Chapter 2 | First Meeting

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A girl around 6 to 7 years old with platinum blonde hair, playing a game of online cards all alone in her room

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A girl around 6 to 7 years old with platinum blonde hair, playing a game of online cards all alone in her room. Enjoy her time until she heard a familiar voice shouting outside the room. She stops playing the game and walks towards the door, towards the voices. She opens just slightly and was shocked by the sudden loud voice.

"YOU THINK I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT YOU BEEN DOING BEHIND MY BACK?!!!", shout the man angrily at the woman, seem to be his wife.

"WHAT ARE YOU SAYING?! YOU JUST GOT ME WRO-", the wife seem to defend herself until the man shouted again.

"ALICE SAID THAT YOU HAVING FUN WITH ANOTHER MAN WHEN I'M NOT HOME!"

"WHY ARE YOU BELIEVING WHAT THAT CHILD SAYING BUT NOT ME?!!"

"KIDS DON'T LIE, BELLA!"

The shouting just keeps ongoing which makes Alice scared. It's just a few moments ago, she excitedly tells a story of how she has been doing all day at home with her father, she even said that a nice uncle was coming and playing with her as well which Alice didn't realize she had triggered her father.

Her father asked, is the uncle the relative? And Alice answered, no, which the expression on her father's face started to get darker. Where's her mother at this moment? She was cooking while the two are having conversations in Alice's room.

Her father then asked again, did mommy play with that uncle? The man asked, making it sounds as if he asking if the uncle is playing some games with his wife, since he talks with his daughter, he can't ask something directly.

Alice happily answers, yes. And, the answers are just what the man expected. Alice said that her mother only wanted to play only with her uncle in the room, so she can't join them. Alice who didn't even think of her mother actually cheating, thinking they just having fun playing games only between them without including her.

Her father then told her to stay in the room, and just play the games before he walked out of the room and ended up to how the situation is happening right now. Watching both of her parents fighting.

Alice's hands tremble in fear, thinking if this is all her fault that later on they're divorced. Did she the cause of her parents fighting? If she didn't say anything to her dad that night, they would still stay together, right? Ah...in the end, they separated, and the father only takes the youngest, seeing how the mother started to despise her.

"Dad...did I...do something wrong? Mom...hates me....", Alice said, holding up her tears which the father knees down, trying to convince his daughter.

"No, you don't, sweetheart. You did nothing wrong at all.", he said with a gentle smile plastered on his face. Alice looks at her father before hugging him tightly, warming herself in her father's grasp.



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Slowly open up her eyes, the soft blue eyes eyeing the ceiling for a moment. Feeling such soft things to lay on, she could realize that she laying on the bed in an unfamiliar room. Her eyes were still set up at the ceiling, no, more likely at the system hologram status.



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