The Promise

Continuation of last chapter

When my mother died, I found out that everything in the will of my family went to me.
Al family moved in with me and Memi into the mansion to raise us.
I was never the same after that night, those images wouldn't stop playing in my head, and even though I knew it wasn't her fault, a part of me blamed Memi for all this.

There was a knock on my door, I was in my room alone in the dark, the only light in my room was the stone on the locket.

"Kazu, are you in here?"

I hid underneath the quilt hoping she will leave, I didn't want to see her right now, I didn't want her to see the hatred and anger I was feeling for her, even though a part of me knew it wasn't her fault.  I was so mad at her because that night she refused to tell me anything.

*That Night*

I held my mothers lifeless body in my arms.

"Mommy, wake .. Up... It's not ... funny... Mom...my!!!" I cried shaking my mommy to wake her up.

My mothers wounds healed and she looked like she was sleeping, I shook her and shook her.

"MOMMYYY WAKE .. UP"

The tears in my eyes wouldn't stop falling and I hugged my mommy and cried and cried.

"Don't blame Yumemi"

My mothers words echoed in my head and I looked at Yumemi who was now awake and looking at my mothers body and she looked like she was in shock and she was covered in blood.

I put my mother down and I went to Yumemi and shook her.

"Memi, what happened?" Why is my mother...."

Yumemi wrapped her arms around me and cried and cried.

"IM SORRY KAZU, IM SOO SORRY!!!"

She cried and cried in my chest and all I could do was hold her in shock and praying this was all just a horrible nightmare and that I would wake up and see my mothers smiling face again.

*in my room*

After she cried, she went into shock and would always wake up screaming and crying.
When I tried to ask her what happened, she would just hold me and cry.

"IM SORRY KAZU, IM SO SORRY!!!"

A month passed by since my mother's and family's death and cops came and asked questions to us and Al's family.
A few months passed and they never found out who murdered my mother and family.
Yumemi wouldn't tell no one not even me what happened that night, every time she remembered she cried and cried and screamed so they stopped asking her.

I felt her sit on the bed, it was nighttime and the moon was covered by the clouds so it was dark in my room.

"Kazu, Ms. Amanda is worried and I'm worried too.. Won't you come play with me?" She said to me sadly.

"I'm not leaving this room until you tell me what happened to my mother that night"

She said nothing. There was a chill in the air and I felt her wrap her arms around my waist.

"Kazu, promise me you will always wear this locket or at least keep it with you at all times"

I said nothing.

"Please Kazu....I can't lose you too" she said in a broken whisper.

I turned around and looked at her, the stone was shining brightly so I could see her face and I could see the sadness in her eyes.

"You killed my mother, I will never forgive you"

I felt her freeze when I said that and I felt her arms pull away from me.