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Chapter 10

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Yesterday was such a blurry motion in my memory. Things aren't the way it supposed to be—or at least the way i want it to be. Neymar respects my decision and he always make it easy for me not to feel embarrassed about it. At the end of the day, he still live up to his words and celebrating my birthday until the full moon starts to show up surprisingly right at midnight. He promised me a single wish as his birthday gift and said he would grant me anything i want, even if i ask him for his world.

"What if i asks for all your assets to be transferred into mine?" I joked at his words.

"A promise is a promise, i would do it if you really want that."

"Stupid."

"I know you would never ask for something like that."

"And if i ask you to fall in love with me, would you do it?"

"You don't have to ask if you want that, everyone would eventually fall in love with you."

I still remember those conversations all too well carved in my mind. Even if Neymar seems to already forget about it the next thing we met this morning, i still can't look at him for a long time. Today as i already plan it since Paris, we were planning to live up the itinerary that i made for our holiday together. I was sitting in the dining room right now to eat my brunch alone before we take off, but i feel something was missing on me. I scanned through my appearance using my phone's camera and realized my necklace was gone from its place.

"Oh no," I panicked through my voice and immediately searching the entire corner of this house to look for it. I would never forgive myself if i don't found it anywhere.

"What are you looking for?" Rafaella asked and i explain to her about my necklace.

The lost of my necklace has been the hot topic in Neymar's house right now and even though there are 15 people that were helping me to find the necklace, it still can't be founded. Neymar is trying to calm me down and ask me to remember when was the last time i wear it on my neck, but all i remember was the day when i took it off at the beach because it doesn't match with my dress. It was all because of my clumsiness that i have to lost the only thing that keeps me close to my father.

"I'm sorry that i have to ruin this," i apologize to Neymar because this whole trip i planned for him, would be the time where i have to look for my lost necklace.

"You don't have to say sorry. You lost the thing you cherish the most and that is more important. I already ask some of my worker to look for that necklace at the beach, it will be found Alana."

For the whole day, i didn't stop going back and forth searching through the entire area of Neymar's house for a slightest hope that maybe it fell somewhere near. I started to lose hope when it's been my seventh times looking at the pier and the necklace won't show up anywhere. I can't help to release my emotions at this moment. No one else was around to see me pouring my tears out and i sobs as hard as possible because no one can hear me. It's always been me and the silence this whole time.

When the cold breeze starts to brushing my skin, i can feel a little bit of warmth from a hug that was came from a warm blanket lingering onto my body. I bring my heads up and saw Ali was sitting beside me with a handkerchief on his hand and he helps me to wipe out the dried tears that stained my cheeks. He knew about the story of my necklace and i'm pretty sure he also tries his best to help me find it.

"It's lost at the place where your father bought it in, do you think it came back to where it belongs?" He asked me about it. "Did he ever tell you about the real meanings behind that necklace?"