Maya, who was wearing her white pajamas and her hair was in a side ponytail, ran to the arctic in tears. As she went up the long staircase, she called out to her grandmother Emilie desperately over and over. She got to the arctic and went to the back moved some stuff and opened the back drawer. She got inside closed the drawer and went to the secret garden.
"Grandma! Grandma! Grandma! Grandma!" With each time that she called for her. Maya walks deeper into the garden, and her tears become more frequent. "Grandma Emilie where are you? I want to see you grandma Emilie. Come please...come...please." Maya falls on her knees. "Where are you grandma." Still crying she laid her head on a huge rock next to her. "Grandma Emilie come please! Please! Please! Please! Where are you? Grandma please grandma...grandma Emilie." She lifts her head. "Appear already, please appear."
A light appears behind her, and then Emilie took its place. She slowly walked up to the little girl in the ground with a worried look. "Why are you so desperate?"
Maya looked up and quickly stood up to hug her. "Grandma Emilie! Because daddy is a murderer!" Maya looks up at her.
Emilie was shocked. "No that can't be. Why do you say that? Your dad is incapable of hurting anyone."
Maya stopped crying as hard, but her tears still came out. "Grandma Audrey told me so. That he killed mommy."
Emilie shook her head and took Maya's hand leading her to the bench. "It's all a misunderstanding your dad is incapable of killing someone much less your mom. You know that your other grandmother likes to over exaggerate but don't worry I can assure you that your mom didn't die."
Both sat on the bench as Maya looked at her sadly. "I loved her a lot even though she didn't love me back. Are you sure you haven't seen her in heaven grandma Emilie?"
Emilie stroked her hair softly. "No my queen she isn't there."
Maya's tears fall faster now. "And will daddy go to hell because he killed mommy?" Emilie shook her head no sadly at her. "And where will she go if you have not seen her in heaven?"
"Come here my queen." Emilie hugs Maya tightly. "You shouldn't be suffering like this. If they had an accident than it was something made by destiny but don't worry your dad won't go to hell." They break the hug and Emilie smiles at her. "Because he is a good man, and your mom won't go there either because moms never go there since they always take care of their children with love, and God rewards them for that."
Maya calmed down a little. "Is that what you did with daddy when he was younger?"
Emilie smiled brightly. "Yes now don't suffer too much my queen. If your mom isn't here now one day she'll return you'll see."
"And my daddy?"
"You'll see him very soon." Emilie smiled happily at her cupping her cheeks. "And you'll be very happy." Still seeing that Maya was upset, she put a pouty face. "Will you believe in me? I don't want you to be suffering."
"Yes grandma Emilie I believe you, and I'll always try to do what you suggest me; I love you so much." Maya hugs her.
Emilie hugs back "My dear, I adore you with all my heart."
Audrey, who was wearing all black, walked out of her room just when Maya was skipping down the hall. Audrey with an emotionless look walked toward her. "From where are you coming from?"
"From up there." Everyone knew Maya loved to go to the arctic. They just assumed that she loved to play there they didn't know the real reason why she was up there.
"I don't know what you do in the arctic so much. Were you crying for your mom? Well, you know who killed her. That man you love so much. He is the murderer of your mom." With every word, hatred and anger comes out with her harsh tone.
Maya remembered what her grandma Emilie said and looked at her other grandma sadly. "Daddy isn't bad he didn't kill her."
Audrey narrows her eyes at her. "I'm sure he let her die drowning, and that's the same as if he killed her."
"Grandma Emilie says-" Maya covers her mouth remembering that one, people wouldn't believe that she sees her grandmother Emilie, and two, her grandmother advised her to just keep it a secret.
"There you go with your fantasies again. Your grandmother Emilie is dead. When will you understand that? Your dad killed my daughter. He killed her because he is a murderer. Did you hear me? Record this in your head your dad is a murderer." She starts to walk away but then turns back around. "Tomorrow we are going to go out to buy you black clothes. You need to mourn for your mom. You need to hate and despise the murderer of your mom." She walks away repating the word murderer over and over. Maya just looks at her processing what she said as she disappears from sight.
"I want to warn you that you'll return during hard times"
Edward stood on the edge of the bed looking at Adrien, who was sadly looking at the roof. "I know Edward, especially with my daughter."
