AS A SLEEPING FRIEND

55. A Video (Author POV)

It's been 2 years, and as time continues to roll on it, there must be quite a lot of changes going on.

Everything can not be the same as what has been in the last 2 years.

One of them is about Javier's life which also changes after the girl he is about to marry is found in a lifeless condition.

"Sir, there's a call from your mother in Hamburg" said Jack, who faithfully followed wherever Javier went.

"Hm, connect to me."

Javier pressed the button on the tablephone to receive an incoming call from his mother.

"Jav's? Are you all right? I tried calling your phone but it was always not connected" Elara said from across the street.

"I'm lazy to turn on my phone, Mom."

"Why? Is there anything you're avoiding?"

"Easy, Mom. I don't want to talk about it."

"Mom knows you're avoiding Vivian. Don't do it, Jav. You should be able to open your heart to him."

"If there's nothing important, I'll hang up, Mom."

heard Elara across there. "Mom just wants you to live a normal life again, don't be a robot that doesn't care about anything. Your life isn't just for work, then spending hours just sleeping for long."

"Sorry Mom, I'll hang up." And Javier said not just to bluff, but he actually put the phone handle in place until the call was cut off.

What Elara said about Javier was true. The man who used to have trouble sleeping because he felt traumatized by his past, now actually more often fall asleep and spend hours just to dissolve in the world of his dreams.

Javier realized that his mother's words were not wrong, since Elin's funeral Javier experienced deep sadness. He lost his fear because what he feared had already happened.

And so is the trauma of sleeping. If Javier used to be afraid to sleep soundly without Elin - because of the imagined past where there was a big fire in his grandmother's villa - now the fear is gone, replaced with him who always wanted to sleep without being able to wake up again.

Yeah, Javier was that desperate. He felt that everyone close to him would have bad luck and eventually leave him for good.

However, if Javier feels better after spending his time lingering with sleep, then he will return to the reality of life just to busy himself with work and work.

That's why Elara dubbed Javier a robot now.

The phone on Javier's desk rang again, making the man careless himself.

"What else Jack? If this is a call from my mother again, then you can connect it later" Javier told Jack.

"But your mother said something important, sir."

"Here you go, later," avoid Javier.

Javier doesn't know if Elara wants to deliver the news he just received a few seconds ago about Elin.

Because Javier won't take his call, Elara took the initiative to take care of this without Javier. Although he was doubtful over the news he had just received regarding Elin who was still alive, but he still had to make sure of it.

...****...

"Cash, Mrs. Gladwin .. I'm Nathan, the one who called you the other day."

Elara smiled faintly at the young man who introduced himself to her at this moment. Elara did not want to be deceived by people who wanted to use it, so Elara invited Nathan to meet at an open restaurant and accompanied by several people who escorted him.

"I don't have much time, so just talk directly about the importance." Elara said calmly to Nathan, making the young man hesitate himself.

"All right, Madam."

Nathan never knew about Elara who was Javier's real mother - the man who should have married Elin - what Nathan knew was that the woman in front of him was Elin's relative who would definitely help him. Nathan does not expect if it turns out Elin has relatives from prominent families such as Elara.

"You're saying that the slave in your grandmother's house is my relative named Elin and he wants to ask me for help to make up for it?" Elara held back her smile thinking Nathan was making things up.

"yeah. You must know Elin, madam. He even gave me your home address so I could send you a letter about this info" Nathan said.

"No! Elin's alive, she's at my grandmother's. You have to help her by making it up to her, madam!"

Elara laughed softly. Laughter that sounds so crisp. "You're pretty good-looking, but you better find another job and don't cheat on me, son," he said.

"I didn't fool you. I have the proof."

Elara thins lips. "Elin is dead and I watched his funeral in front of my own eyes. I don't know who you're referring to and asking to be redeemed by me. But sorry, I can't trust you."

Elara stood up, thinking her meeting with Nathan today was just playing around and just talking about silly things.

"I didn't see you just to say nonsense, ma'am. It's good to see the evidence I'm about to show you."

Nathan's words were able to make Elara speech silent even though she had stood up to move from that place.

"Try looking at this video. You can judge if he's Elin or not. Someone set him up and I can confirm that what you saw in the funeral was not Elin's real body" Nathan said, showing Elara his phone.

Elara saw what Nathan was showing through the smartphone. His eyes widened to see a girl he knew very well was there.

"Auntie, I know you won't trust Nathan just like that. That's why I made this video to let you know that I'm really the Elin you know. I don't know what you think of me long gone. I don't know if you're looking for me or not. But, I'm just asking for your help and mercy, please help me get out and get out of this place, Auntie."

Nathan paused the video after seeing Elara stunned by Elin's utterance of the tape.

"How can you?" lirih Elara's.

"Well, she's been in my grandmother's house for a year. As a slave" Nathan explained.

"What?" Elara's eyes were wide. "Bu-slave?" tanyanya.

"Well." yeah."

"Why do you want to help her?" elara asked in a stifled voice.

Nathan just smiled in response to the middle-aged woman's question.

"Can I see him and see for myself if he's in good health?" ask Elara later.

Nathan nodded. "But you have to take him out as Sherin, not Elin" he asked.

"You mean?" Elara cringed inside.

"Regarding Elin who was suddenly in a place of slavery and was bought by my grandmother, also about someone who was buried, which you think was the dead Elin. I think there's a party that deliberately devised all these plans. Elin was made as if dead in front of you, Madam. I thought all that so that no relatives would look for Elin's whereabouts anymore. It's obvious if someone did it on purpose?" father Nathan.

Elara fell silent, digesting everything Nathan said and concluded that it was deacons.

"You're right."

"Then let Elin keep using Sherin's name. Consider him the slave you redeemed from my grandmother's house. This was not my request but Elin's own request that was just in case for her safety. Elin is afraid that the bad guy who harmed her is still monitoring her whereabouts and knowing that she already remembers everything."

Nathan took a breath.

"Because Elin's been pretending to be amnesiac, she's also acting paralyzed to protect herself."

"Oh my God ..." Elara did not expect Elin's fate to be this small and sad.

"When you want to see him, then tell me immediately so I can arrange the meeting time."

"Today too, son."

Nathan was a little surprised by Elara's statement. "Really's? That means you really believe my explanation?" tanyakanya.

"Yes. I trust you."

...connect.......