Adventure In The Dark
Tragedy 117 - Decision
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William was silent to the words of Elvina. His feelings are jumbled between agreeing and disagreeing into one. On the other hand, William wants to approve Elvina's remark to bring Rei back to his parents' house, on the other hand he disagrees with his idea for fear of what used to happen, repeating itself.
"I think this is the best way for Rei to stay safe and for Joe to be unable to find his whereabouts. After all if Rei continues here, he will definitely feel lonely because we always go every day and only have a holiday every weekend. If Rei returns home, he'll have a friend and someone to talk to while we're not around." Elvina tried to give her understanding.
Elvina herself actually did not want to take this decision, whether Rei had just regrouped with her. But he was more worried about Rei's safety than anything.
"We can meet and spend time with him on weekends." Elvina added.
William was silent for a moment, he seemed to be thinking before deciding which one he would choose.
William sighed heavily after a moment of silence. He then looked up at his brother. William hesitantly said, "B. alright, then I agree."
"Then, tomorrow we go to Aunt Isyana's house to take Rei home."
"Tomorrow? Why so rushed? Can't we wait until Sunday? At least, we'll spend time with him until the weekend."
"No. We can't procrastinate on this, let alone Joe's been trying to go after it like that. If we wait until Sunday, Rei is afraid to come out like that and put his life at risk. So before we leave, let's take Rei home first."
"Okay.." William showed a gloomy face.
"Then let's go to sleep, it's very late at night. Tomorrow morning you have to go to school." Elvina pushed William's body slowly, stepped inside the house and closed the side door.
"It looks like tonight I won't be able to sleep." William sipped his drink again before leaving Elvina.
"Gurgh!" Rei opened his eyes spontaneously. His body reflexively got up and sat in his place.
Cold sweat poured out with his pale face. The same dream, Rei dreamed the same thing every night. About men and syringes. After that, as before, his head hurt.
Rei could only grimace in holding back the pain while adjusting his irregular breathing.
"Huft~" Rei sighed softly as soon as he managed to catch his breath to return to its original state.
"Yet the same dream" she said slowly. Her focus shifted when Elvina came and knocked on her bedroom door slowly.
"Rei? Are you awake?" scream behind the door.
Rei turned towards the direction the voice came from. Behind the tightly shut door, Elvina stood up. Rei could see the shadow of Elvina's body standing in front of the door through a crack at the bottom of her bedroom door.
"Y. yeah, I'm up."
"Then come down so soon, we have breakfast together, and there's something we should talk about."
"What about?" Rei frowned. He did not remember that there was a topic they needed to discuss.
"You'll know later. I'll wait for you in the dining room."
"Alright," he said. The shadow of Elvina's body in the gap under the door, disappeared along with the sound of footsteps she heard.
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