Love Blocks the Past

Chapter 9 ~ Search ~

Mikho stepped alone in the dark of the night, armed with a flashlight in the man's hand, walking down the route to the top of the mountain. Mikho steps quickly towards the region where the sispala children begin to realize Celine's loss.

The man insisted on going looking for himself. The weather was very cold and Mikho did not want to wait for reinforcements to arrive. It can take two days for coordination and all sorts of things. Mikho was determined to find himself tonight because he was so worried about Celine's safety.

So sad, disappointed and angry Mikho at the sispala children who neglected to look after Celine. Once he hated them, Mikho even prejudiced them badly. Celine's the girls themselves while they're the boys.

Even the worst prejudice could be thought of by Mikho. Celine was raped and killed and her body thrown into a ravine. Then they go home and pretend to say Celine is missing. Mikho shook his head vigorously as he imagined that.

Lord, protect Celine, inner Micho wants out of her bad thoughts.

Rifo offers to accompany her, but Mikho refuses. For him Rifo would only slow down his search efforts. Mikho's best friend is a perlente, the game area is only between the Mall, Cafe and cinema. Rifo never climbed to the top of the mountain. For that Mikho rejected his best friend's offer firmly.

Celine, hang. You remember what I said, right? Inner Mikho.

~ If anything happens, hang on, I will definitely pick you up ~

Those words again ringed in Mikho's ear. Part of his heart regretted saying that. It was as if he was getting ready for something like this. However, part of Mikho's heart was grateful and hoped that Celine would really survive until she came to pick him up.

Hang on baby, I'll find you soon, inner Mikho.

Between sure and not, but Mikho prefers to try. His other friends decide to report the loss but Mikho chooses to look for it himself. Mikho had reached the territory that his friends thought Celina was beginning to realize was lost in that area.

With the lighting of the flashlight Mikho tried to find traces of the girl and began to call. There was no fear in the heart of that handsome man in the middle of the pitch-black forest. Sometimes there are scary sounds. Mikho didn't care, kept calling Celine's name and tried to listen. In addition Mikho was also looking for traces that might be a clue.

Mikho occasionally called out Celine's name. After a long time and many times, Mikho's sneers heard a slightly strange sound. Sounding orderly, Mikho widened his eyes upon hearing the resulting sound. Sounds like a password for a help request.

"CELINE YOU HEARD ME!!"

After exclaiming Mikho was silently listening and right, again an SOS signal was heard from behind Mikho. The man shouted asking Celine to continue to sound the voice. Mikho quickly searched where the sound was coming from. However, slowly the sound was getting less and less heard and more faint. Mikho poked water, as he ran towards the direction of the increasingly weak sounding voice.

Please don't stop, hang on, inner Mikho ran in a different direction from the main road of the route he had passed earlier.

It seemed like that was where Celine started to get lost thinking it was the route she had to go. Celine had tried to signal the moment the sispala children called out to her. However, every time the girl gave a signal, every time it was another sispala child shouting.

They casually called out without even waiting for a reply from Celine who had shivered in the cold. The girl tried hard to make a sound with a beaten piece of wood. The longer, Celine grew cold even as her fingers began to feel frozen.

Celine is getting so weak she can't walk anymore. The girl tried to hit the tree nearby but the sound of the sispala children calling her grew further and further away. Celine fell down and lay down among the tall trees. The girl could only stare at the moonlit sky. Tears flowed beside her eyes.

"Sorry .. sorry .. ma ... af." Those are the only words he can say.

Celine apologized to everyone. To his parents, to his friends, to the SAR team who would go to great lengths to find his body and to Mikho because Celine would not listen to his words.

~ CELINE .. PLEASE ANSWER ME! CELIIIINE .. CELIII! ~

~ I BEG CELINE, ANSWER ME! ~

Hearing the request, Celine who had resigned finally grabbed the wood used to hit the tree earlier. Although weak, the girl tried her hardest to hit to send out a signal asking for help up to several times and was finally heard by Mikho.

The man asked Celine to keep giving him a sign. However, the girl's strength had been exhausted. The girl fell unconscious. Mikho who had known the direction of the sound immediately ran in pursuit. The man had even almost passed the girl who had been sprawled.

"The line! Celine! Celine! Wake up!" mikho exclaimed as he patted the girl on the cheek.

Mikho looked at Celine who was experiencing symptoms of hypothermia. Conditions when the body temperature drops dramatically to below 35°C or lower again which results in the heart and other vital organs fail to function. If not treated immediately, hypothermia can lead to cardiac arrest, respiratory system disorders, and even death.

Immediately Mikho checked Celine's pulse and breathing. The man cried when he found Celine's pulse and breathing had stopped. Mikho immediately performed pulmonary cardiac resuscitation or CPR.

Mikho gave an artificial breath twice, then examined the chest of the girl who had not yet ascended. Mikho grew more panicked, again the man gave an artificial breath twice more. Looking at the chest of the girl who was still not breathing, Mikho immediately did a compression of thirty times. While doing the compression Mikho felt Celine's clothes that had been wet.

Celine must have been wearing these wet clothes for too long. He must have been raining this afternoon. The wind that blew fiercely with wet clothes made him lose his body heat faster, Mikho's inner regret.

Hypothermia strikes Celine slowly, causing the girl to not realize she is going to get hypothermia. Striking nerves and moving slowly. He caused the girl to hallucinate until she collapsed

With tears Mikho pressed against the chest of the girl. Breathe twice, press again thirty times, then blow again twice. Press again, blow again, press again, blow again. Mikho did it over and over again, until finally the girl took a deep breath. Mikho immediately hugged the girl and felt Celine's wet clothes.

"You're awake? Can you see me? WHAT DID I SAY TOO? DON'T GO UP THE MOUNTAIN! YOU STILL NGOT. LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENING TO YOU NOW!" snapped Mikho.

"Mi-kho," said Celine softly with trembling lips.

Seeing that, Mikho immediately took off Celina's wet clothes one by one.

"Ja-ngan, ja-ngan," said Celine preventing the man from removing everything attached to his body.

But Mikho didn't care, the man just kept taking off everything leaving no one. Mikho also took off his clothes. With his clothes still dry, Mikho dried up Celine's entire body. The girl shed tears as Mikho did so.

Mikho prepared a sleeping bag. Hold the innocent girl and lay her down on the sleeping bag. Mikho took off all his clothes then lay down next to Celine and closed the zipper of the sleeping bag

"Ja-ngan, ja-ngan," said Celine weakly with tears dripping down.

Mikho pulled Celine's body into his arms. The man hugged her tightly. Celine wants to thrash but has no power. Resigned yet shed tears as their bodies fused together without even a single thread restricting them.

...~ Connect ~...