Edward nodded "and much more with your mother in law."
"I'm more worried about Maya." Adrien looks at him. "Is she informed about the death of her mother?"
Edward nodded softly. "Yes."
Adrien goes to his right side "my poor daughter." He starts tearing up.
Edward sighed "she suffered a meltdown crisis hearing the news."
Tears fall down harder from Adrien's eyes. "I want to be with my little girl to comfort and console her."
Sitting on the stairs in her house seems to be Mari's favorite spot since she was there right now holding Teddy.
"Gezz Teddy planes can fall, and people die. That's so scary...the truth is I can't forget the dead man. Hopefully, he doesn't appear one of these nights to get me back from being a wolf to him." Mari sighs "I really feel bad for what I did. He wasn't as bad as that jerk." Mari pets Teddy's fur "you know what we should pay so his soul rests in peace. You will also prey alright Teddy?" She closes her eyes and preys.
On the next-day Edward and Adrien returned to Paris. Edward drives Adrien to his house. During the whole ride there Adrien thought about how things would change. He already knew that Audrey would make his life miserable and his poor daughter...knowing from experience losing a mother is hard. Once they got there Adrien got off the car and took a deep breath.
Maya was laying on her bed holding a picture of her mother that was cut in half. She cried as she put a finger on the picture.
"Mommy I love you." She put the picture on her shoulder hugging it and crying for her. "Mommy! Mommy." She cries harder with each passing second.
Mari went to Mathew's house for the painting session, but he wasn't there. The only person that was there was Roxie, and she said that Mathew wasn't there at the moment. Mari nodded and started covering the painting Mathew is currently working on. "Mathew didn't tell you when he was going to come back."
Roxie leaned on a wall. "No I'm going to wait for a while if I get tired of it; I'll leave."
Mari sighed "well, I do need to wait for him. I need the money he gives me to model for the costs of my house."
Roxie tilts her head "you pay everything in your house Mari?"
"No Roxie, look Fu is the one to handle the money, I just help him a bit." She smiles
Roxie walked to her. "So Mari which one of the guys in the group do you like?"
After dropping Adrien at his house Edward had to leave for an appointment with one of his patients. Inside Adrien and Ruby hugged each other. When they broke the hug, Ruby smiled softly. "After what we went through it seems like a lie to have you here in person."
Adrien looked at the hallway. "Does Audrey know that I returned today?"
Ruby nodded as she looked down. "Yes Adri I told her."
"I haven't seen her; she probably doesn't even want to talk to me." Adrien spoke sadly.
Ruby shook her head "don't pay attention to her. We need to wait for her to recover. You know how much she loved Chloe. Her only daughter and to loose her in that tragic way..." Ruby trails off not knowing what else to say.
"You know the effect to know that Chloe has left forever isn't easy." Adrien and Ruby sit on the couch. "Though I have the sensation that Chloe is still alive."
"From what I know there isn't any hope to find her body right?" Ruby tilted her head looking at him.
Adrien nodded. "Well they have her as missing, but nevertheless, I like to think that Chloe is in a long trip that she'll return from someday."
Mari looked at Roxie as she went to the living room with Roxie. "I really don't like any guy from the group Roxie."
Mari sighs as Roxie sat on the couch. "Don't tell me that you have never fallen in love before."
"No, never." Mari walks to the coffee table.
"Well I have and do you know who I like from all of them?" Roxie stood up with a smile.
"How would I know I can't read minds." Mari laughed softly.
"Roland." Roxie's tone was light hearted.
"That jerk? Gezz Roxie you're so blind." Mari laughed.
"Roland is a hotie he knows what he wants, and he is popular with women you're the only one that doesn't pay attention to you, nevertheless, he is only interested in you." Roxie crosses her arms and fowns.
"Well he was messing with me, and I gave him what he deserved you saw it Roxie but after that he asked for forgiveness and now we're friends." Mari sat down on a chair.
Roxie laughed "Roland Friends with a woman?"
Mari shrugged. "Well I told him with clearness not to look at me differently, and he promised."
Roxie walked over to her. "Hay Mari what's up with you and man? What do you have against them?"
