Because of a Dream

Part 20's. The Hard Thing

When they get home, they get ready for what they need. She saw her sister crying while putting one of her clothes and her mother's clothes into the bag. Then the boy approached her to strengthen her.

"Don't cry anymore. Your mother will be cured soon."

"Yes brother. But I feel guilty for you too, brother. Because of me, my sister was held captive and hurt by my mother. I still can't figure out why you did it. Brother has no bad influence on me at all."

"That's it. Your mother did it because she loves you so much. He doesn't want to lose you. That's why he kept your sister away from you."

"But you."

"That's it. Forgetit. We better not talk about that. Your emotions will be drained and your energy lost. Now you just focus on taking care of your mother. I don't want you to be burdened for thinking about big brother. You have to be strong."

Then after he finished putting what he needed into the bag, he said again to the boy,

"Sister, I'm so hungry. I haven't eaten anything since noon. Mom was always screaming hysterically and I was so scared to leave her. So I always stood in front of the room watching the nurses controlling and calming her. He was like a madman and I was scared. It's 10 o'clock now. Maybe no one else is selling food outside."

"Don't worry. Brother will cook something for you."

So he immediately went into the kitchen and looked around for something he could cook. But he found nothing but a pack of instant noodles.

"What a pity you guys. Now you have to live hard like this. Even meeting basic needs is difficult. But I won't let you suffer. Even if she doesn't like my presence, but I'll still love her for my sister Christine." He said while boiling the instant noodles.

Then after it matured, he quickly brought it to his sister and saw her eating voraciously. His heart was even sadder to see his once comfortable life now ended miserably.

Then that night they went straight to the hospital after completing everything. They were looking for taxis because there were no more buses operating.

When they got there, Christine ran straight to her mother's room because she heard her mother screaming hysterically again. He saw the nurses busy exerting energy to control the woman's anger. But as she gets out of control, one of the nurses is forced to inject a sedative into her until she falls asleep.

Christine who saw the condition of her mother through the door glass gap, which was increasingly alarming, could not help but cry. He made the boy cry too. Even so he tried to stay strong in order to strengthen his sister.

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Later when the woman regained consciousness and calmed down, she saw the boy sitting next to her with Christine. The woman immediately threw away her face in disgust. But Christine got up and said softly to her mother,

But instead of crumbling, the woman hated the boy even more. Because he thought that the boy had brainwashed Christine so that she fought him and did not obey his words.

The woman was angry and yelled at the boy. He kicked her out rudely. He got up from his bed, pulled the boy's hand and pushed him out to fall.

"Go from here! Don't feel sorry for me. Do you like it because I'm sick now? You're laughing at me, aren't you? Just go! Go.....!" Shouts tight.

After driving the child away, the woman slammed the door and locked it. Then he said to Christine again,

"Why did you bring him here? Are you going to kill mom? Do you want to repay your heartache because mom hurt your sister? That so?"

"No ma'am. I didn't mean that. My sister and I love my mom very much."

"No! You know you're ruined because of a man? You also know that you hate men so much? But why did you hurt Mom? I lost my son because of that bad man. Mother also lost her mother's company because of the male evil mother's competitor."

"I know it's mom."

"When you know why you're doing this?"

"But sister is not so mom. Let me think. Mom hurt my sister. But brother didn't reply. When I found out she was sick, she still came here to see me. Even my brother helped me and accompanied me to come here, these nights. If brother wasn't around, I would've fallen too. I can't handle all this alone. It was my brother who kept encouraging me. Ma, please. The guilty ones are the husband and the mother's competitors. But brother doesn't."

As Christine expressed all her feelings, the boy stood outside wanting to know the woman's reaction. As long as they spoke, he could see through the slit of the glass door.

But the woman whose mental health was compromised did not know what to answer her daughter's words. He just kept quiet and went to his bed and lay down on his back to his daughter with tears.

Seeing no answer, the boy's heart was broken. She was so sad she ran to the corner of the room and cried there.

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Day after day passed, and as long as the woman was hospitalized, it was the boy who worked hard to help his sister take care of her mother. He worked hard day and night to meet their basic needs. Because the money that the woman used to save was already used up for hospital expenses.

But not only that, the boy also always prayed for the recovery of the woman. He did not remember the slightest bit of bad deeds of the woman. Also in his prayer, he also wished that the woman could accept him as part of her family.