Unknown Secret

Chapter 21

[Loonngg~ Story] 

“Ahahahah!!! Yappari, it’s must be that guy’s work! Huh, he’s so naughty!” said Kota while laughing and take a seat on a bench near to him.

“Sou dane~ It’s must be nii-chan’s work. I wonder what he want actually~ Ahaha!” Arisa followed and sit beside him.

They turned quiet as they finished laughing. Or the easiest way to say, it’s turned to an awkward atmosphere. They don’t know what to start.

“Ano…” both of them voiced out and they looked at each other then smiled.

“Lady’s first~” said Kota, allowing her to tell first.

Arisa scratched her head. She looked annoyed by those words. The tall guy thought that it’s weird and asked, “Doushita? Is there something wrong?”

“You know… I actually HATE the word ‘Lady’s first’… I think its nonsense. A guy or a girl, man or woman, boss or servant, they just the same. They still human right?” commented the girl who still scratching her head annoyedly.

“Ah… Gomen… I don’t know… Normally, girls like being the first”

“Maa, it’s true but not all of them. Jyaa, what about you tell me what you want to say first?”

Arisa stared at him and waited patiently.

“Emm… Ano… I just want to ask… Since when that you and Kei know each other? And… shouldn’t you hate each other since you’re ‘sharing’ the same mother?” asked Kota.

“Ah~ Family’s problem ne~”

“Iya… Gomen. It’s not that I want to be a busybody. It’s just… I’m just curious…” confessed the tall guy.

“Daijoubu dayo… I don’t mind at all…”

“Well… When is it? Emm… It’s about when I was 2 years old maybe? And Nii-chan was 4 at that time. Mama brought me to his house. Nii-chan lives with his father when she brought me there. Mama said that he just her friend’s son. Well, I’m just 2 at that time, so I don’t know anything…”

Arisa took a breath and continued.

“Since that, I had been his childhood friend… Or maybe…a very close friend! Or should I say best friend ever? Maa, I don’t really have friends at the moment. Mama sent me at the same kindergarten as him. Even since elementary school, we were in the same class!”

“Eh? Same class?” Kota cut her down.

“Un! It might be weird since we’re different by two years but you can say that I’m too clever to enter a higher class. Hehe~  But it just for the 1st grade though… And that was the time when I know that we’re step-brother and sister. It was when I was 5 years old and he is 7. It’s bothered us a lot that we stopped connected each other. Even mama abandoned me and sent me at the orphanage. She went back to her first family, which is nii-chan’s family”

“Sound sad ne~ So, what’s happened after that?” he can’t wait to hear the next ‘story’ from the girl.

“Nii-chan’s family was poor so his father decided to do something bad and even kill someone just for money. Then, the police get him and kill him for the punishment. Mama was depressed and then disappeared and left nii-chan alone… Ah! Not to mention, my father was died once mama left our house as he was too and really and seriously mad in love with her. ‘I can’t live without her’… That’s what he said to me and committed a suicide”

Kota make an ‘o’ mouth-shaped. “Then, then, then?” he placed his hands on his chin like a kid who’s listening to their favourite story.

Arisa shook her head and smiled.