Shackles Desire of Stepchildren
The Story of Pilu Alice

Alice, who was initially silent, did not want to tell her story, slowly opened up to Bram. For some reason, Alice seemed to put great trust in Bram to listen to all his dark stories.

Alice told the beginning of why she could think that far to be in such a place, even though Alice knew that it was not suitable for her.

...***Flashback***...

3 Years ago when Alice was 20 years old, she had a lover whom she loved very much. All those relationships run aground when Alice has to lose her lover due to a single accident.

Alice's life felt so broken because she had given all her life until her future to her lover. Which in about 4 months they will have a wedding.

However, fate said another when the tragic incident befell his lover. Alice is trying to let go of all the good memories with her lover. Until when she was 21 years old, Alice again got a surprise if her Grandmother had severe pain.

The Grandmother turned out to have been hiding a disease she had suffered for years from the grandson.

Kidney disease suffered by the Grandmother has brought it into the subconscious.

At this time the Grandmother had to get intense treatment in order to survive until she found a suitable kidney donor for her.

What's more one of Grandma's kidneys has been destroyed and can not function at all, while the other can still function but not as normal healthy kidneys.

Alice did not mind if her Grandmother had to be treated for a very long period of time in the hospital. It's just that makes Alice object just a matter of cost, the Grandmother's treatment is not a mild illness. So that he needs no small cost.

Almost all of Alice's possessions were sold for the sake of the Grandmother's treatment, even she had sold her Grandmother's house even though it was the Grandfather's house.

How else, for Alice now the life of the Grandmother is much more valuable than that house. Even if the Grandma was healed, Alice could work even harder to redeem the house to return to her grandmother.

While Alice's parents were long gone due to a catastrophic event that required Alice to lose both parents when she was 5 years old.

At that time the rain was so heavy and heavy, so Alice and her parents who lived in a rural village experienced a disaster.

Their house is orderly landslide with a depth of approximately 3 meters, fortunately Alice can still be saved because her body is not too orderly ground. Unlike the two of his parents who were lost swallowed by the red earth. Until finally found dead.

Right now the only family Alice has is the Grandma. However, the Grandmother hid her illness to make Alice more devastated. He did not want to feel the loss for the umpteenth time, Alice only wanted if the Grandmother returned to health.

Whatever Alice will do for the recovery of the Grandmother, until she is willing to become a comfort woman in one of the Bars owned by Bram's friends.

Almost 6 months more Alice works there with all the demands of the customers who sometimes make her tired and sometimes also make her happy with all the bonuses she gets.

With the results of being an entertainer, Alice can finance the treatment of the Grandmother, although some times she still lacks cost.

Alice could have worked like a normal person, just that the income she got this time was many times more than she worked as an ordinary woman.

From here Alice had begun to be comfortable with all her work until she finally met Bram, a customer who never demanded more at all, but she always gave more to Alice.

...***Flashback off***...

Hearing a short story about Alice's past, Bram is a little touched. It turned out that what she had expected was true, if Alice was not a comforting woman like the others.

He was only trapped within the black world that required him to enter the forbidden zone, just for the sake of Grandma's recovery.

"I guessed it, it was true. You're doing this job because of something that forces you to enter that zone."

"All right, for that. You have to leave the world that night and be my lover like we promised yesterday."

Alice quickly rejected all of that, as she did not want to lose her Grandma the only family she had.

"No, Bram! I can't leave that job, because that's my biggest source of income to fund Grandma's hospital."

"It's okay, if I pretend to be your lover for a big fee I accept. I'm even happy to be able to get money that many times over, so I can immediately take Grandma abroad."

"I've been waiting for those happy moments to come to Bram, where Grandma will open her eyes again and have been declared cured of her illness."

"If I had to leave that job, I would have left it when Grandma was 100 percent healed!"

Alice spoke in a slightly elevated tone, it was obvious that Alice was too heavy to leave her job for now.

Actually Bram's intention was good, it's just that Alice was wrong in responding to him to make Alice again feel annoyed at him.

"I don't mean like that, you just left that worker because I---"

"Stop, Bram. Stopit! I don't want to hear all your talk, I don't want to get out of that place before my Grandma gets well. Understand!"

Alice shouted while covering her ears by shaking her head, because Alice was not willing to hear all that. If she was incited by Bram's words, then her Grandma's safety would be on the edge and Alice would not want any of that to happen.

"But--"

"If you still want to continue talking about it or I'll get out of your car!" threaten Alice, with both her eyeballs staring intently at her.

Bram who found all of that was instantly speechless, he no longer continued his words. Although Bram was eager to say that all of Alice's living expenses would be fully borne by her until her Grandmother recovered.

What's more when hearing the story of the life of Alice managed to touch the heart of Bram, he could not bear if Alice had to trade buy her own body just for the sake of the treatment of her Grandmother.

However, Bram also cannot interfere too deeply because he is no one in Alice's life.

Hope Bram hope there is a miracle that will knock Alice's heart so that she will leave the dirty work and choose to work in a good way.

Without lingering again Bram immediately drove his car leaving the Pharmacy to the hospital. Where Alice every day had to look at her Grandmother and check her condition, to make sure that Grandma was in good condition.

Arriving at the hospital, Bram always followed wherever Alice went. Even for the first time Bram can meet and see firsthand the situation of his Grandmother Alice which is very alarming.

Many medical devices are installed in the body, until there is quite a noise produced from the machine.

Alice smiled at Grandma until her tears came, when she had to greet her Grandma every day.

Alice did all this because the doctor told her to always invite her Grandma to interact, because that was the only way that Grandma was not too comfortable in her subconscious.

Here Bram could see how much Alice was sorry for Grandma. Not to mention Alice was willing to invite chat for hours without stopping, even though her Grandmother did not respond to her speech.

Sacrifice like this makes Bram remember where he and Hans were, the brother was always compact in any case. But their cohesiveness faded after the incident.

All this makes Bram a little touched, what if the position of his Grandmother Alice is his sister, Hans.

Will Bram do the same thing as Alice or will Bram not care? I don't know, Bram still can't accept all those events, which makes his heart still feel very painful.

...***Connected***...