The Mystery of Black Rabbit Lake
Dreams or ?

Clontang….

There was a loud noise, it seemed like the sound of metal and very heavy objects falling onto the floor. Ares wakes up from his sleep.

What is this noise? Why is this early in the morning there is noise from the kitchen? The sound of falling objects, the sound of knives used to cut meat and vegetables, the sound of burning stoves, and the sounds of men and women talking intimately, full of laughter and jokes.

Ares pulled the pillow beside him, covering his head with a cushion. He did not like to hear all the sounds of busyness in the kitchen and the familiarity of the conversation of the two people. But still the voice was still heard by him. Huh..The walls of my room need to be renovated, I must immediately tell my Secretary to install a silencer in this room.  Ares finally decided to get up and leave the room, wanting to reprimand the two people who had disturbed his sleep.

As Ares opened his eyes, he was shocked by the circumstances surrounding him. He really did not believe his view. A spacious room with light blue walls, a glass cabinet containing all the lego collections he had assembled as a child, was beside his bed. Then all the Star Wars accessories from posters, swords, dolls to costumes of his favorite Star Wars characters neatly arranged in the left corner of his room. His small closet. Small study table. All the furniture here is all small, not as big as the furniture he has at the Hades Mansion.

Ares rubbed his eyes, how could all this happen?

This room is not his room, when he slept last night.

This room is his room when he was 7 years old, the room in the apartment Papa Zeus.

Then Ares saw himself. His hands and feet are shrinking and so is his body.

Ares was shocked, wearing a blue sleeping pajama with a picture of Doraemon.

“Dream... is this a dream?" murmured Ares was confused. He immediately pinched his arm to test whether this was a dream or not. He could feel his arm hurt, so this must be reality. But how could he go back to being a 7-year-old Ares? It doesn't make any sense. Did he just walk into Doraemon's desk drawer and go back 20 years? Ares shook his head. What a ridiculous thought.

But how could a 27-year-old man be trapped in the body of a 7-year-old?

Ares again heard the conversation from outside his room. He looked, he had heard the voices of the two men. Ares immediately recalled, whose voice was speaking?

“Papa and Kak Mutiara," his screeches were shocked. He immediately ran out of the room to prove whether his guess was correct.

He opened the room door, too excited to make the two people before him speechless in shock. They looked at Ares closely. Waking up and opening the door that hard.

And. Ares's guess is 100% correct%. Ares sees Papa and Kak Mutiara in the dining room. Papa looked very young and handsome, his hair was not gray, looked fresh and so happy, was sitting at the end of the dining table.

Wheelchairs...Where is Papa's wheelchair? Nothing, Ares doesn't see a wheelchair around Papa.

While Kak Mutiara, she looks very beautiful with a pink chiffon dress. He's still the same as the one in Ares' memory. Her eyes were always sparkling beautifully, a cheerful face full of sweet smiles and long hair that was beautifully smeared. He was arranging dishes at the dinner table.

The two of them were laughing and teasing each other back, while Ares was still in the room. A sight never seen before.

“Papa.. Kak Mutiara..," I murmured slowly.

He smiled warmly at Ares.

“Have you woken up, my little friend?" ask Kak Pearl warm.

 “Good morning, son of my crown," Papa greeted me gently.

Ares's heart immediately skipped a beat when he heard Kak Mutiara ask, Papa said a greeting and called me Crown Prince, a beloved call for him when he was a child.

This is not a dream, but how can I meet Papa and Sister Pearl here? Isn't Papa dead and Kak Mutiara has gone somewhere until I miss him? inner Ares.

Ares was silent and motionless, his head busy thinking about how to get out of this strange occurrence? If it's a dream, wake up quickly, and if it's a hallucination, wake up quickly, that's the answer that pops into his head.

“Why bengong, little friend? Come, comehere. Sister has prepared Spaghetti Bolognese with lots of extra cheese, fried chicken and French fries. Let's eat the mumpung is still warm, little friend," said Kak Mutiara attentively.

Ares then looked at the dining table that was full of Papa's favorite foods and himself. Kak Mutiara always cooks our food requests or likes every time we come to the villa. And this morning, Mutiara cooked her favorite meal in the apartment kitchen.