"I don't care to have them as friends but that's it. It has to do with something that happened a long time ago I feel hated just by thinking about it. Because of him, I don't let any man to get near for me to fall in love. Hopefully, he died and if not for him to be suffering." As Mari spoke she looked out in the distance.
"Did you really love Chloe?" Ruby looked at Adrien and held his hands.
Adrien nodded "yes little sister, I loved her in a special way."
Ruby tilted her head "what way was that?"
Adrien sighed. "Lately without passion with love that was limited by regrets."
Ruby looked at him. "What regrets Adri?"
Adrien stayed quiet for a while before standing up. "I need to see Maya." Adrien walked away as Ruby watched him leave thinking about what he said.
Maya's room was special, it had two ways to get in. One was a normal door like all the other rooms in the house, and the other was a staircase that leads straight inside the room no door needed. When climbing the last steps you could see Maya's bed though the railings. Adrien climbed the stairs and saw his sweet daughter laying on her left side holding something with her eyes closed. As he walked to the side of her bed, he saw a picture cut in half on the ground he bends down to pick it up and saw it was his side of his wedding picture, the copy that he gave to Maya anyway. Seeing that she cut the picture and threw his side on the ground broke his heart. He never thought that the day Maya would do something like this would happen. He stood up and sat on the bed, he gently touched Maya's hair. "Sweetie." She jumped surprised.
After seeing it was her dad she sat up and backed away. "Don't touch me dad."
"My dear." It pained his heart to see her like that.
"I don't love you anymore. You killed mommy. You killed her. Don't lie to me! It's your fault mommy drowned." She backs away as Adrien tried to reach his arm to her shoulder. He started to tear up.
"Dear I'm not lying to you. My dear sadly, your mom won't be with us anymore because she went to heaven." She looked at him with tears holding the picture of her mom, he couldn't handle this. "Listen you can miss her and cry for her. That's fine we all understand you, but it's best that you remember her with love and sweetness. Remember all the good things about her but don't let her memory torment you please."
"You're bad God will punish you. You're bad! You killed her! I don't love you! You killed her! You killed mommy!" Adrien put his head down starting to cry hearing those words coming from Maya's mouth.
Outside the room, Audrey was walking pass when she heard Maya's yells. She smiled and kept walking.
Maya laid on her side again Adrien was beside her crying. "Sweetie please listen to me. Look at me please. Do you really think that I could've killed your mommy? Sweetie please look at me." Maya didn't move and didn't look at him. Adrien cried as he begged his daughter to look at him.
Mari rode her bike back home, but suddenly she heard someone yell her name to wait, and saw Nino running in front of her to stop her from going anywhere.
"What's up Nino. How are you?"Mari smiled as they do their special handshakes.
Nino smiled "good. Where are you coming from?
"From painter hands house I waited for him but the unprofessional never showed up." He handed her a lollipop, and she smiled taking it. "Thanks."
He nodded. "So what are you going to do tonight?"
Mari opened the lollipop. "Why do you ask?"
Nino blinked as he remembers the conversation he had with his mother earlier.
"If you don't build up the courage I feel like I'll never have the pleasure to see you and her as a couple."
His mom was wiping the table as she spoke. Nino sighed "how do I do it mom? Can I confess something?" His mom nodded "I don't know how to declare myself."
"Because I want to invite you to the movies. They're showing those movies that you like, and I wanted you to watch it with me. What do you think?" Nino smiled softly at her.
Mari thought about it before nodding "sure." She smiled, and his smiled even more.
Adrien had a hand on Maya's arm. "Sweetheart do you think of me capable of something as bad and terrible?"
Maya slowly turned to face him. "No daddy." She sat up "grandma Emilie says that you're not bad that you didn't do it but grandma Audrey-"
Adrien had a hand on her cheek. "You dreamt with my mother?"
Maya slowly nodded "you're good daddy." She hugged him having her head rest on his chest.
Adrien hugged her back. "Thank you sweetie thank you all I ask from you is to trust me dear. I will always love you and will always tell you the truth. Trust me."
Audrey was walking the stairs as he spoke. When she got to the top, she walked closer to the bed. "Let her rest Adrien."
Adrien took a deep breath. "I'm talking to my daughter Audrey."
"The doctor said that Maya needs tranquility." She replied with a harsh tone.
