40 Days, One Love
The past (2)
"My mom???" ask Yua.
"Yes.. Who else???" answer Arga who is sure not wrong people.
Yep... Arga is not wrong. The past seems to change from the one Yua remembers to the one Yua didn't realize if she had experienced some unusual phenomenon some time ago, jumping over time for 20 days.
A time jumper who manages to return to his original time before 40 days will forget everything that ever happened in that time. The loss of memory of time jumpers aims to maintain balance in the world. If time jumpers have a memory of their journey over time, in the future it is feared they will look for a gap back in time when they know the future they want is different than they expected. However, it does not rule out the possibility that there is a time jumper who still has his memory when jumping time.
"Do you remember?" asked Arga to Yua who looked puzzled.
Yua simply nodded her head and kept trying to remember the figure of the woman that Arga meant.
"Do not force it, maybe because you were 3 years old, understand if you do not remember. That age does not have a strong memory" said Arga calm Yua.
Arga then asks Yua to take her old photo album and take it to the middle room.Maybe seeing the photo album can help Yua remember the past.
"But I just saw him a few days ago" murmured Yua. Yua went to her father's room and did what Arga told her to do.
...***...
It is clear if the stack of photo albums is just seen because there is no dust that is pasting. In addition, all of the photo albums were also look outdated, some of the covers have been peeled off and the photos glimmered yellowish. Arga then flipped through every page on the albums. He intended to find the woman he meant as his mother Yua.
"Meet me.." said Arga who had found the photo he was looking for.
Arga immediately gave the photo album to Yua. A photo album that I never saw before. Uniquely the photos on the album were taken in a very short span of time, only in May 2000, when he was just 3 years old.
One of the Arga photos is dated May 9, 2000. In the photo that was set in an amusement park when he was three years old, it is clearly illustrated by the figure of the woman who is meant by Arga. The woman was wearing the same white one piece she used to be and there was a little Arga who was also riding the horses in the swivel comedy next to them.
"Now are you sure??" Arga thinks this photo alone is enough to convince Yua that they were childhood friends and she never lied about Mama Yua.
"I still want to see this album" said Yua whose eyes are still fixed on the album. Thanks to Arga, Yua could not let go of her eyes on every page of the album. Almost on every page of the album was the figure of the woman when she was on her birthday, playing in an amusement park, or just a photo in the house.
"This boy is you??? this woman is my mama??" ask Yua.
"Yes, that boy is me and that woman is your mama. If it's not wrong, I call her Miss Yu but after that I just know her name is Lily" replied Arga.
"All I remember said Om Joe your mom just got out of the hospital after years of treatment. At first your mama was weird, lazy, angry and mumbled but she was a good person. I also remember your mom working at the cafe we visited earlier. We used to go there a lot, so I know what your favorite food is.But I know your mama only for a while because it was also me and Mom had to go to England. After that I never saw him again until now" Arga told me.
For some reason when Arga told her memories of her mother, Yua felt like she was talking about herself. Likes lazy, angry and muffled. What is true??.. why is the nature of the woman is very similar to her own nature. Especially when he saw the figure of the woman was indeed very similar to himself, like a betel nut split in two.
Then there is one more photo on this album that makes Yua curious. But maybe later he asked Arga. Arga's father suddenly calls her and asks her to come home soon.
...***...
No matter how hard Yua remembered, there was still nothing she could remember. Evidence that there is a woman who looks like her in the photo can not make Yua deny if he has a mother. Though at first they want to remember and tell their childhoods that Yua forgot, but the story even ended up in the fact of the existence of mama Yua.
But what stuck in his heart, why the woman was so similar to him. Yua even compared the photo of the woman to her in a mirror. There was really no difference at all even her haircut looked the same. Even Arga was also amazed to see their resemblance after comparing them directly.
"It's very similar" muttered Yua.
One fact that Yua knows from the story of Arga, that her mother had worked at the cafe they visited earlier, Ever Cafe. There might be a clue there that Yua can find out about her mother's secret.
"Ever's cafe??" muttered Yua again. A cafe full of mysteries. Even his memory of the cafe was just a little blurry when just this afternoon he and Arga went there. After saying the name of the cafe, Ever Cafe, Yua's heart suddenly became unreasonable even though he did not know the reason. So he thought, he needed to go back to the cafe again to find out what he did not know.
...***...
If indeed his mother works here, then the cafe owner and his successors at least know or have all the data of his employees. Maybe there is a bright spot that he can get to be unknowingly in front of this cafe again.
"zzztt"
Yua opened the cafe door slowly while closing her eyes. As he opened his eyes, there was a servant greeting him like yesterday.
"Good afternoon.... Please sit down" said the waiter and wanted to lead Yua to an empty table .
"I'm sorry, but I'd like to meet the owner of this cafe. Can you?" yua said without hesitation.
"I'm sorry it doesn't seem like it" replied this waiter while slightly bowing his body.
However, Yua did not want to stop there. Yua then headed to a kosonh dam table and ordered a tiramisu and strawberry milkshake. Smells like there is something Yua plans to meet with the owner of this cafe.