Because of a Dream

Part 19's. The Confusing Times

But as he cleaned the house, his mind was always not calm because it did not see his mother. Then he went to the park for a second look. But her mother is not there either. The tea he made was still intact.

"Mom! Where is mom?

Ma! Mama!" Shouts calling.

"Did mom go through the back door so I wouldn't know?" His words in the heart.

Then he walked towards the back door. But when he was about to unlock it, he noticed that there were quite a lot of blood stains there and it was already dry.

"Huh? The blood? Whose blood is this? This can't be mother's blood? This blood is dry. Ma! Where is mom?" He shouted again and began to fear.

The longer, he became more and more afraid because of his increasingly chaotic thoughts. He ran away from the park and hid in his room. He thought, that blood might be the blood of a robber who once scared him when his mother went out of town and left him alone.

He did not know that the blood that had been crusty was the blood of his brother who ran through the back door when his stepmother released him. The woman did not notice him for being too focused on making sure the boy actually went away from his life. The woman continued to follow him from afar as the boy left. To make sure that the boy would not lie to her. And after the woman was absolutely sure the child had gone far away, the woman immediately returned home through the front door.

Christine had no idea that her mother was actually in the secret room. He knows absolutely nothing about it.

In the secret room, the woman performs a series of rituals to calm herself from all the calamities that have befallen her. But even though his mouth kept muttering, his mind still could not focus. He always thought about the fate of his company which is now on the verge of collapse.

The woman also became angry and upset. His anger flared up until he threw his prayer tray that contained several types of flowers.

Then he went back to his office to see the fate of his company. Then upon arriving there, he saw someone come carrying some flyers and pasting them on his company wall. It was written that his company's license had been revoked because it had harmed the country.

The woman screamed hysterically and cried loudly while reading the book. But the person who put the leaflet on didn't care.

Then there was a security guard who was watching, passing by and helping her when the woman finally fell unconscious. The security took him to the post and tried to resuscitate him. But as he tried everything he could, the woman was unconscious. So the security went to seek help and said inwardly,

"I didn't expect such a great woman to be able to fall unconscious like this.

Too bad. I didn't expect him to fall like this."

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Later the woman finally came to her senses after getting help from some people there. But she was crying all over again at the post and didn't care if people saw her. Also, no one dared to stop her from continuing to cry. They let the woman cry until she was satisfied.

Then later after his emotions began to subside and calm down, he went home because he was worried about thinking about his son.

Upon arrival at home, the woman called Christine but there was no answer. The woman continued to call out to him many times until she finally heard a screaming voice coming from Christine's room. The woman panicked and quickly ran towards her son's room and knocked on the door forcefully many times and shouted to him, calling out,

"Son, you're okay, right?

Why you son?

Let's open the door!

This is mom son. Christine! Open door!

Christine.....!"

Christine later realized it was her mother. So he quickly stood up from his bed and opened the door of his room and hugged his mother tightly while telling her his fear.

"Mom, I'm so scared. Mother from anywhere? Where did mom go? I'm looking for mom in the park but nothing. I saw a bloodstain on the garden door behind Mom. I'm so scared."

"What's? Blood?" Panicked reply. Then he said again in his heart,

"That kid always troubles me. Even his departure makes me not calm."

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But the more days, the burden felt heavier to be borne by the woman alone. It was like a 20kg chunk of ice hitting his head. He just wanted to die because he could no longer bear his burden. He eventually became ill and was taken to hospital.

The woman had been in hospital for days. His mental health condition is getting worse.

The money he now had could only be used to pay for hospital expenses for a few days. Because since his company got into trouble, the investors quickly withdrew all his shares causing him to be severely indebted.

Only the big house they have now left.

When she was sleeping, Christine went home to pick up some of her clothes and her mother's clothes. Because his mother still had to undergo several days of treatment.

That night while she was on her way home, she suddenly saw her brother walking into an alley. So he asked the taxi driver to stop immediately and quickly get off. Then she quietly went to follow her brother from a distance.

But when the boy was about to step into one house, Christine immediately shouted out to him. The boy looked back when he heard his name being called.

"Christine!" He said in his heart and ran to him.

"Sister! Brother from anywhere? I'm scared brother!" He hugged his brother tightly. While the boy only returned his embrace while crying because he did not expect to meet his sister.

Then Christine said again,

"Where have you been this long? I've been looking for you twice in your hut but brother isn't there. All the used goods there have also been taken by people. Where have you been all this time?"

With a painful heart, the boy was forced to explain everything. That he was forced to leave in order to keep his promise to the woman. He said,

"I was forced to leave because your stepmother threatened to make you the same fate as her daughter, becoming a statue if I did not obey her words. He even held me captive and tortured me for days in one room. Ever since that lunch invitation, your mother kept hurting me and took my blood for the ritual. He's so horrible. He's not who you see him. He preserved his son because he did not want to see his body destroyed. Her husband killed her and was buried in the garden. Believe this. Your mother also gave me money so I could get away from your lives. But since I love you so much, I don't."

"Cannot be. Mom wouldn't be that bad. Brother just made it up. Mom is very nice. He sacrificed a lot for me. You're just jealous of me, right? So you're making up a bad story about mom?"

"No Christine. Believe this.

Look at this wound on my hand. Will you hurt yourself just to prove the truth to you?"

Then she immediately saw the wound on her brother's hand that had not fully recovered and began to believe. The boy said again,

"That's when your mother told me to leave the back door so you wouldn't see me. I didn't have time to bandage my wounds because she told me to leave quickly."

"So the bloodstain on the back garden door was the bloodstain of brother? That so?"

"Well." yeah."

"So all this time you didn't go see your sister's friend? And that means you've been lying all this time?"

Later she became limp so she sat crouching on the street after listening to all her brother's words.

"Then what should I do now? I'm so confused and scared, brother? At the moment my mother is sick and her business is destroyed. I should what? I don't understand what I'm supposed to do now." He started crying.

"But what are you doing here these nights?"

"I came home to get some clothes. I'm currently hospitalized for severe stress."

But the boy did not reply again and began to cry at the suffering of his sister. He hugged his sister and tried to comfort her.

Then they left immediately by taking a bus to the woman's house.