Ineffable Life (P. Mafia and Mr. Idol)

Part 39: The Meaning of Tattoo

"I didn't know you finally decided to have a boyfriend. I don't think you'd think about it.." Louis said, chugging his warm coffee.

"Hmm. I'm just trying it.." Ana lied.

"You think that relationship is just for trial and error?? Don't hurt any man, anyway.."

"Don't mind me. I'm old enough for this.." - Ana.

"Our age is the same.You always talk as if you were older than me." chirped Louis cynically.

Ana smiled knot.

"What's his job?" Louis asked curiously.

"Who?" Ana pretended not to understand.

Louis just swept his lips towards Ana's phone.

"Ah..Albert?? He's a detective.."

"Cihh.Even he's a cop.it sucks.." murmured Louis quipped.

"Why are you upset about that??"

"Forget it. You said you didn't want to get involved with the police.it turns out you were dating one of them.."

"This time is different." replied Ana briefly.

"What's different??"

"He was different. I really liked him.." this time Ana was really testing Louis.

"Then what about me? Am I no different??" Louis lirih.

"You?? Why indeed? You're just the same as everyone else." Ana replied, downing her coffee feeling innocent for what she said.

"You are such a bitch." Louis grumbled.

"Then what about me?? Am I special in your eyes?" Ana's question suddenly made Louis speechless. His eyes were shocked. His face was flushed again.

"You. hmm. You're a real bitch.what's special.." Louis said.

"really?? Then should I just marry Albert??" Again Ana teases Louis who looks upset since.

"You're crazy?? You just knew her. She also definitely does not know what kind of woman you are. I'm sure she will run away after 1 week of marriage with you.." exclaimed Louis increasingly burning flames of jealousy.

"really? Should you marry me?? You know all my dark secrets.know my bad nature.we will definitely last together.." Ana again teases Louis.

Louis just gaped. He couldn't believe what Ana had just said.

"How's it?" Ana blinked her one eye flirtatious. "You know, I'm very rich.I have to get married and have children to inherit my wealth. If I fail Albert's marriage how can I have children.."

"Based on a gil* woman.You're such a bitch.." murmured Louis in annoyance.

"Hahaha.Look at that face of yours.You're really adorable.." Ana's laughter exploded. He laughed until his eyes watered.

"Albert is my brother Lucas." added Ana again.

"A.what?"

"He's my brother.. Lucas.." explains Ana again.

Louis is losing his mind. He did not expect if the person he was jealous of was the person he had also been looking for all this time to help Ana find her brother.

"How did you find him??"

"Maybe fate has pity on me." Ana replied casually.

"You sure he's your brother??" Louis asked again.

"Hmm.of course.." nodded Ana sipped her lemonade.

"Then why are you tricking me. And pretending that he's your girlfriend??" ask Louis to investigate.

Ana just smiled. His facial expression is hard to describe.

"Here you look.." cried someone from behind Ana.

Ana looked back after she believed who the voice belonged to. "What's the grandma here??" Ask Ana back.

"I've been staying here for the past few days.."

"I heard your beloved husband is back. But why are you still here??" Ana asks cynically, making Louis awkward with the situation.

"He's free to do anything Ana. That's how we can stay together.we're not interdependent on each other.." Jane approaches Ana and warmly caresses Ana's hair. "Are we still having important business??" Half-threatening.

Ana brushed off the woman's hand. "Go away. My mood is good right now, don't ruin it. I don't want to talk to you anyway.." Ana said cynically.

"You see, she's a very adorable girl. That's why I love my only granddaughter so much, but sometimes she can be so creepy, too.." jane exclaimed to Louis with a satisfied smile because it managed to make Ana captivated by emotions.

Louis just looked awkward and tried to smile kindly.

"Then I'll go first. You guys have a good date.." Jane immediately passed by waving her hand that neither Ana nor Louis ignored.

"You okay??" Louis asked worriedly when he saw Ana's cold facial expression.

"Let's go home.I'm so tired.." said Ana Irene wiped her mouth with a napkin on the table and then immediately got up from her seat in the presence of Louis.

Louis just walked after Ana without flinching. While waiting for their car in front of the lobby, Louis opened and put a longcoat on his shoulder to Ana's shoulder.

"Call me if you need anything." Louis looked sincerely at Ana.

Ana just looked at him with a warm look.

"Wanna drink with me??" Ana asked softly with teary eyes. The look on Ana's face looked sad and confused.

Louis immediately pulled Ana's arms into his arms. He rubbed Ana's back warmly.