Adrien broke the hug half way to look at Audrey. "Talking to me doesn't harm her, we have a lot to say to each other."
Audrey puts one hand on her hip. "What did you invent about the death of her mother?"
Adrien glared at her. "I didn't invent anything I have always talked to her with my heart."
"Did you convince her that you had no fault in the death of my daughter?!" She glares back at him.
Adrien stood up and hissed. "Don't say that in front of her." Maya stared to cry again seeing the scene in front of her.
Audrey walked closer to him pointing a finger at him. "For you its best that I don't speak to uncover the truth. Of course, you can't lie to me, but I see that it was easy to trick her."
Adrien was losing patience he looked at the crying Maya before looking at Audrey. "Audrey please leave. We'll talk later." Adrien goes back to Maya and hugs her saying comforting words to calm her down. Audrey crossed her arms watching them.
"Tell me Lila what would you think if you could spend money to your heart's content?"
Lila was laying on the couch one leg on the coffee table. Lila's aunt was sitting next to her. Lila laughed "that would be amazing."
"Than we'll do it." Her aunt smiled.
"I don't believe you how?" Lila looked at her.
Her aunt smirked. "You just need to let me guide you."
Lila sat up "what's your plan?" Lila had a smile on her face.
'I'll tell you this very moment." She made Lila put her foot off the table and grabbed the newspaper opening to a page. "I present to you your future parents." On the page was a picture of Tom Dupain and his wife Sabine Dupain-Cheng.
Adrien walked into Audrey's room mad. "What you told Maya about the death of Chloe really affected her."
"Its natural what happened is terrible for anyone, especially for a young child." Audrey once again had her hand on her hip.
"That's why we need to avoid for Maya to have a trauma for your suffering. Audrey Maya's too young to accept what happened, but it's necessary for her to understand that death is natural." Adrien's tone was higher than normal, but not to the point of yelling.
Audrey frowns "Its not normal that her poor mother died because you didn't save her." She points at him angrily.
"I'm totally innocent of that accusation you're making!" Adrien yells losing his patience.
"That's what you say!"
"Understand Audrey! I don't want you putting my daughter against me, and that's final! It's not healthy for her." Audrey turned around her back facing him. "Maya is now an orphan of a mother. She only has me, and I should be the one she trusts most."
"What is that you're trying to say? That the child forgets about her mother?!" Audrey croses her arms.
Adrien took a deep breath. "No Audrey I'm only looking for that between her sadness, she finds comfort and accepts what happened so she can go back to school and her games."
Audrey faces him again. "I can't accept what happened!"
"I understand you! And you are at your right to act however you want but not here in my house and much less with my daughter!" Adrien starts to walk away afther that.
Audrey shook her head in disbelief. "Are you kicking me out on the streets?!"
Adrien turns around and walks back to her and hisses. "I'm asking you not to torment my daughter. Don't make her suffer more than what she already is suffering."
Audrey looked away. "But the memory of my daughter is-"
"Audrey sadly, Chloe is dead! It's impossible to bring her back to life. We need to resign to live without her, so I beg you, please understand and don't verbally abuse anyone in this house." Adrien looked at her seriously.
"And if I decline?" Audrey looked back at him.
"Than you have one option to leave this house." Adrien walks out of her room and decides to get fresh air. He leaves the house and goes to his car. He didn't know where he was going, but he had to go somewhere. He gets in his car and drives off.
Mari and Nino were in the movie theater watching a movie. Nino looks at her. "Are you liking the movie?"
Mari nodded "a lot." She continues eating her popcorn and cotton candy.
As Adrien drove around the words of hatred that Maya said to him hunted his head. It was painful to know that for a moment Maya believed that he was capable of doing such an act. For a young child to be suffering like that...and it being his daughter...he hopes this doesn't happen again.
"Mari...I want to tell you something." Nino looks at her.
"Not right now wait." Mari continues to watch the movie.
Nino sighs. "It's very important."
"When the movie ends okay." She eats her popcorn.
He took a deep beath. "Mari...I like you."
"Gezz Nino stop clowning off. Pay attention." She looks at him before turning back to the movie.
"Really I'm being honest." The words his mom told him earlier comes back to him.
