Rain In The Winter's
29 - A unified view even at such a great distance

Rain had just finished all the work in his company when he glanced at the clock at his desk, it was almost 11 p.m. and he suddenly remembered something. Rain quickly closed his laptop as he moved back to the ready-made tablet next to him.

Rain immediately opened the CCTV application, he wanted to see what the woman was doing tonight, whether since when but it was like an obligation for him. Rain leaned his body against his chair, making his body slightly press the back of the chair, his hand gently rubbing his lips that always looked pink, observing seriously what Bianca was doing.

Rain frowned, this night why he was still wandering around and struggling with mops and other items, was he back to being bullied by his servant friends. Rain then looked at Bianca who was wiping her sweat, looking so tired like her.

Bianca rubbed the sweat running down her delicate, white cheeks, her hands just squeezing the mop cloth she used to mop the floor of the main room, she said, actually he had cleaned it this morning and also in the afternoon, but somehow this room was dirty again, maybe this was the work of other servants who did not like it.

"Bianca," scolded Lisa who did not expect Bianca to still work this late, if Mr. Rain knew he might get angry, instead of his duty to pay attention to Bianca.

"Hmm?" asked Bianca who again rubbed the mop cloth on the floor which she would soon finish cleaning.

"What are you doing these nights, I mean, of course you're mopping, but why? Didn't we finish cleaning this afternoon?" lisa asked inexhaustibly, Lisa certainly knew this was the work of other servants, they had always been pranking Bianca.

"Either way may a ferret come in here" said Bianca smiling, not wanting to complain too much.

"Bianca, if they tell you to do things like this, you don't want to, just let them do it, already, here, you go take a shower and rest, you go, from the moment I thought you were sleeping, I would kill them one by one" Lisa exasperated.

"It's okay, you're clean, if you mop again, you can get your clothes dirty, let me do it" Bianca said.

Lisa looked at Bianca's face with annoyance but also pity, she knew this woman was very tired, visible from her face, not only was she sleeping late tonight, she said, in just this week he has been suspended from work and the other servants even feel good to sleep. Lisa kept looking at Bianca with her loving face, this beautiful girl was not even worthy of touching the handle of the broom, but look at her, she was mopping, wiping all the furniture, cleaning the carpet, even cleaning the garden, Lisa really could not bear to see that delicate skin slowly became rough.

Bianca finally finished cleaning the central space of the main building, Lisa without being asked to directly bring a bucket of dirty water, Bianca just smiled sweetly at the only person she could currently call a friend. Lisa then immediately helps Bianca clean her tools so Bianca can rest.

Bianca did not go back to her room, she sat in the back garden just to cool her body from earlier sweating, she wagged her hands and saw the faithful Lisa sitting next to her.

"I really feel sorry for you" Lisa said.

"Pity?" bianca asked puzzledly, what is the pity of her life now?

"It's not much," said Bianca again who was provoked to smile at Lisa's behavior.

"How is it not how much? Dear God I love this hand so much, if I had this beautiful hand, I would have cared for it so much that I would one day join my beloved, she wouldn't take my hand off because it was so smooth," said Lisa, who started to look so smart, made Bianca laugh so small, that little laugh that somehow caught a mile away, Rain raised the corner of her lips, and then gave her a big laugh, makes a sweet smile.

"Your hands are also delicate" said Bianca who still let Lisa stroke her hands like a prized possession.

"To be honest I object to Mr. Rain punishing you for being a servant, isn't it enough to punish you for staying on this island, confine you? From your stature, I'm sure you used to be very guarded, right?" Said Lisa glancing at Bianca, as pretty as the fairy tale princesses she knew.

Bianca smiled faintly and bitterly, she lowered her slightly gloomy eyes given her life all along, many thinking she was a very spoiled woman, loved and guarded, and she was a very pampered woman, unfortunately, it only exists in people's minds.

"You're wrong, if I'm to be honest, these 2 weeks are the best time of my life" Bianca said, staring at Lisa, as she heard it, stunned, seeing Bianca's eyes full of sad radiance, there was no way she would just chat.

"What do you mean?" ask Lisa.

"My life is far from what you just imagined and said, I have a very temperamental father, he doesn't want me but because of my presence he has to take responsibility for my mother, My father always beat us both up and we ended up leaving, after all these years, he suddenly came back and he sold me to a man" said Bianca, who took a deep breath, his voice was choked by the pain that choked his throat, his tears just came out, his voice became trembling, when honestly he did not want to cry anymore. Lisa who heard that raised her eyes, her lips until they opened.

"What's he?" Lisa asks who does not believe Bianca's story turned out to be so tragic. Bianca just looked at him with a wounded smile, making Lisa's heart also hurt, especially when Bianca gave a small nod, Lisa's heart was even torn.

"He tortured me at all costs, I don't know what was wrong, a few weeks ago, when I was finished being tortured, my mother saw him, and he just left me, my mother ... I didn't even say goodbye to her, so I wanted to catch up with her, but I finally understood, if I die and I catch up with my mother, she must be very disappointed and sad, he waged his life for me, but I took the life he gave me, so I will survive, I will endure for my mother" Bianca said, taking a deep breath, holding back so that no more crying came out, but his eyes could not be compromised at all and his defense so far finally could not be maintained, Bianca finally cried bitterly. Lisa also so joined in crying, it's fitting that this woman always sat pensively with her empty eyes, all this time she held it, holding back all the sadness she felt, if Lisa was her, if she were him, maybe he will not be able to smile anymore, maybe he has lost his mind and become crazy, Lisa can not even imagine it, he thinks life is so only in the stories, it turns out in his world there.

"Yes, don't give up" said Lisa hugging Bianca who seemed to shake her body, lost they cried together, but for just a moment, Bianca then pulled her wet nose, rubbing her sagging tears, her eyes were soaked, it turns out that slightly dividing the sadness makes her feel more relieved.

"Then if I say, this is the 2nd quietest week of my life, do you believe me?" Bianca asked in her soft voice, looking at Lisa who immediately nodded steadily, if it was Bianca's life before then it was really nothing.

Bianca just smiled and then looked back at the sky, but her eyes were suddenly attracted by a CCTV that was placed not far from where she was sitting, even above her head.

Rain was silent in his chair and kept staring at the CCTV, his hands still touching his lips when their eyes met, making Rain who had listened to what Bianca and Lisa had been talking about, finally knowing how this woman was before, it certainly heartbreaking anyone who heard it even for a heart that had hardened like Rain's.