Alice & Alicia: Religious Twin Daughter

Chapter 008: Distant Close Relatives

"The conditions have started to improve" another voice replied. It was a soft voice that whispered to him earlier. It was also the voice that read him a soft chant, "We pray that he will wake up quickly and come to his senses."

Alice wants to wake up. He didn't want to worry the people around him. However, the drowsiness suddenly caressed his soul. In an instant, he fell back asleep in a soft cradle.

When she woke up, Alice saw the ceiling of a maroon-colored mosquito net. He got up and found himself sitting on a large bed with a rose pattern. Pillows and bolsters used also display the same picture. Beautiful in that bed.

Alice remembers these things. They are the property in his mother's room. The color of the walls and ornaments was not much different from his memory. There are only a few foreign objects that distinguish it.

"Thank God it turns out I've reached home," Alice's mind then lies back down. He closed his eyes too. Shortly thereafter, the door rang, indicating someone was opening it.

“Hai, until when will you sleep?” ask a foreign voice that Alice has been hearing lately. His voice is loud and smooth. In one look, Alice was convinced that the owner of the voice was a girl.

“Does sister recruit a new waiter?” alice in the Heart. His forehead is also shaking. He did not remember ever having a servant with such a voice. After all, how could the girl lightly talk casually to him.

“It's been almost three days,” said the owner of the voice again, “Princess sleeping, you're still not dead, right?”

“Alicia!” Another voice called. Her voice raspy. It sounds like Crown Prince Antonio el Vierum was in puberty. “What did you say? Mommy will be angry if you say so?”

“?” Alice did not understand what the person who called her meant. He also began to feel strange. He began to be attacked by doubt. Her inner asking in heart, “Is mother here?”

“Arnus,” reply voice girl who first went into the room, “You can't hide it from me anymore. You must be falling for this girl, right?”

“Hah? I told you,” reply young man called Arnus, “You read too many fairy tales, Alicia. Don't bother him anymore. Let him rest!”

“Alicia?” Alice only realized that it was not she who was called by the young man. She wondered more and more in her heart, “Who is Alicia? That's not me, is it?”

“Then, let you be alone with him?” the girl who called Alicia. “You think I'm gonna let my sweet little sister be alone with you? Just so you know, he already has a fiance, you know!”

“Adik?” Alice was getting less and less understood. He only has one brother. That's a man too. “*S*Who is Alicia really? Who is the fiancee he is referring to? My fianc? What does Antonio mean?”

“I know that,” replied Arnus in an annoyed voice, “I also don't want to stay here long. Is there a blockage in your ear? I said, don't bother him. He could be scared to see you when he wakes up.”

“What really happened here?” Alice instead felt annoyed and frightened by Arnus' intimidating voice. “You two are who exactly?”

“No mung—!? Hi, look! He's awake,” exclaimed Alicia surprised Alice. “Arnus, quickly call mother!”

“You must be lying again,” replied Arnus in disbelief.

“No. Come here! He already opened his eyes,” Alicia denied. He turned back to Alice. With a smile on her face, the girl greeted, “Hai, Alice.”

“Who?” alice asked as she blinked her eyes. He saw a red-eyed foreign girl. Soon, a young man appeared with similar eyes.

“Your sister,” replied the milk-white-skinned girl proudly, “Alicia el Janna. He's my twin, Arnus el Janna. He said he found you in the woods.”

“In the forest?” Alice turned her head slightly to the side. A question mark appeared above his head. The memory flows quickly. He immediately remembered, “Oh! So, the pomegranate eye is not a big brother?”

“You've seen, right?” ask Alicia satisfied. He looked at Arnus sharply. A moment later, he ordered, “Quick call mom now!”

“Iya, yes,” replied Arnus with a sincere face. “Wait just here.”

“What are you royal family?” alice asked a guess after Arnus came out of her room. There were a lot of questions that came to his mind. However, what caught his attention the most now was this girl in front of him.

“Yes, we're cousins. You're Aunt Evi's daughter, right?” ask Alicia while offering a glass of red drink. With his chatter, he forced Alice to accept the drink.  “Drink this! You must be thirsty. It's sweet loh. Actually, this is my drink earlier, but you're the one who drank.”

“So I know my mom?” ask Alice in wonder. He received the glass that Alicia gave him. From the enlarged pupils of the pomegranate, there was a high curiosity.

“I met Aunt Evi once when I was a child,” Alicia replied with a smile that did not fade at all from her. “I remember, you were a baby back then,”

“Really?” alice asked in disbelief. He tried to remember his family name list. Too bad, no matter how far he tried to dig his memory, he did not remember ever having cousins named Alicia and Arnus.

“We are not from the family of el Vierum,” as if able to read his mind, Alicia answered one question that resided in Alice's head, “So, you can't possibly know us. But, you probably know the name of our mother, Elianna el Vierum.”

“Mother ..?” Alice was trying to digest the information conveyed by the pomegranate-eyed girl. At first glance, his eyes stared at the door behind Alicia. However, that fleeting gaze successfully made her exclaim, “Mother!?”

“Do not move much first,” prevent Alicia when Alice suddenly just want to get out of bed, “Doctor said, you have to rest a lot.”

“True, Alice. Aunty who is going there,” replied a woman who came with Arnus. Just like Alice, Alicia, and Arnus, the woman also had pomegranate red eyes. He showed a warm and gentle smile, similar to Alicia's smile.

“Aibi?” Alice was shocked to hear that. His tears even pooled in the eye peluk. There was a longing in his heart.

“True, I am your aunt, Elianna Emine el Janna,” replied the woman, “My mother and I are twin sisters. You must have heard of it, right?”

“Mother?” Alice's voice sounded trembling. His expression showed a big question mark. He looks very shocked. A second later, he cried sobbing.

“Quiet, Alice,” said Elianna while hugging the little girl, “Aunt is here. Aunt will be mother to Alice.”

Alice's cry became even more in her aunt's arms. The girl hugged back. His two tiny hands even gripped the robe that Elianna was wearing.

“Arnus,” whispered Alicia as she reached for her twin brother's hand. His head was approaching the boy's ears. Sensitively, he whispered to Arnus, “Let's go first. Let mother take care of it.”

“Hm.” Arnus agreed. Both of them just left. Let Alice cry in their mother's arms. As soon as he got outside, the reddish-black-haired youth muttered, “Pity once.”

“Yes, I heard, Aunt Evi has been dead since she was a child,” Alicia said. The soft smile on his lips faded. There was sadness etched by empathy on his face.

“That may not be anything,” timpal Arnus. It holds its fist together at the back of the head, making it a backrest. He stared at the beautiful ceiling of the palace hallway and said, “We are very lucky to have been born here. Otherwise, we will also be dealing with vile witches like her.”

“Ya,” replies Alicia who subdues her gaze, imagining how horrible Alice's life as the Owner of the Pearl Palace is. “I hope, he will continue here only. I don't want him to suffer anymore. Arnus, we have to look after him.”