Dear, Dolls!
Meet Reno

"Emm? Emma?"

Emma flinched in shock as someone patted her shoulder slowly.

Emma immediately raised her face upwards. And he looked at a tall man wearing jeans, an army jacket and an army-patterned hat.

The two eagle eyes of the man were now staring at Emma with a sharp look.

"Are you okay, Emm?" Ask the guy in front of Emma.

Emma was trying to identify the man. Unfortunately, almost the entire face of the man was covered by a sideburn and a fairly thick mustache. So Emma had trouble recognizing the identity of the man in front of her.

"Wake, Emm. Come on!"

Emma knew the voice of the man. Because he unknowingly received a helping hand of the man, who then invited him to stand up.

Emma was led to one of the empty seats right behind the driver.

Emma was sitting in the chair right next to the window. While the man was sitting next to Emma.

The bus continued and stopped no more.

Early that day in the bus only contained a few passengers whose number was no more than ten people. Including Emma and the man sitting next to her.

Before the bus stopped and picked up Emma, almost all the passengers were fast asleep on the bus.

Then when Emma gets into the bus and yells at the bus driver to run the bus immediately, some of the passengers wake up and look at Emma with a strange look.

Soon, all the passengers fell asleep again. Fatigue and drowsiness are the cause of almost all passengers to ignore the existence of Emma.

With the exception of a male passenger who immediately got up from his seat and approached Emma who was sitting limp near the entrance of the bus.

"Where did you end up, Emm? Your appearance is somewhat messy," the man beside Emma asked while commenting on her appearance.

Just understand. Emma's appearance did look messy at the time. With blue pajamas along the knee, as well as his brown hair that is freely scattered.

What's more there are a few pieces of twigs and leaves that stick randomly in Emma's hair.

It is more appropriate if his appearance gets a messy assessment from the young man's mouth.

"I'm.."

Emma stopped talking. Unknowingly he was holding his neck. He felt thirsty. Really thirsty.

How not thirsty? Emma has been running for almost an hour. Starting from inside the villa room where he was locked up, to the side of the road where he took the bus earlier. Emma was thirsty at the time.

As if to understand the condition of Emma, the man in the thick coat immediately pulled out the bottled mineral water from his backpack.

The man opened the lid of the water bottle, and then pressed it right onto Emma's lips.

"drink. You seem to be thirsty.."

Without saying anything, Emma immediately drank the mineral water several times.

"Slow down, Emm. Everything is for you." added the friendly-eyed lekaki.

Emma blinked her eyes a few times.

Unknowingly her memories drifted into her old memories. Several similar sentences as spoken by the man beside her were also ringing in Emma's mind.

'I purposely bought you a cake, Emm. So eat as much as you can. Everything is for you, right!' said a man who had a very close relationship with Emma, a long time ago.

"Reno?! You Reno?!" Emma asked, when she recognized the man's identity.

...

Reno looks a little uncomfortable when catching a tudding in Emma's face. I don't know why he remembered their last meeting.

It was when Emma caught her unlucky incident with Mei Chan.

Because of Mei Chan's fondling, Emma was furious with Reno, and immediately asked for a break up from her right then and there.

Emma also just left without listening to Reno's explanation.

Many times Reno tries to contact or meet Emma, the girl still ignores her whereabouts.

Reno has given up. Together with his tired felt, Reno took away his heart which was also broken.

"Yes, Emm. Its me. Reno," Reno justifies Emma's greeting to her.

"Why were the nights alone on the street? Your hands too, why this? You hurt, Emm?!"

Reno realizes Emma's right arm is wrapped in bandages. The bandage is now red because of the blood that seeps out.

With a hurry Reno rushed to take her t-shirt that was still clean from the bag. He then tore the length of his shirt and tied the injured arm of Emma with the t-shirt tear.

As long as Reno bandaged her arms, Emma remained silent paying attention to Reno's every move and attention to her.

The girl immediately remembered all of Reno's attention to him back then while they were still dating.

Emma thought Reno was the only one for her. The one for Emma.

But his assumption was to be too late for a while when he found Reno was having a friendly relationship with Mei Chan, their own classmate.

The incident was long ago. Around the end of their third year in High School. Even so Emma still remembered clearly, how she felt devastated at that time.

Her heart crumpled when she found her soulmate, Reno, had betrayed her trust.

From that moment on Emma ignored Reno's existence. He asserted himself that he had never known someone named Reno in his life.

"You should go to the doctor as soon as you can, Emm. Worried about her wound infection. Where did you end up, Emm?" Reno asked again.

"I'm.." Emma has trouble parse words.

He was confused to explain to Reno who was rational about the mystical events that he experienced during the day yesterday.

'How can Reno trust me when I tell you about those two spirit puppets?!' inner Emma raging tangled.

Seeing Emma who looked confused, Reno finally did not force her curiosity anymore to Emma.

Patiently the man thrust back the bottle of minerals still held tightly by Emma.

"Drink again. Then go to sleep. I'll take you home. We'll probably be there in about an hour. You can sleep first for a while," Reno said in a soft voice.

Hypnotized, Emma follows all of Reno's directions to her. He immediately closed his eyes as soon as his head fell on the back of the chair he was sitting on.

At that time, the time showed at 03:40 in the morning.

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