Strange as it is. My nose likes the smell of the cuisine of Sister Pearl, even my stomach thrashing hungry want to immediately eat the dish. Though Ares believes, after he grew up, he has never touched fried chicken and french fries again because all the food always reminds him of his childhood, a time where he was always lonely, sad and hopeful waited to be picked up from the Hades Mansion by Papa. And he tried to forget his childhood with great difficulty.

Then why is his heart now light, no longer feeling the sadness, loneliness as it once did? Is it because now I have forgiven Papa and have been reunited with Kak Mutiara that I missed? Or slowly, my mind turned into a 7-year-old plain boy?

I don't know, this world is so weird.

Then what should I do now?

Finally Papa walked towards Ares, bowing before him so that Papa's gaze was aligned with his and could speak from heart to heart.

Ares nodded his head quickly.

“Take me, Papa. I miss you so much" said Ares who suddenly began to shed tears.  

Papa looked very surprised to see Ares crying, but Papa did not ask much, Papa immediately hugged Ares inside and let Ares cry hard to let go of his longing.

Sis Mutiarapun immediately approached the two of us, kneeling on the floor and hugging me.

This morning, Ares let go of all the burdens at heart and wanted to start over knitting together the memories of a beautiful and happy childhood.

But.. eits... since when are Papa and Kak Mutiara friendly, familiar like a couple? Even Kak Mutiara dared to embrace me and Papa as warm and deep as this? It seems like my childhood memories never once remember Papa and Kak Mutiara as close and familiar as this. Because Papa is the Young Master of the villa owner, where Kak Mutiara works. Do Oma and Opa know that Papa and Kak Mutiara are this close and familiar? Ares immediately stopped his cries, came out from the arms of Papa and Sister Pearl, walked back and looked at them again.

Papa then stood up straight, extending his hand to help Kak Mutiara stand up from the floor.

And hey. Sister Pearl's stomach has been rounded big.

Sister Pearl is pregnant.

Ares patted her cheek. Be ill…. This is not a dream, this is real…

Papa then came forward and immediately carried Ares, sat him in the chair behind the dining table. Papa really obeyed his desire to carry her.

Ares laughed happily in Papa's arms.

"Still, Papa," murmured Ares softly and kissed her Papa's cheek after sitting on the chair.

Ares stared at the spaghetti plate in front of him. Confused, can I really eat this food? Is this food real and can be eaten?

Then Brother Pearl immediately thrust a fork at Ares when Ares was still dumbly staring at his spaghetti plate, so that Ares immediately ate his Spaghetti. Ares received the fork, then stirred up his spaghetti and ventured, rolled the spaghetti in his fork and put it in his mouth.

Yum... He tasted the delicious pasta cooked al dente brined with tomato sauce and soft minced meat. Ares hardly believed any of this, the food he ate was completely real, swallowable and very tasty, just like his past memories.

“Enak? Eat a lot, my little friend," said Brother Pearl.

Ares nodded and immediately finished his spaghetti in order to immediately eat fried chicken and french fries that he had not eaten for a long time.

We all had breakfast in an orderly and silent manner without much talking.

After finishing eating, Papa then invited me to sit on the sofa watching tv. While Kak Mutiara cleaned the table and washed the dishes. After completing his task, Kak Mutiara sat next to Papa and Papa stroked Kak Mutiara's stomach gently. Sister Pearl replied to Papa with a gentle smile.

Ares notices all the actions of Papa and Kak Mutiara, they both seem to love each other.

Papa then turned to look towards Ares.

“Ares, take good care of your sister. Love him and protect him forever. Papa and Kak Mutiara will be very grateful to you, if you want to be a good Brother for the daughter of Papa and Kak Mutiara," Papa gently asked.

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“Finally, the memories of the past that I locked tightly due to trauma, opened. A hidden secret is behind all this" Ares murmured softly.

Awakened and returned at the time and place where Ares was before.

Being in a car, in the middle of the night, on the side of a street with very dim lighting, was waiting for a girl he had just called.

 Ares let out a long sigh as he saw the girl approaching his car.

"At last you came, Athena," murmured Ares once more.