"One day as a surprise give her a kiss."
"I'm in love with you." He goes for a kiss. Their lips were barely touching when Mari started hitting him, and the popcorn flew everywhere.
"Don't touch me!" Mari stood up. "You're just like all the other men." She stormed off. Nino stood up and called out to her, but Mari didn't stop walking away.
Remembering everything Maya said Adrien wasn't really paying attention to driving suddenly he saw that he was about to run someone over. He quickly put on the brakes just in time. Now paying attention, he realized that the person was Mari holding her chest obviously afraid about what was about to happen. He quickly got out of the car. "Mari are you okay?" Mari looked at him shocked and started mumbling. "What's wrong are you alright?" She starts breathing heavily. "It is you right?"
She shakes her head. "It can't be."
"What can't be?" She just stares at him. He put a hand on her shoulder. "Mari are you alright?" She starts panicking and screaming saying no. "What's wrong Mari its me Adrien. It's me Adrien." He grabs her arms trying to calm her down, and she does for a moment looking at him. He lets her go "are you okay. Why are you so scared?" He tries to touch her shoulder again, but she moves back and runs away. "Mari! Mari!" He watches her disappear into the darkness confused by what happened.
Mari ran in her house and closed the door leaning on it breathing heavily and looking up. Teddy started barking, she bended down and picked him up. "Teddy guess what the dead man is appearing to me. He died in the plane and now is hunting me for being so cruel to him. He wants to scare me, and he did it Teddy." She heard Fu walking up the stairs outside. "C'mom Teddy Fu is coming." She whispered as she ran to the couch and ploped on it pretending to be asleep. She didn't want to talk to Fu because the conversation of what happened earlier with Nino would come up, and she didn't want that.
Fu walked in the house tired and was surprised to see Mari on the couch. "What are you doing here? Didn't you go to the movies?" Seeing that there was no reply from her he assumes that she is asleep. "Poor thing she's like me tired." He goes to prepare tea before sitting down on a chair. Mari opens one eye to see what was happening and seeing that Fu was sitting at the table, she closed her eye and kept pretending to fall asleep until she actually did fall asleep.
"I have made my decision to stay in this house Adrien."
When Adrien walked in the house, he found Audrey waiting for him in the last step of the stairs. "That would mean that you realised your error and accept my conditions of no accusations."
Audrey walked farther as he spoke so her back was facing him. She turned to face him. "I accept."
"Did you think deeply about it? Are you sure about your decision Audrey?" He looked straight at her.
She nodded. "I'm sure."
"Good I hope you don't change your mind later, and it becomes into problems." Adrien started to walk up the steps.
"Wait Adrien I haven't finished." She spoke up hoping to get his attention.
He stops and walks down the steps again. "What else do you want to tell me?"
She looked at him seriously. "Do you plan on remarrying?"
He looks at her shocked. "Don't you think it is too soon to think about that possibility? I just became a widow-"
She shook her head. "I mean when time has passed."
He sighs "I don't know Audrey I don't know, but it's more probably that I won't. Something else?"
"No, nothing else." She smiled at him.
"Excuse me."
Adrien walks up the stairs as Audrey turns around and hisses. "You will pay the death of my daughter."
"My bed is calling me." Fu sighs as he stands up, and puts his teacup on the sink deciding to do the dishes tomorrow since he was exhausted. He walked to the stairs but before that he looks at Mari on the couch. "Is she cold?" He grabbed a blanket near him and covered Mari in it. He smiled and walked upstairs yawning.
Soon after Mari started breathing heavily and moving around frequently having her nighttime again.
Mari is in a place that seems like a forest or the woods. It was raining cats and dogs so it was hard to tell. Suddenly, she heard footsteps behind her; she looked back but saw no one. When she looks back in front of her, she saw a man. Scared she ran away but the man chased her.
She hid behind trees, but he found her; she rans as fast as she could, but it was for no use since the man would eventually catch her.
He started to kiss and suck her neck as she tried to push him away and pleaded him to stop and leave her alone, but he only continued. She turned to look at him and...
Mari wakes up yelling a single no and sits up breathing heavily. Teddy was on her, so she hugged him. "It's always the same Teddy. That jerk grabs me, and I can't escape. I can't nor can I see his face. I need to see it...jerk. I don't know who he is. If one day I bump into him and know who he is I'll attack him, I swear."
