Weeping and searching

Since she treated him with love, with every passing day, she had treated him like their own kin. Like he was a part of their family.

Whatever their kids had, Flare too had them. She had never once shown any distinction between her kids that came out of her womb and the kid that was a cute little kit.

To be more truthful, she had always shown a little more love towards Flare compared to her monkey-like son, Hao Yu.

Now that she had really treated him as her own son, how could her motherly heart accept all the radical thoughts that her brain and her husband were talking about.

She would not feel relieved until she sees Flare in front of her standing safe and sound with her own eyes.

She continued sniffing as she spoke, "I hope he shows his anger towards me directly instead of leaving me like this. I want my kid in front of me now. Bring him to me now."

Her emotions were all over the place as she was worried, scared and also angry all at the same time.

She held onto her husband's collar as she asked or more like demanded him to get her kid back to her.

Her husband did not feel offensive but instead only bad for his wife. He too was worried for Flare but as the head of the family, he had no other choice but to hide his emotions in order to give his family support by being their pillar of strength.

He had already made many arrangements in search of Flare. There were many people looking around the surrounding areas searching for a baby raccoon.

He too wanted to go out in search of the kit but he knew that in his absence, his wife and his son would be worried and scared leading them to have many weird thoughts and conclusions that may have occurred to the little kit outside.

All he could do was to console his hysterically weeping wife by taking her back into his embrace, "Dear, you have to stay strong. Please trust me, alright? I will get our Flare back no matter what. Once, take a look at our son. Look at how scared he was. If you are like this, how can the kid be any stronger, huh?"

Following her husband's words, Yao Xinyu turned her head to look at her son, Hao Yu, who was standing at the corner of the room while holding his little pokemon ball as his eyes were red showing how he had cried.

His grip over his toy only grew tighter as he wanted his Flareon back in his arms. He would always stuff the little kit into that small sized pokemon ball and throw it while shouting, "Flareon, I choose you."

He would always play with the raccoon however he wanted without caring for the poor life's feelings.

He never knew if Flare liked how he was being played with under his hands.

But all he could say was that in his life, Flare was the first and only playmate he had ever had. Though he now had a little sister, she was just a couple of months old to say that he could play with her.

Once he got to know that Flare was missing, Hao Yu started feeling remorseful for not taking good care of his brother.

At the thought of this, he couldn't help but shrivel up his lips as he was about to cry again.

Yao Xinyu's heart ached looking at her son as she beckoned him to come over, "Dear, don't cry. Flare will come back, alright?"

Hao Yu leaned into his mother's embrace as he asked in his raspy voice, "Mom, Did Flareon leave because he was angry at me? Is it because I did not play well with him and he got angry?"

In a child's mind, it is always the simple things that would catch their attention.

In Hao Yu's thoughts, except for playing with his brother, there was nothing else that could have hurt another person's feelings.

Hence he naively thought that Flare was angry because there was something wrong with how he played with him.

Yao Xinyu didn't know if she should laugh or cry at her son's remarks. Yet somehow she felt bad looking at her son's crying face. She used her fingers to wipe his tears away as she consoled him, "No dear. It is nothing like that. You know your brother really liked to play with you, right?"

"Then why did he leave me? I think it is me that did something wrong. After all, you all loved him so much and only I was playing around with him all the time, right?" the little boy knew how his family had always taken Flare's emotions into consideration every time they did something for them.