymore. His younger brother cauht him blushing and even smiling.

"Fvck off, Harrison Miyamizu!" she hissed at him and stood up to get her favorite lasagna in the refrigerator.

"Ah, by the way bitch, you said someone was with you last night. Khrysler right? I didn't see anyone with you yesterday. You just came home with your lovely purse," Harrison opened up the topic.

Yliah's eyebrows were wrinkled. What did her brother said? She was with Khrysler last night. She's not stupid to not remember that Khrysler walk her home.

"There you go delusioning again. Anyways, Yaya Sonya wants to see you. There's something important she wanted to talk with you,"

Yliah just nodded. She was still spacing out about what his brother just said.

Why does Harrison didn't saw Khrysler last night with her? Khrysler even walk her through her room last night.

She looked outside the window and saw the dim of the sky. Is it going to rain? She brought an umbrella before going out. Exactly when she get out, the rain poured.

She smiled at that thought and lean her right palm to catch a drop of a rain. When she touched the water from the rain, she remembers the past. She really liked the rain. She remembers that she was still playing in the rain before with his younger brother.. that time when Harrison is not as killjoy as today.

She slowly walked through the rain with her umbrella. Yaya Sonya's house is a few meters away so she just chose to walk there.

Yliah take a step forward and was suddenly surprised when someone suddenly joined her from walking and take refuge on her umbrella. When she looked up, she saw the face of a man with a sharp nose, long hair, long eyelashes, brownish eyes and tall. She took a glance deeply at the guy. He have a smooth and clearskin face. The guy was also soaked in wet and out of breath that he was obviously chasing her to take shelter under her umbrella.

"Good morning, sweetheart. How have you been? Did you eat well?" she was almost collapsed of what the guy just said. She realize lately that this guy is—!

The guy who walk her home last night... The guy who kissed her in the parking lot of Saint Ines' University...

"Khrysler.." she whispered. Even mentioning his name made her weaken.

"Where are you going? I will accompany you," she stared at the guy's face and saw a gorgeous smile that she bet on her life that every girl who saw this will surely fall in love.

"I-i'll go to Yaya Sonya's house. W-we.. we'll talk about something,"

'Heck! Why am I uttering?' she said to her inner self.

"Then okay, let's go,"

She felt electricity through her nerves when Khrysler holds her hand. She was stunned and couldn't able to speak a single word. She has a million questions about who's this guy really is and what his intentions on her?

And one thing, he calls her sweetheart even though they are still both strangers!

"I will wait for you outside," Khrysler's gorgeous smile can be seen again on his face. She nodded as a reply and went inside the gates. She took a glance again secretly and saw Khrysler still standing outside while smiling at her back.

"Yaya Sonya? This is Yliah," she knocked two times before the door opened.

The door opened and the woman with a weak body and a tired face showed up. Yliah was shocked on her condition. The old woman's eyes are all swollen, that made it obvious that she's crying or mourning for something.

"I-is there anything wrong?" she asked concern. Yaya Sonya smiled fakely and opened the door for her.

"You should get inside first. You're clothes are all wet now Yliah,"

Yaya Sonya let Yliah inside her small house in the Poblacion of Saint Ines/ Santa Ines. She changed her clothes and was given a hot coffee. She forgot that she leave her umbrella with Khrysler earlier.

"How are you?" asked Yaya Sonya.

"I'm fine Yaya," she answered while her eyebrows are arching. Why does the old woman asked her if she's okay? There's nothing bad happens to herself.

"Eh you're the one with swollen eyes Yaya. How are you? Did something happened?"

Yaya Sonya smiled sadly and lower down her head.

"My son died," Yaya Sonya said and cried. Yliah gives the old woman a hug and slowly patted its back.

"Yaya Sonya, you don't have a son," she said curiously. She clearly remembers that Yaya Sonya is a widowed woman. Her husband died that's why they didn't have a single offspring. Whose son did she referred to?

"He's not my son. But I treated him like one. I know you know it Yliah," sabi ng matanda.

Even she's curious, she just nodded. She don't understand a single thing she said. She breath deeply before asking.

"Did Tita Hana and her Spanish husband agreed when you leave their house?"

The old woman nodded slowly. She's obviously depressed about the death of her master's son.

"Yeah. Besides, I don't have anything to take care of there anymore. They are all in Spain,"

Yliah let out a big- deep sigh. Is this what Yaya Sonya wanted her to talk? After all, the weight of the problem would weigh her down if she had no one to talk to about it

But.. she approached the wrong person. Yliah Miyamizu don't know how to comfort someone. She's good on making someone cry, not on comforting them. Well, that's how Yliah treated peoples. She's not as wisdom as the Goddess Athena.

She keeps asking questions that the old woman would answer immediately. She thinks that maybe in that way, the feeling of her Yaya Sonya will be better.

The old woman stood up and said she would get something inside her room. She said that she should return the thing that she keeps to the rightful owner.

Later on, Yaya Sonya came out from her room with a thing she holds from her right hand. She put it in the table— in front of Yliah that made her whole soul totally starstrucked.

Her purse.

Her purse that she brought last night

"How.." she don't know what to ask.

How come her purse is in Yaya Sonya's house? She remembers that she really brought it with her yesterday. Harrison even said that she brought it with her.

Yliah had four purse. Its colors are: red, blue, pink, and black. It's also the purse she brought with her last night and the purse she saw today is..

Her favorite black purse.

"That's the purse that Khrysler Eyed Burns gave you on your 18th birthday, Yliah. Your favorite purse. He treasured it. He really do,"

How did Yaya Sonya know about Khrysler?