"She's my friend you say?" It was 8 in the morning, and Sabine was reading in her room when Plagg knocked before walking in saying that a friend of hers was waiting in the living room which confused her.
Plagg nodded. "Yes ma'am well, that's what she says, and that it has been many years since you two have seen each other."
Sabine closed her book. "What did she say her name was Plagg?"
Plagg shugged. "She didn't want to tell me because she wanted to surprise you."
Sabine thought about it "could it be...I should go and see to be sure." Sabine stood up and walked out of the room Plagg follows her.
Sabine walked in the living as a woman stands up to greet her. "Sabine my dear friend." The woman walked up to her.
"I don't know why I imagine it could be you." Sabine smiled hugging the woman. "So long since I have seen you Isabella."
Isabella nodded breaking the hug and holding her hands. "It has been so long."
Sabine tilt her head slightly. "Why haven't you looked for me? You just disappeared without saying anything. What's new in your life after all these years?"
She smiled "nothing, in particular, the same routine as always." She takes a few steps back "what do you think have I changed?"
Sabine smiled softly "a bit physically."
"The years haven't gone by easily for me Sabine." She smiled brighter. "...but you...look at yourself...look at how great you look."
Sabine shock her head "thanks Isabella, but I don't see it that way. Now tell me how did you find me? You have never been in this house before."
"I lost connection from you completely but a few days ago I found a picture of you in the newspaper and did some research, and here I am." She smiled
Sabine nodded. "Well I'm glad."
"Nevertheless, I was surprised at one thing to know you remarried Tom Dupain after all the problems you had with his family heck, I remember they voided your marriage to him." Sabine put both her hands up to stop Isabella from continuing. Isabella held her hands. "You have a lot to tell me friend." She hugged her but what Sabine didn't notice was the smirk Isabella had while hugging her.
Fu walked down the stairs "good morning Teddy." He smiled at the hyper dog before seeing that Mari was still sleeping on the couch. "Mari." He whispered touching her shoulder, she jumps up scarred and looks at him wide eyed. "Why are you looking at me like I was a bad man?"
Mari rubbed her eye. "You scared me."
"Didn't I brush my hair?" He says jokingly.
Mari looked around her. "Did I sleep here all night Fu?"
He nodded "all night. That's why I came to wake you up. It was odd to me that you were still sleeping here." Fu noticed something off from her usual self "do you feel bad?"
Adrien was sitting on the couch thinking when Maya slowly walked up to him. "Hay sweetie." He kissed her forehead "how did you sleep?"
"Good." She said softly.
Adrien noticed that she was still in her pajamas, and she should be ready for school. "You're not going to school today?"
She shook her head "no."
Adrien tilt his head confused. "Why?"
Maya sits next to him on the couch and looked at him. "Because I'm going to mourn for mommy."
"Who told you that sweetie?" Adrien stroked her hair.
"Grandma Audrey. She says that she will buy me black clothes." She keeps speaking softly.
"No sweetie look mourning comes from in here." He points where her heart is. "It is not in the clothes or to stop doing this or that. It comes from inside the heart. It's an intimate pain."
"Do you also have that pain daddy?"
He kissed her head and hugged her as his answer.
Mari, who just took a shower, leaned on a wall not saying anything. Fu looked at her worried and walked to her and touched her forehead. "You have a high fever you're sick Mari." Mari just looked as if she was spaced out with no care in the world.
"Maya I cared for your mom. She was my wife, and I shared many years with her and after all those years, she had you. Even though she just gave me, you as a daughter, I had to love her." He broke the hug and looked at her.
Maya looked sad. "But she died and I won't see her again."
Adrien put her on his lap and hugged her sadly. "Sweetie the death of your mom is very sad but to live leads to die. Understand?" She shook her head no as he broke the hug. "You're still too young for that. Think as it like this mommy left just like how I will leave one day."
"No daddy not you." Maya hugs him again this time tighter.
"Let's hope it's not right now but many years later. When you are a woman, and you don't need me anymore. When my life is completed, and your life is full of things. When you have kids of your own to live for and worry about plus care for, but I will stay with you for many years." He kisses her forehead.
