Hello everyone! This is the third chapter and i hope you like it!

But then we stopped because there was a picture tucked in a page and when we looked at it my eyes widened in shock ''It can't be..''

Flashback

''Wow.. It's beautiful !''

It was my first time at the beach and my father decided to take time off work to have our first family holiday. He must have felt guilty that he was never able to organise a holiday because of his busy work schedule, but it never really mattered because we knew that he was running a very important business and he always spent time with us whenever he could. It was just me, my father, my brother and my little sister; my mother had 'business to attend to' so she couldn't come but i didn't mind because she always had a detached attitude towards us and only acted like a mother in front of others, when i looked at my father i always wondered why a warm hearted man like him would marry a cold hearted woman like her. Some people may look at our life and think that with a father always at work and an uncaring mother we must be lonely, but with my siblings in that big mansion there was always something fun to do. My brother, Makoto was just a year younger while my little sister Kyouko was 7 years younger than me, but that didn't stop us from having fun and since she was young she couldn't read well so my brother and i used to read her fairy tales all of the time, we couldn't wait to go home and play with her and whenever we came home she would always have the brightest smile on her face.

''Hurry up Mariko!'' Then i saw my brother running towards the sea while my dad was giving Kyouko a piggyback ride, i immediately caught up with them.

''Dad why did you take us to the beach all of a sudden?''In that moment he put Kyouko on the ground and she ran towards Makoto who was by then sitting on the sand.

''Well it's because today's Kyouko's birthday! She is turning 5 and we've never had a proper celebration for any of her birthdays so far, so i wanted to do something special and besides i thought that we could all use a short break.'' At that he smiled and then we went and joined Makoto and Kyouko that were playing on the shore.

As the sun was setting after hours of swimming, playing and laughing we were finally tired, sitting on the sand at one point an old couple walked by and then dad got up and asked them to take a picture of us, after they took the picture dad decided it was time to go back. In the car ride home while my brother and sister were sleeping peacefully i looked at the seaside one last time and before i fell asleep i smiled hoping it would never end.

In the office

Makoto was now trembling, i could feel his anger building up so knowing this i walked to my desk and took out my papers for my meeting so that i could revise it; but after a few seconds of that awkward silence i couldn't stand it anymore.

''When are you going to let it go? It's not like he could have done anything to stop this.'' He then turned his attention to me.

''I know...But he of all people knew what that monster is capable of and still didn't even put up a fight, and to make it worse he tried to hide every shred of her existence as if she didn't mean anything to him.'' At that i got up and walked to him.

''Now you know that isn't true, i don't agree with what he did but blaming him doesn't solve anything and it won't change what happened either.'' He just looked passively at me and headed to the door.

'' You need to keep in mind that he suffered because of this too, so please just talk to him.'' Makoto stopped and sighed. ''I'll try..'' And with that he left the room, i couldn't help but feel exhausted after that conversation so i sank in my sofa and took the photo in my hands, when i looked at it i smiled. It was a truly wonderful picture but in that moment i remembered Makoto's words, he might be 23 but he acts like a 5 year old sometimes! He is an idiot, but he was right about one thing and that was my father, he hid every photo or thing that she left behind and unintentionally i've started doing so too, because it was too painful to be reminded of her and the guilt from that day, but i have to move on and stop hiding it, thinking about it i just might know what to do with this picture...

LME, Ren's office.

Ren's POV

'Finally, i thought he would never leave! Now where did i leave my spare lenses...Oh that's right i hid it in my closet!' I walked to my closet but when i opened it i saw Kyouko inside it, i took a step back in shock. 'Oh no, what do i do now? She must have heard it all, i have to think of something to say to her!' After a minute of silence between us she suddenly hopped out of the closet and walked out of the room, i wanted to stop her but the words wouldn't come out of my mouth.

Kyouko's POV

'Those eyes, they seem so familiar like i've seen them before somewhere. Thinking about it with his eyes, his perfect build, his small face and if he dyed his hair blonde he would really look like a prince..' But then it hit me, at the time when i dropped the stone Corn gave me he knew that i got it in Kyoto, it didn't bother me at the time but now thinking about it it's really suspicious because if he knew that they mined stones like that then the only way he could have known was if he went there. In that second i knew one thing for certain, he had to be Corn, no doubt about that. I was so confused, i had to be alone to think for a while so i jumped off the closet and walked out; with my script in hand i went to the changing rooms while i kept wondering ' Why didn't he tell me?'