Emily, The Mute Girl
Don't Want to Go Home

*****still Flashback*****

While returning home from school, Jeremy finds Clea waiting for him in the park. The little girl went to school in the same area as Jeremy. The building where Jeremy went to school did consist of Children's Park to Upper Intermediate. And because Clea Harold was still sitting on the bench, she had been home since then and now she was waiting for Jeremy in the park. Because he has no friends around.

"Sister Jeremy, what are you gonna do after school?" asked Clea excitedly.

"Whatever I want to do, it has nothing to do with you." Jeremy replied rather sniffly.

"Hey.. Don't be like that, I already gave big brother some candy yesterday" Clea said sulkingly.

"Then?" ask Jeremy.

"I'm so bored. Can you accompany me around this park?" bring Clea.

"Why don't you go for a walk with your parents? I'm busy, there's a lot I have to do." Jeremy said. He still had to do his duty and practice martial arts.

"My father is still working and my mother is tidying up the house. You know, if we just moved yesterday. So much to be done. Mom told me to play here so I wouldn't interfere with her work" Clea explained.

Seeing the disappointed face of the little girl, for some reason, Jeremy felt he could not resist. After all his uncle is out of town and will not be coming back here today.

"Alright, I'll accompany you after changing into clothes."

Hearing that, Clea's face instantly brightened and her spirit returned.

"really?"ask him with glee.

"Yes, but it's just for a little while" Jeremy said.

"It's okay. The important thing is that I'm not bored anymore" Clea said while clapping.

"What do you want to see in the park?" ask Jeremy curiously.

"Is there a strawberry tree in the garden?" ask Clea.

Jeremy looked at Clea with a strange look.

"Of all the things in this park, you're asking about Strawberry trees?"

Clea laughed crisply and patted Jeremy on the back.

"I was just kidding because my sister's face was too stiff. Hahaha.." said Clea still with a laugh.

People say that the laughter of the little boy is contagious. Maybe that's why, when the little girl laughed, Jeremy easily laughed along. And from then on, with ease the relationship of the two of them became close. Jeremy was thrilled to see Clea's face as bright as the full moon. So does Clea's cheerful smile and laughter, always filling her days and making her more colorful.

But overnight, Jeremy destroyed everything. The girl's smile disappears when Jeremy lets his uncle kill both of Clea's parents for being eyewitnesses to his brother's murder. Her usual cheerful eyes were now looking at Jeremy hatefully.

'If one day you are alive and see me again after what I did today, I swear I will treat you very well even if you will hate me very much later.' it was Jeremy's promise at the time.

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Flashback off

Jeremy looked at Emily's face, which seemed to be sleeping very quietly.

"I'm Clea.. Clea Harold."

Cree, clea,

Cree, clea,

Jeremy repeated the girl's name inside his head. Jeremy still remembers well the little girl's face. The only person who wants to be his best friend when others ridicule him. Then compare her face to Emily's. Jeremy smiled again and the pain in his heart. Their faces were actually not too much different, it was just that this time her little girl had grown into a woman who was mature and full of intelligence and tranquility like now. Jeremy himself would not have recognized him if he had not seen the wound.

But, did Emily not recognize him either? Does this girl also not recognize him as a boy who has killed both his biological parents and also cut his tongue with his own hands? Has he forgotten her?

But, if this girl remembered and recognized him, why would she want to marry him? Why didn't he look at her with such hatred that night? Why was he acting as if nothing had happened and why did his name change?

Jeremy also remembers well the faces of Clea's parents, as they were neighbors for almost two years. Her face was not at all similar to the Hopkins family, the surname Emily currently bears. What does this have to do with the Hopkins family?

There are a lot of questions that come to Jeremy's mind. He couldn't have mistaken it once he saw the condition of his tongue. His silent wife was his little girl in the past who had always been by his side.

All that night, Jeremy didn't fall asleep. He spent the night sitting and watching Emily's shady face. While Emily herself had actually not really fallen asleep when Jeremy came in and sat on the bed. And now being unable to sleep feels that Jeremy is watching him. Emily had no idea what this man was thinking. Is it okay for this guy to start thinking about killing her now? Having this in mind, Emily eventually becomes worried and decides to pretend to be asleep.

In the morning Emily woke up with a very lethargic face.

"What's wrong with you? Why do you look so uninspired? Did you have a bad dream?" jeremy asked when she saw the dark circles under Emily's eyes.

Emily looked at Jeremy with a puff. Holy jeez!! Can't he think? How could Emily have slept while someone kept an eye on her all night, even more so when she tried to kill her.

'Yes, I had a bad dream.' Emily said to Jeremy's question.

"really? What kind of dreams?" ask Jeremy curiously.

'Ak**u had a dream about murder. There's someone trying to kill me.' Emily's cue makes Jeremy freeze to hear it.

Did Emily dream about how Jeremy tried to kill her? Emily did not notice Jeremy's reaction and she immediately went out to help the farmer.

*****

Not knowing what happened to Jeremy, but Emily felt that yesterday and today Jeremy was more silent. Right from the night he told me about his tongue being cut off. Since then, Jeremy hasn't spoken too much.

"Why do you keep looking at me?" jeremy asked when they had lunch together. As usual, the farmer always ate in his room.

'I was just thinking, aren't your legs healed? So, when are you going to leave here?' cue Emily asked.

"I've been thinking about it, and I've been asking the farmer's grandfather. He's already told you the fastest way to the village near here. From there we'll rent something to get back to the Mansion" Jeremy said.

Emily put down her spoon then shook her head.

'I won't come home.' he signaled.

Jeremy was obviously very surprised by what Emily said.

"What do you mean?"

Emily shook her head steadily.

'I've been thinking about this for as long as we're here. Let's use this accident as an opportunity to separate.'