"Then Tom searched for me, and we got married again." Sabine and Isabella were walking to the garden as Sabine told her the story of remarrying Tom.
Isabella smiled "I congratulate you you must be very happy."
"I can't deny that Tom adores me but-" she sighs
Isabella tilted her head. "But what?"
"I feel many regrets for what you know what I did Isabella." She faces her sadly "I live tormented for the pain of abandoning my little girl and to have never heard of her again."
"Here dear I made you a tea its very hot be careful." Fu hands Mari the tea, and she thanks him. "You probably have a stomach bug from eating so much junk food with Nino in the movies last night. I should give you medicine."
Mari shook her head. "No Fu, no."
"But you need it and I'll give it to you." Fu smiled
Mari pouts. "Well I won't drink it."
He laughed "than I'll grab you hold your nose and force it inside of you if I need to."
"That's only if you can get me Fu, but I won't drink medicine. Not even if I was crazy. " She pouts more.
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. "Hold on a moment." He walks to the door and opens the door to see Nino.
Nino smiled. "Good morning Fu."
Fu returned the smile. "Good morning son."
Nino looked inside the house. "I came to talk to Mari."
He nodded "she doesn't feel very well it might be because of all that junk food you guys had last night. Wait a moment." He walks back to Mari. "Its Nino dear he wants to talk to you."
Mari hold onto Teddy and hissed. "Well tell Nino that I don't want to see him."
Fu looked shocked. "But Mari-"
"Tell him to leave that I don't want to see him." Mari hissed more.
Fu blinked. "Why?"
"Make him leave Fu make him leave. I don't want to see him." Mari looks down sadly.
"Are you sure about what you're doing? Did you think well about it?" She nodded and he sighs.
"I don't even know if my daughter is still alive, or if she died." Sitting on a bench with Isabella, Sabine started crying remembering her missing daughter. "Do you see Isabella it's terrible. I looked for her I did a lot of investigating but no one...no one could give me information about her."
Isabella nodded slowly. "Your husband has influences maybe he could-"
"No-no no Isabella Tom doesn't know that I had a daughter. It was at that period of time that his family separated us, and I have hidden it from him all these years. I was incapable of telling him in fear...of embarrassment. You know the whole story. I thought that he would despise me...reject me." Sabine cried harder. "If I could at least find the priest that I gave my daughter to."
"You need to forgive her Nino, but Mari is very sick." Fu looked apologetic at Nino.
Nino fowns. "I can't see her for just a moment?"
"No Nino maybe another day. Have a good day." Fu was about to close the door when Nino stops him.
Nino takes out a lollipop from his pocket and hands it to Fu. "Give her this. Thank you." Nino walks away. Fu walked back to Mari opening the lollipop. "He left you this." Mari started crying shaking her head no. Fu looked at her confused and worried about her.
"Could you find the priest?"
Isabella looked at her curious. Sabine shook her head "no Isabella no, I don't even know what his name was...do you remember him?" Sabine looked at her hopeful.
"No I don't remember him." She looked down.
"At that moment, I didn't pay attention since I thought I was dying and my daughter would be alone in the world...he was my salvation...I give her to him. I thought that I would die in that dark fog that wrapped around me." Sabine wiped her tears even though she was still crying.
"But you didn't die." Isabella whispered.
Sabine laughed at the irony. "No I recovered consciousness a week later. I was ill from the world. A lot of time passed I don't know how much until I finally started feeling better. I had help from many people you included, but I didn't hear from my daughter again. There are days that I feel like I wouldn't handle this feeling anymore."
"In the time that we haven't seen each other did you keep looking for her?" Isabella looks at her.
"Yes of course but unfortunately it was useless. I lost hope." Sabine continued crying.
"Don't cry anymore Sabine." Isabella holds her hands. "I am convinced that I can't...and shouldn't stay quiet anymore."
Sabine looked at her. "What do you mean?"
Isabella slowly stood up and walked a few steps. "I'll confess something to you." She turned to face her. "Your daughter...your daughter lives."
Sabine stands up quickly. "She lives?!"
Isabella nods softly. "Yes and I can tell you where she is."
Sabine covered her mouth in surprised and tears of happiness fall from her eyes.
