EMBRACE YOU: Presence & Poison
EPISODE 8

“What is this?”

“You don't need to know. If the liquid enters the human body, the poison will make your body lose blood in less than five days. If you are lucky to have a healthy body then one week is the longest time. Now to make me believe, inject the poison.”

He's been so crazy. What the fuck!! He wants me to die slowly?

“I'll know you're lying or not in less than a week. Hows it? Dare to? Or tell me now!”

My chest feels tight. I didn't expect to get involved with something like this. I was scared, very scared.

“Tell me, who are you?” My voice sounded vibrating.

He smiled snidely but answered. “Call me Rey Orihara. So why do you want to know who I am, soon you will die stupid girl!”

“I must know who you are to come to you if I die later.”

This stupid Rey laughed at my answer. Not funny at all. It is fitting that his face looks like a mixed face, his family must have Japanese ancestry.

Once again I stared at the thing, seeing my hand tremble a little in fear did not make me retreat straight away. If I'm determined, I might die less than a week ago. But if I don't, she will definitely force me even more and brand me as a stubborn liar girl.

“Ck. Lookie! Now you're scared! It always works, I know you're lying! Now tell me, quick!!” Rey smiled satisfied to see me who became silent thinking.

Didn't you just not believe me? How could a stranger seem to believe. It seems like all of this is my fault, I do not really look, I always disappoint the people around me so that there is a sense of disbelief from them. I had to go back in the mirror, correcting what was wrong with my attitude towards them all along.

Yes.. Maybe that's reason enough for God to punish me right now.

Thinking about it made my throat hurt even more, my chest tightened and I want to cry now. Everything's my fault.

Still with trembling hands, I immediately tore off the plastic wrapping around the injection, then immediately opened the lid that protected the needle.

“I warn, a drop is very dangerous. Don't pretend to be determined to stop you.”

I smiled a little at her words, I'm still scared right now, I don't expect Bayu will come in less than a week to save me. No, he's nobody now, he's just a guy I'll always miss.

“I'm not doing this because I want you to believe that I'm not lying. But I did it because maybe I deserved it.” I said very calmly.

I who was injecting the object in my left hand, suddenly saw a red liquid dripping on my hand, but the liquid was only half in but the effect was really strong and direct.

“Wahh the poison works directly.” I smiled a little, trying to comfort myself so I wouldn't feel more afraid. After making sure all the liquid came in, I plucked the injection and handed it to Rey. My left hand reflexively covered my bleeding nose, nosebleed.

“Now go. Don't bother me anymore. I still can't answer your question. Find Bayu elsewhere.”

I looked up at him, his expression blank. He looked at me without emotion in it. I, who was still busy covering my bleeding nose because the blood had already made it out from between my fingers, could only turn around without listening to the answer.

I quickly pushed my motor matic into the garage of the house, then closed it, and turned back to lock the gate. I had to hurry inside the house to stop the bleeding in my nose.

Since then I felt the droplets did not stop coming out soaking my lips and chin. Just as I was about to lock the gate, my hand was held up as Rey stood holding the fence from the outside.

This man looked at me angrily and he said in a loud voice. “How can your body be this weak?! You'll die—“

“Free I said if today I missed breakfast morning, noon and night ‘ right? You won't believe.”

I pulled the gate so it could be locked. After succeeding, without seeing this jerk I immediately entered the house. I hope to get through tonight quietly. It was my decision to enter the poison. I am also the one who should be in charge of withstanding all the side effects.

“Oke Camila, don't forget today's daily report in cc email to me, as always. Call me if there is an emergency.”

I disconnected the phone after saying the closing line to Camila, telling her that today I'm not allowed to go to work. This morning I almost always fell down and could not walk alone after waking up. It felt like my eyes were twitching, everything seemed to be spinning and even worse, his body felt so limp it could barely keep consciousness.

Even though last night had a nosebleed effect due to the poison. I can't imagine what will happen to me in the next few days. At times like this my body is too weak, I am alone and no one knows what happened to me.

I laid my body back on the bed, staring at the ceiling of the room while thinking. Who exactly is Rey? If Bayu has been his target all this time means that Bayu's job is not an ordinary job, I know Bayu is a smart man but why can he not know anyone follows wherever he goes? Bayu should know.

I can guess Rey might just be the one who's involved in illegal things seeing from the way she talks, dresses and expresses. He's a fucking guy.

Thinking about it all makes me sleepy, knowing how I am doing now, last night I had thought long enough that this afternoon I would visit Mom, to share my aunt's legacy with her and Daniel. Maybe it's time before I go.

I have to apologize to Mom for all my mistakes.

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I glanced at the sky of ashes this morning. Cold air blows to the west sign it will rain soon even though the clock shows ten o'clock in the morning. Right now I'm the one who just exited the door, ready to go to the hospital after hearing the sound of a car horn.

The mantle that wrapped my body as if nothing compared to the strong wind that hit my body. Unable to use the motorbike, I ordered a taxi.

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After a journey of less than thirty minutes, I immediately got off the taxi as this car stopped right in front of the door of the hospital lobby. My eyes were still spinning, my body was limp and my eyes hurt a lot. I intend to check my body, is this hospital able to detect the poison in my body? or if they can't find it, it means that the poison Rey gave me yesterday wasn't just any poison.

I'm guessing that poison might be used for certain things. A poison known only to certain organizations.

Just thinking about it made me take a long breath. Why would I be involved in something like this? all this is beyond my imagination. I'm just a woman who wants to work, a woman who wants to have a career.

“Uhuk.. Uhuk,”

I felt something coming out of my mouth, I knew it was blood, as it had been this morning. I've been spewing blood in addition to the nosebleed effect last night.

“Halo.. I want to check health.” I immediately showed my identity card in the registration section of this hospital lobby. While covering my mouth with my left hand, the woman behind the podium had noticed me.

“Wait a minute.”

I nodded, hoping to get a quick queue. But my hope again had to be lost when I saw my queue number above 100. After being noticed, it turned out that this morning the patient was waiting a lot.

My attention was diverted again when I felt the liquid was already on the tip of my tongue. I quickly found the toilet and went into one of the toilet cubicles. Spewing red liquid from inside my mouth into the closet.

There's so much I spit out. I don't know what's going on anymore, it's just that my whole body is getting sicker, my head is so dizzy and I'm sweating a lot. My heart was pounding, then fear began to overwhelm my emotions.

I wanted to cry, I wanted to scream if I was in pain, I also wanted to sue and curse Rey. I want to break through the doctor's room so that I get treatment faster, I also want to hide so that no one sees when I'm weak like this.

I want to curse my fate now but in addition to all that, I still don't want to be that. I want to stay strong, I want to make it through all of this. I still want to raise a lot of money to please Mom and Daniel even though they don't trust me sometimes.

Thinking about it all made my emotions soar, I sobbed slowly. My throat hurts from holding back the crying. I am alone with this pain.

Suppose I could freely tell all my worries, my problems to my mother as other children do to her mother, but I'm not used to them. My mother and I were not used to it, as if there was a high wall between us.

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