"I'll always be here for you Ana." she said slowly. "I'll always be there whenever you need me.."

***

At the mansion Ana and Louis sit together at the mansion's mini bar near the back garden. Ana opens a bottle of old wine that is very expensive collection of his father.

"Nothing is cheap here." - timpal Ana boasted.

"You don't have to say it, I already know it"

Ana takes out a cigarette and a lighter on the table, while about to burn a cigarette, Louis holds Ana's hand gently.

"Can you not smoke? I can't stand the smoke.."

Ana looked at him softly. "Alright.." nodded Ana back to keep the cigarette.

Ana chugged her wine again. Louis was just watching Ana closely.

"What's going on?"

"I will keep my promise to you.."

"Promise?"

"Hmm. I've met Lucas, I'm leaving the mafia world." nods Ana softly.

"really?"

"Are you that happy?" anna asked astonished at Louis's delighted expression.

"Of course I feel a little relieved now.."

"Grandma will take everything away from me.."

"Is Miss Jane too??"

"Hmm..he's even worse than me. He's more gil* than me.." explained Ana half-whispering.

"It is just appropriate that his gaze looks terrible." murmured Louis softly.

"Do I really have to give up now??" asked Ana in a loud voice.

"Hmm. I think it's time." nods Louis convinced.

"You know the real reason I'm stuck here??" Ana looked at Louis fixedly.

Louis simply returned the gaze with a puzzled face.

Ana turns her back on Louis's body, she lifts her t-shirt high, leaving Louis shocked and turned away from Ana.

"Hey what are you doing??" hard hatch.

"Look.." pinta Ana.

"You crazy? why did you take off your clothes???" her husband did not dare to look at Ana's back.

"Look at my back !!" exclaim Ana with a high tone.

Louis ventured to see slowly Ana's back is filled with tattoos with various images, from the image of a lion's head with a combination of thorny roses to a skull. The picture did look amazing adorning Ana's back.

"You want to show off your tattoo to me?" louis asked confusedly.

"Look well." pinta Ana again.

Louis ventured to look at Ana's back, stunned to see the surface of Ana's back looked uneven, he dared to touch it. How shocked he was that there were actually many scars on his back that had been covered with tattoos. When Ana found out Louis was conscious of the scar, she immediately covered her back.

"Have you seen it?" asked Ana again looking at Louis closely.

"What kind of wound is that?" ask her with glass eyes.

"That's the suffering I endured when I was a kid at Lou's orphanage.. They tortured us continuously without stopping.."

Louis pulls Ana's sleeve up. He can see other tattoos on the arms of Ana's left and right hands.

"Does this cover the other scars?" louis asked pointing towards the tattoo.

Ana just smiled knot.

"It's also partly because of my fights with a lot of enemies" he added.

"That's why you always wear covered clothes? cover up your scar?"

"I don't mind if people look at me badly because of my tattooed body, rather than letting people pity me for the scars on my body." Ana lowered her rolled up sleeves again.

"Yet.."

"Please don't look at me like that." Ana said, making Louis immediately take his eyes off Ana. "I don't want you to pity me.."

"You're going to take revenge on the culprit?" ask Louis to guess.

"No. Because Aunt Layla did it. The culprit died when the orphanage caught fire.. I just want to stop the bad things I've been through from happening to other people.." Ana downed her wine. "I have to save Lou's life, I have to free a lot of people who are trapped out there.."

Louis clasped Ana's hand tightly. Ana looked at her hand in Louis's hand tightly.

"Grandma and her husband are big mafia, they trade women and children. That's why I have to keep fighting Lou.."

"What?" chirped Louis in shock.

"I can't just shut up, can I?"

Louis was silent again, not knowing what to say.

"If I stop now, they'll get more blind.they'll get more powerful.I can't stay still now if they're alive.."

"Whatchu mean? Do you want to finish them off?" louis asked in shock at their words.

Ana again just smiled without answering.

"You said you'd always be there for me, right?? So support me. So that I always feel better again." said Ana lirih.

"I'm tired of keeping quiet and succumbing to Lou's condition." Ana's voice rang out suddenly.

"I can't lose anyone anymore. I'm too proud to have underestimated Grandma Jane.. I think I'm going to follow all his games.I think that's the best.and I'm going to get him stuck and defeated by his own game.." Ana's eyes glazed with glass, she tried hard to hold back her tears.

Louis looked straight ahead. The view from behind the window shows the sea at night illuminated by the moon looks like a painting. He could not bear to see Ana who was upset in her grief.