Chapter 26: Clown
"Kev... Keva?" They were startled.
"W...what are you doing here?" Yuka managed to say a word.
"You guys haven't answered my question? What's going on? If Arya and Rhema disappeared, then who are those two?" No one answered her. Keva scoffs and ruffles her hair, feeling frustrated. "YAH!! I'm talking to you guys!! Where the heck is my sister!!"
"YAH!!" Allegra yelled back at her. "You bitch!!"
Keva was speechless. "Bitch? Did you just call me that!!"
Allegra smirked. "Who else? Bitch!" She raised her middle finger up."
"Y...you..."
"YAH!!!" Yuka yelled furiously. "Don't you two get it?!" She let out a heavy breathe. "Arya and Rhema are gone!! They're in Luma right now and we don't know what's happening or has happened to them. Either of them is Nayari or Kuma but they're over there. They don't even know who they are or whom to trust, they don't know how to unseal their powers. And the worst part is we can't go to Luma, not until Nayari festival is over and do you know when that is?"
Keva and Allegra shook their head. "That's in the next eight months!! Dumb heads!" Yuka let out a heavy breathe.
"E.. eight months?" Keva, Allegra and Chaya were stunned.
"I..I get to live with that imposter for eight months. Hahaha! " Allegra let out a fake laugh. "You've gotta be kidding right? Tell me you are."
Yuka raised an eyebrow. "Do I look like a clown?"
"I..I..Then what do we do?" Keva asked.
"We?" Kumir asked. "Aren't you afraid of me?"
"I am. Of course I am but I don't think you're...." Keva's eyes widened. It was then that she came back to her senses and abrupt stopped talking.
"Ah!" Yuka clapped her hands as she seems to remember something. "Chaya, I want you to check our surrounding."
"Huh?"
"Close your eyes and breath slowly, try to feel any unfamiliar presence around us." Chaya follow suite, after two seconds she opened her eyes and shook her head.
Yuka smiles at Keva. "We're good."
"I don't think you're the one I saw last three weeks with a lady. Do you have a twin?"
"Yes I do. I bet it's Zika."
"So, the lady with your brother is Zika? Who is Zika?" Allegra asked.
"Zika is one of the most powerful witch in Yarkara. Sorry Luma. No one is as powerful as she is."
"Okay, so which one of them is Arya and Rhema?" Chaya asked.
"I don't know." Kumir answered.
"Rhema is Zika and Arya is Ahmir."
Kumir's eyes widened. "You knew? How? When? Did you have a fight with one of them? Because that's the only way you can identify them."
"I did fight with Zika but it felt different." She mumbled.
"We can't keep waiting until Nakiyar festival is over, we need to do something." Allegra said.
"I know who can help, unfortunately he is in Luma." Kumir sighed.
"How about Mom?" Chaya asked. "If I am one of you, that makes Mom one." Chaya's eyes sparkles.
"How do we meet her?" Keva asked.
"After the scholarship exam tomorrow, Mommy and I are having dinner. Oh! You guys are invited too. Maybe, we can ask her."
"Kumir isn't going with us." Yuka said.
"Why?"
"You're staying with Keva to keep an eye on them as a dog."
"What?!" Keva and Kumir yelled simultaneously.
"Hey! You know I'm allergic to dogs!"
"Hey! I don't like dogs!"
Kumir and Keva said respectively.
"Since you're allergic to dogs and Keva hates dogs, how about a rabbit?" Chaya suggested.
"No. We can't let them find out. So our only option is a dog."
"Never!!" They simultaneously said.
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PRESH APARTMENT
"You're sure this is where the live?" Rhema asked Arya.
"Yes. It is but won't it look weird if she sees us together? They're not 'friends'."
"Okay."
"I'll wait for you."
"No. 'She' is an actress. I don't want 'her' to be on the news tomorrow."
"Okay. I..."
"Don't teleport." Rhema chimed in. "You're in Ruma not Luma. So just take a taxi and go back to school."
"Right!"
"And do keep an eye on the cats." Arya nods and left.
.....
She opens the door and was stunned to see how messed up the room was.
"Hmm... Ivy! Hello? Are you here?!" No one answered. "Maybe she's out. Tsk! Tsk! Tsk! How can a girl be this dirty?" Rhema starts to clean the house.