Ezekiel

We stopped at a small cream-painted house and its large yard. This is my house. Initially I had to spend the night for one week at the hotel. Because I thought I was too extravagant, so I was looking for a small but decent house to live in. Then I met and instantly fell in love with this house. Small, but the yard is so wide.

"This is your house?" He asked.

"Yes," I answered properly and opened to the car door. Devano pulled my hand again, I sighed annoyed with him. "What again Devano?" I asked angrily. "You didn't invite me to come in?" He asked. I took a deep breath, "Want to come in?" I offer him. He nodded and immediately turned off the engine. I opened the gate of the house, and Devano followed me from behind. While opening the door, Devano walked around my yard which I had filled with beautiful roses. "Devano," I called and used a glance in my eyes to tell him to come in. He nodded. He went inside and sat on my red sofa. I grind the coffee beans and brew them, serving the coffee to him.

"Try this," I said, handing him a cup of hot coffee.

"Delicious. Instant coffee? Or do you make your own?" he asked and drank one more time.

"Made myself," I said proudly.

"Nice." He put the cup back on the table, and turned his head left and right. Explore every inch of my tiny house. "Your house is so small," he taunted. I gave an ignorant gesture with my body. "Yeahh sorry, if my house isn't as big as your house that has a swimming pool on the yard."

My attention was focused on the black coffee at the edge of his lips. Unconsciously my hand moved to clean the coffee from his mouth. But he brushed my hand away roughly and gave me a horrified look. It's obvious that he doesn't like me touching his face. "Ahh, sorry. My hands are moving on their own," I said awkwardly and pulled my hand away, hiding it behind the table. He was still looking at me in horror, while his right hand took a handkerchief in the left pocket of his jacket. He cleaned his own mouth.

"When did you come back here?" He asked.

"I didn't want to tell you," I replied, turning my face away from him.

"Does Ezekiel know you're here?"

"No," I answered clearly. "Don't tell him I'm here. He'll definitely be mad at me."

"You don't want to see him?" He asked. "I'm sure, he must miss you. You've been gone for 5 years."

"Is that what you think? I'm sure he must have hated me for leaving him alone with my bad family."

"Alice, what's your reason for going to Japan?"

I was silent, my eyes widened at the man who was sitting with a sharp intimidating aura. I was shocked, how did he know that for the past 5 years I was in Japan. I fled to Japan and threw away my surname, no one knew about it. Even the only family I have, Ezekiel, he doesn't even know that I'm in Japan. Then how could he know that?

"You went to Japan to escape right?"

"H-how could you? How did you know I was in Japan all this time?" I asked and gave him a savage look.

"You forgot who I am? I have a lot of spies in my company. All I have to do is tell them to find you, and boom!! It worked." He flashed me a triumphant smile.

He unbuttoned his navy blue coat and stood up and walked over to me. "What do you want?" I asked warily.

"Why did you come back here?" he asked and loosened the tie around his neck. Showing the nape of his neck freely. "Alice, are you provoking my patience?" His hand reached for my shoulder, pulled me and whispered the words. "You really want to be killed by me, don't you? To the point that you come to me alone?"

He tossed the brown envelope and told me to read it. He walked towards the door of the house and left me with a blank mind. I quickly opened the envelope he gave me earlier, how surprised I was when I saw the contents. The writing on several sheets of paper included my name and photo. Starting from my name, date of birth, blood type, where I lived while in Japan, and the things I often did in Japan. Turns out it's true, he really spying on me, isn't this an invasion of privacy? Can I sue him in court by showing this envelope?

"That's impossible! The trust is, he will bring up Soraya's murder case again, and i'll be the one at fault."

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I sat on the edge of the window holding a glass of star pictures filled with hot chocolate. Right now, I was looking out of the window, looking straight at my flowers and yard that was wet with rain. Now, it is raining heavily in this city. Several times thunder sounded in my ears, and the internet network began to be disrupted. I looked at my computer screen that was on and showed a few paragraphs of writing.

While in Japan, I became a writer, and had a pen name as "Allie". Actually, it's not a pen name, Allie is a nickname that Ezekiel gave me. Ezekiel once said that he was the only one who could call me by that nickname. But now, I use that name to support my financial. To be honest, I purposely used that name while in Japan. Because if I use the name Allie, I will remember home, and remember my only dear little brother.

He's the only family I have. After the car accident that left both of our parents dead. At that time, I was 10 years old and Ezekiel still 7 years old, had to be taken care of by my father's brother's family. I thought they would be nice to us, but they just used our inheritance arbitrarily. I still remember how sad Ezekiel's voice was crying in my lap when his body was full of bruises from being beaten by our uncle. I even remember how we fell asleep on the floor and hugged each other with a tear on our face.

And i would say, "Don't worry, when I grow up, I will take you away from this family."

I'd be lying if I didn't miss him. I really miss him. I want to meet with him, even if only once. I don't care about how he feels about his sister who has left him alone with family matters that should be mine. But I'm sure, if it's Ezekiel. He could have done it all by himself, even without my help. Devano said that Ezekiel must really miss me, but for some reason, I doubt it. After everything I did to him, he must hate me. I also don't want him to meet me, not when I've failed to be his older sister.

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