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Chapter 14

Haunting memories

Dr. Arisawa and his son came to visit Shira. Shira had just finished cleaning the living room under Kanil's orders. When Shira looked at the now clean room a very old memory showed up in her head after being thrown away in the back of her mind for so many years, the memory made her cry but she quickly hid it and excused herself to make drinks. Now both Kanil and Adam are suspicious.

"Why did I cry back there? There is really nothing to cry about an old room."

"Then again…It's been so long ago…since I've been in that room…so many memories…" Shira was having a mind to mind conversation with herself. She didn't notice Adam coming in nor did she realize that her tears were dropping from her chin to the ground.

"Why are you crying?" asked the doctor from behind her. Shira jumped and nearly dropped the sugar jar.

"Don't sneak behind me like that! You scared me!" she gasped as she turned around. Adam kept staring at her his expression didn't show any emotion his eyes however showed much concern.

"You didn't answer my question." He finally said.

"What question?" she asked confused.

"Why are you crying?" he repeated.

"I'm not crying." She answered wondering if he saw her cry back in the room.

"Aren't these tears coming out of your eyes? Or am I mistaken?" he asked this time his expression changed to a really concerned one. Shira noticed Kanil talking to Yura and showing him the forest from the window, clearly she was distracting him from something. Shira slowly reached out to touch her cheeks, they were wet. She quickly wiped the tears away.

"I-I wasn't crying. I…I've just cleaned that dusty old room, all the dust went into my eyes so of course tears will come out. I was just making us coffee what makes you think I would cry for that?" She stuttered looking away.

"You were making coffee…by adding salt in it?" he asked as he tasted some of the spilt grains on the counter.

"That was salt?" she asked herself as she pushed back a loose strand of hair and moved to taste it. "It really is salt!" she thought to herself. "Great. Now what should I say?" she thought as she looked at the doctor.

"Why were you crying?" he asked again.

"It's nothing." She lied.

"You're crying again." He pointed out seeing the tears flowing down uncontrollably.

"Oh damn it!" she screamed as she violently wiped them away but new ones quickly replaced them. Slowly she sank to the ground and started to sob. Adam was startled but quickly kneeled in front of her.

"What's wrong? Is it me? Did I do something wrong?" he asked now completely worried. She slowly moved her head side to side.

"No. It's just..." She whispered.

"I…hate that room!" she sobbed out and proceeded to cry. Adam looked at the room she pointed at; Yura was telling Kanil something about the birds that live in the forest.

"Why? What happened?" he finally asked confused.

"Too many memories." She managed between sobs. Adam looked at her unable to think of anything that could help; he can't leave her alone just like that either.

"Shira what's going on? What's all this noise?" said a very low sleepy delicate voice.

Shira's head jerked up, she held her breath in an attempt to stop the sobbing, and she quickly wiped her tears, took a deep breath and stood up with a smile as she turned around to see a sleepy smiling Moon standing by the door.

Meanwhile all the house's occupants were assembled in the kitchen, Dr. Arisawa stood beside Shira and Yura had come out and stood there looking at the girl. Moon noticed the new faces, she was confused at first then she started to back away into her room.

"Moon, I want you to meet somebody." Said Shira with a wide smile as she went closer. Moon noticed her red eyes but didn't say a word; instead she hid behind Shira's leg so that only her head popped out when she turned around to introduce them. Yura did the same, when his father stood in front of Shira he slightly hid himself behind his leg.

"Moon, this is Dr. Adam Arisawa. He's the one who treated your wounds." She introduced. Moon looked at the tall blonde man but couldn't decide what to do next.

"Adam this is Nataly, but we gave nicknames to each other and I called her Moon." She told him with a smile.

"That's why you told me not to call you Abashira anymore?" he asked smiling.

"Yeah. Shira's my new nickname." She said grinning at him.

"Th-thank you for t-treating me." Stuttered Moon in a low voice blushing with a smile. The doctor grinned at her making her hide more than she already had. Moon saw her mother nod at her satisfied.

"And this is young Yura. Dr. Adam's son, he helped with treating you." Shira continued.

Moon poked her head from behind Shira's leg, Yura did the same. They both kept staring at each other for a while. Until a hand rested on Yura's head which made him slightly jump, he looked up to see his father smiling at him.

"Go on Yura. Say hello." He said pushing him forward.

"You too Moon." Said Shira doing the same. Now each of them stood right before the other.

"U-um…Hi." Yura stuttered blushing slightly.

"H-hi." Replied Moon blushing as well.

"You wanna play something?" he slowly asked smiling. Moon blushed even harder and slowly nodded with a small smile.

"Go to the bedroom and play, lots of room there." Said Shira pointing a thumb behind her at the room. They both nodded and walked very slowly to the room.

When they reached Shira Yura noticed the bed, he grinned a very wide grin as an idea hit him. He grabbed Moon's right hand, the one free of gyps and ran into the room with Moon slightly tripping behind him with a smile, she was having fun.

"Come on! I know what we can play!" He said from over his shoulder, Moon barely nodded and they went inside the room and closed it.

"Yura I hope you don't cause her to break another bone." His father warned from behind the door.

"No I won't! Promise." Yura yelled from the other side. Moon's giggles could also be heard. Shira and Adam stood there listening to their whispers and their giggles which slowly turned to laughter, they both relaxed.

"Do you still want to talk about it?" Adam asked.

"Hm?" Shira had no clue as to what he was talking about.

Adam was reluctant to tell her but Kanil was making him signs from behind Shira that looked something like "Do it now or I'll come and haunt you at night!" it was hard to make out because he had to read her lips.

"Talk about what?" Shira asked putting her hands on her hips.

"About the room, do you still want to talk about why you hate it?" he explained.

"Yeah sure, I was planning on telling you everything once you come here, the kids are far away so I'm expecting you to tell me everything too." She said eyeing him. He thought about it for a moment and slowly nodded.

"Then go to the room while I finish the coffee." She said going to the counter but Adam put an arm to block her.

"Oh no you're not, not without me making sure you don't put anything wrong again." He said grinning at her. She only gave a 'humph!' and continued to make coffee with Adam watching her. Soon after they were sitting on the red cushions.

"Who starts first?" asked Shira.

"You do. I'm not the one who's so upset as to start crying." He answered.

"Like you never cried whenever someone's not looking." She teased crossing her arms over her chest.

"Just start talking." He said looking away annoyed. Shira chuckled.

"Well…to tell the truth, I don't really remember what happened in this room." She said looking at every inch of the room.

"There has to be a reason that you do remember. Otherwise you won't be crying like that." Said Kanil.

"I'm not sure…" said Shira crossing her brows deep in thought.

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